Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-08-06

Delaware county is to have Harvest
Home Picnic again this year. Joe. Swim
burn, Esq, of the DELHI Monitor, was
chosen Secretary last year, and he will
make a good one.
The Dubuque Southwestern Railroad
now issues 200 mile and 500 mile tickets,
the former costing 5000, and the latter
1875, which is large reduction from
the regular passenger tariffs.
The Mt. Pleasant Journal records a
robbery which occurred at that place re-
Gently, while the family were absent from
home, in which the thieves succeeded in
purloining pockct-book containing $15,
suit of clothes, pair of fine boots, a
silver watch and chain, fine shirt and
full set of buttons, the property of a Mr..
Sawyer, Il farmer residing few miles
from town.
The Anamosa Eureka gives the par
ticulars of an attempt to defraud the Ma.
tional bank of that place, by means OF Il
forged check, and the detection and arrest
of the criminal, young man, name not
given. The rascal first cashed a genuine
check for IS, in the hands of a farmer,
given by }. ii. Davis, a grain dealer, and
with this as a guide, wrote another check
for $50 so, signing the name of Mr.. Da-
Wis. The cashier detected the fraud, but
before the officers could be summoned, the
young man left town suddenly. He was
afterward arrested at Monticello and lodg-
ed in Jail.
"A special correspondent Of the Dubu-
que Herald, writing from Delhi, records
the escape and capture of five prisoners
from the j;:il at that place. 1t appears
that the sheriff, Durham, and his daughter
had gone to Ead's Grove, which is in Del
awere county, and left his wife and two
hired girls in charge of the prisoners.
When dinner time came, Mrs, Durham
let Hyler, who it seems was sentenced to
labor in the yard, in to dinner without
any mishap, but when the time came for
him to go to work, she stepped to the Jail
door with the key to let Hyler out, when
by preconcerted plan, the Jail birds
made rush Tor the door, and overpowcr-
ing Mrs Durham, ''lit out" BY the time
they;had got out, Hyler succeeded in giving
the alarm, and a crowd of citizens collect
ed, and by drawing bead upon the fugi-
tives with their revolvers and guns, sue
ceeded in capturing the entire party, with
in "a very short distance of the Jail. Mrs.
Durham was pushed upon the stove du-
ring the fracas which occurred, and was
slightly burned and otherwise bruised.
A terrible largely occurred at Alton,
on the 3lst, ult., the particulars of which
are as follows: 1t seems that Alfred Van
sickles, farmer residing few miles
from Alton, started accompanied by his
wife and children, to town, with the in
tention of taking the cars at that place,
for visit to Illinois; but when within
about three miles of Alton, the man put
his arm around his wife, drew her af
fectionately to him, kissed her, and
without saying word drew pistol
from his pocket and shot her through the
body. She jumped to her feet, where
upon he shot her second time through
the body, when she jumped from the wa
gon. He then fired the third and fatal
shot which killed her instantly. The
children through fear and fright, had fed
and before any one could be summoned
the man had arranged his wife's body,
folded her arms over her breast, and then
deliberately shot himself in the head.
The Alton Tribune says that the pair had
been married about ten years. were indus
trious, but from al accounts had not got
along extremely smooth, although nothing
of a serious and violent character had
been known to occur between them