The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-10-08
HAWKEYE HAPPENINGS.

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Cedar Rapids is to have Bohemian
newspaper.
The Creston grand jury indicted twelve
liquor sellers.
The Sioux City corn palace was opened
to the public Thursday.
The First National bank Of Esther
vile has asked for authority to establish
q bank.
A monster pumpkin, weighing 100
pounds, is on exhibition at Council
Bluffs fruit store.
The postofice at Port Louisa, Louisa
county, has been discontinued. Mail
will be sent to Wapello.
Edwin P. Wolfe, Of College Springs,
has been appointed copyist in the de-
partments at Washington.
The safe in the iewelry store of A. A.
Hart, at Council Bluffs was blown open
and robbed Of 81, 900 in goods.
About 400 Methodist ministers at
tended the thirty-sixth annual session OF
the upper Iowa conference at Davenport.
Cedar Rapids is to have another public
park. Ten acres have been laid out for
the purpose and will be Immediately i'm
proved.
Fort Madison citizens raised $50, 900
in an hour for the stock yards and pack
ing house, and the industry has been
secured.
John Butler, workman on the Bur-
lington, Cedar Rapids and Northern was
killed by a caving bank near Cedar
Rapids.
Samuel Morris, who went to Dubuque
in 1882 and built the first log cabin on
the present site Of the city, died recently
at Potosi, Wis.
Rev. Father John Hackett, who has
had charge Of the Catholic parish at
Clermont for many years, died Monday
in Dublin, Ireland.
John w. Vrooman, the Republican
nominee for acknowledgement of New
York, is brother to Editor Vrooman,
OF the Centervllle Iowegian.
Sanford Doud, for fifty years resi-.
dent of Iowa, died last week. His claim
to fame lies in the fact that he was the
father of thirty-one children.
Judge A. r. Fultoff died last week al
Des Moincs. He was q clerk Of the Iowa
house three sessions and q member oil
the Twelfth general assembly.
The Vinton Eagle has m ear of corn
that is quite q curiosity. The centre oil
the cob, instead Of being pithy, is filled
with Well developed kernels of corn.
Farmers in the vicinity Of Linn Grove
are cutting up corn with self binders
They do good work, and the improve
ment over the old method is wonderful
Ole F. Bergen, living near Ridgeway
lost by fire his entire crop of grain and
hay; also two stables and a new granary
just completed the previous day. Gauss
unknown.
It. Vickstrom, lineman for the Siou,
City Electric Light company, was in
stantly killed while changing the car
bons in an arc lamp while the current
was turned on.
The Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha railroad is completing water
tank at LIE Mars to hold 55, 900 gallons
The city waterworks furnishes the com.
pany about 10000 gallons of water pc,
day.
The board Of supervisors Of Pottawat
tamie county has offered q bonus 8,
81 900 to the person who first discover,
q vein of coal not less than two feet il
thickness, in that county within the mex
year.
The remains Of the late Hon. Alex
ander Clark, United States minister tt
Liberia, who died at his post there some
time ago, will be shipped to his home
in Muscantine some time during thu
winter.
In the number of school teachers EN-
ployed Iowa is second to only one stat,
in the Union-New York. New Yorl
employs in round numbers 81 900. Will,
Iowa employs $4,000, with Illinois neg
in point of numbers.
Ten thousand strangers, includin,
over 300members of the clergy, ATTENDED
the ceremonies incident to the celebra
ton Of the twenty-fifth anniversary o
the conservation Of Rt. Rev. John Hen
nessey as bishop Of the Catholic dioces,
OF Dubuque, last Wednesday.
The water in the Mississippi at Bur
lington is gradually fading away. Tn,
stage by the government gauge is nov
two inches below the phenomenal low
water mark Of 1854. There is scarcel,
enough water in the river between st
Louis and st. Paul to allow the passag,
of the ightest raft boats. Navigation
is virtually suspended.
The state assembly of the Knights me
in Ottumwa last week. J. r. Sovereign
resigned as state master workman, bu
was reelected unanimously and &C
cepted. All other state officers were re
elected, and in the resolutions adopted
they declare in favor of free public Gun
ployment Offices in connection with tn,
state bureau Of labor statistics; FIRE,
school books to be furnished at tn,
states expense, and the Australian bal
lot system.