Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1871-01-27
State News.

Matilda Fletcher, the Iowa poctess,
is lccturing in western New York, and
is winning golden opinions from the
press and people. The Lockport Jousn
The Supervisors Of Linn county
have made an appropriation OF $4,000
for free bridge across the Cedar, at
Cedar Rapids. conditioned upon sub
scription of $4,000.
"A National Bank is about to be CO.
tabIished at Charles City, with capital
of $50, OG0 Nearly all the stock is sub
scribed A. G.. Case, of Bradford, is a
stakeholder to the amount of $4,000.
"A case has been decided in Mari
on county court, by which threshing-
machine hand RECEIVERS s. 800 from the
owner thereof, for injuries received on
the tumhiinC rod, which was not boxed
according to law.
Pat hcney, II Locust Lane, Winnie
Shiek county. to test his muscle, lifted Il
X z beer above his head. Pat slipped
AID fell and the Ike. came down on his
head crushing in the Skull TIE re-
suit viii probably lie fatal. Bee. filters
generally will contend that Fat lifted
the article too high for safety.
On the 9th inst. David Tilton, one
Of the men indicted for robbing DR..
Walker at Quincy. Adams county, at
tempted to commit suicide in his cell,
by Gushing his wrist. The following
week he was tried on his indictment,
ard found guilty. On the ,4th inst. he
VAS sentenced to fifteen years coafine-
men: in the Pcnitentiary.
Al gives full report Of her lecture in
that city. ara says Of her: an style Of
d livery, Matilda Fletcher resembles
Anna !. Dickinson, fully eqni'ing her in
wit and sarcasm. She showed great IA
mili1rity with the arts and wlles of pol
iticiaa>, the rings and wire pulling, o.:
drmag CUES. and the artiiice employed
IN bribery by lobbyists.
"A rain of blood is reported in Van
Buren, county, Dec 30,t. Tie rain came
from the North west, falling IN grea:
drops, and in color as red as blood. In
passing oyer the house of Esq. Jas.
Drake, in Harrisburg township, mgriads
Of these crimson crops were lett on TIE
weather side of the building, and get
remain 20 be seer.
The DEBORAH Repvb1icnn Genounces
as state swirdle' the la" which re
quircs .ome insurance companies to pay
two per cent IF their gross premiums,
in lieu Of STATE, county and township
taxation, ard then allows the State to
keep it all. The R,pu5'icen very per
tinentlv desires to know If its a fair
shake to exclude the local governments
from a share of this revenue
The counterfciter Amos, who was
convicted at the last session of the e. s.
District Court at Dubuque, and sentenc-
ed five years to TT. Madison, has written
a letter to Col. D. g. Henderson, the
Dist. Attorney. imploring that officer to
use his influence to secure him pardon,
He proposes, if let out ofprison, to bring
to Justice number Of parties whom he
AYERS were implicated with him in the
business.
The local of the Dubuque Telegraph
lately interviewed Capt. Jack Parker,
the oldest miner in Iowa; over seventy,
and hale and hearty He came to Gale
ma in 1928 and for forty years has been
among tine shining ore. Capt
Parker is devoting his afternoon of life
Go pcrfecting patent fly trap, which, if
it does half that is told of it, will prove
the best lead ever struck by the an
c cnt miner. The Telegraph says that
last summer, in brewery where flies
were very numerous. it "hivcd' three
gallons of the pests in as many hours;
the biggest feat Of fly trapping on re-
cord.
Some of the citizens of Cedar Falls
township have combined to resist the
payment Of the five per cent. tax, voted
by the township to The b. c. r. & NJ
Railroad. A meeting was held on Sat
urlay last, to provide for the legal war
fare which will ensue. The ground
upon which they base their hopes of
eyadinE the payment of the tax IS the
,llcred informally Vt the petition for
-, -, ,ction, in not having the required
:" one-third Of the resident
!, arars &c mo township. The ca
,ette says that Boies, Allc.. " WV ~
have agreed to carry g
The suit. They are to have nothing l.
but percentage. amount
ing to about one half per cent. on the
taxable value of the property, if they
win
The Abba Union gives the particu-
lars of a lawlcss outrage which occurred
1t that place last week. An absconding
banker. named II. +. Steel, who, by dis
honest practices, had swindled several
parties in that vicinity, returned one
Law last week, sick, to the house Of his
Under pretcnsc of tax
ng him to the Court House, to have his
examination on charge of perjury and
obtaining money under false prctenscs, !
steel was taken from his sick bed, plac-
ID on a sleigh. and, with his brothcr-in-
aw, single guard, and number Of his
.reditors. started for the Court House. |
Reaching the Court House square. sew
,ral men jumped upon the sleigh. the
lriver whipped up the team and started
or the country. The guard and broth
,r-in-law were pitched out at the out
kirts of the village and the lynchers
md their victim passed southwark at
,reat speed. The Sheriff summoned a
posse and started in pursuit, but, after
,oing fifteen miles, gave up the chase.