The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1868-08-22
STATE ME "

-Tbara was An immense and enthusiastic
Grant and Colfax meeting at Newton ias'
Wednesday. The Free Press has the account
Of il. Kasson. O'Connor and the e Aoosier
orator, i. G. Hsggatt, were there ana ma'e
speeches to a very vide awake crowd Les
the column march on
"A broken rail pitched hirteenc g RS loaded
with wheat off the bridge over Bear Greek'
near Marengo, on the G H.I,&P haiiroaa'
~ 80. wsre smashed. See tho Free Press.
Mayor Anterior spouted toa smailcrowa
at Newton, last Thursday,
There is an organized Evaegeiical Lu-
theran Church ~ Newton.
pr. Saylss, Of Brighten, was murdered
night before last. So says the Ha'rk RE
but it has no particulars.
A strange animal, souaethlng Ike q vol,
is "~chawing up" the sheep II 9randy
county.
Hon. Charles Pomeroy Republican cans
didate for Congress in the Sixth Dlstricf' mas
been compelled to 60 to Cape May ~ pursuit
OF health.
Burlington il securing her lecturers Tor
the coming winter.
Train. are running regularly over the
bridge at Burlington.
William Mcdonald, of Dodgeviile, i3es
MONIES county, went 10 q horse race, got
. aL4. f--,A ,,a1t snrntnG two
miles from his home, dead nthe road.
William G. Hammond, of Des MoInes,
is Principal Of the Law Department OF the
Iowa State University.
-McGregor lie shipping a large number Of
fat hogs to Chicago.
Lansing had a big ground storm and much
damage, last Thursday night.
There WAS a~iearlal accident on he rail-
road opposite Dubuque, three mornings ago,
whereof the Times says: "A sfightini accl-
dent, resulting III the instant death OF three
men and the dangerously woundIng OF q num-
bsf Of Others, occurred on the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad, yesterday morning, at Council
Hill. the first station the other side Of Galena.
1t seems that a gravel train had passed
through the station We have mentioned, enc
had switched = couple OF cars loaded with
iron off on a side track with a steep down
grade. Some time later q construction tram
arrived from Galsna filed with laborers, who
we're employed upon the road, and backed
up on the side track. BY some means the
brake on the two cars loaded with iron be
came loosened. They started toward the
train, backing in, and before being detected,
were 90 close that q collision was unavoida-
BILE. The cara came together with great force,
throwing a number clear from the track and
badly SCATTERING the rest, while three met
who happened 10 be standing on the rear cal
Of the construction tram, we've killed out
right, two others so severely wounded fha'
they are not expected to survive until morn
ing, and six or seven others Dangerously
injured. No blame is attachedto the officers
Of the road for the accident.
The proprietors Of the STATE Regjstel
announce that Mr.. Palmer vii! retire from
the editorial Conduct Of that paper. The pa
per will be edited imporsonally hereafter, fh'
proprietors being responsible for us man
agemcnt.
There is a brute lib in Marion county
and the ] otter tells about him thus, u. I
Williams, Esq informs us Of a case Of bru
tality, which may well be termed diabollcal
which took place in the neighhorhood o
Warren Mill, one day last week. A it'll
boy, only two years old, grandson Of the Rev
DIR. Warren, had toddled out into the roat
near his home. when some human brute
whose name was not told Us, came along ii
sulky, and drove over the little child IN sncl
a way that the wheel ofthe sulky passed owe
his head, inflicting a very severe but not fata
wound. The brute drove on and neve
stopped, but was seen looking coolly bsck +
see what had been done. We undergtani
that his name ia known, and that the Yr9pe
steps will be taken TO give him the punish
ment he deserves, IS fer as the law Wi