Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1871-11-30
IOWA NEWS.

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ing the experimental a semi-weekly
1t makes q splendid start-but tn.
result cannot be doubtful. 1t request.
exchanges to advertise the fact thai
Winterset sadly needs a good brick.
maker and wants some good brick.
layers.
A young man named Stephen
Halling was horribly mangled to
death by being caught in the ma.
chinery of a saw mill at Fort Madi.
son one day last week.
The ceremonies of laying the cor
ner stone of the new Capitol at Des
Moines last Thursday were very in
teresting, says the Register, though
the cold weather prevented mAy
persons from coming who would
otherwise have been there. Gov.
Merrill's Address on the occasion is
very highly commended.
Last Friday morning, as we learn
from a communication in the Gate
city, the Republican Office, and the
Masonic Lodge, at Keosauqua, were
destroyed by a fire which issupposed
to have been caused by an incendiary.
Loss nearly sl5, 600; partially insured.
The announced prospective resig-
nation of Judge G. c. Cole, of the
State Supreme Court, has caused
some canvass to be made among the
legal profession as to his successor.
Among the names we have heard
mentioned in connection with the
position, should vacancy occur, are
those of Elk Governor Kirkwood,
Hon. John N. Rodgers, of Daven-
port, Hon. G. {. Nourse, of Des
Moines, and Judges Chaseand Samp-
son, of the District Courts. 1t is un-
derstood that Judge Cole will not
resign before the close of the year,
and the vacancy will be filled by
Gov. Carpenter.-Hd'ckeye.
1t is estimated that the prairie fires
this fall, in Emmet County, de-
stroyed $4,000 worth of property.
The hog crop Of Iowa for 1871 is
estimated at I,003, 671-an increase OF
40 per cent. over that OF 1870.
A boy two years of age, son OF Mr..
w. II. Couch, Of Madison County,
was burned to death a few days ago,
by upsetting into the fire bottle OF
turpentine which he found in a cup
board.
Iowa has one thirty-second OF the
entire population OF the States.
1t is stated that there are now
but 4 ,2O3a candidates for offices with
in the gift of the next Assembly.
Mrs. Laura a. Berry, formerly
Deputy Recorder of Story County,
now u resident of Davenport, ana a
lady of great worth and entire com
potency, will be a candidate lor al
enrolling clerkship, before the Leg
iSlature.
Two hundred and seventy pounds
of wheat were raised from one pound
of seed on a farm in Black Hawk
County.
Wright County lost fifteen hum
dred bushels of grain, hundreds OF
tons of hay, and miles OF fence py
prairia fires this fall.
Senator Harlan and hiswife started
for Washington last week.
Five miles Of track are already
laid on the Winterset Railroad from
Des Moines; and the ears are ex-
nected to reach Winterset by New
Years.
The Register says that Last even
ing two well-dressed, fine looking
women-strangers in the city|ap,,
naarpd on our streets with liSh'eo
CIGARS i'm their mouths"
A little girl between two and three
wears old, daughter Of Joseph Kun
meman, of johnson County was
burned to death one evening last
week. says the Republican; her
clothes having caught fame rom
the fire in some way while she was
loft alone in the house for 1e"