Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-07-30
State News.

AHO DCNOIaH AeePUOtSVuNO VI lust WCCh
records the death of II. s. Weiser, Presi-
dent Of the Winneshick County Bank, and
one of the pioneer residents of DEBORAH.
Gen F. E. Winslow was appointed
by the u S. District Court last week as
permanent Receiver of the Burlington,
Cedar Rapids and Minnesota Railroad.
BY the fall of staging at Usage on
the 18th, J. H. Brush, the banker, and
Messrs. How ard and Buckmaster, carpen-
tiers, engaged in shingling a barn were
precipitated 16 feet to the ground, result
ing in broken limbs. cuts, or severe in
ternal injuries to the whole party. We
CLEAN from the Mas.
Mrs. Martha Callahan, Chairman of
the Executive Committee, of the Woman's
Suffrage Association, has issued the call
for the fifth annual meeting of the Asso-
citation, to be held mt Oskaloosa, August
oath, and 25th. All associations in the
State, county or local, whose object it is
TO secure to women equal political rights,
are invited to send delegates.
The Waverly Republican, tells of a
heifer calf, eight months old, in Bremen
county, that yields about Il quart of milk
a day. 1t was drought to its milk" by
a smaller calf sucking it each day. The
tactical prodigy belongs to Mr. Stuffic-
beam, whose name is itself, spell that
ought to bring mule to its milk.
The Clinton Herald records the
following Iowa instances of numerous
paternity: "E. McClenahan, of Sigourney,
is "a years old and has "a children.
Zachariah Wilbur, of Henry county, is
the father of 20 children, and he only AZ
years of age. Father Johnston, of Tama
county, last week, at family reunion,
counted AZ, all of whom are members of
some church, and those qualified to vote,
vote the Republican ticket" ~
A boy of 16 years of age, in Wood
bury county, while chopping in the timber
mile from home, was bitten by rattle
snake on the middle finger of the left hand.
Instead of starting for home, and Il doctor,
he coolly laid the bitten finger on a log,
and with the axe chopped 1t off below the
wound. The doctor who afterwards ar
rived, said that he never saw neater
amputation, and that the boys nerve un-
doubtedly saved his life.
"A terrible accident occurred ut the
paper mills of Close & Son, Iowa City, on
Thursday evening of last week, caused
by the explosion of one of the pulping
tanks of the establishment, followed inn
mcd,ately by the bursting of four others,
with most terrific force, and resulting, be-
sides the destruction of large portion of
the mill, in the instant death of six of the
employees. So powerful was the force of
the explosion that one of the tanks, and
four of the men who were in the upper
story were blown an immense height into
the air, the bodies OF the men returning to
the earth shapeless masses OF flesh. One
of them, Walter Sinton, the reports say
was thrown fully five hundred feet into
the air, descending seventy yards away,
and crashing through the roof of paint
shop, breaking shingles, roof boards and
rafters and landing on the floor. Another,
Herman Bechtel came to the ground 500
feet from the mill striking on his head
and denting the hard soil six inches deep,
the body bounding about eight feet.
Four of the killed leave dependent fami-
lies to mourn their shocking death. The
loss of the proprietors is about $25,O0O.