Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1864-06-29
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a young girl, name not given, vas killed
by lightning few days since in the South
ern part Of Marion county.
William Burden, SO years Of age an old
Resident Of Dubuque. died in that city on
Tuesday last w
A drove Of 700 sheep from Ohio, bound
for Delaware Co, crossed the rivcr at Thu.
bnquc early in the week.
About 100 horses from the eth cavalry
were s,ampslcl and lost near Fort Randall
says the Sioux City j.yisss.
The Mt;rcgor Western Hailroad il il
operation - Luana, and gra,.s.d to Postyille,
which latter point the cars viii reach in
Jlly.
\ little au,h,er Of Mr. :. $. Shcrwin, I, I
Manchester, Delaware county, was recent
" deprived Of her sight Ly having liquid
lime dashed in her face by accident
The number acres Of land in Jones Co. is
sol, So. assessed at 81 81, So4 Tslc total
assessed yalu. of all thu .rope,tv IN the CO.
is over :s,ooo,ooo.
Knoxville, as W. lcara from the Hfpujii :
en- the place is rapidly improving. this "a
son. 4 large number OF substantial build
ines are going up.
\ severe storm vi winl visited Mahasha
and Warrclo Counties OH Monday last.
Mach dcmagc was done to fences. fruit AID
shad. tree, corn and W, .a. NJ Pickcns
barn in the southern part Of the County
was blown down, and ncw house near
Uskalo ',A, owne! by 4. Il. I!arris was
new Methodist Church bn ldng at Eddy lie
was considerably injured
SnoOT1.,G ArrRay.-On the 18th inst
Jesse X, nnedy Hugh Jack and George Lee
went to the residence Of Simon Lee, de-
scrtcr from the Grey Beard Regiment, fer
the purpose of arrcsting him They in
quircd If Mrs. Lee, who appeared at tn,
door, whether her husband was at home
Being assured ny her that hc was not, they
themselves Not finding him there they
went down TO the cellar. where they dis
covered Ice. who apparently lcapc'l out of
bed ut tn first alarm and wen; down to
the cellar. On telling him what their bust
ness was, he asked permission t. 90 up
stairs and pat on hoe, and stockings. Be
leying lac was Icting in good faith, kcnnc-
Nv and Jack escorted him out Of the cellar.
when on entering the room he seized a gun
standing in the corner ard attempted to
shoot Kennedy. The gun missed fire,
wlicrcupon kcnneiy drew revolver and
shot him once or twice. Jack also shot
ice. one "f the ball, taking effect in the
back, and hedging IN the spi'a coidnin,
causing death Oh FRIDAY mornins. After
he was wounded the persons nryc-ting him,
secured II wagon aud brought him to town,
and placed hi,u in bel y: the Ph.ip;
House, when his wounds were attended 70
by Dr. Wcoli.
On Monday, Kennedy and Jack were ar
r. stcd on charge Of assault and battery
with an attempt to kill They gave bal
to appear on the following Wcdncs, 'ay.--'
On the day appointed the defendants APP
pearcd before Justice Porter and plead not
guilty to the charge. The examination was
then entered into at length, clici,ins scarce
ly hIy athcr n2tcliai fncts e4cpit teose
stated above. During the examination
many technical points Of law were intro
duced which were ovcrrulcd by the Justice
as being immatcrial. The examination
closed on Friday, the dcf:ndlnts being
bound over for their appearance at Court.
.Xe,cton .iir0cats.