Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-25

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IOWA NEWS.
Mr.. ehersdlan. esnatsr from Keokuk
10, has iSnovsd 70 Oouneil Bluffs.
--Iowstas sns Hundred and thirty.nine
daionie ipdssA and shirty-nins hundred
nembeIs,
PRInx1Na or TIE CoDs.-Ths Desmoines
Register anticipates that the distribution Of
he Code to the several parts Of the State
will commence the latter part Of September
d the beginning Of October next sooner
BY two months than was contemplated BY
he Legislature.
SulclDz At OsKALoosA.-JohnL iohsnheld.
> German resident Of Oskaloosa. shot him.
sslf through the bead with pistol, in the
woods near that place, on the 18th inst
he had previously given some money to an
telling him that It would be
the last tims he would sss him.
ExzcunoH OF MuRDsxzR.-Johnson, the
murderer Of Ostland, near Dubuque, in
1858, was hanged at Delhi on Friday last.
An eye witness Of the execution informs the
Dubuque 2smss that when johnson mount.
ID the scaffold he ran lightly up the steps,
and after the Sheriff had adjusted the rope
be, with his own hands, removed his shirt
collar 10 ~ to give room for the poose, and
re.adjaatsd it to his own satisfaction. He
strenuously denied his guilt until the drop
fell. His whole bearing was that Of sol
der. He died without = struggle.
PnH SrEx IN TEE LuNos.-The Davenport
Gssstss states that about week ago little
son Of NJ. Hsush, Of that city, in blowing
through piece Of pipe stem about an inch
long, got it fast in his throat. A woman
sudeavored to release it, and pushed it
down the wind pipe and thence it gradually
passed into the right lung, nearly sufocat-
ing the boy and causing him great agony
The physicians made an incision into his
throat. and tried to remove the piece Of
pipe with various Instruments, and were
utterly unsuccessful till the 2lst inst, when
Drs. Adler and Thompson removed it with
. piece Of bent wire. The case was most
remarkable one. The boy will probably
recover. -.
MYsr.Rlous. - We learn from the Mt.
Pleasant Journal that mans leg, from the
foot to the knee, was found in pile of ma
nure which the work men were moving from
the Virgins House stable, in Salem, Henry
county, few days ago. Tho tendons Of
,he leg and loot were in tolerable state Of
preservation, and the nails still upon the toes.
Upon looking out in the field, they discov'
cred the thigh and some other bones. Al
may naturally be supposed, the discovery
has created considerable excitement. -
Whether murder has been commit.e ed, o,
whether they are the remains Of subject
that has been in the hands Of q doctor, and
thus carelessly disposed Of, there appears to
be NO means Of determining.
ARREST OF LAwRENoE.-We learn from
the Burlington HasoLeys that Lawrence, the
accomplics Of Liant. McComb in the horrid
murder at Ottumwa, was arrested in Mon.
trose ON Friday by oticers of justice from
Keokuk. 1t appears this man has been stay.
ing in the vicinity of Keokuk, and excited
suspicion by his close approximation to the
description of Lawrence, and has been
watched. On the receipt of the news that
McComb had been arrested at Council Bluffs,
this fellow started from Keokuk in the cars
for Montrose, and was off before the officers
were aware of the fact. A special train
was dispatched Immediately with the officers
on board, and he was arrested as stated. A
card with the name Of Laura Harvey writ
ten in full upon it, was found in his pocket,
and rumor prevailed that in his ya!ise
were found letters of Miss Harvey'e, thus
identifying him as the man Lawrence with
out doubt. The City Marshal of Rockford,
ILL.,, is at Ottumwa, and the prisoner was
sent there for idensi fcation by him.
IMPORTANT DECISION by recent decis-
ion Of Judge Love, at Dubuque, it was held
that defendants sued as guarantors Of certain
coupons of the bonds of the Central I'm.
provement Company were not liable, not
having been notified Of the non payment at
maturity. Tie defence that the Company
was insolvent was rebutted by proof that
only q email per centage Of stock had been
paid in, and that there were solvent stock.
holders individually liable to the extent Of
their subscriptions. .'..
MIR. Solomon Ross, an old soldier Of
the war Of 1912, died in Salem. Iowa, on
the 9th inst. He was stricken with palsy
on the Sd, and fingered until the 9th, when
Ire pa ssed to his final account. Mr.. Rose
was born in the city Of New York, on May
och, 1888; moved to Belmont county,
Ohio, in 1917; married in 1918, and moved
to Iowa in 1887. lie served two years and
eleven months in the army, and was in the
battles VI Queenstown Heights, Lundy's
Laue snd Others. lie was twice severely
wounded and once or twice slightly gun
shot wound in tbs right thigh, the scars
of which he carried to his grave. He was
twice taken prisoner. (onee at each of the
above na,neI bat:lcs.) Once he was ex
CHANGED a"d occe escaped, and 10 his escape
he captured an Indian chief and brought him
iato the American camp.
& ANori,Ex DISAPPOINTMENT. - II now turns
out that the man arrested at Council
Bluffs and brought to Ottumwa, supposed
to be Comb, who bore strong resemblance
to that individual, and deceived many persons
who thought themselves fully able to recog.