Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-04-04
State Items.

The State Auditors books show that
forty-nine foreign and eight home in
surance companies are doing business in
Iowa.
The Fort Dodge Messenger says thas
Martin L. Webster, worthy and hard
working laboring man of that city has
received the Intelligence that his wife has
fallen heir to fortune of $4,000
j. NJ. Dixon the blind editor, .whom
adverse fortune seems to pursue with
vengeful hate, lost all his furniture and
books in recent fire at Springvale Hum
boldt county.
In the District Court Of Wapello last
week verdict for one thousand dollars
damages was rendered in favor of wo-
man who had sued liquor dealer for
selling liquor to her husband.
r.. s. Finkbine, one of the Capitol
Commissioners has been elected Superin-
tendent of the work at a salary of 49,
900 per annum. without mileage or other
allowance. He will give his entire atten
ton to the work.
A little son of J. Hamilton, living
near Grinnell, pulled kerosene lamp
from stand to the floor, when it broke
and the oil took fire. One of his eyes
was burned out and the flesh of one Of
his arms was burned to the bone. He
died Monday morning. So records the
Herald
1t is reported that that representa-
tive of personal and political untidiness
Henry Clay Dean contemplates returning
to Iowa. There is compensation for
every human ILL., The people among
whom Dean settles may possibly be rec
onciled to the inflction by the reflection
that, "Whom the Lord loveth lie chas-
teneth."
Miss Abbie Cleves of Davenport has
secured the appointment of Assistant
Physician of the Iowa Hospital for tho
Insane at Mt Pleasant Miss Cleves is a
regularly G., cated physician, being a
graduate of he Medical Department of
the State University. She has made
special study Of the mental and physical
n leo DC IF ~, nd oh iiIrar nd
tiers upon the duties of her position well
qualified to perform them well and ably.
John Hern Of Council Bluffs having as
he says ".been outrageously nsulted by
Mr.. Wilson the butcher" announces
through the -Nonpariel that he is willing
to settle the matter with The man of
steaks in the prize ring for any sum from
500 to $4,000; and then in the flush of
his valorous mood, he adds: "also any
100 pound man in the world, excepting
my first cousins" The reader is at
loss whether to impute the exception to
motives of wise discretion or consanguln-
Gus affection.
While some of the Changers in this
vicinity are taking stock in the Waterloo
Agricultural Works and, giving encour,
agement to it in various ways, the mem
bers of Bulger Grange No. 60l in Dallas
county are getting right upon their ear
and denouncing it by resolution unani-
mously adopted as mot worthy the atten.
ton of any Patron of Husbandry."
Their ire was excited, or, as their Secre
tary expresses it, in communication to
the Homestead, 'their bristles were rails.
ed" by perusal of the price list of the
Waterloo concern, which so far from Of
fering them tools at reduced prices, fixes
the price of cultivators at precisely tho
same rates they have to pay at De Soto
three miles away, and then limits the
conccssion(?) to stockholders in the in
stitution. This if true needs attention
Y the Grange stockholders.