Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1858-06-26
IOWA NEWS.

The "City Fathers Of Lyons have
passed an ordinance levying tax of one
dollar per head on dogs, but if an individual
happens to own more than one, the extra
one is put up to two dollars. Sensible.
There seems to be great desntution
among the common laborers of Davenport.
On the 18th inst, to the number of 200 or
more they called on Mayor Cook and other
prominent citizens and demanded work or
bread. The Mayor did not give them much
encouragement, telling them the city had no
money to expend in public works at present.
After considerable talk, the crowd dispersed
without any violent demonstrations.
The Republicans, after a spirited con-
test, elected their Mayor at the late charter
election in Oskaloosa.
RAILROAD ELEorloN.-At the election of
Directors of The Keokuk, Mt. Pleasant and
Muscatine R. r. Co., the following persons
were elected Directors for the ensuing year :
Laurin Dewey, j. B. Lash, Robert Wilson,
C. N. Mcdowell, Of Mt. Pleasant; VIM.
Patterson, j. X. Hornish, j. NJ. Shelley, r.
P. Lowe, Smith Hamill, Charles Parsons, Of
Keokuk and G.. G. Hamilton, of Montrose.
The changes made in the board are Lowe,
Hamill, Parsons and Hamilton, in the place
of j. McCune, J. Nj. Hiatt, D. w. Kilbourne,
and J. W. Clegborn.
Day laborers at Davenport get only 50
cents per day-starvatio wages, when paid
in Florence paper trash. But what is still
worse, many OF them can't get employment
even at that.
"A man by the name of Allen Jones,
living north of Sidney, Iowa, committed sui
eide eide by hanging himself in his stable, on the
morning ct c. NJ M:y 10Th. Domestic troubles
supposed to have been the cause.
BENTON Co.-The Vinton Eagle states
that Mr.: Jerry Sullivan, of that place, was
seriously if not fatally injured on Monday
last, in the following manner A number of
men were jumping from aspiring board, and
Sullivan approached to witness the sport. A
young man named John Lowe was just in
the act of jumping, when large stone that
he held in his hand slipped from his grasp
and struck Sullivan on the forehead, crushing
in his skull.
PowEsHElK Colt will be remembered
that in April last o proposition subscribing
100000 to the capital stock of the NJ. Il M.
R. R. Co. was adopted. The County Judge
has by proclamation submitted to vote on
the 28th inst proviso that said county
bonds shall be issued only on condition that
said company run their road through or
within one mile of Montezu,na, Gnstead of
Grinnell, and have ten miles of the road
completed and in operation in the county
within eighteen months from the time the
vote is taken. There is also submitted at
the same time proposition to subscribe an
additional sum OF $4,000 provided the COM
pany will locate and b1ild the road as above
GIVEN Up.-With one accord the people
of this State, as soon as the pleasant weather
set in, gave up digging for gold, and com.
menced plowing and planting. We shall
hear no more about gold in Iowa.-Hawk-
eye.
SAD ACCIDENT. Yesterday, while the
Belfast was making landing here, hand
belonging to her got his leg in the shore line
which, as it drew up, cut his leg off just
below the knee, throwing the severed portion
several feet from him. He was taken to DR.
Sanford'S, to have the amputation finished
scientifically. Gute City, 18th.