Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1867-08-28
STATE ITEMS.
A German paper is soon to be established
IN lno,nii EinNe

A German paper is soon to be established
in Council Bluffs.
Work is soon TO be commenced on the
extension OF the st. JOSEPH x Council Bluffs
Railroad.
4 son Of Wall, Of Palmyra, Warren Co
fell from a cherry tree last week and broke
one Of bis arms close TO the shoulder.
j young msn named Leilie Miller vas
drowned While bathing IL the river helow
the dam 81 Bentonspur', last Thursday.
The Knoxville Foir says a boy about
twelve years Of age, son Of Mr. Reaves, OF
Be ~fontain, was drowned while III s"im>
d :, On Saturday Of las; week
4 span Of valuable hors s were stolen
! from the stable Of 4. j Der -nre, in News
ton, a few days since, but the thieves were
so ho,ly pursued that they had 10 leive the
horses and take 10 the brush.
As DR.. Walker, Of Newton, was on his
return from the country, where he had
been to see a patient, his horse threw bin.
Featuring hia shoulder blade and right arm.
They had a whisky row in Co!fax the
other day in which windows and heads
we're broken, and blood and whisky spilled.
Henry Farran, q carpenter, fell from a
wall in Keokuk last week; a distance OF
fourteen feet, striking his face upon a rock
and bruising him fearfully but at the lat
est adyices he was alive, and hopes were
entertained Of his recovery.
They are having a new elevator at Cedar
Rapids, capable of holding 10000 bushels
of wheat.
The Marshall county Times says that Miss
Mari. Ballard aud Mr. j. Spcer were Sc
verely injured by Runaway on Saturday o!
last week. The carriage was demolished
and one Of the horses killed.
A meeting of property holders is to held
in keokuk on the 29th inst., to take meas
ures for the construction Of a railway
bridge across the Mississippi at that poir,.
TIE Nashua (Chickasaw Co. J Post says
intelligence has been received there from
New York that worl, on the railroad in that
county will be postponed another season.
1t is reported that tie corn in Van Bnren
county. on account Of the drought, will not
average more than half a crop.
A Young man named Miller was drowned
at Bentonsport on Tuesday week last. He
was in the river for the purpose of bathing
and jumped of the dam. 1t is thought
possible that he might haye struck . rock
or the timber as he went down. His body
was found som forty>eight hours after.
The Sioux City Register says ION the
10th Sheriff Griffin arrested four soldiers
who deserted from Foit Stevenson, on the
upper Missouri and will take them to Fort
X ndall and turn them over to the military
authorities.
The Sigourney News says a mean looks
ing cuss named A. c. Rlnyon, was arrest d
and in default Of So 900 bail wa, sent to
jail in that place for attempting to commit a
rape upon a little girl, in a blackberry patch
near tina. town.
Charley ffouck, son Of John Houck. Of
Bedford, fell of a stone car, the other day,
which passed over his thighs and crushed
the bone near his body.
Last Sunday n young woman in Dubuque
was set upon by . gang Of eight brutes VINO
attempted to outrage her. A German mans
cd Steiner saw the affair, aud FASTENED to
the rescue. At first the %scouhdre.s insul;ed
hin, but he drew a revolver and they took
to their heels. Most Of them have now left
the city.
The Council Bluffs Nonpdreil Of the 22d
INST, SAYS a couple of thieves attempted 10
get into the house Of G. p. Smith in that
city, on Monday nightos last week, but one
Of them got punched in the head by Mr.. 5.
while crawling through the window, and
then the burglars ietreated.