Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-05-16
STATE ITEMS.

sixty Danes have recently settled in
Grundy county
The Cedar Valley Fair viii Be held 81
Cedar Falls on the 10Th, 18th Of OeteD.'
Mrs. Wilder, Of Burlington. atts@s'so ~
drown herself the other day, ss'
vented. ..,.,. ,,,,,.h.,.a
NJ. Ssrdhsm ofLys:s. s.ss.'y . SJs y"
. couple sfsss - - rSrrcr.
- 1870 Jss1nel9lAss that larger
- q wbnt ana 49, has been sown 10 |
- rsssoa this $1,000. sAan was ever before
Capt. Hubbard Of Lyons, was recently
badly injured BY . kick from . horse.
which broke his jaws and nearly ruined On
eve.
The population Of Cedar Falls township
10 now said to by 407s. The Census Of 1868
showed 2728-rnaking IN increase in the
two yeas Of 1854.
The laboress on The railroad near Crescc,
Howard county, recently struck for higher
wages. The last issue Of the Times shows
that the strikers have succdmbed and gone
to work At the old figures
The wapello Republican stotes that +. N.
Giverly Of that region has goo peach trees
Of seven TO eight years growth, and that
the prospect Of crop Of peaches this year
10 good.
The Clinton Herald mentions the arrival
ct that place Of ponderous nine hundred
horses power engine. 1t is to be used in
saw mill ct that place and Is said to DO the
largest steam engine ever constructed in
Chicago.
Augustus Goodrich, who;.was Unlisted
several pears s,ncs for robbing the County
Treasurer, at Fl. Madison, ives caught
few days since in keokuk, and hes been
lodged IN jail q Fl. Msdison Ho had man
aged 10 eluae the officers long time, but
finally hes bsen "broueht up sudden"
They have been having 6rss class ssn>
sation down 81 Burlington. An old house
become haunted. --aightly visits we're made
BY the inquisitivs portion Of that eonmuni
y, - lissss y ths PecsliAs oeisss, seunds,
etc. They believed Il Was spiritual unt,t
some one proposed IN invsstigation-and
tore Cd few easing boards, where . tin
whistle was found. Il being exposed e The
wind, sasssd The music.
The Tama city Rspsblisoa says that
JacsA Bel Of Lisbon Lisn county, Iowa was
On The III inst, buried 10 we'll which he
va digging about twenty feet below the
surface. he vas taken out in the afternoon
bot was dead. The watch IN his vest peok-
Of was still ''ticking" away. The we'll was
sandy sed coved 10 on hin very suddenly
He leaves several ehildren estifsly bsssft Of
rsnts,-thsir mother having died some
time since.
The Isscas, at Osags, notes the burning
Of . house in that place, and the very mar
row escape Of the inmates. A belated citi-
: zen going home discovered Gre in the rear
Of the building owned by Mr.. Myron McIl>
vain, and after failing to arouse the inmates
by calling Mr. Proctor burst in the door,
and making his way to the bedroom Of the
yo:ing Mr.. Mclwain. he discovered the lat
ter, his wife AMI little boy almost sufIocatcd
by the dense volume of smoke which filed
the room, and yet sleeping They were
, aroused with some difficulty, and barely es-
!; capped from the burning house. The flames
, famed by the powerful wind. made such
rapid progress that scarcely anything If the
household effects Of either family could be
saved, and the house ITSELF in ono hours
time was heap Of ruins.