The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-07-06
IOWA NEWS.

Tho Lansing Union says Thomas
MAher, an Irishman, murdered Johr
Olsen, a Norwegian, in a brewry nea
T that place, on the 25th ult. A rcware
Of 5000 is offered for the arrest Of Maher
Tho Ottumwa Courier publishes
letter from Post Cottonwood, N. r., un
, der date Of juno 18Th, saying that Capt
Fouts. with company D, 7.h Iowa caval
ry, while guarding wha. they called som.
friendly Indians from Fort Laramie Il
Fort Kearney, and some forty miles thi.
side Of Laramie, the second light out
was attacked by Indians, who killed
Capt. Fouts and fifteen Of his men, and
wound'ug eighteen. No particulars. --
Capt. Fouts was from Abba.
Tho Montezumn Republican says
"Thcre were ,s98 sheep sheared in
this county this season. The average
yield is four pounds per head, making
1852 lbs At GO cents per lb. The
wool growers will realize tho amount of
500, o55 20"
Returned soldiers sro having their
discharges recorded in tho County Re.
cordsr's Office as Burlington. lis good
idea.
An awful and fatal catastrophe occur.
red Al Dyersvilis yesterday morning
A man and his child we're drowned. a
team also, and woman was barely saved
All because Of the won't take advice
nature Of the man
Buffalo Creek near nyersyiiie, was
swollen by the rain storm Of Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning into a
mad, rushing river Of great debth.
About nine O'Clock yesterday morning
German drove down to the west bank
Of the stream TO the usual f,rdinc place
to cross to Dyersvil'e He was seated in
ar ordinary wagon, his wife and little
girl was with him.
Parties who ssw his intention called
To him not to attenp 10 cross the creek
as 10 team could stand in such torrent.
He persisted and entered the river for
snch It now was IL had not gone
hundred fee. from ,he shore, when the
horses and wagon were lifted from the
bottom, and born fercely alon, with the
current The man and child were tum-
bed into the water, and they with The
team foated no ono knows whore The
woman was buoyed up by her skirts, and
foated some distance when she caught
hold Of bush, and held fast until re-
leased from her awful pred'camens ~ mon
in boat.
The man and child we're watched by .
hundred persons, for tho shrisks Of thc
frs. spectators brought others to tha
river, aud they saw tho victims, no.
sinking, now rising borne away sc
death. When conductor Kellogg lef,
| Dyorsvillc, at Eve o clock yesterday evan
j ing, neither the German, nor the chill
/ nor team and wagon had besn hssrc
. from
!, The population Of linn county
taken last winter, is 1856, of WHOM
4,IlI are voters, and 1887 arc mihti
mon. Thers are forty neeros, in III
? county-Z2 males and Is females.
> Tho income Of Senator Grimes j
s2f,llG
John NJ Elder Of Monre, count,
took from sheep two years old aseo,
weighing III pounds, and Mr.. Gilman
took from sheep one yssr old A feee
weighing 70 pounds
There is an epidemic raging in ia
: Wis county, called the black voraIt I
attacks none bus Copperhssds. The Ore
. disposlng cause is an obIiqns spnint 4
negro suffrage.
to- ---jndson Simops, school boy. va
badly injured at Davenport on Wedne.
day last by ears The train ran aya, j.;
q leg, cutting of his left foot, and shs..er
. ing the limb badly az far mp As the koss
n Twenty eight ladies' made raid -,
+. a whisky shop al lfszelton, Eaehasa
7 county, and cleaned it oui.
: One IF the companies boring f., =,
At les Mohes, have sunk 4 well $50 fe.
in depth, but have have not struck D;
The Register states that everything VI
, going on fsvorsbly
. The Davenport Go.-ue calls III
special attention ofsoldie,., their widow,
orphans and friends, who have upssttIs