Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-05-18
IOWA NEWS.

IOWA NEWS.
The Congressional Convention for the
First Oonsrsssi District will be held at
Oskaloosa, on the Goth Of June.
Eight hundred dollars in money were
stolen from the store Of D. Young, in Fair.
field, one day last week.
AN eight hundred pound FIRE alarm bell
has been ordered for the city of Davenport
from the foundry Of Jones 4 Co., Troy, New
York.
OEDAx Gown. N. Knott, Of Upton, has
received the census appointment, and tho
Democrat thinks better choice could not
have been made:
- The Iowa State Medical Association,
which has been holding its session at Du-
buque, adjourned on the 10th. IT. next an.
nual meeting 10 to be held at Burlington.
BLAoxuAwK Cove learn from the Cedar
Falls Gazette Of the death Of an infant son
Of Dewitt @. Carpenter, caused by the lodg.
ment Of kernel of corn in the wind.pips
DEATH By PoIsoN.-We learn from Mr.. O.
@. johnson, of this city, who returned, to-
day, from De Witt, that Judge Graham, of
that place, died, Tuesday, from the effects
of stryohnine taken BY mistake for quinine.
AWFUL DEA7H.-A little girl, four or i've
years old, daughter Of Mr.. Fox, of Keokuk,
fell into the vault Of privy, on the 18th,
and was drowned. Every effort was made
to res uscitate the poor child, but in vain.
REVIVAL OF Bus1NEss.-The Delaware
county Journal speaks sncouragiugly Of tho
revival Of business in Delaware county. A
little moro home production and less expend.
iture for foreign productions will make all
right again.
POISONED BY PIR-PLAN7 LRAvEs. - The
family Of A. F. Cornwall, of Upton, were
poisoned last week by eating the leaves o.
pie plant, cooked for greens. Only Mrs.
Cornwall is in dangerous condition. Let i,
10 remembered by every one that the leaf o.
the pis-plant is very dangerous food.
There were S15 cases on the docket Of
the Supreme Court, at its late session .,
Davenport. Or these, 28l were new cases
and 80 continusnces. The court decided
about one.half Of the oases on the docket
and have the remainder under consideration
having been submitted on argument.
The Washington Pres states that q
Mr.. Kilgore, Of the firm Of Kilgore 4 Ro q
of that place, has invented new steam
condenser and evaporation, applicable to
many practicable purposes, and particularly
to the manufacture Of molssses and sugar,
for which he has made application for q
patent.
"A communication from the Fort Dodge
Sentinel in relation to Kossuth county, says
three fourths of the county are yet govern
ment lands, and that good timber can BE-
had for from IS to 80 an acre. Algona il
the county seat, . village of about thirty
houses, aving weekly mails north, east and
west, and semi.weekly south. A merchant
is wanted, and also millwright, who would
be furnished with a water power free.
CLINTON co.--The Allocate at Lyons il
agitating the question whether "ten pins"
are Intoxicating. It says the fellows gel
tight where nothing is to be had but ten
pins and beer, and as the highest judicinl
authority has decided that "lager" is moi
intoxicating, the query naturally arises il
ssten.pins" are an alcoholic beverage.
JEFFERSON co.-The Fairfield Ledger re.
ports new religious sect called "Soul- sleep.
ers," OF whom four men aud one woman
have been sojourniag at that place and
preaching in tent. They are opposed to
churches, deny the divinity Of Christ and
profess to believe that the soul is material
substance and will sleep with the body until
the resurrection day.
BY notice in another column 1t will be
seen that meeting of the citizens Of the
county is called at the Court House next
Saturday at one O'Clock, p. M, for the pur-
pose of devising some plan for mutual pro.
lection against the depredations Of horse
thieves. from which some of our citizens
have suffered this spring. The object, We
are assured, is merely Tor organized and
Systematic effort to detect and apprehend
these light fingered gentry, and hand them
over to the rigors of the law, aud not for the
purpose Of inaicting summary punishment
according to the code of Judge Lynch. The
latter course we could not sanction for a
moment, but the former is laudable and
pra seworthy, and we trust something may
be effected to that end, at the meeting Satur-
day Washington Press, 1911.