Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-04-15
IOWA NEWS.

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The building formerly known as De.
Sanford's Medical College, in Keokuk, has
been purchased for Court House. The
sum of $4,000 was paid for it.
FAST Row1Ne.-The Chicago Journal, O
the 25th, says that three gentlemen, named,
respectively, Nlbmas 0. Wallis, Of Racine,
Wisconsin, j. H. Perkins of Burlington, To-
wa, and Thomas Maxwell, of Red Oak, H.,
wishing to come down the Cedar River from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, purchased light skitf,
and left Cedar Rapids at 81 A. NJ, on
Monday last. They rowed with the current
to Moscow, Iowa, q di tanco of seventy five
miles, which point they reached at 81 P. NJ.
of the same day.
WIND GRIsr MILL.-We learn from the
Davenport Gase,te that Mr.. N. j. Rusch,
residing about five lies from that place,
has erected wind grist mill, eighty
feet square and sixty teet hi 81, at cost OF
$1,000. II commenced operations about
the first of February, with two burrs and a
machine for chopping feed. 1t grinds at the
rate OF ten to fifteen bushels of wheat per
hour. Three hands at twelve dollars per
month perform all the labor required
So regular is the prevalence Of winds on the
prairies, that not a single day since the m il
was started has it been idle from an insufii-
cheney of wind tn Onernta if
MUNICIPAL ELECTION IN DUBuQUE.-At the
election in Dubuque, on the 4th, Hodgdon
was elected Mayor over Hetherington, pres
ent incumbent, by Il majority of sc in a vote
of nearly 1890. The Herald says the Dem
ocrats have elected Mayor, Marshal, Audi
tor, Collector City Attorney, City Judge
and four Alderlnen. The "People" elected
Recorder, City Clerk and two Aldermen
Light eems to be breaking even in this
Sodom Of Iowa Democracy.
There are said to be sixty>two Rerubli-
can papers in Iowa.
-Wm. NJ. Walbridge, one of the early
and prominent citizens Of Burlington, died
few days since, OF pneumonia.
Mr.. Cox, of Madison CO., informs the
IMadisonian that he sawed 1920 #. of inch
fencing out of a cottonwood log, II feet
long, and feet 9 inches in diameter.
Charges of official malfeasanc ce have
been preferred against Postmaster Shields of
Brooklyn, z oweshiek county. The Post
master of Monsezuma has been assigned the
responsibility of investigating the facts.
According to the report of the Superin-
tendent of Common Schools in Day export,
the Schools have cost SIT 900 for the last
year attendance 1879, which brings cost
of tuition at about 50 per head.
NAVIGATION OF CEDAR RIvER.-The steam
er Black Hawk has made four trips up the
Cedar river this year as far as Vinton, de-
livering about 40 tons Of freight and taking
away near 400 tons. The Black Hawk goes
up the river as far as Waterloo.
FIRE.-On the Fad inst, the dwelling
of Mr.. Robert Hanlin, bout three miles
from Upton, Cedar county, was accidentally
consumed by fire. 1t was a comfortable
frame house and cost about $500. BY con-
siderable effort the contents of the house
were saved, No insurance on the property.
The Upton Democrat says Mr. II. is thus
left without a shelter for his family and
with no means to build another house.
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MoBBlNG IN BOONE Co.-The Fort Dodge
Sentinel learns from q William Dowd and
Mr.. Geo. Wilson and others, from the
Southern end of Webster county, the par
ticulars of certain mob law acts in Boone
county, which are given as follows:
Some time since one Colwell had some
corn stolen. He brought suit against one
Pardee and his two sons and obtained judg
ment for SIT. About two weeks since the
neighbors gave Pardee notice to leave the
country, but he refused to go.
On the 18th of March a mob visited his
house with the intention TO fire the same if
he still refused to leave. They were provi
ded with straw and fire and were protected
in their wagons from the bullets of their en-
emies by plank5 set upon end. Five men
left the wagon and attempted to set fire to
the house. One of them was instantly xii.
led by shot from the house another
Mr.. Sprague, was shot through the should
er another, Mr.. Phipps, was shot in the
ankle (who ose leg has since been amputated
and still another was shot through the heel
The next morning the house and its furni
ture was burned to the ground, The Par
dees have escaped. No arrests are yet re.
ported. Neither party, and especially the
one that made the attack, bears a very en-
viabe reputation.