Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-07-10
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State News. I

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Six Kansas bnifaloes are cropping
heritage in Davenport pasture.
One hundred tents were pitched at
the great Cedar Rapids camp-meeting.
Iowa City wishes to secure the fossil
plesiosaurns for its University muse
nm.
A signal service officer has arrived
at Dubuque to open a weather factory
there.
The Hessian fly is displaying strong
appetite for fall wheat in Van Buren,
county.
Over a'thousand trains passed over
the river bridge at Burlington last
month.
A Van Buren, county farmer buried
his wife and gathered his hay crop in
one day.
A lad named Frank Bundy was
drowned in the Wapsie, linn County,
last Saturday.
The first volume of the new code
has been distributed to members of the
last Legislature.
johnson county, rejoices in town
bearing the euphonious and classic
name Of ShOo-f3V
Great numbers of Iowa farmers eel.
ebrated the Fourth by working in
their harvest fields.
Nearly all the farmers Of Floyd
county expect to be ont Of debt when
they sell their crops
The Methodists of the Keokuk Dis.
trict Conference are in favor Of liccns.
ing women to preach.
Mrs. Mobley, wife of M. M. Mobley
of Dubuque, died in Washington City
July I'd, aged y years.
The Council Bluffs District Confer.
ence Of the NJ. e. Church met In
Missouri Valley, July 8.
Charles City has been compelled to
tighten mp on the dogs. Its dog ordi
nance has been repealed.
Dcs Moines' crop of grasshoppers il
ripe, and vegetation is fast disappear
ing under their vigorous attacks.
A Bedford saloon keeper after being
tried for selling whiskey, and found
guilty, is now a citizen of Missouri.
A Davenporter was robbed Of Sal
the other night on a steamer betweel
Clinton and Davenport, by his room
mate.
In many places in Iowa the Patrons
of Husbandry held very largely attend.
cd and successful 4th of July celebra.
tons.
The third Quarterly Meeting of the
Iowa Baptist State Convention con.
vcnes at Indianola, on "Wednesday
July 23d.
The Des Moines Register says Hon
John A. Kasson has $4,000 of the
stock Of the National Gold Bank Of
California.
/, A wandering Modoc broke into ar
unOccupied school house in Montgom.
| cry county, and greatly damaged i
with an NIX or ilatrf1et.
The political reform party will be
an entire failure in Emmett county. Nc
one attended the convention to selec,
delegates to the State Convention.
| Jack Freeze, brakeman on tn,
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Minneso
ia Railroad, was killed while coupling
| cars at Rowley station, on the Sd.
Frank Harris, runner for Browns
Hotel, Cedar Rapids, fell from the
roof of the hotel into the Cedar river
and sustained very serious injuries.
They have bad way of doing il
Muscatine county. A man gave hi
fifteen-year old son an unmerrifu
beating, because he failed TO find a los
COW.
/ A connterfeiter was arrested at &c
/ dar Rapids. on the 9Th inst. He offer
ed fifty dollar bill for drink which
lead TO his arrest. Fifteen notes of tn,
same kind were found on his person
Miss Mary Jane Davis, young lady
of %, the daughter of 4. II. Davis, q
prominent citizen Of Bellevue, shot
herself through the heart with pisto
on the evening ofthe ID. Cause-Dis.
appointed love. i
Farmers who have been farming III
Marion county for the past II years
say they never saw SO good general
prospect for an abundant harvest as
there is this year. Some chinh bugs
are in the wheat, but not enough to dc
much damage.
1t is said that the employees of the
Dubuque. Herald wear uniforms, which
consists of blue flannel suits costing &c
cents a yard, cloth hats, which were
originally white and cost one dollar a
piece, but being badly fly speckcd were
sold to the typos at half price, paper
dickcys, handkerchiefs around theil
necks and sticks in their fists.
Miss Eudora Nuckolls, colored la.
DIV, formerly slave. was the first on
the list of graduates OF the Davenport,
High School, at the closing exercises
last week. In recognition OF her worth
ability and perseverance in educating
herself, fifty white citizens of Daven.
port contributed to purchase costly
gold watch and chain to present to hel
on the OCCASION of her graduation.
Frank Mershcne, the Cedar Rapids
wagon-maker, who was arrested fol
numbering his wife, some weeks ago