Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-08-24
VOL. XII--NO. 8.
IOWA NEWS.

H. IOWA NEWS.
The small pox is raging in Olive town
ship, Clinton county. I556f sE8sa .
! While turning a summerset one da,
, last week at Keokuk, lad named Kelme,
broke his leg. ''''"''- -
i MOVEMENT sA1N OF OATT&E.-A drove of tw,
nandred cattle passed through Burlingto,
1or the East on the 10th inst. to market.
| "A little child of Mr.. A. E. White. o.
Albion, Marshall county, lost its life. ,fau
days Since' by eating Of poison prepared ts
destroy flies. .g-.-," -
r. In Dubuque q certain part OF Mair
street has been designated as q grain market
and it Is penal offsuse to buy grain in an,
other place. -. -. ~
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Vegetables, corn and potatoes have suf.
tered and are suffering severely from the
drouth In the western part of the State. So
says the Council Bluffs Nonpar.a. & stH
some of the citizens of Dubuque are
taxing measures to organize Cavalry
Company in that place. The Iowa Oitv
Dragoons is the only Cavalry Company in
the State. s......- ... - =
DUBUQUE ON AUoTIoNa-Ata a late meeting
OF the o'ty Council Of Dubuque, an ordi.
nance was passed requiring auctioneers to
pay 10 per cent. on all goods brought into
'hat'city to be sold at auction.
GRAND RALLY At Tpron.-Tbe Rennh,;.
cans of Cedar county are to have mass
meeting at Upton on the 31st inst. Senator
Harlan aud W. Penn Clark, ESQ.,, are an.
nounced as the speakers.
The Chairman Of the Relief Committee
AZ ohnfon, has received through Messrs.
Allen, CopD 4 Nisbie, of St. Louis, the sum
OF $3.50 so. the amount collected BY them
for the relief of the sufferers by the tornado.
FOUND DEAD. "A man named Law;.
Bushnell was found dead, one Gay laat week.
on prairie in Springfield township, Cedar
county. The Upton Advs-tissr saws the
enemy of his lifetime, strychnine whisky.
killed him at last.
The Marshall county Fair will be held
on the 18th, Goth and 2lst days of Septem.
Der. A premium of $50, is offered for the
best herd Of Durham cattle. Tama. Jasper.
Poweshiek, Hardin, Polk and Story counties
compete for this premium.
George Webster, boy of Is. at Bur.
l'ngton, incautiously tied tho halter of a
horse he was riding around his waist. His
nat BILE" of, which frightened the horse.
causing him to run and throw the boy of,
VINO was dragged a quarter OF mile and
killed by having bis skull fractured.
SINGULAR FREAK OF L1aHTN1se.-The late
lightning storm played some strange freaks.
Among others, it burnt all but the neither
extremity of the inside garment Of GENTLE
man, named Allen, residing near Iowa CITY.
the said gentleman being clothed with the
said garment at the time. Yet, strange to
say, ne escaped unscathed.
SILVER FROM LEAD ORr. At the Ea,,a
foundry in Dabuqne, where lead smelling is
carried on by M. Walter, considerable
amount of silver has been taken out durino
last year. 1t has hitherto been supposed
that there was not sufficient amount of
silver In our western lead ores to pay for any
extra cost in smelling, but it has been found
that as much silver may be extracted as will
pay tor the whole cost of smelling.
KILLED By THE OARs.-A carpenter named
bretsle was run over and killed by freight
car, at the Iowa City depot, on Thursday,
10th. He was crossing the track behind a
stationary car, when other cars ran against
it. pushing it along suddenly and knocking
him down. The wheels ran over his legs,
cutting ono nearly off and mangling the
other, and runRning across his stomach. He
lived half an hour afterwards, and was only
able to recognize his wife before he died.
The name of the Dubuque and Pacific
Railroad Company has been changed to the
Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad Company.
in order to avoid forcible foreclosure of its
mortgages, the interest on its bonds not
having been met. It is stated that the bond.
holders have agreed TO look to the earnings
OF the road, instead of in :erest on the bonds.
tor the u,e of their money. This maneuver
probably sinks all the floating debt, and
paid mp stock Of the old organization, and
will enable the new company, it is said, to
secure means sufficient to extend the road to
the Cedar Valley within the next hundred
days Messrs. Herman Gelpcke, Platt Smith,
W. W. Hamilton and N. K. Jessup are
appointed provisional directors" to man.
age the new company until the election of
Directors in February next.
CONFIDENCE MAN ARRESTED. "A man
named James Merkle was arrested at Daven.
port last Friday, charged with defrauding an
old man named Schroeder, from Wayne
county, Ind, out of $50. Merkle fell in with
the old man on the steamer Kate Cassell,
pretending to have taken passage on the
same boat. Before the boat left an accom-
plice came up to Merkle, presenting a 800
counterfeit bill to pay 'that money" " hich
he pretended to owe him. Merkle could not
change the bill and asked Schroeder to do it,
who had only $50, which he loaned to
the sharper, he promising to pay it back
before leaving the boat. Presently, however,
he thought Of some errand up town. The
old mans suspicious were aroused. Marshal
Mcneil was sent for, and Merkle was found
after considerable search and lodged in jail.
The papers do not inform us whether the
money was found in his possession. He had
a number Of forged checks and lsrge GUAM
tity of counterfeit money; also, small brass
bal! known to the initiated as ''patent
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