The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-07-09

SAT6RDAY. July ..



upon the Fourth in chat part Of the world !:
ave learn that the city was very orderly
du ing the day, but regret We have to
record several accidents. At Buffalo,
during the celebration, young man By
the name of Thos. Conklin, was killed BY
the fragments of an anvil which burst,
and several other persons were seriously
injured. Martin Dillon, laborer on the
Rock Island Bridge, fell from the trestle-
work on to the pier, and wss badly
bruised. About noon the hotel at Wal.
colt Station, on the NJ. l. NJ. Railroad,
was consumed by 6re--the origin UNI
known. There was no insurance on the
property. 1t was occupied by two maiden
ladies, and was used as school as veil
q clearinghouse. At night boy in
front Of the LeClaire House was struck
by sky-rocket, which Knocked him down
and stunned him. Sergeant Gehon, Of
the Veteran Corps. was badly injured at
the residence of Mr.. Russell, on the eve
ming of the 4th intst., BY the bursting Of
. serpent, which struck him in the eye,
burning him severely. There may have
been other accidents, but We did not
earn of them"
"A cavalry company has been organ
lied in Hardin county under the militia
law of the State.
We notice 10 the Home Journal. Mt.
Pleasant, that Notwithstanding the large
number Of students taken from the Wes-
leyan University there, by the To-day
call, the exercises of the late commence
ment equaled in interest any of its prede-
cessors. The attendance was large; the
addresses before the different societies
were good, and the students sustained
the well-established reputation of the in
stitution and reflected credit upon them
selves by the excellence of their reeita
tions.
David NJ. Sells, son of the ex-Secre-
tary of Stale, has been appointed Lieut..
Col. of the 10Th q. s. colored regiment,
now at St. Louis.
-Four pupils of the Blind Asylum at
Vinton. have started on musical tour
through the State.
CELEBRATING THE FoURTH.-Mrs. Car
roll, an Irish female citizen OF Muscatine,
with swate brogue. and of patriotic and
pugilistic proclivities, was fined by the
city court the sum of FIVE Hollars and
costs, and only because she sought to
amuse herself upon the Fourth by the
very innocent pass time of pitching into
one Mrs. Murphy with an iron weight
A weigbty affair, trnly. Won't Musca-
tine courts make any allowance for wo-
mans temper
The Muscatine Journal of Wednes-
day says: "0fficer Sanford arrested Ben
Smith and Dave Russ, two well-known
characters of this city. last Monday on
charge of shooting a man on the other
side of the river year or two since. We
understand that Smith escaped. Russ is
In jail at Rock Island"
Last week young woman appeared
in Knoxville who deported herself rather
strangely. She paraded the streets dur
ing the day, and slept in an idle stage
hack at night. She was discovered to
be subject TO frequent fits of insanity
At her request she was sent to Oskaloosa.
as she said she had friends living in that
place. She stated that she was raised in
Knox county, Illinois; was named Wal
tiers; was twenty FIVE years old; that her
mother lived ten miles south of Indianola,
Warren county, Iowa, and that her f.s Of
insanity we're the effects of being kicked
by her step-father. On examination, her
skull was found to be fractured. ~
The New Secretary OF the Treasury.
Hon. William Pitt Fessenden was born
at Roscowen, N. H., on the 10th of %
fober 1906. He graduated at Bowdoin
College in 1883, and was admitted to the
to the bar in 1927. In 1929 be removed
to Portland Me-. and in 1881 was elected
to the State Legislature. The yeuppest
member Of that body, he greatly dis,iD.
guished himself in debate on the United
States Bank He rose rapidly 10 his pro-
fesslon, and in 1910, as the Wing c,nd;.
date for Congress, outrun the strength az
his party. In l843 he was nominated for
reelection, but declined, preferrinp to re-
turn to the practice of his profession.-|
In 1850 be was again elected to Con-
gress. but through an error in the return.
his seat was given to his competitor Ha
was member of the national convention
which nominated Gen. Harrison for thu
Presidency in lS4o. He was also i mem
ber OF the convention Of l848. which
Nominated Gen. Taylor, in which he ann.
poeted tho claims OF Mr.. Webs,sr. and Sc
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