Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-11-08

} DPTHERIA.-The Desmoines Register say
there has been lamentable fatality anon
children of that city within the last thre
or four weeks from diptheria Six funeral
occurred in one day.
WIFE MURDER--We learn from the Nc
gregor Times that George Ostrander, on tn
Goth Oct, murdered his wife while she wa
milking a COW, by striking her on the hea'
with an ak, with such force as to break tn
skull and cause instant death. The pal tie
lived ed in Auburn township, Fayette county
Iowa.
TELEGRAPH TO THE CAPIroL.-An election
is to be held at Desmones, on the 9th inst.
on the proposition to borrow $4,000 by the
city authorities TO be appropriated to aid the
Illinois and Mississippi Telegraph Company
in building line of Telegraph from Council
Bluffs, through Desmoincs, to some point or
the Mississippi river--the line to be in opera
ton as early as the 1st Of January.
j. P. Kock, of Davenport, has been COM
missioned as Colonel of the new German reg.
iment raising in this State He was Lieu
tenant Colonel in the old country, and has
cen service"
A PATRIOTIC AcT-Mr John j. Cole, of
Mount Pleasant, being unable to serve his
country in any other manner, has presented
his favorite mare to the State, to be used in
such a manner as the Governor may choose
to designate. The offer has beeen accepted.
MELANCHOLY DEATH-John H. Masterson,
of the Sd Iowa Cavalry, died at the hospital
in Keokuk on Thursday last, aged 20 years.
The Gate Ciiy says:
His parents live near Winchester, Van Bu-
rem county His father came down here some
days since to visit his son, found him at the
hospital, and watched over him till his death,
and then, worn down with grief and watching,
became insane and had to be confined. The
remains of the son were sent home yesterday,
and the father in that painful condition ac-
companied them
DAVENPORT GAZETTE. Add. H. Sanders,
for five years past associate editor of the
Davenport Gazette, has retired from that pa
per, leaving it again in sole charge of his
brother, Alfred Sanders The latter is pio.
necr of the Iowa press, having been connect
ed with the Gazette since 1s41. We wish
him and it continued prosperity.
GONE UNDER.-During the last sixty days
the following newspapers in this State have
suspended: Muscatine Reriew Keokuk Jour-
nal, Lyons Aduocote, Marengo Republican,
Sigourney Democrat, Iowa City Press, Iowa
City Reporter, Keosauqua Democratic News,
Desmoines Commonwealth and Desmoines
Journal The two last named were merged
into new paper called the Times.
18TH REGIMENT-The Governor has ap-
pointed Lieut.. Col. NJ. NJ. Crocker of the I'd
regiment Iowa infantry, Colonel of the 18th
infantry, now forming at Davenport. Capt.
Shane, of Vinton, has been appointed Major
The Iowa City Reporter has suspended
Messrs. Jerome & Duncan, of the Republican,
have purchased the materials and subscription
list of the establishment. The Reporter was
one of the oldest papers in the Stete.
HORSES FROM PENNsYLvANIA.-Two hun
drcd and twcnty-nine horses arrived at Day.
export, on the 29th, for the I'd cavalry
They were purchased by the government in
Pennsylvania, and said by the Gazette to be
rather better than the "horse veneering" of
which the Chicago papers have been telling.
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OF COMPANY q, REGIMENT OF THE 11TH IOWA
MILITIA