Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-10-23
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State News.

have concluded 10 hunt in CaSS coun-
ty.
A genuine snake was found crawl
ing among the whisky bottles of I.y-
ons saloon.
An Eastern artist is taking sketches
around Musca,nc for New York IL
Illustrated paper.
The Order of United Workmen in
stitutes its Grand Lodge in this State
AT Davenport. next Tuesday.
The Annual State Baptist Associa-
ton commences next Wednesday. at
Iowa City.
You can hold corner lot at Sioux
City al $500, hut All envious exchange
thinks YOU can't sell it for that
A Cedar Rapids reporter was very
naturally mistaken for Methodist
minister.
Michael Collins, who ut his throat
with razor mt DEBORAH died on the
18th inst.
sMrs. Margaret Sclby, of Mount
Pleasant, died last week al the age of
one hundred and four.
A Norwegian farmer named Larson,
was drowned near Nillisca, last week,
while under the influence Of liquor.
Matilda Fletcher goes to Washing
ton for the winter as newspaper COR
respondent.
VIM. Johnson was shot and almost
instantly killed while hunting near
Hampton, Franklin county, on Friday,
by The accidental discharge of his gun
Churches in different parts of the
State arc taking up Sunday collec-
tons for the benefit of yellow fever
sufferers in the South.
Armed with pitchfork, a young
Swedc at Charlton went for bur-
glar. The latter quit work and ske-
daddlcd
A Muscatinc beast ties his son up
by the thumbs and straps him with a
horsc-whip till his screams can be
heard for squares around.
Fifteen or twenty car loads of iron
for the q. & $. w. II. r. have arrived
and track laying beyond Unionvillc
will be commenced at once.
The number of prisoners in the pen
itcntiary at Fort Madison on Septcm..
Der 30, was 2G5, and at Anamosa, "A ;
inmates of the insane hospital at the
same date. I73.
The survey of the keosauqua, north
and south railroad has been completed
to Mexico, Mo. The formal ceremo.
mics of breaking ground for the road
took place at Keosauqua on Thursday.
A few days since Miss Ida Bolles,
who wore her hair loose while at
work in a wooden mill at Marengo.
was caught in the machinery by her
hair, and piece of her scalp three in
ches long, was torn off.
At Marshalltown cautious old man
has three days rations packed and will
take TO the woods until house cleaning
is over. lie excuses his absence by
saying that he is going to gather his
winters supply of mute.
Prairie fires in Greene, kossuth.
Boone aud Bucna Vista counties. DUR
ing the past week. have destroyed n
vast amount Of property. In some
cases, farmhouses, barns, grain, hay.
fences, and everything combusiible
have been swept away.
Mr.. r A. Babbage, the detaulting
Dubuque banker, publishes card,
which commences as follows: "Tlc
last two weeks | have been crushed to
earth. and my mental agony has been
intense" II is good to see at least one
repentant thief of the bank officer or
der.
The Dubuque Telegraph says that
the speculations of Babbage, the de-
faulting cashier of the Dubuque Mcr-
chants National. have not been nm
profitable, and il believes that he has
the greatest part of the missing S267,-
900 hid away, either in his own house
or among his relations.
Mr.. Henry {. Troxell. of Lafayette
township, Butlcr county, has deserted
wife and six children for grcencr
pastures of love and pleasure with "a
voIuptuous and bcwitching grass wild
aw named Hatch. He sold off his
crops and mortgagcd his farm for all
1t was worth before leaving, and his
wife and children are left in an almost
destitute condition.
The Mt. Pleasant JouyUoi is rcspon-
siblc for the following
A cOlored minister not thousand
miles from here, charging his new
converts to walk upright in their fu-
ture paths, said: MY dear lambs, be
firm and steadfast; stick to your be-
lief: hold fast to it; be as dc postum
if dcy kick your feet from under you,
hold fast wild dc tail"
On Thursday last, about six miles
south of Ladon, a German family
named TIessdorfcr, moving from Black
Hawk county to Nebraska, while
crossing slough bridge on the grade
to Skunk river bridge, were backed
of the side by the sllying of the mules,
the team falling back upon the wagon
and family. a boy three years old
was killed instantly, and the parents
were badly bruised. 1t is claimed
that the mules were scared at a hole
in the bridge. The mother took the