Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-02-03
State News,

Our exchanges in the Northern part
Of the State speak in very enthusiastic
terms of Miss Lillian Edgarton's lectures
in that region.
"A farmer near Hardin City was killed
by the falling of Il tree, few days ago.
lie was chopping alone in the woods, and
when found was under the trunk of the
tree, dead.
The legacy for the Parsons College
amounts to $40, 1000, to which the citizens
of Des Moines have agreed to add an en-
dowment fund of 100000 and an eligible
site for the College.
Ghost parties are in fashion at Oska-
loosa. The costume consists oftwo sheets,
pillow case, and white mask, with no
variation on account of sex, "color or
previous condition of servitude."
The Washington, Iowa, Press says
that Fitz Henry Warren has repented of
his Johnsonian apostacy, acknowledging
that it was 1.-THE d-st fool thing he ever
did"
The Ottumwa Courier says that
Henry McFadden was killed, two
other men injured on the 10Th, by the fall
of a mass of slate and stone weighing
about ton, in the Union Coal Comra-
ny's bank near that city.
A. c. Holt, late of the Vinton Eagle,
has bought an interest in the Mason City
Republican, and proposes to put in a
power press and new material. Holt is
one Of the best printers in Iowa, and will
make decided improvement on the Re
publican.
Our neighbors over on the Cedar are
in high glec over the completion of the
B. c. r. & NJ. r. r., connecting Cedar
Falls with Burlington and st. Louis by
rail. The last spike was driven at Cedar
Rapids last week, by Judge Green Of that
city, who also made a congratulatory
speech on the occasion
Mason City can take the premium on
drouth. The Republican says: The
sale of beer, wine, cider, and other kinds
of liquid have been suspended by the sa
loon keepers of Mason City, and as tho
| wells arc nearly all dry, and Lime Greek
frozen almost solid, matters are getting
serious with people who haven't got &
new mich COW in the family"
| The Abba Spirit says that the party
who spirited away Steele, the swindlinG
banker, have returned him to the charg,
of the proper officer unframed 1t adds
GAS to W IT the party accomplished by
taking Mr.. Steele out, We have but littl'
or no knowledge more than that hi
health is greatly improved. 1t is alst
rumored that they came to conclusion
with Mr.. Steele. and have some hopes o
| u Stiti'iitil. ilt WIN DtIiltl III liz
way seems to be in the fact of the money
being deposited somewhere in the nam,
of Steelc's wife, and she is unwilling t.
give it up, but would prefer, so says I'll
NOR, which seems to be a straight one, t
| have her old gentleman out of the way
| Thomas Sheridan, a prominent citi
zen of Des MoincS county, lost his barr
and some other property by fire, and me
with some other mistortuncs which i'm
pressed upon his mind the fact that this i
a world Of sorrow. So he walked tire
miles, in his stocking feet, to the river
and with no clothing on but his shirt ant
pants. He found an air hole and afle
getting on the ice, tied his arms behin(
him with his suspenders, and then mad
a sIlp-noose with one end of a rope h
had carried with him, around his neck
while the other end was tied around Iii
ankle. Thus fcttered, he plunged in
Neiyhbors to the number of sixty five o
seventy turned out to hunt for the body
and il was found two or three hundred
yards below the air hole.