The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1876-09-28

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The State has 5i4,oos residents Of
school age.
The Iowa City Press says their Jail
Is full Of tramps.
A firm IN Iowa City have sold over
5000 pounds of wool.
Red Oak had $4,000 blaze on the
18th inst.-ten business houses being
consumed.
Burlington has just closed a nine
thousand dollar contract for street paw
ing.
The body of an infant boy was found
| in yard i'm tho rear of hotel in Mar
shalltown on the 10Th inst.
Twenty-three saloon keepers of ce-
dar Rapids were taken up for crooked
ness and fined $50 each.
A son of James Story, residing three
miles northeast Of Colo, was killed by
| tightening on the l4th.
Garrett Reasoner drove his team in
| to the Des Moines river at Ottumwa,
and both horses were drowned.
Mr.. Scott, a grain dealer at Harper's
Ferry, Allamakee county, was drug
gcd in his elevator, last week, bound
and robbed of 500.
A man named Thomas Launer, of
Missouri, was drowned in the Des
Moines river at Ottumwa, on the 10th,
while washing carriage.
James Stephens, a noted burglar and
incendiary, broke Jail from the Des
Moines county prison last Sunday and
made good his escape.
Mary Carr, of Charlton, swallowed
"cold pizenn last Monday and attempt
ed suicide. A stomach pump called
her back to the pangs of unrequitted
love.
Frank sutton, of Pottawattamie
county, was divorced from his wife
six years ago. On the 10th inst. he re-
pented, and they were again married
on the 10Th.
A counterfeiter named A. J. Nichols,
was arrested in Jasper county on the
18th inst. A considerable amount Of
the "queer" was found on his person.
Archibald Ruttledge, near Winter
set, had fiis house burned ON the 18th.
The house, contents, and several hun
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ed.
l.. A. Grant struck spring in the
eastern limits of Des Moincs, the wa
ter of which, on being sent to Chicago
and analized, was found to be - per
cent. richer in mineral ingredients
than the Cofax water
A horse thief undertook to enter the
barn of Nj. Allen Brock. of Hamilton
county on the 18th, when Mr.. B. was
aroused by the barking OF his dog, he
seized his gun, and went out and emp
tied its contents in the would-be-thief.
He Is i'm very critical condition.
Notwithstanding the fact that
great number of counterfeit bills on ma
tional hanks of other States are in cir
culation, ii is said there isn't single
counterfeit bin cxtant on an Iowa Ma
tional Bank.
Mrs. Desmond, the wife of Deputy
Sheriff Desmond, of Dewitt, earned
the blue ribbon by her pluck, last
week. She stood guard over an aper-
ture in the Jail from which two pris-
oners had escaped, and prevented the
remaining prisoners from gettingaway.
Parties from O'Brien and Clay coun-
ties estimate that the corn crop has
been injured only about twenty per
cent. in that locality by the grasshop-
pers, and that little or no injury has
been done to other crops.
A drunken brute at lie Mars placed
one of his fellows i'm his own bed with
his wife. She did not discover the
cheat until the stranger attempted to
depart just before daylight in the
morning, but when she did there was
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and the husband should be hung.
A prominent business man of Du-
buque was shot by woman in bag
nio near that city last Monday. lie
refused TO pay for the price of her
shame, and was shot i'm the arm by the
enraged damsel. The Dubuque pa
pers suppress the victims name.
Two men named James Kennedy
and Charles Frank, got into dispute
over woman in Council Bluffs on the
18th inst, when the former used Il
knife pretty freely on the latter, inilict-
ing seyerel severe if not serious wounds.
Kennedy was arrested.
William Bintncr's little girl, of Au-
dubon county, was attempting to ear
ry grubhing hoe, she let it fall, cut
ting of two Off her toes rs smoothly
and closely as could have been done
with Il chisel. She walked to the
house, some distance, and informed
her parents what had been done. When
her father found the hoe ii was stick
ing in the ground and the little toes
lying beside it.
Tales of my & Grandmother.
llooglcy's boy has been spending