Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-05-19
State TIE Mo.

~, wants to know the whereabouts Of bis
son, W. F. Hart. late of the army.
The woo'-.growers Of Iowa will hare q
meeting at Oskaloosa on the 18th inst ::
Reuben Osborn, the head Of large
family in Usage, Mitchell county, has be-
come insane from religious excitement.
We learn from the Usage 7owan that
four pereons, all members of the family
of D. 8, Sales, were recently poisoned
BY eating wild parsnips, through mistake.
One Of the persons, a girl eleven years
Of age, died. The others were supposed
.. last account, to be out of danger.
kThe Davenport Gazette states that The
frui. prospect in Scott county, is very
good.
TIE Davenport National Bank has de-
clared a semi-annual dividend Of FIVE
per cent, exclusive Of revenue tax. So
says the Gozette.
The artesian well at Mr.. Burrows Mill,
Scutt county, turned out to be failure
after reaching depth Of 235 feet. They
are going to try the nrtesinn experiment
in another place close by.
The oil mill at Lyons has proved quite
q success, as we learn frvm the Mirror.
An arrested chap by the name Of
Mitchell undertook to run away from the
officer It Clinton and was stopped by a
pistol ball which inflicted severe wound.
Fifteen marriage licenses have been
issued in Greene county since the first
of January, 1866. So says the Jefferson
Era.
Harvey Potter has been appointed As
sistant Federal Assessor frr the counties
of Greene, Sac and Calhoun, as we see
by the Era.
A man was in Idora the other day.
hunting for wife who had deserted him.
and run away with paramonr We
CLEAN from the Eidora Ledger. The man
was in poor business hunting up such a
wife, unless he had particular business
with the scoundrel who eioped with Der.
Two telegraph poles were knocked
down by lightning ia Guthrie county on
Monday last, as We learn from the Te,leth.
Two horses belonging to Mr.. Hamilton
were slightly stunned. and dog was so
oaaly stunned that he has not recovered
his presence Of mind since The ire
NOR on the north side Of his nose is ditf-
cult Of extraction.
A heavy fire took place in the woods
of Guthrie county, as we learn from the
|edette. Several hundred acres Of ex-
cellent timber were badly used up.
Stephen Martin, Of Dubuque coun-
~, 60 years old, having wife a. old as
himself, is under bonds Of $500 to keep
the peace. The old scoundrei had been
hogsins his wife. We CLEAN from the
Herald.
The Charlton Patriot has fund live
road Supervisor, and deems him the only
one not dead in the State.
Several railroad hands on one side.
and several stage drivers on the other.
had difficulty at Charlton, aud n few of
them got knocked down. See Patriot.
Rev. Lyman Whiting. of the Conere-
,ga:ional Church at Dubuque, recently h ad
. axssSss sa to him by bis congregation a
Ms, Ro'icy on q life Insurance company.
y 'a5s the Times
Some $50 worth Of pork (hope there
was triehina in i'll was lately stolen from
meat shop in Abba. So says the onion
Horse stealing is favorite pursuit
with several scamps in Bremen county.
A man in Musca,ine struck Nj. hty
blow with his fist, the other night, in,eu-
ding to annihilate a supposed robter.-
The aforesaid robbar turned out to be
the mans shadow ! His fist struck
against wall, aud he felt worse for some
hours.
George and Collins johnson, suspected
of horse stealing. were arrested at Iowa
Falls, and then discharged for want of
evidence against them. They then hooked
some articles Of clothing from boarding
house, and vanished.
The Fenians of Muscatine propose to
raise a thousand dollars for the good of
the cause, and they will do it. Henry
o Conner, an Irish. American Patriot, and
splendid man, is doing what he can for
Ireland