Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-01-28
STATE NEWS.

The Msrengo RerteU Of January 18th,
states that James Fletcher, recently dis.
charged from the army, Was arrested on
Monday morning last on = charge of muir.
dering bic wife last Spring BY throwing
her into tho Iowa River near Mareugo.
The Editor Of the Fort Madison Plain.
dealer delivered lecture in that place .
few evenings since on the subject Of AS
tronomy.
Tho newly organized Regiment Of
Militia in Jasper county, is Offered as
follows: Colonel, J. W. Sonnet; 1t Col.
onel, J. G. Blake; Major, J. Dicus. So
says the Newton Advocate.
-Grundy county has sent over ono
hundred men to the war, and there is not
a shoulder strap among them.
The West Union Record records /.
sad case Of seduction of soldiers wife
in Fsyette county. The injured husband
was waylaid and brutally beaten by party
Of ruflians under tho lead Of tbs seducer.
His crime was that he refused to keep his
disgrace secret The seducer and bis
sccomplices are under bonds awaiting trial.
Captain John A. Duckworth, Of tho
% Infantry, died near Savannah Of erysi-
pslas on the 14tb Of December. He va.
brave and good man, and died At bis post
The Bloomington Guard says: "No
body likes to be nobody; but every body
is pleased to think himself somebody.-
Aud everybody is somebody; but whom
anybody thinks himself to be somebody,
he generally thinks everybody else to b
aobody.'
A 6re.cracksr thrown BY a boy in
Keokuk. exploded in the eye of a little
fellow named Eddie Perdew, who died
from the effects Of the wound.
They have quit meeting BY moon.
light alone 1t Cedar Falls. The meet
by moonlight" on skates. So says the
Cedar Falls Gazette.
Tho Glenwood Opinion states tia,
the last cali for 300, 900 men has caused .
sudden decrease Of the population Of Mills
county. Skedaddling is going on down
there.
An extensive revival of religion 10
going on IN the Methodist Church q. Clsr.
linda. Fifty ascessions have already been
made to the Church.
A Mrs. Hecker who killed her child
in Burlington some months since, has
been convicted Of murder in the second
degree.
Charles Bremen Of Burlington At.
tempted to shoe. bis wife, and was arrested
therefor, and was commanded to give Sc
curi.y in the sum Of $500 for bic appear
.nce At the District Court.
The National Bank Of Mt. Pleasant
sold in December I 80 bonds to the noun,
Of $4,000. So says the Home Journal.
during the week ending on Saturday
last, the First National Bank at Borling-
ton received subscriptions to the 1910
loan amounting to s25o,ooo! So .ays the
Hack Eye.
The Local Of the Burlington Hack
Eye gives graphic account of the names
used in that District to obtain exemption
from military service. Diseases are nu.
merous over there; and Q thousand other
disqualifieations abound. The other Dis.
tricts are similarly affected.
We learn from the Freeman that dogs
are proving destructive to sheep in Ham.
ilson county. II is the same way in Mad
ison county. The same also in every
other county where sheep and dogs are
cultivated.
Tho Knoxville Republican states that
" there is family of children whose pa.
rents live in White Breast in Marion
county, who are running at large, and arc
in most degraded condition. They are
filthy as the Camanches, and almos. des.i.
tuts Of clothing. They steal every thing
they can get theis hands On y
Two wolen factories and pork house
are to be set going in Eddyville during
tho coming season.
Judge Lnderman Of Scott county
issued 302 marriage licenses during the
past year. Sosays the Davenport Gazette.
over II, 900 sheep have been brought
into Marshall county within year. So
says the Marshall Times. Mr.. Grips Of
the same county, realized last season over
half . ton Of honey from forty hives
Of bees.
"A number Of bounty Jumpers at.
tempted to escape from imprisonment At
Camp Mcclellan . night or two ago, but
they we're not successful.
-Fifty.two thousand seven hundred
and ff,y.six hogs have been slaughtered
in keokuk tho nr.snnk soa.or. ~cl IN