Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-06-29

A Lyons artist takes pictures 1t . cent
apiece.
Clinton City hos voted to raise So. 900 for
The purchase Of hose for its steam fire en-
CINE, and other purposes apper,aiuing
thereto. w
The Mootesuma Republican states that a
little son Of Mr.. Alden, Of W.ledon, came
to his death one day last week. from eating
rats-bans that had been prepared, for the
destruction OF verm:n. 49, II ~
A young man BY the name Of Sterne,
attempted to commit suicide ., Council
Bluffs the other day, bu, didn't succeed, and
is now fast r, covering from the effects Of 10
cents worth Of "pizen' be swallowed.
The Free Press say. that the gopher
bounty orders on the Treasurer Of Jasper
county for the p resen, year will amount to
81 500.
The Charles City ntelligencer records an
accident to VIM. Little. While at work on
the roof of new building in that place, be
was, by the giving away of the scaffoldinc,
precipi'ased to the ground, a distance Of rs
feet. He was injured internally aud quite
severely.
r omherp, Of Dubuque, is about convert.
ing bis great disfilery there into a Touring
mill The Herald says it will be about the
largest mill in the State.
An interesting suit came off At Nc
Gregor the other day. in which the city was
sued by certain pa, ties for alleged damages
done by water in consequence Of the negli-
gence Of the city authorities failing to keep
the sewers in repair. The trial lasted four
day-, and verdict was returned in favor Of
the defense A motion was made for q nov
trial Which is to be heard at the next term
OF the Distric, Court.
A commencement Of SIS 900 has been
made to subscri2ti n Of stock to tie Dubu.
que and Dunlei.h bridge.
Tho Burl:nct Argns says tina, fall wheat
never looked better in Southern Iowa, than
it d, es nov.
A COW died in Davenport the other day
from the effects Of eating too much clover.
A young msn named George Murphy.
forged AN order for pair Of boots at Clin-
ton, last week-got the boots and found a
summary arrest. He was taken before a
Justice ard revealed tn. fact tina, his real
name WAS Lafayette Phillips, that he lived
near Waverly, and that he WAS formerly a
member &C the Sixth Iowa Cavalry. In
default Of 300 bail be was committed to
jail.
man named Jewett fell from a raft ia
front Of Mnscstine on the 9th inst. and was
drowned He was . resident Of Greeley,
Delaware county.
While some young ladies were bathing in
creek near May,ville, Marion county, a
you~g lady named Catherine B ok, about Is
years old. got into deep water and was
drowned. Her body was recovered in abou,
ten minu,es after she sank.
The Webster county gopher bounty
ella ms {: ON the frs, Of January TO the e. st
If June amounted to 700 dollars
The Mnscatine Journal announces the
death Of the oldest female e-dent of tina,
city, Mrs Susan Rnece, aged 50. She came
to Muscatine in 1887.
The Supervisors Of Poweshiek Co. have
appropriated $1,000 to defray the expenses
of the Iowa Cen,ral Railroad survey Of its
limits.
H. II. UAlden, formerly of Muscainc and
Washington. in this State, and now cashier
of the FRS, National Bank at Kansas City,
Mo was recently murdered in Indiana
The agen, Of a peat company has offered
twenty thousand dollars for u farm near In
dependence, on account Of supposed rich
deposits Of that fuel
The Buchanan County Board Of Super
visors has recently purchased a poor farm
at cost Of 81, 200.
The editor Of the Elkader Jo"rnal has
been l,virg on cells, and says be likes EN- if
they do Look snaky.
The O-kaloosa HrraM says that the city
council recently reduced the license Of bill
lizard and beer Saloons whereupon a large
and influential public meeting by resolution
di>approvtd Of the ac'isn of the Council.
and requested the restoration of the former
lax to>wt, eighty dollars per year.