The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1870-03-18

OvEH THE hxTEAs
"." IOWA. a.,
The Republicans of Ottumwa have nouh.
mated Charles c. Peters for Mayor: ''@'.. .
The contract has been let for the building
of the new Cherokee county court hose, to
cost g, 900! IT" g-sas" .' .H '@ ..l,'
Iowa furnishes California with prairie
chickens, sent thither in rcfrigerating carl.
The Agricultural College at Amos has 100
students. ~
The average level Of Iowa above the
ocean is 500 feet: Kookuk, southeast cor
ner, is ~ feet; north east corner, GEO feet;
south. west corner. 1860 feet; northwest
corner. 1860 feet. The highest point is ut
Spirit Lake, Dickinson county, which ID
about TOO feet above the sea level
A barn At Cherokee. belonging TO Doug
las s Davis, was burned on the 18th, with
eleven horses and GOO bushels of grain.
Senator r. 3. Clark, of the Bremen and
Butler district. died ut GAINESVILLE, on the
18th, Of consumption. .-
Private intelligence has becn received at
Dcs Moincs, from Senator Grimes in Eu.
rope, to the effect that his health is failing
fast, and the probability is he will not sur
vive the journey home. ........
The new German daily at Davenport will
be of Democratic politics. ..
Charles Nash was drowned while skating
At Centrcville. a.~1...
Denton Camcry, Deputy Treasurer of
Tama county, who robbed the county safe
Of 90. 900, was sentenced to the pcnitcntia-
~ for two years.
4 young German named Lawson CON-
mitted suicide by taking arsenic, At Lyons,
recently. a.: '.'>' ~... /.
Fort Madison announces subscription of
$53, 900 to the Burlington and Southwestern
railroad. ..:. - md .T, .-... 81
General J. L. Gcddcs, Of Vinton. has been
appointed military instructor of the State
Agricultural College. = ......-
ROLAND Mcdonald and Brown Wallace,
two Canadians, arrived at st. Paul Feb sd,
having left Fort Garry some time since, aud
come on foot to Duluth, to escape Rcille.
'.Retl Handed Mike" instead of being a
corpse Mt Rcd Lake, is alive and we'll ut
Rochester. ..o .'..
Fifty out Of 100 students in the State Uni
vcrsity arc women. -
The St. Paul and Sioux City railroad will
he extended 70 St.. James the present year
~ miles southwest of Lake Crystal.
st. Paul has FACING truck on the ice on
the Mississippi river, where large crowds do
sometimes gather.
Hon. A. A. Bird, a pioneer of Milwaukee,
and for some time y resident of Madison,
died 1t Green Bay, recently.
Evansville, in Rock county, has fourteen
ministers. ..,
ILLINOIS.
CarrUlton is mcaslcI. ..-
It Is thought that the cam will run clear
through on the Lafayette, Bloomington and
Western railroad by the LIST of April.
The jefferson county court house, ut Mt.
Vernon, was burn on the Path. :,
Flora Mills, seventeen years old, has been
sentenced to the penitcntiary from Quincy,
for five years for burglary. 81. '.42
John Dean, an old pilot, was beaten to
death at Cairo on the 2lst.
Mrs. B. r. Sheppard. of Warren, suicided
Feb. "A; ditto John Williams, of Jackson
vile. 9. '''@ .'.~ .~
The Clark county Nsrad eays: 1.-THE
Clark county gold excitement creates much
more of 'furorc' elsewhere than it docs at
home. In tells ncighborhood We hear little
of Il" '..... .@,1'5' .' .i'...t..
William Eisner, while mad with whisky,
attempted to shoot his wife at Frccburg, on
the 2lst; he then blew his own brains out.
Carthage is raising funds to build q COL
lcge. -
The Democrats Of Rock Island lave nom.
insted Porter Skinner for Mayor. al IT, r..
Adolph Turk, engineer It Eldrige's mills,
Morris, was caught in fly wheel and in
spntIy crushed to death. e ......"
The two Congregational churches At o.
tawa have effected union. '''.'''
Sixty-eight national banks in Illinois, out
side of Chicago, report aggregate resources
and liabilities, on the ED of january, of
ga, oso, 900, which is 1000, 900 lc.s than
the fourteen national banks of Chicago.
The Democrats Of Jacksonville have NOM
mated full city ticket headed by Irving
Dunlap for Mayor. ~ .h' nj. ... ~. - '-
The preliminary survey Of the Gilman,
Clinton and Springfield railroad has been
completed, and the re-survey, for final loca-
ton, will commence at once. ry s.@. aHg
t'a-=.'".'H'a7--7- ~ At LARGE.
John C. Holloway, Superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Eastern penileniiary, died
about two weeks ago. His wife, overcome
by grief, survived him bot . few days, and
his daughtes, who came from distance to