Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-04-30

the corporate limits according to the late
census, is 1896; with the suburbs includ-
ed, it reaches 1892.
w. l.. Carpenter, of Waterloo, has
been chosen Secretary of the State Grange,
vice n. w. Garretson, resigned on account
of i'll health
AT Council Bluffs, a few days since, a
notice to leave the city was served on
nineteen three-card monte men, the alter
native being prosecution and fines to the
full extent of the law. By night the city
was rid of them.
By the sinking of tug-boat in Puget
Sound, Oregon, March 18th, the Sawtelle
Theatrical Troupe, well known in Iowa,
consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Sawtelle, Mrs.
Fanny Morgan Phelps, Miss Lizzie Nor
gan, Little Viva and Mr.. Jerry Crowell
were drowned.
Three blind boys from the State In
stitution for the Blind, at Vinton, accom-
panied by two other boys possessed of
sight, being given holiday, wondered
from the Asylum to Mud Creek, mile or
two off, and there while playing on raft
two of the blind boys fell into the water
and were drowned. -
Ellen Cory, the young girl who was
tarred and feathered by women at Wilton,
two weeks since, has commenced suit
against the women concerned in the dis
graceful affair, all wives of respectable
citizens of Wilton. Public sentiment at
Davenport, where the girl now is, is very
severe against her prosecutors.
The Eldora Ledger has an account of
the escape of five boys from the Reform
School. They were pursued by two men,
Entrican and Miles. When the pursuers
came near the boys, the latter assaulted
them with stones, knocking Entrican
senseless, and knocking Miles from his
horse; after which one of them stabbed
Entrican, and took his watch and revolver;
then three of the boys mounted his horse
while the other two mounted Miles, and
all rode away, and at last accounts had
not been captured. Entrican's recovery
is doubtful.
On Thursday, of last week, near the
Anamosa stone quarries, on the Dubuque
& Southwestern Railroad, little girl
about 3 years of age, lay down between
the ties with the household dog and went
to sleep. Shortly after, the passenger train
came along, the engineer not discovering
the child until too late to stop. The en-
CINE and one Car passed over the uncon-
scious sleeper, when she was taken out
with very slight injury. The wood work
under the cars had tumbled her over, but
inflicted no serious injury.
In the case of Lyons vs.. Robson,
tried in the Des Moines District Court, on
the 15th-an action to recover $4,000
damages for broken leg by an unlocked
tumbling rod to a thrcshing machine, the
jury gave verdict for the defendant
Robson owned the machine, but had
leased it to other parties for year, and
while the machine was in the possession
of the lessee the accident occurred. The
statute says the owner, or the person hav-
ing grain threshed with an unlocked rod,
shall be liable for damages. 1t was held
that the ownership was in the lessee, and
that Lyon, knowing the rod was not boxed
contributed to the accident.
The DEBORAH Republican of last
week gives the details of another abortion
case, or rather two of them, in that
vicinity, the victims of which were lying
at the point of death. The women one of
whom is married and the other unmarried
say that abortion was performed upon
them at their own request, by the use of
an instrument by DIR. II. Small, of Ossian
Small has been arrested and held to bail
in the sum of $500. He denies the charge,
though as the statement of the women was
made in what they supposed their dying
hour, his denial gains no crcdence At
the latest report there were slight no pes
that the victims might recover.
- Strawberry Point is in fever of cx-
citement over the supposed discovery of
gold near that place A mining company
has been formed, dams built, and sluices
are under construction. New discoveries
are made daily; one party dug up piece
of quartz as large as chestnut, contain
ing SO so in gold, color is found in every
pan washed, and the precious metal ac-
cording to the florid acco ants is lying
around carelessly in every gulch and
creek in the neighborhood Black Hill
lcrs who hesitate on account of the U. =.
Cavalry, may here find an EldQrado al
most at their doors. We CLEAN the above
items from the Free Press.