New Era, The (Newspaper) - November 17, 1887, Humeston, Iowa NUMBER 202 CO IOWA NOVEMBER 25 PER YEAR Humeston Iowa This beautiful little city la located in the northwest corner Wayne county neat the junction of Wayne Lucas Clark and U is surrounded by one of the best and most thrifty communities to be found anywhere Has three railroads the 0 B Q K W apd H S and its road facilities in all four directions are un- equaled It is in the great blue grass section of Iowa and fine stock is a specialty in this locality has good churches good schools good banks and everything else that goes to make a good town Property is cheap rents are very low and it is an easy matter to secure a home here Business men do ness on their own capital Good inducements to all kinds of manufacturing industries are offered and location hunters will do well to give Humeston a call and unless they wish to engage in some business that is well represented will find a good opening HARVEST The State Teachers Association will meet in Cedar December 27 to SO A Momoe county f aimer sold last week a lot of hog that averaged 526 pounds each The proposition to restrain stock in county was defeated by over The new depot at will be 216 feet on the ground and the plans in- a magnificent structure Council paid to teachers during the past vear and the estimated value ot the school It is said that near canning in Iowa have realized per this for the sweet corn they An item in last week's papers tells of a ma nidge which will soon take place at and the contracting parties have never seen each other The Central Iowa railroad was sold last week tor and was purchased by the same party who bought the division and branches a short time ago The 19th Iowa infantry will hold their third reunion in Washington December 7 1887 celebrating the historic battle of Prairie Grove Arkansas five years ago The Orange City tow mill is now in op- era I ion aud huge loads of may be daily seen passing through that town It opens a new source of revenue to the trii s Lorin F Smith a graduate of College Yoik has been elected to the chair of in the College at Ames He is thought to be for the place The Sentinel tells of the ot a swarm of bees in That city A few clays ago and accounts for it that the may have gotten into the hive and them out The Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the lower court in the ot Kendall vs City ot in which the plaintiff was awarded several thousand dollars damages for breaking his leg on a defective sidewalk fit John who lost his health in the employ of the Express Company has been granted w pension of per month This is a well deserved act of justice to a most worthy young Patriot The mam building of the soldiers phan home at Davenport burned last week The is with insurance The fire was caused by lightning The occupants of the ing were gotten out without harm A passed through the city yesterday with a car load of 722 for Los Angeles where command sixteen cents a pound They were purchased at 4 and 5 cents and net a good profit after paying advertiser The Narrow Gauge road was sold a second time last Friday though it was sold last March the sale was never and under the same decree this last sale was It was purchased by V B Edgarly of Springfield Mass for The timothy seed crop this year shows how much of prosperity of Lucas county depends on this one item there been paid out about tor at Chariton alone For ranety of and ability to any kind ot a county at tbe The Fort paper mills facture and ship on an average over ten tons ot paper each day This con- cern is doing a splendid business is well and carefully managed and the ate Dealer A Keokuk man bantered hw wife to walk to Warsaw and A was made and they started A stop of only twenty minutes was made at saw It a good of pedestrianism but the lady was considerably fagged out when she reached her home at kuk A singular divorce case came up in the district court at Dubuque tiff asked for a divorce from his wife on thp grounds desertion He says that six months after he married she lefl him He then married again and hence his anxiety to get a divorce so as not to be arrested for bigamy October in Iowa was cold ant dry winds prevailing The mean temperature of the air was and a halt degrees below normal her has but twice been as cold during th past years namely in 1875 and In the thirty-two years ing 1370 there were nine as cold 01 colder than this The Iowa has again come to the front A dispatch from Chicago on in day D M Moninger wins at the fat stock show on Crimson short hoin steer Dr first as best two year old sweepstakes as best two year old of any breed sweepstakes as best grade in show of the Gazette challenge shield as best steer of any age bred and fed by exhibitor and grand sweepstakes over all breed's surpassing any record ever at this show Sheriff Honnold went to Boone Iowa on Friday last and arrested a young man by the name Adair who is now in jail The defendant is accused of idg a horse from a man by the ot Enix at this place several years and it is only fair to the young man to state that he declares himself perfectly innocent in the matter and will be able to so establish the fact at the proper time He is a son of our worthy fellow citizen Re- porter The facts are gleaned from reports ot the dairy convention at Twenty-five or thousand milch cows fed in the pastures of ware county and the shipments of ter from Manchester alone are about pounds annually Over dozens of eggs also leave that point ly tor the eastern market It is ed that the manufacture of bogus butter before the law tor its in- to effect reduced the valuation of of this country in Iowa alone the was When the capacity is not shown on the car pounds will be