Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-08-26
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Hannah Brown and Mary Canghlin
charged with tho murder OF Kate Gill,
At Delhi, Delaware Co., were commit.
tod to answer tho charge on Tuesday
of last week.
The testimony revealed that the
three women had gone to the river to-
gether take a bath and that the two
women Brown and Caughlin were seen
10 throw tho clothes Of Kate into water
and that they afterwards represented
that she had gone mp town to get some
dry clothes. Tho body OF Kate was
afterwards found in the river after de-
composition had commenced. 1t also
appeared that some little jeslously Of
kato existed in the mind OF Mrs
Brown, on account of an intimacy with
her husband.
a movement 10 organize vigilance
committee to take forciblc possession
of the city government, has been set
on. foot by some OF the citizens Of Dubu-
que,
The trial for the murder Of BOYD
Wilkinson is slowly progressing At
Iowa City.
The discussion AT Ninton, Benton
Co. week before last, between Letting
we'll aud Nandcycr, ended AS usual in
the complete triumph OF Mr.. Letting
well. The people Of Benton irrespec-
tive o! party are enthusiastic in their
admiration OF the democratic candi-
date. The days Of Mr.. Surveyor Van
Jevcr are numbered
A most remarkable cave exists at
DEBORAH in this State. Recent explo-
rstions prove that its sides and top are
completely covered with ice, in some
instances two or three feet thick and
continually in process OF formation
from the water which tricklcs down the
sides. The scene in some Of the cham
hers of the care where statues, and
chandeliers and grotcsQue figures have
been formed is said to be beautiful be-
yond description.
MIR. Patterson, residing in Mitchell
CO., in this State, was, on the 3Oth ult.,
severely injured "by coming in col
lision" with the electric fluid. Both
he and his wife had retired when the
house was struck, the "shaft" passing
through the house, striking his wife
upon the ANGLE, passing thence to his
back, up the spinal column to his neck,
contir uing above the left ear to his
head, across the misunderstanding and
soaring the hair-through the pillow
and the feather bed aud thus ont, per
forating both like bullet. He was
insensible for long time, but by the
use OF proper restoratives, was partially
brought to.
The New York City Hall is to DO
repaired Immediately. The Mayor has
recommended an appropriation Of $780,
600 for that purpose.
A terrible tracey, consisting in tho
murder Of young lady by her father,
and the subsequent suicide ofthe muir.
derer, was enacted near Bowling Green,
Pike county, Mo-, last Friday. The
parties we're German named Myers,
and his daughter. The daughter was
an ilIgetimate child Of Myers, and the
two DAD lived together as parent and
child, without any apparent difficulty,
the girl discharging the domestic dn-
ties of the household.
On Friday morning last, the hands
on the farm went out to work, leaving
Myers and tho girl at the house, in
their usual good spirits, and giving no
Indication Of the terrible event that tol-
lowed. On their return, the girl was
found dead on the foor, welteriug in
pool Of blood, shot through the heart.
BY her side lay Myers, also dead with
bullet hole through he head. None
OF the circumstances which led to the
bloody tradegy are known but the
TACT that the girl, upon examination by
the ladies of the neighborhood, was
found to be enciente, points to another,
and still more fearful, crime as the
cause Of the affair. The father, it il
suppose, had d'shonored his own Off
spring. and both had agreed upon a
bloody death ~ means Of not being
living witnesses to the exposure Of the
guilt Of the one, and the shame of the
other.
About sixty Of the prisoner in the
Peuitentiary at Columbus, have been
attacked with the typhoid fever. And
about - many more connot survive
In III, there are some twenty case,
that may b considsrsd ssrieus; Il
The othsIs, the di1sass Aas assumed I
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