The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-12-17
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

| Monticello Is threatened with wood
famine.
A new wagon factory is a possibility
at Clinton.
Wyoming will vote on the question of
Incorporating.
West Unions water works system is
nearly completed.
The citizens of Burlington are howl
ing for more light.
Boyden schools have closed on nc
count Of diphtheria.
Davenrort's macaroni factory is ex.
pectcd to start up soon.
Business is at d standstill at Cameron
on account of diphtheria.
Justice Peters. of Davenport, has Of
ficiated at l,s1l marriages.
Fire at Mason City Thursday night
did damage to the extent Of $4,000.
The Iowa State Grange held its an
nual session in Des Moines last week.
A Monona county man will put out
lOO,O0o grape vines the coming spring.
| The railroad. coal mines and packing
house at Boone distributes over 500, 900
q year to its employees.
The medical department of the state
university has in attendance 140 stu
dents, twelve OF whom are women.
Plans are nearly completed for new
| Turner hall at Dubuque to take the
place OF the one recently destroyed by
fire.
James Gundry was killed by falling
slate i'll the Vulcan mine at What Cheer
Wednesday. Two other miners were
badly injured.
A Carroll girl has advertised for a
man suitable for matrimonial purposes
| and offers in exchange for same cash or
| its equivalent.
portion of brick wall of the new
court house ut Dubuque was blown
down Wednesday, fatally injuring one
| of the workmen.
Five prisoners were sentenced in the
district court mt Clinton Saturday to
terms in the penitentiary and five We're
given Jail sentence.
| Henry Koch, vagrant, told kind
hearted Dubuque people that his wife
had just had twins, and secured contri-
buttons OF old clothes and money.
John J. Egan, formerly conductor
Oh the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road, died at Dubuque Thursday while
under the operation of leg amputation.
Williamsburg was visited by dis
| astrous blaze Thursday, an entire block
| OF buildings being destroyed. The fire
Is believed to have been of incendiary
origin.
4 keokuk man must have been very
drunk when he went home and mistook
. neighbor's house for his and went in
and went to bed, where he was found
next morning.
Bertha Ansel, a waiter at the Caster
hotel, Ottulnwa, fell with tray load of
dishes and injured her limb SO that
blood poisoning set in and amputation
will be necessary.
A fellow tried to Jew" Justice Duffy,
OF Dubuque, down one-half on 81 mar
rlage fee, and beca Use the Justice would
MT comply he would not let him per-
form the ceremony.
Mary and John Hollingsworth, of
Burlington. aged 10 and IL years, died
within a few minutes of each other of
typhoid pneumonia, and another child
in the same family will die.
j A four-foot vein of coal has been dis
covered at depth of / 80 feet on the
farm Of James r. Johnston, near
Montezuma. 1t is the first coal ever
discovered in Poweshick county.
A prosperous farmer Of Sherrill's
Mound met Dubuque lass Tuesday for
the first time. 1t was case of love at
first sight and they were married We'd
nesday. Both are over 50 years old.
i Engineers are at work surveying q
line from Thompson to Estherville. The
road is to be known as the Chicago,
Iowa and Western, but is virtually q
part Of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids
and Northern.
Matthew Wilson claims to be the
champion corn husker, not only of Scott
county and Iowa, but of the world He
went against time day or two ago and
husked 40 bushels, 90 pounds of corn
in twelve hours, eating dinner during
the time.
James Seabroolz, the 21-year-old feeble
minded son of Abraham Seabrook, COL
ored, of Wilton, was turned ont of home
by his father. When discovered at
Muscatine he had slept out Of doors
two nights and his feet We're frozen SO
that amputation was necessary.
i The directors again have control and
are trying to sell the Ottumwa coal
palace. J. j. Padden and c. H. Hart
man. who purchased it recently at pub
lie auction, failed to put up the cash or
furnish approved securities and the
building reverted back to the directors.
An aged couple by the name Of Mr..
and Mrs. Levi Mills. living between
Liberty Center and Medora, were Gre
mated by the burning of their home
From the position OF their bodies it is
supposed that Mr.. Mills was sitting by
the stove, while Mrs. Mills was burned
in bed.
The epidemic of typhoid fever that
has been raging in the vicinity of Fer
tile ana the southwestern part of Worth
county has now subsidized, but not un-
til many have died from the effects of
it. 1t Is not expected to break out
again as long as the present favorable
weather continues
!, The post mortem examination of An
drew Patewald. Of Sioux City, who was
killed by being thrown from train on
the elevated railroad, developed the
fact that his liver was split completely
into two nearly equal halves. He fell
thirty feet, striking on the back and