, 1870-07-06

Il. D. Wood, which has been on trial in the |
District Court, at Dubuque, for the past two
days, WAS brought to q close, July 2, by the |
'of IL ihe e pn 4Ss d defanasns s s h.s o.
notice OF an appeal for new tEial II. D.
Wood ID brother of Mary E. Wood husband.
Mrs. Wood has instituted divorce suit against
her husband, and he has filed cross-bil1.
Sioux City d Pacific l;ailroad, an engineer of
passenger train diving twenty miles an hour
cav, fifty yards ahead, a small child running
on the track. The engine was reversed and
brakes whstled down. The little one looked
back and laughed at tas,gg thp great iron monster
fast as its little legs could carry it, bnt never
once mada move to leave the track. Every
effort was made to stop the train, but in min
ute the child was knocked down and its head
severed from its body.
We learn from tic Eoscobel Journal OF
terrible shooting affair at Potoei on Wednes-
day. 1tobinsop's circus was in town on that
day, and the driver Of the band wagon had 3
team of ten span Of horses hitched up, with
which b. % vas Rracticlp'g; -. Young man man
the Rocky Mountains. jeered at tbs drivers
efforts to 1nannge the team, md SO anGeted
ll1m thnt he cuffed Brent quite severely. The
latter procured revolver, and while the driver
WIS at supper, IN company with ANOTHER Of
lAt E4[AE 4u6uY NuU uNA ALEU- uA4 ACuu40 N1lA
Brent, he grent) came in and fired four shots
from revolver, two Of WHICH took effect, ono
Gesa fessf's of De one 0'ea q P' tno 4en and snS
aud the eecoud entering the breast and passing
through the left lung Of the other. Both men
said that there il no chance OF recovery for
the one wounded in the breast. Bront made
Ms escapo, but tito Sheriff hoped to capture
him.
The Herald snys that it is found that tho
water Of the nrtesian wells in Sparta il charged
with electricity to Hnch m extent that tce-
graph wires immersed in it operate with sue
cess.
Mn1ANA.
Brazil has a population OF 1856.
family, residing In Lake conuty, las olSped
with The second wifo OF his own uncle.
Miss Nuth Dinsmoro, Of Whitley County.
comes into fortune Of sG0,o00, by the de-
misc Of her lover III Califor,lla.
While digging well, IN DcNalb County,
worth Of old slverware, fifteen feet below the
surface.
Two men, namcd Dominic Friant and Jo-
eeph Fozey, died at Tell City, pezry County,
last week from handling the intestines Of
dead COW. tho poison spreading until the On
tended. Mr.. Friants wife and son arc danger
ously III from tho same cause. The physi-
clans give it as their opinion that tho victims
took tho poison from tho cows paunch into
their systems by ABSORPTION, as there was no
abrasion upon either Of them.
--Mr. aud Mrs. Joseph Lee, Lake County,
rpioice in the possession Of tirleta-
The Te1re Haute Express says woman
in vigo County has helped her husband to
raise seventy acres Of wheat. She helped
him by standing IN the door and shaking q
broom at him when he eat down to rest, thus
keeDiur him at work.
The Terre Haute Express says: 'tTho
/ miners strike that occurred about two months
ago in Clay County still continues, without
any seeming prospect of adjustment. The
less, and the managers are rigid in their die
| tun. Tho furnace men manifest the utmost
| indifference about the result, as they all need
| to do some repairing, and would az soon blow
| out now aB any other time"
"A letter from Salem, July !, Gays Some
three or four days since, q terriblo md bloody
fight occurred on Deianet's creek, about
twelve miles east OF this place, between two
young men named Beck and Lane. They had
been at work all day in the harvest field to-
and rode some four miles to get jug Of vhis-
key. After obtaining the whiskey they start
ed back. It was night. They lad gone but
short distance, when some alteration took
place. They dismounted, drew their pocket
kniree, and the bloody work began. One re-
ceiyed seven stabs and the other four. They
had been lifelong friends and no one knows
the cause Of the difficulty. They are both re-
ported dead"
"A very had state Of Affairs seems to exist
in the vicinity Of New Washington, Clark
County. Lately attempts have been made to
assaesinate several prominent citizens of the
ntiyhl'orhood, and robberies and yiolence are
OF frequent occurrence. The citizens lave
become greatly ettited over these outrages,
and have organized q, Vigilance Committso,