The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-05-06
THE GATE CITY


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They have commenced digging th
horizontal shaft in the Lake tunnel .
Chieago. Il ~ d q !
The new glass works in Syracuse, N
T., are in process of erection, and will b
finished in short time.
IAN eight foos Frsnchmsn is on exhi'
bition at Liverpool.
Neal Dow is very i'll from the effects
of his Incarceration.
The New York State Esir D tsshe
held at Rochester, September SOB.
The Empress Of the French haS pre-.
sented Adeline Patti with some magni6-
cent jexelry. IS ~ e. z 81
"A lady, apparently 10 good health,
while walking near Benton Barsaeks, st.
Louis, staggered and fell. She was borne
off % the hospital. and died in = short
time.
"A horrible wife murder took plsce
lately at st. Louis, the husband beating
and Stamping his wife to death. Ill 81
The Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair
is represented in New York BY : com.
mittee.
BY recent arrangement in Armory
Hospital, at Washington, D. c., food and
other materials is transported to different
parts Of the building on cars.
The Hutchinson Family are about
commencing q series Of concerts to be
given in Washington.
james Gray and Thomas Cusie, of
the N. Y. V. Engineers, were executed
for desertion at Washington last Friday.
Senator Hale introduced q. bill in
Congress lately for the grading and in-
proving Of the streets at Washington.
The receipts Of the Sanitary Fair at
St. Louis has amounted, on Wednesday
evening, to 81, 500.
Three boys we're drowned last We'd
nesday evening in Chicago.
AT Lawrence. Mass, on the night of
the llth inst, Mr.. Dennis Harding and
child were suffocated while asleep by the
burning of their bed-cloihes.
The rate of mortality in New York
Is about half as large again as in London
The residence of poor widow was
pulled dowaover her head in Chicago
last Thursday. No cause is known.
In St Louis society has been formed
for the free education Of negroes.
"A little boy in st. Louis, the other
day, was garro!ed and robbed by couple
Of larger boys. Commencing young.
Among the curious volumes pre-
scented to the Mississippi Sanitary Fair,
is a venerable black letter volume printed
in 1860, giving full history of the trial
of the Regicides.
.-Great Burlington, . village in Mas
sachusstts, supports Ito drinking saloons.
The Rothschilds are about opening .
bank in Mexico with capital Of $780,.
100000.
james Hamill, of Pittsburg, the
champion oarsman, has been challenged
by VIM. H. Stevens of Poughksspsie, N.
T., to row FIVE mile race on the POUCH.
keepsie track any time before the first Of
July for parse of $500.
Frank johnson lately entered hotel
In Cincinnati, rugged himself in a fine
suit Of clothes and left his own delapidat-
ed ones in their place. @S'
Valentine Benjamin, 44th, and z.
Daily, Of the Ssth Illinois regiments, both
of Gen. Sheridan's Division, we're shot .
few days since, BY sentence of cosrt
martial, for desertion.
"A great deal of counterfeit money
was passed at the New York. Sanitary
Fair, and many thefts committed. = 81.
All the horses in the Nashville livery
stables we're Impressed for Government
service few days ago.
A severe shoe. of an earthquake Wa
felt At Quebec on the afternoon of lhe Esd.
No damage vas done, but the people were
much frightened and all rushed into the
street.
John G. SAKE, the poetical joker, ID
seriously i'll at ALBANIA, N. Y, from the
effects of injuries received "while riding
on q rail"
Edward Eserett's East Tennessee
fund. in Nav ENGLAND foofs mn E90. 722
II win doubtless reach 100000, the
sum originally proposed in the Nassacha
Belts Legislature.
MIR. and Mrs. Shoddy are likely t<
flourish again At the watering places the
coming season. AT most of the fashion.
able reeorts every room is engaged, and
: oil of the cottages in the immediste vicini.
y - well as many rooms in private
houses.