Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-10-24

- The Supreme Court of Iowa is in
session at Dubuque this week.


State ticket in Dubuque county is | Al
Cooley, Republican for Senator, has 49
majority
The county seat Of Jackson count
was, by the vote of the people, last wee
relocated at Maquoketa, instead of Al
drew the present capital
The executive committee of the Stat
Grange of Patrons of Husbandry has d,
cided to establish large reaper an
mower factory at Des Moines.
The Grand Commandery Knight
Templar, Of the Masonic order is in scs
sion at Des Moines this week Over on
hundred knights are in attendance.
The question of the terminus of til
Union Pacific Railroad, as between Oma
la and Council Bluffs, is up for adjudica
ton in the L. S. Circuit Court at De
MoineS.
Our Iowa apiarist, Mrs f. S. Tup
per, has purchased the National Bee Jour
nal, and will hereafter have editorial con
troll of the same, removing it to Des
| Moines
-Thos &. Newman, of the Linn coun
ty Liberal, has sold that paper to J. Il
Simpkins, and goes to Chicago, to assume
the general business management Of the
American Publishing Co.
The Central Railroad OF Iowa was in
debted to Jay Cooke $7S,000 when he
failed He was having an engine built
which he was to have hired to the com
pany So says the Eldora Ledger.
A Stock Company has been organ.
lied at Elliota, Winneshiek county,
to build q grist mill Of three run of
burrs, the motive power Of which is to be
furnished by wind mill sixty-two feet
in diameter.
Dallas Parker was instantly killed
last week near Dubuque, while descending
a mineral shaft. The rope, being old and
rotten, broke by which lie was precipita
ted TO the bottom of the shaft. When
brought to the surface life was extinct.
In the programme Of vocal con
cert given at Wintcrsct few evenings
since, was the celebrated quartette "When
Wearicd Wretches Sink to Sleep I'M
aginc the CONSIDERATION Of the audience
when they read on the printed pro.
gramme, when II 1tied Wrctches
&C."
A Rejected Lovers Club" is the Ia
test institution AT the State capital. The
Register says that many of the prominent
young men of Dcs Moines are in it,
which fact is complimentary to the high
standard set up by the young ladies OF
that city, or the reverse Of compliment
tary to The aforesaid young men.
The Waverly Mdspsndsn. gives the
particulars of Il heartless case of deser.
ton by farmer in tina. vicinity. named
Henry T. Troxcl, who eloped with an
abandoned widow named Hatch, leaving
his lawful wife and children in destitute
circumstances, after having sold his crops
and mort gagged his farm for all that it is
worth.
Rev. J. E. Baker, at the N. Z. Con
ference at Cedar Rapids, stated that when
he entered the work as an itincrant
preacher seventeen years ago, he had a
wife and one child, but now he has ten
children, and is worth $4,000, seven
thousand IN real estate and ten thousan d
in children. He asked for IL snpernume
rary relation which was granted.
The Des Moincs Valley Railroad was
sold at Sheriff's sale, at Des MONIES, on
Saturday last. The portion from Keo
kuk to Des Moines was bid off by J. II
Johnson for 81 ,175, 900, and that portion
between Des Moines and Fort Dodge was
sold to Col c. II. Perry, of Keokuk, fol
| $475,O00. The rolling stock was divided
between each portion on the basis Of the
proportionate number Of miles in each
It is rumored that the purchase was mad,
In the interest of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy r. r.
| The Treasurer's Office of jackson
county, at Andrew, was entered by burg
lars last Saturday night, the safe broker
open, and $40, 900 distracted 1t Sem
that the robbers first gained access to tn
Masonic Hall adjoining the Treasurer
Office, and thence to the latter by forcin!
door. They entered the safe, whicl
was one of the latest combination pat
ents, with apparent ease, and withou
doing il much injury, the Treasurer
finding the "dials" off, the doors open
and the money gone. No clue has bee'
found to the perpetrators, although, as i
usual in such cases, suspicious of all sort
and in all directions, are plentiful enough
A note was found pinned to the floor, il
front of the open safe, informing all whom
it might concern, in bold characters tina
100000 is gone to hell"