Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-27
VOL. XI-NO. 43.
IOWA NEWS.

'-J IOWA NEWS.
. SENTENCED TO THE PENfrENT1ARY. sam.
8 uel Coble, who shot DR.. Bissell in Marshall
, county, somtime ago, has been found guilty
of manslaughter and sentenced to eight
! years in the psnitentiary and to pay fine
Of $1,000. .-. .~r -
Recently, in Davenport, the lightning
struck picket fence, close by a tall Nor
mandy poplar, eight or ten inches in thick.
ness. There was an iron spike in the fence.
The tree was untouched. 1t Is said that no
instance is known where q Normandy pop.
lar has been struck by lightning. 80
In the new revenue law enacted by
the Legislature, there is a clause authorizing
the Treasurer to receive and give sepa.
rate receipts for State, county or school
tax at any time when either shall be TEN
dered This will enable person to get =
receipt for q part of his tax, even ii he is
not able to pay the whole.
The CoDr.--Mills Bros; of Desmoines,
are publishing the new Code complete, and
will have it ready in short time. The
Code goes into effect On the first Of Septen-
Der next. g. 4.
| The Keokuk, Ft. Dssnoinss and Mis-.
souri, Railroad Company have succeeded iu
raising $500, 900 in New York, which will
complete the road from Bentonsport to Ed
dyvilie, 81 miles. ...---
The Gilkerson place, including 100 acres
Of land, in Lee county, was sold by the sher-
if, on the 18th inst, for little less than
$4,000. In the flush times, this place was
sold on speculation for $4,000.
-Foote, the man who had his house asd
outbuildings burned week or ten days ago,
between Independence and Quasqueton,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary one
year, for the crime of uttering spurious and
counterfeit money. The Court rerritted
year of the sentence in consideration of his
recent misfortune, by Are.
TIE OrruMwA TRAasDY.-The latest the.
ory in relation to this mysterious affair is
that Lawrence, tho paramour or husband
of Miss Laurie Harvey, was murdered also
by villain named Lantz McComb, who
accompanied them from Rockford, Hin is.
Portions of Lawrence's clothing and hair,
covered with blood, have been found in a
stone quarry near Ottumwa, and search is be.
ing made for his body. 1t ia supposed that the
object OF the murder was robbery. The
Rockford Ne,os says the team has been found
in Iowa City, where it had been sold by
some confederate of McComb. This report
needs confirmation.
SUICIDE OF BANKER AT DAyENpoRr.-On
Saturday last, R. E Campbell, Esq, of the
late firm OF Nckols, Campbell & Co.,
bankers at Davenport, committed suicide in
his office by shooting himself in the head
near the right ear with revolver. He was
IS years of age and a man of strict honor
and peculiar senstivness in regard to his
reputation. Recent pecuniary
troubles are su: posed to have driven him to
he rash act. He had become involved and
made liable by his business connection for
money which he thought it was unjust for
lin to pay. Just before committing suicide
le paid Sheriff Thorington $1,000 on an
The Sheriff was counting the
money in another part of the room when
alarmed by the report Of the pistol. The
leaves wife and three grown Up
children. He was formerly resident Ra.
'enna, O., at which place he was in the
ewelry business, hut on removing to Dayen-
port IL 1856 with considerable capital bo
engaged in banking. One of the witn,ssys
before the Coroner's jury testified as follows
the religious belief of the de-
ceased
81 think he was a believer in Spiritualism.
l had frequent conversations with him upon
such subjects. His views as to the fu,u1e
world were that man would be progressive
being. He remarked that Daniel Webster,
having large capacity here, wopld have
larger hereafter. and would progress that
there was no hell in the future. His creed
was-Do unto others as you would they
should do to you."
SALINE LANDS OF IcwA.-These were given
to the University, by the late Legislature, in
in condition to spare. The appropriation
will, it is supposed, complete the Boarding
House, designed to accommodate the students
of the University. There are of these lands
1886 acres supposed to be worth So per
acre. Notes for land already sold, amount
ing to $17,O9l. Cash in the treasury be.
longing to saline fund, $2,423. Interest
due, 81, 79l making total of SAC, 1856; or
twice rs much as the institution asked for.
The University will not be able to make
this fund available at once, but it certainly
has no reason to complain of want of lib
eralty on the part Of the Legislature.
According to statement from the Au.
ditor, these saline lands are distributed as
follows: In Decatur county, l,027 acres;
Van Buren,, 1857 Wayne, l,477.-Des.
moines Register.
ca The Lafayette Qad.) Courier tells an