Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-11

New PaiAsfaphs. 3
Three canal stablse nd forty.thrse hesses
were consumed, by Als at Oswego, N 4,
on Monday, 3lss sls.
Nineteen Pike's Psakers are reported 10
have been massacred ~ til, Kiows indians
on the plains, within Ne psst two months.
The fare on all the Railroads East Of
Buffalo has advanced -. Upon the New
York and Boston roads tho price has gone
up - during the past week.
Four hundred cords Of wood, belonging
TO the Chicago and Rock Island r. r. Co.,
were burns q Tiskilws, few days ago, hav-
ing been ignited b. aprai1ie FIRE. 10
Tag.re, the famous Calcutta merchant
died Of . broken heart, because his fortune,
during the panic Of 1847, was re'lucsd to
ten millions Of dollars Poor fellow.
: A FIRE in the Fourth District Of New Or
leans, on the night Of the Sd inst, destroyed
sixty dwellings. Loss .stimsted at quar-.
ter If q million dollars.
Indian wars, ambuscades, and devilment
Of all kinds are reported throughout south
western Texas on The plains, in Mexico, and
southern California. a. ss. .srsr Ill
a man in Kalamazoo is training an elk
to trot 90 the race course. The elk has al
ready trotted against horse for purse Of
seven hundred dollars, winning the prise by
long distance. { 5,t
Two men, James Gallagher and Jack
-, were killed by being buried in grain
bin in the warehouse of Sturges, Bucking-
ham & Co., Chicago, on Wednesday Of last
week. ~ 't
Rollin Germain, . lawyer Of Buffalo, N.
T., recently lsotured in that CITY by The
request Of Mr.. Fillmore and other citizens
proposing to show BY experiment thai
steamers, properly constructed, can be made
to run 100 miles al hour at great economy
Of fuel and space.
Mexico is still distracted with internal
troubles. Murder is rampant. A oonspi1a-
cy against the Miramon government has
been discovered. The Liberals seem to
have every opportunity to possess them
selves Of the city of Mexico. but they are
divided among themselves and appear to
have 10 definite obj-ct IN view.
Mr.. II. J. Th,mas, the q. 8. Mnshal o.
Wisconsin, who was suons the killed in the
late catastrophe on the Chicago l. North
western r. K. was resident Of Fond d.
Lac. He was the son in.lsw Of ZION. hn
B. Macy, member Of Congress Of Wisconsin
who Was among the victims of the Niagars
steamboat disaster on Lake Michigan, some
three years ago. Mr.. Thomas ha, had tn.
management Of the estate, and was working
hard to extricate it from its embarrassnents
He had partially succeeded in his appointed
work when death cut short his labors. Mr.
Thomas himself had q moderate property
aud there was an insurance of $500 Of
his life. .. sa.
Mr.. Philip Shaasr, in the town of Paris
Grant county, Wis, had remarkable I'd
venture the other day. He chased q beal
that was eoDmitting depredstions in tia
vicinity, and overtaking the ssanamile,'
jumped a.s.raddle of him and after beiDl
thus carried for distance, Shaffer vainly
attempting to overpower Bruin with knife
the heass climbed . tree, Shaffer still cling
ing to his back. The bear, 10 wcNer, "rub
bed" him of by going through the fork o.
the tree, and fastening down, Shahsr raj
for his gun and shot the bear, killing him
This 10 hard story, but 10 vouchsd for b,
the postmaster at Dickeyvi'le, who detail.
the facts to the editor of the GaleDa Adver
tiser. Mr.. Skaters experience at riding
bear back qualif him for promissn
place among our modern turfsmen.