Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-27
FRATERNAL HALL APPROVED
Iowa Lodges Will Assist in Novel Building
at st. Louis Exposition.
scANDINAWANs ARE INTERESTED
Railroad was Engaged in Charging
Illegal F~ares-TrOubIe with swine
In IOwa-Insurance Rates
Are Raised.
fFrom a STAR correrpondent.l

CFrom a stan Correspondent)
DEs MONIES. oct. 26.-CSpecisl.)-The
fraternal orders OF Iowa and grand lodges
generally have given hearty endorsement
to the plan for a building for the f%raterni-
ties at the Louisiana Purchase exposition.
The Masons, the workmen. the Eastern
Star and others have formally endorsed the
plan and have appointed committees to So
lioit contributions for the erection OF the
buildings. In tho grand lodge meeting Of
the Odd Fellows the past week a resolution
was passed approving OF the plan and
pledging the support OF the Odd Fellows,
and expressing pleasure that Ida Won Hon,
president Of the Rebekahs, had been Sc
lected as the Iowa member OF the commit
tee to look after this matter. It is be-
lieved that practically all the orders in
Iowa will take a hand In helping build the
fraternRl building at st. Louis. At the
grand lodge meeting Just closed at Clinton
q report was read showing that the odd Fell
lows Orphans home, which is being erected
by the Iowa grand lodge. is now nearly
completed. Committees are in charge to
see that this institution is opened as soon
as possible. The membership of the odd
Fellows in Iowa is now about Al, 900. Judge
Church OF Jefferson succeeds NJ. Newman
as grand master. and DR.. NJ. w. White OF
Sioux City becomes deputy grand master.
Interested the scandinavians.
c.. F. wennestrum, formerly labor COM
missioner for Iowa under Governor Shaw,
has returned TO Des Moines from an official
visit in Sweden. Denmark and Norway, In
the interest Of the Louisiana Purchase ex-
position. He was sent to those countries
by the exposition management on the sug-
gestion Of Secretary Shaw Of the Treasury
department, and carried credentials from
the State department. He appeared before
the commercial and ofacial bodies in the
larger cities and before the legislative
bodies and presented the exposition advant-
ages to them. His mission was entirely
successful and he has succeeded In inter-
esting the people Of the Scandinavia coun-
tries in the exposition In q way that as
sures large exhibits from hat part Of the
world at st. Louis.
Reduced the Fares.
A peculiar incident is reported from
Boone county in the matter of rates Of fare
on the main line Of the Northwestern rail-
road. When the Boone viaduct was built
and the road Strengthened so that the Moin-
gonR curve could be avoided three miles
was cut on the line. The tariff sheets had
to be revised to account for this shorten
ing of the track, but the local passenger
fare between Boone and Ogden and some
other local fares was not changed. Last
week the attention Of the grand jury was
called to the fact that the company was
charging 9 cents more for tickets between
Boone and Ogden than the law allows and
Judge Whitaker notified the railroad man
ayers. They Immediately changed the
rates. The matter had been entirely over
looked by them and they had been uninten-
tionally violating the law In charging more
than 8 cents a mile for more than a year.
State Herds Afflicted.
The herd OF hogs at the Soldiers home
at Marshalltown belonging to the state is
dying on at an alarming rate. about thirty
having died already, and all efforts to
stop the loss have proved unavailing. Chair
man Cownie Of the state board declares
there is no question but that the animals
have pleuro-pneumonia. Tn fact of the
breaking out Of the epidemic there is all
the more distressing because of the fact
that but little Of 1t has been known in
central Iowa for several years.
No report has as yet been received by
the State Board Of Health ON the reported
trichina at Centerville, where it was re-
ported that a herd Of about thirty-nve
hogs was affected with the parasites. There
is, however, no doubt OF the existence OF
Z the trouble there. The meat sold in the city
is being carefully inspected and none 10
I sold that is not declared to be free from
t the trouble.
Rate Book on Insurance.
4 A new rate book for the insurance COM
: bine is being distributed in lows from the
ONCE of Manager Bennett OF Cedar Rap
ids, who has full control OF all the rate
making for the board companies in the
state. In most Of the cities Of the state
; the increase in rates is from 20 to rs per
T cent and as q result there is more or less
i complaining over the existence OF the COM
bine and the delegation Of the rate max
T ing power to one man. The new rates
. show increases more generally in the fac.
tory districts than otherwise. as dwellings
I are not increased.
n Directory Estimates en- Population,
i The new city directory is now about
e ready for delivery. The number OF names
last year was &c, $50 and this year the num-
I Der is IS. s42. The directory compilers make
I an estimate on the city's population OF
Q about $4,000.
United States Attorney Mcmillan Of
Cedar Rapids, for the northern district Of
Iowa, who was brought back from Mime,
sofa and Is in a hospital with a badly lac
d Grated foot, is unable to account for the
manner In which he met with the accident
He was walking through the woods and
his feet became entangled in the weeds AND
threw him down. Both barrels OF his CUR
we're discharged and the heel OF the LEFT
foot was shot full OF holes. 1t is now be.
e lieved he will be able to save the foot, bu'
a n will he long befora he will he able "a