Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-11-04
State News.

to be held at Waterloo on the 10Th of this
month. 1t will be dusty affair.
Gov. Merrill has offered reward OF
$500 for the apprehension Of the parties
who lynched Lyon, at Conydon, Wayne
county, few weeks since
Rev. S. P. Sloan, of McGregor, died
at his residence in that city, on the goth ult
He had just accepted call to the pulpi,
of the Congregational church at Des
MOines.
Gen. w. Duane Wilson, editor of the
Iowa Homestead, has been authorized to
organize State Grange Of the Patrons OF
Husbandry, and will do so about the list
of December.
The Saloon and residence of Michael
Bucher, in Burlington, was burned on
Saturday, and three daughters of Bucher,
aged Z, 9, and II years, and grand-child
Of years, persisted in the flames.
The. $4,000 Catholic Cathedral at
Iowa City, is reported as cracking, bulg
ing out, and altogether in a fair way OF
becoming, soon, heap of unpicturesque
ruins, in consequence of imperfect foun-
dations
The Dubuque water works company
have disbanded and the project is aband
oned for the present The Telegraph in
Inmates that it was started and managed
more for selfish ends than for public
good
-McCabe, who killed Coan at a spell
ing school in Poweshick county, last
winter, and who has been in Jail ever
since, plead guilty to murder in the sec
ond degree at the late term of court in
keokuk county, and was sentenced to
twelve years in the Penitentiary
Gov. Merrill has signed contract
with NJ. II. King of Dcs Moincs, for exca-
waiting the ground for the new Capitol
building. The amount of earth to be
moved will be $4,000 square yards King
receives II cents per yard for moving six
hundred yards in any direction ordered,
beyond this he gets one cent per yard for
each additional hundred yards moved
The three months old city" of Storm
Lake is located in the midst of one of the
vast prairies of Northwestern Iowa,
where for miles and miles around no tree
big enough for whpstock can be found.
Judge then the surprise and sensation
created by the appearance Of stranger
there the other day with cord wood to
sell. He was looked upon, says the Pilot
as the inhabitant of another sphere, and
to the inquiry which assaulted him from
every quarter 'who the ID are you.'
he answered that he came from Clay Co.
twenty-five miles distant. But wood is a
supcrtluity in that town, and the Clay
county forester had the utmost difficulty
in disposing of his load; a benevolent
merchant finally taking it at nominal
price for kindlings. OF course the inhab-
itants of Storm Lake do all ther heating
and cooking by the aid of coal, and from
sheer necessity have learned to regard that
as a snperfluity which other communities
look upon as Indispensable
The Sioux City Joarnal gives the 70.
lowing account of a terrible death by a
prairie fire:
The prairics were burning near the
farm of a family of Swcdcs. residing near
Ncrlnillion river, and as there was Il CON
siderable quantity of hay and other in
flammablc material stored in the barn.
the farmer, accompanied by his wife, ran
to the barn for the purpose of battling
the approaching fires and to try and save
the barn from destruction The woman
went into the barn for some purpose
(probably to liberatc and drive out some
stock, and before she could get out again
the flames were leaping up all around the
building, tapping up with many fiery
tongues the particles Of straw and hay
whiit.a: ,rrntruded through the cracks and
creviccs of the walls. IN less time than
we have taken to describe it, the building
was huge mass Of fire, inside Of which
the poor woman was meeting horrible
fate-burning alive. The reader can i'm
agine the frenzy Of the husband, who, I'M
able to lend helping hand for the pur-
pose of rescuing her whom he loved most
on earth, was compelled to witness her
horrible death, and hear her agoniZing
cries for help.