Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-11-18
IOWA NEWS.

AOWA NEWSs
-Keubsn Noble, Of Clayton county, has
been appointed Director In the State Bank.
"A man belonging to company which
came down the river with raft was drowned
At Lyons last Monday week.
"A little child was smothered to deatl,
At Dubuque, . few days ago, BY being
placed III bed under feather tick.
Joseph jacobs, who shot Dr.. Lucas, in
Clark couniy, last summer, has been con.
voted Of manslaughter and sentenced to
four years in the Psnitsntiary.
The Hardin County Ssnti.. IL Of the 9th
reports that on Monday evening Of last
week, son Of Mr. Brown. living mile
north of Eldora, was killed in the coal bank
Of Fuller 4 Boyd, BY the oaving in, or
falling down, of the coal.
Wheat stealing seems 20 be going on
pretty extensively in the neighborhood of
Davenport. The Gazette of last Saturday
says it has been informed Of several tlefts
from farmers who reside near Hickory
Grove. A few nights since Mr.. Marsh, who
lives on the Spelititch farm, had eighty bush
els ot wheat stolen, and Mr.. Blaser lost one
hundred bushels. Three other farmers WHO
live near Davenport have also been losers.
PAINFUL AoclDsNr.-J. B. Howell, ESQ.,,
senior editor of the Keokuk Gate Lity,
brok his 10y above the ANGLE joint, on the
10th inst, while jumping from q stage to
the pavement at Quincy. He was brought
home to Keokuk on the steamer Warsaw,
and at last accounts was doing very we'll
under the circumstances. The accident
will cun6ne him to his house for several
weeks.
EDITORS lin BoNDs."-A. r. Wicker.
sham, Esq, of the Washington Prs.s, was
married on the 10th ins:. to Miss Ellen M.
Shaw, of Mt. Pleasant. A very sensible
step, friend "wick," and you'll lind there's
no sham about.
Our young friend Matt. Parrot, OF the
Anamosa Eureka, has also been Gagged mat
rimonially by fair denzen Ct Davenport.
So they 60!
THE STARVING WOMAN, in the vicinity of
Oskaloosa, whose att mpt to commit suicide
by refusing to take food, we have heretofore
noticed, Was still lingering but evidently
failing on the 10th inst, though it had
been eight ,ceeks since she had taken par
ticle Of food. She takes water, but latterly
it has occasioned vomiting and severe pain
in the stomach. This is an extraordinary
case. The Herald says the woman is evi.
dentally insane
Foul MURDER. A MAJ named Joseph
Wood was found lying on Front street, Du-
buque, one night last week, with his
skull mashed in. Two men, named Mooney
and Clifford, are under arrest, charged with
numbering and robbing him. The woun-
ded man was still lingering at last accounts,
but could not possibly recover.
Another.-Warner Davis, highly es-
teemed citizen of Henry county, near Ss.
lem, was brutaly murdered in his own
door-yard, by some person unknown, on the
morning of the 10th inst. Having heard a
noise in his smoke house he went out to see
what was the matter. Soon after his wife
heard two or three hare blows, and upon
going out found him lying on the ground,
speechless. He fingered only few hours,
having received several severe fractures of
the skull. The affair is accounted for on
the supposition that soma one was attempt.
ing to steal meat but being detected COM
United the horrible deed to avoid exposure
The deceased was about 70 years of age, and
member of the Society of Friends.
THE CONDEMNED AT HARPER's FERRY.-The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Erening Post writes:
"There can be no doubt that Brown will be