Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1864-03-12
STATE NEWS.

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STATE NEWS.
George W. Hemingway, a soldier
from Alamakee county, died of small pox
in Dubuque few days since.
MIR. Williams, of Alamakee county,
had four of his fingers amputated as
consequence Of exposure and freezing.
Ellen Slack, nine yea,s old, was
burned to death in Burlington, her clothes
having accidentally caught fire. We CLEAN
from the Hack Eye.
"A disastrous FIRE which occurred in
Davenport on the Goth, destroyed some
$4,000 worth of property. The principle
sufferers are S'etlin, Sch!egen, and Loren.
zen. Two horses and cow were con.
suu'ed in the conaagra'ion.
Arrangements have been made for
the erection of u paper mill at Cedar
Rapids.
Col. Grier sent of from Davenport q
few days since, two hundred aud Fifty
recruits and six deserters.
--Brigadier General Roberts will leave
Davenport in a few days to report for duty
at New Orleans.
John W. Austin, ugitive from rebel
oppression in Alabama, died in Jackson
county on the llth inst.
Companies "B' and ed" of the
9th Regiment met with triumphant re.
cep'ion the other day At Anamosa.
Benjamin Rosser. of Peos,a, Dubu.
que county, was killed few days ago by
a falling limb of tree. His skull wa.
terribly fractured.
One dwelling house and two black.
smith shops were consumed by fire in In
dependence a week or Two since Among
the sufferers were Mr.. Adams and Mrs.
Ward.
A glorious reception was given at In
dependence to the returning veterans of
Company "C,' Ninth Iowa Infantry, a
few days since.
The editor Of the Hardin county Sen
t"el complains that the recent cod snap
nipped the upper story of his ears Take
'em in, Brother, out of the cold. That's
the way we do with ours.
Walter J. Rice, gay Lothario who
had been praetieins tho art of seduction in
Western New York, was arrested q few
days since at WaverIy in Bremen county,
on requisition from Gov. Seymour.
I'm all. $500 rebel prisoners have
been confined at the barracks on Rock
Island, $50 of whom have died, and Cos
have entered the United States SERVICE
Number Of prisoners now in the barracks,
1895. We CLEAN from the Davenport
Gazette.
We learn from the Sidney Union that
Moses Biggs has been arrested on the
grave charge Of blowing up the Court
House in that place. The case is prose-
cuted on behalf of the State by G. L. Nil.
lard, Dis,ric. Attorney. Biggs is defended
by J. N. Cornish, Esq, and L, Lingen.
felter, Esq.
1t is stated that an old man by the
name OF McArdee, Prairie Creek town.
ship, Dubuque county, was recently beaten
10 death by his wife. She confessed her
guilt, and is now in prison awaiting trial.
Three sons arc also implicated in tho
tragedy. McArdee was 20 years of age.
The Republican Of Louisa county,
says that in the neighborhood of Spring
Run Postofice, in Elm Grove township,
in section embracing less than one mile
along tho road leading to Charlottesville,
t,centy three men have volunteered and
gone into the army, eleven of-whom be-
longed to four families!
Col. J. c. Todd gives the following
statement with reference to the military
hospitals at keokuk:
Since the establishment of the United
States General Hospital in this city. there
have been admitted from Iowa alone say
from April 10th, 1859, to January, lst,
1864, 3,8ll: returned to duty within the
above time, 2,2s5; discharged from ser.
vice, ISL; died, 1870; in the Hospital now,
786; total, 1911. This shows the mum.
ber admitted, number returned to duty,
numbered who have died, and those .,iil
II tho Hnanitnl f,.nrn Hi. 2A.4.