Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-01
State News.

The NintOn Eagle says that the cars
on the Pacific branch of the B., C. r. &
M. r. r. were expected to reach Traer on
Thursday evening of last week
"A reunion Of soldiers of the Mexican
war will take place at Des Moincs on the
18th, 12th and 18th of September The
indications are that it will be an interest
ing and successful affair.
1t was Keokuk man that received
a postal card bearing the following: "Mr
A. B to Mrs. G., Dr., to board
aud lodging while counting Miss E. s.,
one dollar and twenty-five cents"
"A terrible accident occurred at Nc
Gregor last week. Charley, the son of
P. Hunk, fell upon a circular saw while
in motion, by which his right arm and
leg were severed from his body. The in
juries were fatal.
"A bibulous brick-layer in East Des
Moines keeps private bottle slowed
away in the cellar of the building where
he works; and every half hour electrfics
his tender and the bystanders by vocifer-
ating, "Bricks, mort, whisky; bring me
the first I called for last"
Iowa Patrons of Husbandry are
cautioned not to have anything to do with
Grange imposter, named Boiler Dotson,
resident of Union township, Appanoose
county, who is divulging the signs and
passwords of the Order The chap is
ventilated in the columns of the Van Blu +.
rem Democrat, by patrons"
BY the recent census the I'd Con
gressional District, composed of the coun-
ties of Cedar, Clinton, Jackson, Jones,
Muscatine and Scott. has population of
1862, FOG, loss since 1870 of 500 The
18th, or Capital District, has this year a
population of 131,627, a gain of 6,4O1
over the Federal census of 1870
The Fort Dodge Messenger says that
a contract has been made with the Cardiff
Plaster Mills Co., of that place. to furnish
all the stucco to be used in the new Him
ois Capitol building. The price paid is
two dollars per ton more than Grand
Rapids plaster can be procured for, on
account of the superior whitcness of the
Fort Dodge article
Jim" Thorington, of Davenport, U.
S. Consul at Aspinwall, has been winning
glory and fame by fiinging the protection
of the stars and stripes around I'm Ameri-
can steamer, the "Virginius," which was
chased into that harbor with mischievous
intent by the Spanish gunboat, the "Ba-
zan." The Consul's exploit was very
materially aided by the presence Of the
u s. Steamer Kansas" in the harbor.
The voluminous correspondence appears
in the Davenport G sette of last week
The little sfour year old son of Mr..
Ed. Clark, who ii .cs three miles north of
Postville, being in the hay field, and be
coming sleepy, was laid, by his father
partially under q bunch of hay. During
the absence Of the father the hired man
coming to load the hay, and unaware o.
the presence of the boy, stuck one tine o
the pitch fork through his throat and tht
other in the side Of his neck. His recov
cry is doubtful.
Two masked men, supposed to be
part of the railway robber band, entered
a store, which is also restaurant, a
Stuart, Guthrie county, on last Frida.
night, and after compelling Mr.. Campbell
one of the proprietors, at the point of til
pistol, to supply them with food an
drink, left, first ransacking the establish
ment and taking the money in the drawer
Upon emerging from the building som
twenty minutes later to give the alarm
Mr.. Campbell was shot at by one of tn
Williams, who Immediately made off.
The Burlington Haaokeye of the 26t
; ult., says that two well-planned attempt
were made the day before to throw train
off the track of the c., B. & @. r. r., bu
happily unsuccessful. The first was be
tween Meridian and Mendoza, by pilin
, rubbish on the track, and the other bt
tween Cameron and Galesburg. Her
four heavy pieces of iron were tied to tn
track with telegraph wire, but so hig
that the cow-catcher of the express trail
which the Williams intended to ditch
tore it from the track, and the trail
passed unframed.