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

IOWA NEWS.
Tho S'gouruey Democrat says party
Of Ausquskes Indians is sncamped on !
stream about seven miles North West Of
that town. They design remaining h that
psrt Of the cssntry daring shs winter.
information wanted Of Benjamin Max.
Geld. He hss family in this place In des-
tisuts cifcumstApcss, and bic wife has b..
oosne Insane. He left here about Elk weeks
agn. he worked on the railroad at a. ssas
Agency during the summer. Any iaferna-
tion will bs thankfully receivsd BY address
ing this offics.--F airfxM Ledger.
"A daughter Of Geo. Y. Arnol', aged abeut
four year, residing In Brcokfiead ownship,
Clinton county, was accidentally killed on
Sunday, Both ult., By her brother, aged
about twelve years, who was playing with
rifle In an upper room, and pointing it
through the ceiling, when it was unfortu-
nately, discharged, the ,het taking effect
just above the collar bone, passing through
the region Of the heart. Another warning.
Geo. 8. Albright, An old citizen OF
Dssmoines county, died on the Let inst -
He was member Of our State Legislature
in 1854, and much esteemed by all who
knew him. aa
FATAL Aoo,DRNr.-A young man named
John Davis, son Of the Post Master at Bata-
via, Jefferson county, was injured BY the
cars running over his leg, At that place, a
few days ago, from the effects Of which Id
died the following day. He attempted to
climb from freight ear while in motion
and fell under the wheel.
We learn from he McGregor Pro that
Mrs. Charles Foster, Of Ossian, was burned
TO death on the 95th nit. Shs was with her
husband defending their house from prai.
RE Are, when her clothes were ignited and
her burma DO serious - to cause death in
thirty minutes.
WAsnlNarox OouNfY.-A son Of Mr.. Or
tiss, living near Amboy, about Is years Of
ago, was killed on the LIST inst, BY aocidsn.
tally becoming ent.nglsd in the machinery
Of sugar mill. His head wss mangled in
shock ng manner.-A little son Of Mr.
Brokaw, Of Washington, aged 4 years, died
on the Sd inst. from the effects Of \ scald
received few days before by falling into a
ID Of hot water..-Miss Mary Hinkston was
arrested at Washington last Saturday on
charge Of infantioide, but for want Of sufic.
lent evidence was discharged Mr.. Etched.
berger has closed the old Iowa House and
taken possession Of the Washington, where
an appreciative public will doub tless con-
tinue to favor him with liberal patronage.
PRAlR,E F,Rss.-A terrible prairie Ere
swept over fifteen miles Of Jasper county, q
few days ago. The Newton Press states
that It Destroyed one mans house, stables,
stacks and two horses the orchard and
nursery of Mr.. NOVELS the stabling, stacks
and 800 bushels of corn, belonging to John
IIouk the barns and other property Of A
W. Mcdonald and al immense amount Of
fencing.
In Washington county last week a. we
learn from the Prsss) f broke out near
Long creek ard swept across the entire
county to English river, laying waste fields
aud destroying a great amount of fencing,
hay and gn.in, and one or two barns and
stables, and few animals. W. E. and
J. R. Hawthorn had 100 rods Of feacs de.
stroyed and timber damaged 81. 900. Mr.
Florang had his entire crop of grain and
hay consumed, together with stable.
II. Iden had his stable burned and three.
horses lost. Z. Nickerson, house burnt
goods mostly saved. Robert Hunter h'st q
large stock Of grain, and great many 9TH
ers were damaged moro or less, from 800
to $500.
In johnson county, tile damage by recen,
prairie fires will aggregate $4,000. One
man living on Old Mans creek lost SOu
bushels VI wheat in the bin. The county
poor hou-e narr.'wly escaped destruction.
In Cedar township fences, hay and corn
were consumed to a lamenta able extent.
A prairie fire in Benton county, ON .he Sd
inst, burned to death horse belonging to
Mr.. Fi6eld and Injured another so badly
that he cannot recover Mr.. N. Small lost
bis stable, about forty tons of hay and seve-
raj hogs Messrs. II. Richardson and John
Woody each had nearly hundred rods oi
f.nee consumed. There Vas much other
damage done by the same Ere.
Mr.. Isaac Adams, the inventor q the