Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-12
VOL. XII-NO. .l5a
IOWA NEWS.

"KEoKUK County NEws."-We have "a,
ceived the first number of this paper-a
!arge-sized, well>flled sheet, printed at Sig.
Quincy, Keokuk county, by A. s. Bailey
The Republicans of Keokuk county should
give the Neacs q liberal support, and not suffer
it to 90 down as the Republican did. We
expect to hear good report from Keokak
IN November. The enemy now holds tho
most important county Offices, but We De-
ileVe the people are in sentiment strongly op.
posed to the slavery-extension Democracy,
Three negroes were recently kidnapped
near Council Bluffs and run into Missouri.
One Of them escaped but was arrested at
Oregon, Mo-, and put in jail as vagrant.-
Sixty dollars were at once raised at Council
Bluffs and two citizens had gone to rescue
him. Ifthese negroes had been kidnapped
out of slavery instead of into it, the Demo.
cratic papers would have set up tremend.
GUS howl over tho violation of law. Now,
they are as still as mice, having no condem-
nation to utter.
SEDUCTION AND MURDER. The Hamilton
Freeman learns that a young man at Iowa
Falls, boarding in the family of respectable
citizen, seduced the two daughters Of his
host. The youngest aged but fifteen years
ne poisoned, and married the eldest about
an hour before she gave birth to a child
The horrid affair is now undergoing legal
investigation. -['.....
HORRIBLE AccrDENr.-We learn from the
Davenport Gazette that on Wednesday of
last week, a Mr., Gould, of Homestead, Iowa
county, whilst engaged in tending saw in
MIR. Talbots mill, was caught by the driving
belt and carried twice around through a
space scarcely four inches wide, breaking
the left leg at the knee, and half way be-
tween it aud the hip, and at the hip, The
other leg was all mashed to pieces below the
knee completely to jelly. Dr.. ": II.
White, of Iowa City, was sent for, There
are but slight hopes of his recovery. DR..
White will determine if it is possible to
save one of the legs. The other will have
W Ue ampuCaCed.
ANOTHER. - On Friday, the 2sth ult.,
Frederick c. Wygandt, son of Stephen
Wygandt, of Flint River Township, Des-
moines county, aged about ten years, was
Killed by being drawn into the horse-p over
attached to sugar mill. He was driving
the horses attached to the power, and by
some mischance slipped and fell, his leg
being drawn between the caps of the wheels
and literally crushed to pieces, the bones
crushed and forced out upon the machinery.
lie was taken 10 his fathers house and his
leg amputated. lie was entirely free from
pain, and was perfectly conscious during the
whole time. He died at about three o'clock
in the afternoon from excessive loss of blood,
Big FIELD OF CoRN-The North Iowaa
says: "Mr. Buckmaster informs Us that he
had just husked seyenty-two bushels IF the
white Daniel Webster corn, which wrs
raised on sixty y-three rods square of ground,
and the cora is sound, plump and fully
ripened. This is a yield OF over 1904 bush.
els Per acre. Who can beat it?
STORE Burnt We learn that the store
belonging to Mr.. Groendy}ze at New Haven,
in this county, was destroyed by fire on Sat
uraay night last. The goods wrre al con-
sumed, the ire not being discovered in time
TO save anything Loss two or three thous.
and dollars. We have not learned to what
extent insured The fire was supposed to
have been kindled by an incendiary.- Was4,
ington Press.