The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-12-22
IOWA ITEM Is.

The Davenport Gazette Of Monday says:
yesterday evening, about clock, Mr.
Hass, Of the firm of Miller & Hass, grain
dealers. on Harrison street, upon returning to
his residence on Fourth street, Just West Of
Scott, noticed that his COW had not been
stabbed by his father, as customary. Suppos,
Ing the old gentleman was temporarily abb
sent, Mr.. Hass started to attend to the mat
ter himself. Upon ascending to the hay loft
he was horihed to find his father hanging
from rafter by the neck, dead. Upon ex
animation the body was fopud to be almost
cold. Mr.. HISS alarmed hi family and sent
for DR.. Tomson, who soon arrived, Wien the
body was cut dowu aud removed to the house.
where an inquest was held upon it. A verdict
of suicide by hanging WAS returned
:. This victim of self destruction was appar-
emily hale, hearty man, about sixty seven
years OF age. Only tourte en month ago he
came to this country with his wife from Hol.
stein, Germany, to JONI their children,
three of whom, two sons and a daughter,
have resided in this city for several years
"Ihe deceased wife, to whom he had been
married forty-three years, died the week af.
ter they arrived in this country. This cir,
eumstance probably weighe 50 heavily upon
the old mans mind, that his reason was at
times dethroned, and in one Of these spells
of melancholy he committed the act. Yes
terday forenoon he was about, seeming As
well as usual. He went down town after
dinner, returned between three and four
o'clock, and Immediately went TO the stable,
which was the last seen OF him alive To &C.
clomphsh his purpose, he had evidently taken
a position on cross timber, and after making
fast the rope. adjusted the fatal moose and
leaped into eternity. The countenance ex>
hibited no evidence of the death having been
prolonged or painful
The Sheriff Of Mitchell county, Mr.. c.
sweeney. had an ounce Of febel lead taken
from his leg few days agoI after carrying it
for two years.
The Register has this item concerning
Col. Ed. Wright: Our worthy Secretary Of
State elect has been the recipient of two
complimentary commissions from headquar-
tiers. The first commission states that he is
brevetted Colonel ito rsnk from March 10,
1865; the second makes him Brigadier
Generel. to rank from the same date.
The Marshall Times has ap account of q
shocking case of seduction and abortion oc>
curing near Lee rand. The name Of the
young lady is withheld, but the names of the
parties implicated are gwen. Oscar Mckin
ney, a railroad station agent, who ravished
her person aud sent her of secretly TO have
an abortion. Drs Harrison and Flowers, of
Geneva. ILL.,. and Dr. Carey. Of Indiantown,
and the landlord and landlady at LeGrand
in Marshall county, all OF whom attempted
to produce abortion. The last effort sue
ceeded, and the girl died. All the parties
above named are placed under arrest, and it
hoped will lie dealt with as the Nervousness
of the crime demands.
The Ottumws Courier says: "Messrs.
Wolf 4 Carpenter have just returned from
Bloomfield, and inform us that they have
closed the contract for grading and bridging
the road from the State line TO Bloomfield to
Messrs. Smith Smart, energetic contractors,
who have recently completed large work
for Jno. $. Wolf 4 Co., on the Burlington
and Mo. River Railroad They are to have
all the grading and bridging done by the lst
of August, 1867. They are already at work
vigorously on the heavy cuts, and have large
force getting out TIMBER
The keosauqua Republican says rabbit.
have been too easily caught during the past
week to make the sport of catching them ex,
citing. The poor creatures could not make
headway IN the snow, and they have been un>
mercifully slaughtered.