Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1875-05-05

uAAAVo " WVos VI ACo GAAOAhoS;ouu H. ultte
east of Council Biuffs, on the c. r. /,
3 p. r. r. It is situated on o spur of
the divide between the east and west
branches Of the Nishnabotany rivers,
and has some ten or twelve hundred
inhabitants, newspsper-tho Avoca
Delta-a good mill, elevator, lumber
yards, numerous business houses, four
neat churches, Methodist, Presbyteri-
an, CongreA ationalist and Catholic, and
the largest and best conducted eating
house on the C. II. I. & P. r. R. The
town sports . Mayor and City Council.
The Mayor, Milo Adams, is . former
resident Of Wapello county. Mrs.
Griswold, VIM. Cuppy, and Mrs. Dr..
Shoemaker, now citizens of this place,
also were from Wspello county.
This is one of B. r. Aliens towns.
He has owned, at one time, 5000 acres
OF land, and still owns q considerable
portion of tho land and one-third Of
the town plat.
The citizens here think the bank
ruptcy OF Allen will materially re-
tard the growth of the place, a. it will
be difficult to procure title to build
ing lots. A fine farming country is
tributary to Avocs, and it has large
and growing trade. The place has
strong hopes, at no distant day, of d.
vidiDg Pottawatamie county, which
embraces 2S townships Of land, and
making Avoca the county seat of the
eastern hall, and 1t seems to me, too,
that justice to the citizens Of this part
Of the county, who have to-, travel 45
miles to transact county business, war.
rants them In dcsiring suoh . change.
Avoca is in state of great excite
ment just now over q most horrible
and brutal murder, which occurred, it
is supposed, on Friday night. The
murdered man, 10 an Irishman who
owned some land near here at one
time. At two o'clock on Saturday his
body Was found in the west branch of
the Nishnabotany, about ten rods be.
low the railroad bridge, by . milkmsn
named FOLSOM, WnU y 40 hun,inH his
cows. The body Of the murdered
man was brought to town in the after.
noon, and an inquest held on 1t yester.
day. He was first shot, the ball pass.
ing into the left temple through his
forehead to the the front of his right
ear. His murderer was not satisfied
with this and with some sharp edged
instrument, dealt him five or six more
blows, literally cutting his head into
almost an indistinguishab,e mass.
II iu tb.t ,n-.
eered for money that he was supposed
to have had, as be had been to Council
Blufs few days previous trying to
effect loan from j. P. s. J. n. Cassa-
dy, and the arrangement with them
was that ofDolan sent them satisfactory
proofs of his identity they would
make him loan of $4,000, and send
II to Avoca. He was accompanied to
the Bluffs by o man wearing a blue
army coat, who called himself John
Heard. and who made affidavit to the
identity of Dolan, but - Heard was
unknown to the Cassadys they would
not make the loan on his affidavit, 1t
10 suspicioned that this man Heard is
the murderer. and that he enticed Do
Ian to cross the Nishnabotany to rep.
uted house of i'll fame, and when be got
him to the railroad bridge he murder
ed him for the money he supposed he
had received and threw his body
into the stream, thinking that
his body would float away and
thus hide all trace Of the foul deed
he got little or no money, and Q viii
low tree that had fallen into the stream
caught the iuanimste form and soon
revealed the awful tragedy.
Heard has not been seen since the
murder, and it is supposed he has fled
the country.
Dolan, the murdered man is sup.
posed to be FRONT Clinton or Lyons, and
was about s feet 6 inches high. dark
complexion and clean shaved, except
goatee ON bis chin. His murderer Ia
supposed to bes deserter from the
army.
igo from here to Council Bluff and
Omaha, to morrow, and II I see any.
thing ofinterest may write again.