Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-06-21
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The Eldora Ledger gives encourage
ing reports of the progress of work on
the Eldora Railroad. The road will be
ready for ironing about the LIST of Au-
gust. .:... .r.
The Iowa City Republican informs
US that John Canine, aged about 81, a
deaf and dumb pupil from near Pella,
was drowned while bathing in that ia
vored spot just above Folsom's bridge,
last Thursday morning. ...
ThesDallas Gazette says that Mr.. n.
b. Nichols, a lifelong Democrat, and
who was postmaster under the reign OF
James Buchanan, has received the APP
pointment of postmaster at Abel, vice
Hampstead gone to Jail.
The Montezuma Republican says that
the wife of Kirk Vincent paid visit
to Mr.. III. G.. Little, of Grinnell, few
days ago, to induce that gentleman to
act as bondsman for her husband. offer.
ing him security on real estate in Illi-
nois valued at from $40, ZOO to s12, 900.
Mr.. Little, however, declined to do so,
Offering as q reason that he believed
Vincent to be guilty of the murder.
The Davenport Gazette gives an ac-
count of the burning of Miss Stacia
Powers, of that city, by the explosion
of can of kerosene, which she was
holding in her hand whilst attempting
to expedite the kindling of fire, the
flame entering the can causing it to
explode, the oil was thrown upon her
clothing which took fire. Ert-
The Hamilton Freeman, a lively six
column sheet, closed its eighth volume
last week. LEX ~ .
A neatly printed quarto sheet Ii pub
lished at Bellevue, called.the Youths
Eclectic, devoted to choice miscellane,
GUS reading matter. aga .4 Ao..d
| The Manchester Union says that .
little boy about two and half years o.
age, the son of Mr.. Reichman, who
keeps the shoe shop, opposite Growth
er's City Market, was horribly scalGed
last Saturday in consequence of walk,
ing backward into pailful of almost
boiling water which had been lef,
standing in the room. When his cloth.
ing was removed it is said that the skin
followed, leaving the flesh bare In sew
eral places. The child survived until
next day in a continued agony of sui;
fering. a a= aats.s.
A wooden factory is being erected in
Anamosa by Col. Shaw. So says the
Eureka. @
The Ha,okeye says: A friend writes
us from Marysville, Marion county
that some young ladies were bathing
in the creek near that place, ON the 9th
inst, when Catherine Book, young
lady about twenty-five years of age
got into deep water and was drowned
Her body was recovered by her brother
in about ten minutes after she sank.
The population of Muscatine is ,496,
The Des Moines Register says that
during the short storm which prevail.
ed on Wednesday of last week, two
children-a boy of IL and girl of =
were struck by lightning in a field, on
farm three and a half miles north OF
town, and killed. ]
The Dubuque Times records dis
tressing calamity last week, In which
Alexander Colder and Arthur Finley
were drowned while attempting to
cross slough near that city. .
The Iowa Central railroad enterprise
Is said to be moving on to success
Work is being done on the line of the
road, the people of the different coun-
ties through which it passes have given
liberal aid, and st. Louis capital is
pledged to make the enterprise sue.
cess. So says the Dubuque Herald.
The Board of Supervisors of Hardin
county have made appropriations for
the building of a bridge at Iowa Falls.
y hC OCfeesfeCt soy . III WV hioheho - SoAi-
plete bridge at that place will have be-
come fixed fact.
The Muscatine Journal advocates the
nomination by the Republican Con-
vention of Major Henry O'Connor, for
Attorney General, for the unexpired
term of the late Hon. F. f. Bissell.
John HI. Brown, well-to-do farmer,
residing about mile and half south
west of Nashua, was killed by light
ming about 2 o'clock p. NJ, June 14th.
Gen. Hooker sailed for Europe from
New York June II, in the steamer SEQ
tin. Some officers who had served un-
der him, desiring to testify their regard
by personally bidding him farewell,
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