Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-06-03

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lit is said that Gen. Sherman
will attend the coming Iowa sol.
diers' re- union. m. .#...a
Six barns with all their contents,
we're fired by children with matches,
in Iowa, last week, and destroyed.
"A Norwegian wife at Sioux
City, has presented her husband
with q baby weighing twenty
pounds. . .r.. ....:...
Iowa has lost thirty rods of soil
this spring at Council Bluffs, by the
washing Of the Missouri river, and
Nebraska has gained like amount.
The Waterloo Reporter is out for
Woman Suffrage. Another giant in
the cause West Uaion Gazette.
A brother to old Cardiff, we sup
pose. ."
The Parkersburg Times, tells OF
nailin girls lungs being thrown out
after remainingthere overa year-the
daughter of w. Clark, residing near
that place. r... ..
Iowa has monastery of "Chris-
tian Brothers" whose articles of dis
cipIine are silence and labor. The
Boston Post wants some Congress-
men to join them.
Mfr. Edward Starr, of Troy Mills,
Linn county, has sued for divorce,
after having lived with his wife for
sixteen years. She scolded too
much, and when he told her so, she
replied "tEat women had perfect
right to scold from Monday morn.
ing till Saturday night" And he
entered his suit instanter.
On the Goth ult., a party of five
Indians, belonging to the Winnie
bsgo tribe, located on the reservati o II
in Nebraska, and near Sioux City,
made their appearance Oh the prem
Uses of a farmer, living only twenty
five miles above that city, and, while
he was blowing, shot him In the
back, and sfterward severed his head
from his body. The Indians were
captured, and are now at the Agency,
under arrest.
On the 2lst ult.. Mr.. Zachariah
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work in the mill at Amsterdam,
Hancock county, suddenly dropped
dead with scarce moments warn
ing. He had for some time been
troubled with heart disease, which
finally suddenly terminated his life.
He leaves wife aud child to mourn
his loss. His remains were taken to
Oakland Valley for interment, where
his funeral services We're conducted
on the 23d by Rev. b. w. Stilson, to
whom we are indebted for the par.
ticulars given above.-Eraaktia Co.
Reporter.
The German Benevolent Society
of this city In connection with the So
ciety at Cedar Falls, hold a picnic i'm
the grove between Waterloo and
Cedar Falls, on Monday, June 9th.
The society of this city will form i'm
procession here and go to Cedar
Falls, and from there to the grove
The object OF this picnic Is for the
members TO become better acquaint.
ed, increase the membership, and
thus make the society more efficient
Germans In the county DESTROYS o.
having q pleasant sociable time arc
invited to acknowledgement.
The Red Oak Express telIso man
wanting and getting a divorce from
his wife because she will not live i'm
Iowa: "There have been two di.
vorce cases pending in the District
Court in this place this week. In
one case the husband was tired OF
his wife, and I'm the other case the
wife was tired of her husband. The
man alleged as the principal reason
for getting his divorce that his wife
would not come to Iowa with him.
Now we do not favor divorces much,
but in this case he certainly was ell
titled 10 all Inc asked. A woman that
would not come to Iowa to live de.
serves to be divorced from her hus-
band, and forsaken by her friends.
or course he got divorce, aud could
probably have had alimony IL he had
asked it."-.Statc Register.
We learn that little girl about
seven years Of age, a child of John
Pagan, who lives about four miles
north of here, on the farm of ]. A.
q. Cattron, died very suddenly from
the effects Of poison, last Monday.-
The circumstances of the case seems
10 be as follows: The gophers had
been very troublesome, aud Mr..
Pagan had determined to rid the
farm of this pest, so he came to town
and bought some strycbnine for that
purpose. The family having all
gone out about the farm, no one was
around the house, save little girl,
who got hold Of the bottle which
contained the poison and tasted of 1t,
not Knowing what 1t was. The fam.
lily returned to the house in a few
minutes. when the child was taken
with spasms. and died within fifteen