Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1877-04-13
State News.

the Board Of Supervisors Of Jackson
county, have received communication
from Gov. Newbold, requesting the views
of the Board as to the advisahility of re-
hitting the tiue standing against Jas. A.
Bryan, the defaulting County Treasurer,
OF that county. The Board took no &C.
ton upon the matter, but the Eserlsior
thinks, that preliminary to the considera.
ton of the question, Rryaa should make
a clean nFsast, and toll how the money
was stolen and who shared in the spoils.
Nashua IS out of debt and has 500
in her treasury.
The second trial Of Mrs St!oklcs, of
DEBORAH, vt West Union last week, be-.
fore Judge Noble, ON the charge Of
poisoning her husband, was ended ON
Thursday, the verdict Of the jury being
not guilty
John Hackett, Of Morgan township,
Franklin county, went out cunning. but
meeting friend ON bridge, he stopped
to talk with him, vt the same time taking
his gun from his shoulder. Setting it on
the plank, the breech went through q
hole and the gun went off, the contents
going through the palm Of John Hackett's
hand.
Anna Eliza Young, Brigham's nine
teenth wife, has brought suit for 500
against the MiarshsllIown lecture assecia-
ton, that sum being the price of a lecture
delivered by her In that city last year,
The Delhi Nenstor suggests, in view
Of the frequent escapes Of persons con-
fined in the county Jails, that prisoners be
clothed in some peculiar Jail garb, so that
they may be recognized and Eetaken when
they escape. The idea suggests another.
and that is, that tAe Legislature create u
new officer, TO be called the County Tai,
lor, whose duty 1t shall be to furnish the
jail regimentals.
The county Jail Of Decatur county,
at Leon, was blown up, and the build
ingi almost completely destroyed on the
night preceding the lat ,nst, with the
evident intention of robbing the treasu.
rer's vault. Three prominent business
men of Leon are implicated and have
been arrested
A desperate named Harry Williams,
VINO two years ago was convicted Of
murder in Marion county. and sentenced
to twenty years in the penitentiary. but
who escaped from the custody of the
sheriff the day before he was to start for
Fort Madison, has recently been captured
in the Black Hills, As miles northeas,
from Deadwood. where he had o mining
lead. His capture was effected by the
Deputy Marshal Of DeadWpod, who rec
egnized him by his likeness attached to a
postal card containing an offer of 81, SOC
for his arrest, which after his escape,
were sent all over the country.
"A man named Jeftriss, living in Jaspe.
county, was found few mornings since,
dead by the read side, with his throat cut,
and four bullet holes in his head and
body. Evidence before the Corsner's
jury, showed that he was suicide, and
that after thus carving and shooting him
self, he had crawled half mile on his
hands and knees, falling down and get
ting up several times before he died.
Mrs. n. l.. Tracy, OF Webster city
wants three saloon keepers of that town
to fork over $4,000 each, as some sort al
recompense for selling her husband liquo,
contrary to law.
AT Morrison, Iowa, last week, 9
drunken man named Thos. Gaffrey wal
arrested and placed in the wooden Gala
boose. A fire WAS built to take off thu
chill, and he was left alone, when he sci
his bedding on fire, and the flames extend
ing to the structure. the wretched mar
was roasted to death before help could
reach him.