Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-03-04
IOWA NEWS.
OrKALoosA TINES. Mr.. Bressler has
withdrawn from this paper. 1t is now con
Quoted by Wheelock & Wellslager.


Quoted by Wheelock & Wellslager.
DRowNED.-F. A. Ogden, Of Fl. Madison,
was drowned on the 10th ult, while at .
tempting to cross the the river at that place
in q skiff. lie was about % years of age.
Tho pillow and wagon factory of Dr..
Knowles, at Ke'kuk, was destroyed by fire
on the 23d. The building was large and
we'll stocked with implements an materials.
Loss 81 ,0o0-insurance $1,000.
Shellady, who was convicted of man
slaughter, for being connected with the B )yd
Wilkinson murder, at Iowa City, has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the
Penitentiary.
The Sheriff of Marshall Go. has Just
succeeded in breaking up a we'll organized
band of robbers, counterfeiter,, &C., that
have for some time existed in and about
Mars!,altown. Five scamps have already
been arrested, and committed to the John.
son county Jail.
The Fort Dodge Sentinel mentions that
a large wooden factory is now in process of
erection at Sweede Point, in Boone county.
|. will probably be completed the last Of
this season. This will be great encourage
ment to the farmers in all that wide region
around, already so much engaged in WOOL
growing, AID So well adapted for the bust.
ness.
The Judge of johnson county has is
sued proclamation that the Hog law in
that county is repealed, by virtue of a vote
of the eople at the last election.
Information is wanted of one Catherine
TAFT, who married George McCune, and is
supposed to be somewhere in Iowa. Any
one knowing Hates whereabouts will con
fer great favor upon her brother, Joseph
TAFT, by remitting the information to him
at Railway, New Jersey.
The Dubuque Sun states that Senators
Jones and Harlan succeeded in amending
the indian Appropriation Bill so as to pro-
vide for the expenses incurred by Major
Williams Volunteer Company for the re-
lief of the inhabitants in the vicinity Spirit
Lake, during the Indian hostilities of 1867.
RE-AnREsTED. Alfred Curtis, ono of the
prisoners under indictment for the murler
of Boyd Wilkinson and who took French
leave of his bondsman just before the last
term of the johnson county District Court,
was arrested in Gibson county, Tennessee,
last week, and brought back by Deputy Sher-
if Cassidy. Heis now in jail at Iowa City,
Mr.. Paul, his surety, having given him up
to the authorities.
"A mare belonging to Mr.. Beal, of Delhi,
Delaware county, fell over precipice or
perpendicular rock: more than thirty feet
to ledge below, scarcely wide enough for
man to stand upon in safety, when she
s'bounced off, and fell about fifteen or TWEEN
ty feet more. Yet after these varied dan.
gers, she was rescued with comparatively
few injuries, and is now the heroine of the
town. The total distance fell, from starting
place to landing place, was over sixty feet
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT AT Fr. DODGE
Ft. Dodge Sentinel, of the 10Th ult., gives
an account Of an accident by which three
men were buried alive in a well which was
being dug on the Court House grounds in
that place. Their names were Joseph Gran
Older, Andrew Wheelan and John NJ. No
Ian, all of Fairfield: this State. The earth
caved on them in the well. 1t appears that
it first commescel caving at the bottom,
and one of the mon who went to the rescue
of the others was caught by subsequent cav
ing 50 that his head remained above ground,
but before he could be rescued life was ex
tinct.
We find the following paragraph in one
of our exchanges
| LARGE SLAVE EXODUS FROM Missouri
Seventy fugitive slaves from NJ ssonri pas
| sed through Grinnell, Iowa, on the 2lst ult.,
on their way to Queen VictorIa's domiuions.
They had heard that Missouri would short
ly become free State, and concluding that
their services would not be needed much
longer, made up their minds not to put any
impediments in the way of making her flee,
by remaining. They said they had worked
for white folks great many years for noth-
ing, and thought it was about time they
were doing something for themselves
They were we'll provided with shooting irons
to defend their liberty against Democratic
kidnappers, who claim that colored people
have no rights Which white men are bound
to respect.
- Senator Grimes received a despatch
yesterday notifying him that an Executive
Session of the Senate would be held after
the adjournment of Congress on the 4th.
and he leaves this evening for Washington.
Darlington, Hapkeye, 1st.