Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-21
THE NEW ..

THE NEWS.
The number Of deaths In Chicago dur>
ing last week Was las.
The number Of deaths 10 St. Louis during
last week was 2o6
The Treasury vaults are stuffed with
$l9s, 900.
A soldier was executed by the garro.e
at Havana last week.
Mrs Ben. Wood, died, on Saturday, Of
heart disease.
Tne hop crop is reported to be poor in
New York
A contract has been made for rebuilding
the Manassas Gap railroad.
rhe typhoid fever 10 prevailing in Free.
port. III, to an alarming extent just now.
The great cattle scourge. the "rinder>
best" has made his appearance in Bucks
county Pennsylvania.
The white police in Mobile are sesigning
not relishing the idea Of serving under a
negro lieutenant.
Gan. Beauregard has been elected Vice
President Of the New Orleans Commercial
and Industrial Associa.ion.
Tho first brigade Of the Massachusetts
militia General Butlef's) went into camp
yesterday.
American mowers and reapess were the
only ones that won higher success than
bronze medals At the Paris Exposition.
A colosod regiment is organizing in
New York, TO be attached to the National
Guard.
The damage done by the rccen mt fire At
ST. Kits amounted to 81 500, 900. Only
fifteen respectable dwellings are lsO stands
ing.
A coal oil store, containing coo. 900 gall
Ions Of oil, was burned at Montreal, Sunday
night. The fire WAS the most terrible ever
seen there. Loss, $780, goo.
Two men fought in Lebanon, Ky. over
glass Of whisky Both were killed, one
being shot four times, the other stabbed
seven times.
Twoyoung New Workers wanted the samc
woman, and agreed 10 fight duel 10 decide
possession. Three shots were exchanged
and nobody hurt.
The tide Of immigration from Europe
continues without abatement. Nearly %
O09 immigrants arrived 1t New York yes>
terday.
Three cases of cholera-one fatal-wsre
reported in New York on Monday. The
cholera bad disappeared Al the Western
military stations and in Memphis.
The reports Of the cotton and grain crops
Of the South are fA.tsring. A Mobile dis
patch states that there will be grain
enough to meet the wants Of the people.
The Beliot Wis Free Pre,s reports that
7.o0g pounds OF wool was shipped from
the warehouse in tba: city one day las,
week.
Four rnen-two passengers and two fer.
rymen-were carried over Niagara Falls
on the nigh. Of the 18th inst. Their bod
les hsd not been recovered at last accounts.
An omnibus containing family of four
teen persons. while going to apicnic near
ST. Louis the other day, upset over . rail>
road embankment thirty Eve feet deep,
more or less injuring all the inmates
A gang OF Chinsmen in California lately
found forty>6ve pound chunk Of gold. and
incontinently left for the 'old country"
before the glitterng nugget was taken from
, them
A NAN SHocrs HIS own SoS.-A terrible
tragedy occurred in Blackhewk county on
Saturday Of last week. The particulars as
We learn them from dispatch sent from
Cedar Falls 10 the Dubuque Herald. are IS
follows:
AZ old resident Of Cedar Valley, a
wealthy farmer named Butler, and in whose
honor, we believe, Butler county was
| named, resided about three miles east of
Cedar Falls. Some timc ago Sheriff Brown
arrested Butler for disorderly conduct and
drunkenness. At the time of his arrest,
Butler had on his person about So. 600 in
oash. This the sher't If took + ON him, anl
deposited in a bank, TO the credit Of Buts
ler's son, who is marriedsand has family.
The old man has for some time been en-
deavo.ing to regain possession Of the mon
ey. butthe son has refused to comply with
his demands
On Saturday, Butler became violent, hay-
ing drank freely and the family sent ior
the son to come and assist in keeping him
quiet. When the son entered the house,
he was met by his father, who VA evident
y in . tit Of delirium. The latter had q
pistol in his hand, which he immediately
presented and fred ~ his son, taking effect
In the right size, in the region Of the liver.
He was still alive Sunday night, but with
little chance of recovering
The senior Butler wss arrested, taken to
Waterloo, and lodged in Jail. On Sunday,
at about 10 O'Clock. 4. NJ, he died in ct
of delirium tremens. Butler was, ss We
have already said, an old resident and quite
wealthy. Under the influence of liquor
continually Of late, be has been much Of the
time brutslly violent in his family and now
with his hands stained with the blood of
bis son, he has at length ended his career,
. raving maniac 1t MAS indeed, . terrible
tragedy, and has created great excitement
in the neighborhood where it occurred.