considered the capacity and such cars will be subject to the same rules and conditions as if marked 30.000 pounds capacity The live stock rates named will not be considered applyable on cars of not less than twenty-nine feet but not exceeding thirty feet six inches in length internal City A dispatch from Sioux City last day The sheriff to-day ed the service of an extra venire for jurors from which to select a to try John Arnsdorf a second time for the murder ot Geo C Haddock This is in addition to the regular panel The trial is set for Monday in the district court Judge Wake field presiding Since the last trial which ended in a ment of the jury the defense has made strenuous efforts to have the case dis- missed arguing such x motion at length only to have it overruled the indications are that the will although it is rumored that a desperate effort will be made to have a continuance granted So far as it is known no evidence of importance has been developed on either side and the anxiety as to the whereabouts of Henry Peters George Trieber 01 Loins Plath in the iui does not to that manifested in the trial HASBROUCK HOME BANK BANK OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT ney to loan at ten per cent Interest A general banking exchange and collection business transacted with fidelity and promptness IOWA s CITY DRUG STORE HUMESTON IOWA IS THE FLACE TO BUY DRUGS MEDICINES PAINTS OILS WINDOW GLASS SCHOOL BOOKS NOTIONS TRUSSES LAMPS ETC GOODS AT LOWEST Trade Solicited EBERHA Dealer in all kinds of FRESH MEATS SAUSAGES LARD ETC I IOWA As two well diggers were sinking a well on a farm in Washington township Ringgold county at the depth of teen feet they began to find white nuts well preserved of which they took out about half a bushel At the depth of sixteen feet they found a log of wood and a pair of horns The horns were quite soft when first taken out of the ground but became ex- to the air The well was dug in a timber country but one peculiar feature of the case is that that is not a white walnut or butternut tree in the country We see it stated the Brotherhood of Engineers have prepared and will lay before Congress a viding for the licensing ot railway con- and engineers and prohibiting all railroads from employing any son to serve as conductor or engineer unless he is licensed as provided in the act It provides for examiners who shall inquire into the character habits of life and qualifications mental and sical of all applicants before licensing them as conductors and engineers The system has long been in use in regaid to the engineers and pilots in water trans- Democrat The new tariff sheet of the C B Q has been issued and shows a general re- duction foyer the system For grain the minimum rates will be pounds less than the marked capacity but when a cat loaded to its foil ity M to will A startling piece of came fiom last evening About four o'clock in the afternoon burnt and chaired remains of Mio J B an elderly lady Aere found upon floor of her home Mwo men passing by noticed smoke coming liom the dooi and entered supposing the place to be on fire To their amazement and ror they found the smoke the last of a consuming fire that had burnt to a crisp the body of the aged occupant ot the bouse The clothing burnt and scarcely a piece of remained The victim in her agony lay upon her face with her hands tightly clasped about the head Mrs Bojer was subject to paralysis and also addicted to smoking It is surmised that she was so attacked and the lighted tobacco fell upon her ing thus setting it on fire The floor upon which lay was scorched but had not ignited was about sixty-six yeai s of age and lived with her son who is the agent of the United States Express Company at Bloomfield City county is once more tint scene of a horrible On Sunday ing the body of Emett Reed ot Iowa who has been the al road in the edge of county was round in the bed of Platte i two milts north ot formt it the southed corner of county The circumstance which led to the discovery of the body was a trunk which evidently had been tied to the bottom ot the river but by some means had been loosened and had ed near the top of the The dis- covery was made by some who went to thib after water it being a place where many go to water their teams and upon further investigations the dead body of a man was found sunk in tour feet of wrapping a log Chain nine feet in length his neck and body securely holding the body to the bottom of the river The supposed murderer is one Foster who hailed fiom Murray Iowa and who has been loafing around the camp where the board ed doing odd jobs and acting as camp barber Reed and a man answering the description of Foster camped day Nov 2nd within a few rods of the place where the dead body was discovered The murdered man was last seen on the above evening bv son a farmer living close by from whom he purchased hay to feed his teams Those who were intimately with Reed say that he had lour or five hundred dollars in money about his person besides owning a span of mules a span of horses wagon and a complete outfit all of which were taken by the murderer as the fruits of his crime He was at once pursued by the officials and traced to City where he WHS found and placed in custody and will be brought back ui i extradition secured prices guaranteed Cash g paid for hides furs and poultry Fat hogs and cattle HUMESTON IOWA HEADQUARTERS FOR WATCHES JEWELRY Clocks Silverware Notions Wallpaper Paints OILS VARNISHES WINDOW BLINDS AND A FULL LINE OF E J SNOW DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Stoves Tinware Woodenware Queens ware Glassware Tobaccos Confectionery Fruits Etc Etc WINTER AND SPRING WHEAT FLOUR A Trails W PRACTICAL HUMESTON IOWA
