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Stevens Bros., Boss grocers, have assigned.
Mrs. Susanna Mitchell, a pioneer Iowa woman, is dead at Osceola.
Jesse Higbee, a promittent business man of Bloomfield, is dead.
Thomas S. Cameron, a pioneer citizen of Buchanan County, is dead.
Bell telephone girls, Des Moines, have returned to work. More money.
John Varenkamp has been appointed postmaster at Sully, vice Henry Dewitt.
At a sale of Short-Horn cattle at Albion, forty-five head sold for over $5,000.
Willis Anibal, aged 12, was drowned while skating on the Cedar river at Waterloo.
J. O. Wade has been appointed postmaster at Elwood, vice W. S. Hill, resigned.
J. H. Leavitt of Waterloo is the possessor of a clock that has kept time for 142 years.
Fort Dodge is after a Michigan health food company that employs seventy-five men.
Fire in one of the show windows of Beno & Co. at Council Bluffs caused $500 damage.
The Hotel Downing at Oskaloosa will be rebuilt into a modern hostelry, at a cost of $75,000.
Frank R. Porter has been appointed postmaster at Van Wert, vice A. T. Rome, removed.
A number of Iowa City factories are running on short time on account of the scarcity of coal.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Hatton of Clinton have just celebrated their sixty-first wedding anniversary.
J. S. Wright, one of the oldest dentists in Clinton, dropped dead of heart disease in his office.
Davenport savings banks have raised the rate of interest paid to depositors from 3½ to 4 per cent.
Charles Seimer, aged 14, of Nora Springs, is minus one foot as the result of a hunting accident.
It is estimated that the creditors of the defunct Oto bank will get about 50 per cent of their claims.
J. B. Johnson, postmaster at Bancroft and president of the First National Bank at that place, is dead.
The postoffice at Parkersburg was robbed of stamps and money to the amount of $500. There is no clew.
The dedication of the new Drake free public library at Centerville has been definitely fixed for Jan. 15.
The Union Electric Company of Dubuque is planning to build a $200,000 power plant the coming summer.
Woodson Reagan was sentenced at Centerville to fifteen years in the penitentiary for the murder of his sweetheart, Ella Clark.
The State Horticultural Society has inaugurated a movement to secure the building of a $2,500 conservatory on the State fair grounds.
Charles A. Gilbert, one of the oldest conductors on the Illinois Central, was run down by a switch engine at Waterloo and instantly killed.
Dubuque authorities have adopted the plan of fencing in sidewalks in the business part of town which the owners neglect to keep free from snow.
Rev. Herman Forrester, a member of the Simpson College, Indianola, class of 1898, has been chosen pastor of the only American church in Rome.
Government architects are now at work on plans and specifications for Marshalltown's new federal building. The contract will be let in the spring.
Harvey St. Clair, aged 20, a young farmer of Vienna township, was kicked by a horse and lived five hours. He was married less than three weeks ago.
Workmen on the Masonic Temple at Harlan let fall a heavy plate glass which was being unloaded. The glass, which cost $600, was broken into fragments.
Thomas Meredith, a wealthy philanthropist of Cass County, is dead. One of his last acts was a gift of $5,000 and a site for a Y. M. C. A. building in Atlantic.
The attempt to establish saloons in Hancock County has failed. Although 67 per cent of the voters signed the paper, yet many names were signed that were not on the poll books.
In a head-on collision on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific at Oskaloosa between work and freight trains, four section men were injured, two locomotives demolished, and a number of freight cars reduced to kindling wood.
Judge McPherson of the federal court in Keokuk has handed down an opinion in the case of the United States vs. the Adams Express Company, in which the corporation was indicted for carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer without having paid the special tax as required by law. The federal court, in its opinion, holds that the express company is only an agent of the venders in carrying liquors and collecting and returning money. As the express company did not sell liquors it was not engaged in the business of a liquor dealer. The court, in this opinion, has overridden the decision of the Supreme Court of Iowa.
A scheme has been sprung at Ottumwa which has for its object the organization of a new water company for the purpose of circumventing the recent decision of the United States Circuit Court at St. Louis. The point raised against the water levies is that they are unconstitutional because the city of Ottumwa is already in debt up to the full limit allowed by law. The scheme now on foot is the organization of a mammoth water company which will include every citizen of Ottumwa, so that the indebtedness is against the taxpayers personally rather than against the city. The plan has been tried successfully in but one instance. Under the scheme every citizen would be a stockholder in the water company.
At George August Bunge shot and mortally wounded Helmer Deboor as a result of a quarrel over rent of land. Bunge is under arrest. Both men are farmers.
Mrs. Etta Kitchen, a fashionably dressed young woman, was arrested while trying to steal valuable furs in a department store at Ottumwa. She confessed and disgorged other stolen goods.
A bobsled containing a coasting party of fifteen boys and girls collided with a wagon at the foot of the Sixth street hill in Des Moines. Several of the children were injured, and two may die.
A movement is on foot in Hardin County to postpone primary elections, which the Republicans usually hold in March, to a later date in the summer.
Because he thought he had failed to pass his examinations, Everett Harman of Malcomb, a student at the Iowa Wes-
