Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-05-24

Only three Of seven German papers
in Iowa, support Greeley.

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Ex Governor Merrill IS talked Of as
u candidate for Congress in the 7th or
Des Moincs district, with view Of har-
monizing thesPalmer and Kasson feud
The Chicago, Burlington s Quincy
r. r., the Division Superintendent OF
which, Mr.. Leo Casper, was killed by an
accident near Burlington some time since,
has presented his widow with $4,000.
"A poetic genius, matrimonially in
clined and mighty particular withal, ad.
vertises for wife in the Mitchell County
Press. Among other qualifications which
go to make up his estimate of the ''per-
feet woman, nobly planned" expressed
in fifteen stanzas of doggerel, occurs the
following:
She must have education, too,
Know how to make good tea,
And, If she lack housewives knock,
She's not the one for me.
To have been perfectly fair with the
ladies' thus invited to "go in on their
muscle" the amorous swain should have
given his fighting weight.
A Council Bluffs correspondent of
the Chicago Tribune writes thus: "Thc
Congressional contest in this (the Eighty
district seems to be narrowed down to
Colonel w. F. Sapp, Of this city, and
Judge J. W. McDill, of the District bench,
with the chances very decidedly in favor
of the former"
Marion was visited by disastrous
fire on Monday, destroying $4,000 to
$4,000 worth of property, including the
Washington House, less than half of
which was covered by insurance.
The McGrcgor Ne,os, of las. week
says that the town of Prairie du Chen
has been the scene of II genuine Indian
scare. An unusually large party Of Win
nebagoes encamped on an island in the
river and wandered through the town.
From gestures made and remarks over
heard, and the suspicious circumstance
that they were unaccompanied by squaws,
the citizens became impressed with the
idea that the dusky visitors were there
for the purpose of taking u terrible and
bloody revenge for an alleged injury done
the tribe by the late Mr. Dousman. Ac-
cordingly the authorities sent out patrol
parties t0kcep watch through the night,
and families living in the outskirts de-
serted their homes and sought refuge in
town. Others armed themselves; one
man taking a pitchfork to bed with him,
to have it handy in case of sudden attack
by the redskins 1t turned out, however,
that the Indians were only intent upon
selling their winters accumulation of
furs and entirely guiltlcss of hostile pur-
pose.
"A. fire at Iowa Falls on Sunday
night, destroyed brick building belong
ing to Woodwork Bros, containing
sleighs, buggics, &c. The loss on stock
and. building amounts to $4,000. on
which there was $4,000 insurance.
Political straws are in order. A
vote was taken the other day on the
train, between Monticello and Davenport,
with the following result: Grant, 29s;-
Greeley, AZ; refused to vote, 60.
During the past week five persons
were drowned ut and in the vicinity of
Dubuque, within the space of twenty
four hours. On Saturday several boys
embarked in leaky scow and showed off
from shore. In short time the boat
filled and welt down, and two of the
boys, Herman Trilk and Willie Schmid,
aged seven and nine respectively, were
drowned.
On the following Sunday another fear.
full tragedy occurred, which is thus dcs-
cribed by the Times:
"a party had been preparing for some
days for picnic to bc held on Hams
Island in Lake Peosta, and last Sunday
was selected as the time for enjoying the
anticipated. entertainment. The party
included the families of Beck, Lonergan
and Condlon. The young people of these
families and some of the old ones visited
the island early in the day and passed the
forenoon there. Soon after dinner the
older ones returned to the main land by
skiff, and about ~ the last skiff load
started to come over. This party con-
sisted of Kate Lonergan, Ellen Condlon,
Bridget Feeney, George Beck, James Lo-
nergan, and John Driscoll-thc latter
took the oars. When about midway be-
tween the shores one of the oars broke.
the wind caught the bow of the skitf and
plunged it in the wavcs-one moment of
CONSERVATION, the skiff careened and the
six persons were struggling in the turbu-
lent waters. Geo. Beck, Kate Lonergan,
and Ellen Condlon were overcome and
strangled in a few moments and sunk to
the bottom. James Lonergan managed
to get to the shore in safety. Bridget
Feeney, by the assistance of John Dris-
coll, who is a good swimmer, succeeded
in getting partially on to the skiff, and
maintained her hold till rescued by aper-
son in sailboat that came along in few
moments. Driscoll struck out for the
shore, and though he went under once
when within about twenty feet Of land,
was finally enabled, by assistance from
the man in the boat, to get out"