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Show A Prairie fire in Page county cornered cor-nered a flock of sheep 1,000 in numberand num-berand five hundred of them were burned to death. Warren county burglars are seekirg for light. Pleasant Hill M. E. church was broken into and a bible and two lamps stolen. Coal has been discovered at Boone 580 below the Burface. It is a valuable species being Btmiiar in composition to anthracite. The Baptists of swarthy hue got up a free fight in their ohuroh at Keokuk, on Tuesday evening. Six church members are under arrest. ' Mr. Luick, an active and intelligent German of Eddyv'ille, has fallen heir to $55,000, and has gone to Germany to reap his reward. A firmer la t week hauled a load of corn to Des Moiucs, and with him went bis wife in charge of twenty four chickens. After the sale the woman had more money than the man. It is daDgcrous to drop aalecp at your wa iher woman's in Dubuque. It cost a gentleman $24 and a gold watch to do bo. This is a new way of settling set-tling accounts with your laundress. A little waif of three years, wandered on to the track at Montioello and fell asleep. He was rescued as the even ing train was within a few yards of whero he lay, by Rob. Kennedy. The disoaso known as "blackleg" is prevailing extensivoly among the oattle in Dickinson couoty. Thirty or forty have died in the neighborhood of Tus-culum Tus-culum Grove. The disease has proved fatal io overy instance. Willian Paodon who murdered J. Aiken at Creston, last June, was tried and found guilty by the district court of Union county last week, and sentenced senten-ced to five yean imprisonment in the penitentiary. Kossuth couoty has a large number of homesteaders who live in sod houses, and burn tho rank river bottom grass for fuel. They twist it, when dry into ropes. Thus prepared, it gives out an intense heat, and has lasting qualities. |