Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-12-24

Mrs. Secor, wife of the Register of
the State Land Office, died at Des Moines,
on Wednesday of last week.
A. l.. Leonard. agent and operator at
Steamboat Rock, on the Central of Iowa
r. r., was instantly killed, last week, by
II train backing over him while walking
on the track
F Ofenhauser, q hair-dresser of Du-
buque, has sued the Neos of that city for
defamation Of character involved in
certain statements concerning his conduct
toward young girls in his employ. He
claims damages in the sum of &c.
600.
willis, youngest son of Senator Geo.
G. Wright, aged 10 years, died very sud
denly, at the family residence, in Des
Moines, last Friday, of dlptheria. The
Senator was summoned from Washington
Immediately. The whole State will SYM
pathise with HIM in this affection.
The case of Capt. s. J. Mckinley, of
Mitchell county, against the c. n. W. X.
r., brought for injuries received in being
elected from the cars, which was tried in
Linn county over year ago and a verdict
of $4,000 damages rendered, has been
reversed by the Supreme Court, Judge
Beck dissenting.
The West Union Gozette say that the
team OF Edward Ballard, at Auburn, ran
away last week. and after run of half
mile landed in board fence, causing
general smash-up, throwing Mr.. Ballard
out and badly fracturing his skull. A
portion of the bone was depressed upon
the brain, requiring the operation of ire
panning.
The State Register says that butter of
good quality is so scarce and uncertain to
obtain in that market that the hotels are
compelled to send out of the Slate to east
ern diaries to obtain their supplies. Why
this should be- in the midst of the best
pastoral region in the world, is problem,
the Register thinks, that should engage
the attention of the Grange.
j. ]. Balm & Co., firm of dealers
who for year past have been doing bust
ness in Manchester on the high pressure
principle, buying goods on credit and sell
ing them for less than cost, have suddenly
decamped for unknown regions, leaving
eastern creditors in the lurch to the tune
of SIG, 900 to $4,000, and about $500
assets from which to realize.
Less than two months ago, firm of
new men bought out the Cedar Falls Re-
corder, changed its name to the Iowa Ad
poca'e, and announced it as their belief that
the time for starting semirelgious paper
in that town was suspicious. But the ex-
pertinent has already failed; the paper
goes back into the hands of II. c. Shaver,
and will pursue Is way in the old Demo-
cratic rut.
Timber Creek Grove, in Marshall
county, is ovcrrun with wolves, and the
Marshalltown Republican,, of last week,
contains call for men with guns to JOIN
a circular hunt, on the 2Sth, for their eXter-
mination. 4 is announced in the appeal
that the proceeds of the scalps, pelts, &c,
will be donated to the editors We think we
see NeiGig, the mighty Nimrod of the
Clear Lake meeting, on the track of the
lupine nuisances
"A letter from Horkinton to the Mon
ticello Express says: Prof. Carr is now
engaged in exploring the large cave near
Table Rock, between this place and Mon
ticello, ON the Maquoketa river. Several
scientists accompanied the professor.
They have gone over 500 feet, finding diff
ferent cham bers, some of them from 90
to 80 feet high From the last place they
reached, there were three passages leading
in different directions, which they intend
to explore soon Many bones an other
curiosities were found. But one human
skull however is among the collection"