The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1875-03-11
FROM DAVENPORT.

DAVENPORT, Iowa, Mar. 8, 1875.
Since closing the Star Lecture Course
the committee have made their report
and find tina. a net profit OF $1,000 has
been realized As this course was under
the supervision Of the Library Assocla
ton, the public library will be greatly
enriched from the proceeds. Already a
number of valuable works have been
placed on the shelves, and more will
soon follow. The course consisted OF
three lectures. reading by Mrs Sid
dons, and one concert The Camilla
Ursu concert paid the Association best,
and the Siddons' entertainment next
The lectures brought rather fair houses
but were not very renunerative. The
people have been pretty well gorged this
winter with theatres, lectures, concerts
and all sorts of entertainments, and now
they are willing to close their purses till
the circus season openes, then money
will be flush once more
Business don't seem to be very brisk
in the city just know. A number OF
| business men arc being crowded to the
wall; several assignments have been
made the past week by parties who were
considered sound, financially. No doubt
bad management is at the bottom Of the
most OF it.
The assault maize by T. E. Ingham a
few days ago, on the person of Mr..
Drake, of the Rock Island Argus, was
| cowafdly 10 the extreme. Nothing said
in defence of the act can make it any
thing else. 1t takes \ craven spirit to
strike a man unawares a heavy blow on
the forehead with champagne bottle
without Just pro1oGation, but such MAS
the act, and the victim lies in a suffer.
Ing aud critical condition. After lying
in Jail a iew hours, Ingham gave four
hundred dollar bond and then started
East in quest Of more game. 1ngham is
a lawyer by profession, and when he first
came here had as brilliant future be.
fore him as any man in the city. He
was talented, handsome aad popular, and
won great many friends, but he took
to drinking and went down rapidly till
now lie is an outcast and friendless -
Some months ago he attempted suicide
Soon after that he got stabbed in fight
in Rock Island, then went TO Chicago
and got acquainted with the police, and
from there back into trouble again here,
which So nearly resulted in the death of
a prominent man. Such is his history,
in brief, for the past three years.
\ sad case OF drowning occurred on
Tuesday morning, in the river along
Front Street. A hole some twenty inch
es IN diameter had been cut IN the ice
about sixty feet from the shore, for the
purpose OF getting water. A woman
named LANCE had gone there early In
the morning with pail for that purpose,
and in some unaccountable way got into
the opening, and no help being near she
soon drowned. 1t was a horrible death.
There was blood on the ice all around
the hole, where she had torn her fingers
In the struggle for life.
A good deal of anxiety is felt in the
city aud all along the river In regard to
the breaking up of the ice in the spring,
It is four feet thick in many places, and
should 1t happen to break up with q
freshet, the destruction of property will
be immense. Last year it broke mp on
the 10th Of March, and moved out quI.
city, but 1t was only about twelve or
fourteen inches thick. It will take fully
two weeks of warm weather to move Il,
and as the snow crop In the North IL
very heavy we may expect high stage
Of water when II takes its leave. Ess,