Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-09-03
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STATE ITEMS.
Gov. Eastman has discovere . large and
valuable quarry Of freestone in Henry Co.
The voters Of Henry county are 10 deter>
mine by ballot At the next election, whether
or not they will have new iail.
About fifty feet Of tho bes. sidewalk in
Dubuque vas washed away by the terrific
storm ,ast Friday night.
The keosauqua Republican says man
named Ware wrs arrested last week for
stealing cattle meas BonAparte. and lodged
IN Jail.
DR.. Campbell OF Steamboat Rock, had
one Of his legs broken last week BY jumping
fIom buggy while the horse was running
away.
A lad named N. NJ. Sawyers, aged about
ten years, living in Sioux City, fell from the
third story OF building TO the ground floor,
distance of twenty-five feet, and was very
badly bruised, but not killed
At the meeting OF the Des Moins Valley
Association Of Universalists, now in scs>
SION, the project for State Schoo! Of Lbs
eral Christian views was endorsed, and Mt.
Pleasant recommended as u suitable place
for it's location.
Goa! oil lamp exploded in n saloon in
heokuk OH Thursday night, aud n bg cons
migration was only prevented by prompt
application OF several buckets of wa;es.-
The keeper OF the saloon had turned down
the wick Of the lamp. leaving only hall
blaze, locked the door, aud gone of.
Assessor kniest has jus, completed his
lahors for thus year, aud we present TO, day
4 synopss Of his report. The population
OF Dubuque, rs given by him ia q ,222-a
increase OF nearly 1000 since the year 1866,
he date Of the previous census, when i,
WAS II 600. This shows tue prorres. our
city is making progress which has no par
abel n any oil the larger cities Of the State
Perhaps the most gratifying exhibit in the
s"rort Is the value of manufactures in our
city during the year-smountiug to the re.
spec'sble SUM &C s3,l9i 800 - Dubuque
Times
A gentleman, while driving n COW the
other day, near Nusca,iuc. threw small
missile which hi, the asrinal in tho head
and resulted II. lis death.
Coal sells in O.kaloosa at eight cents
bushel
A Congregations! Church OF thirty rncm-
hers has Just been organized n. Cincinnati,
Appanoosc county. Rev Mr.. Cooper, Pas
tor.
Tho principal losers by the fire in Iowa
City on Monday night were Peter Roberts,
furniture dealer. on whose premises the lire
broke out, $4,000; Chas Lewis, grocer,
stock damaged $1,000, insurance 81 900 :;
Baldwin 4 Brothers. Miller 4 Co., and j.
g. Fink, entire loss from $4,000 - $25,>
GOO Insured for over one>halt
James McDcrmott, TOR three years sol,
der in the FIRST Iowa Cavalry. died of con
sumption Mt Dubuque, last Wednesday.
The Marengo Republican says the ncces,
sity Of hog law was demonstrated very
iorcibly on Iacsday. A child Of Mr.. Den.
nis MaTphy, residing in ito east part Of
town, was standing in the door, when hog
scsed il by the hand. and dragged it into
the street, severely injuring il. Had it not
been for prompt assistance the child would
in all probability have been killed.
From the Burlington Hank Eye we learn
that Mr.. John Wagner, son Of Nicholas
Wagner, of hat city. fell through hatch>
way at Smith. Scott L Co.'S tobacco facto-
~ Thursday abous one o'clock. lie fell
from the second to the frat floor, striking
on the back part OF the head aud fracturing
HE skull lie was still alive at . late hour
the night Of the accident, but fears were
entertained that he would not survive. He
is about thirteen Years old, and has been
employed in the factory about three years.
The Sabula Gdsstie chronicles large nrri>
walls Of whess-principally No. lin cha,
town.
population Of % 600, and a property valua>
ton Of 100000
A railroad accident occurred ct Peosta,
Iowa, on Friday. Three freight cars filled
with grain on the Dubuque 4 Iowa City X
K, were badly wrecked. and fifty feet Of
track torn up.
The Dubuque Times tells Of two men
named +. Pameser and Aaron Clark who Or.
rived and put up together at the Pacific
House. They were assigned separate rooms,
and Pameter went to bed leaving his door
unlocked. In tho morning 1916 WAS miss
ing. Suspicion pointed strongly to Clark
who Was arrested and held to bail in the
sum Of $3.50.
A prairie chicken picnic was held last
week near independence Buchanan county
a cornet band was in attendance from lns
pendence.
A couple Of women . fsw days ago got
into . quarrel At Ottumwa, which ended
with one firing pistol at the other but
without any damage being done.
We learn from the Fort Dodge Northeast
that one "Dr. Doty," who has been figuring
extensively there as n Spiritualist, tens
r.rance lecturer. and gallant amongst wo
men, is horse thief who broke iail in Jack
son county in April.--Dubuque Times
Frank Reed, man employed on the con-
sTuoton Of bridge. at Eldora. Was on Fri>
day. buried by falling smbankment and
when extracted life vas extinct. He leaves
wife to whom he was but few DAYS mar
ried
The annual Fair Of Des Moines County
Agricultural Society is to be. held Mt their
grounds near Burlington on the 25th
10Th and 9th Of this month.
The Washington Press hiss the following
aosount of an attempted rape: con the
10Th inst. two young ladies were picking
blackberries in the timber, whom they were
approached by two y0ung scamps named
John Cautiman, who has been working in
Dutch Greek. and McElroy, Of Washs
inRton township. The former seized one
Of the girls and srled 70 throw her down, .,
tho same time using very profsne and OBJ
scene language. She called to her sis,lt,
who came to tho rescue With club, and sue
cceded. after quite serious squabble, in
driving oil the villain. Neaptime the other
pimp had skcdaddlsd- mo much n
. coward % t. a 80 Al ~.
muscle. NE girls went 10