The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-08-16
IOWA ITEMS.

IOWA ITEMS.
A two-thirds interest In the Colfax
mineral springs has been sold for
$4,000.
government signal service station
has been located at Des Moines, with
Mr.. o. :. Mooers as agent.
1t IL thought that wheat in north
ern Iowa will be double last years
yield, and grade No. |.
Ii has Just been learned that Robert
Daugherty, formerly q resident of
Keokuk, was murdered in Kansas a
few days since.
The Lyons Mirror suggests the name
of W. NJ. Potter, of the Clinton Her.
aid, for the state Senate.
The new iron wagon bridge over the
Iowa river, at Columbus Junction,
will he completed by cold weather.
Its cost will be 50, 900.
The only Revolutionary pensioner
In the State is Mrs. Eliza Starritt. of
Iowa Falls, who Is now aged about 95
years. She receives 500 per year.
The trouble between the X. 4 d.
NJ. and ID. NJ. l. TT. d. railroads, at
Des Moines, still exists, and work on
the new depot has entirely ceased.
A fire broke out i'm the new office of
the Ottulnwa Courier on Friday
morning last, but was put out after
doing about $50 worth of damage.
The second game between the VAL
ley Citys, of Cedar Rapids. and the
Gymnasiums, of Muscatine, was like
the first-only worse and more of 1t.
the score standing "A too. in favor Of
the former club. -
Eli E,l,.,t,. the assignee of Jacobs,
the bankrupt stock man of West Lib
erty, has set apart as exempt from
sale property valued ut SIS. a57.57. In
this Is a calf valued at $500 and a
cow ut $500.
From the Sioux City Journal We
learn that G. II. Icken, of Newell
was fouliy murdered last week by
Will White, editor of the Mirror. NJ
arrests have been made. 1t was fou
tragedy. judging by the particulars
The Chicago Post thus assumes t.
| tl,,, s.tr,,n In nf the
situation at the Iowa Capital:
The Des Moines Register is at last a,
quiet az nursery about the policy
Looks as though odd Man Cla. ksoi.
had been ut the office and warmed
the boys. in the vicinity where the,
seem to do their thinking.
The Columbus Safeguard says q
young man named John Whistler slip
ped feet foremost into u threshinl
machine last Tuesday on a farm tive
or three miles south of Fredonia
One leg was literally torn from hi
body and the whole of one side of the
body terribly mangled. He diet
Wednesday morning.
From the Eldora Ledger we learr
that five boys at the Reform SehoO
ATTEMPTED their escape from that in
stitulion last "Wednesday night. d,
tying sheets together they let them
selves down from the dormitory
The fifth boy fell part of the distance
and broke one Of his legs. Three o.
the runaways have since been cap.
tuIed, but the other boy is still al
liberty.
The Marble Rock W,ekly says:
"Mr. Braden, a young man well and
favorably known in this community,
was attacked, short, distance this
side of Waverly, last Saturday, by
tramps, and robbed of two hundred
and forty dollars in money, and his
wagon completely Quilted. Mr..
Braden was in the employ of Bidwell
4 Farwell, Of Freeport, LII. He died
Of his wounds on Sunday morning"
The Centervillc Citizen says Joseph
| Nycum, of Promise City, was struck
and killed by lightning last week.
He went to the barn during the storm
! jus, in time to receive the shock. The
| lightning struck the gable OF the barn
and ran down rafter, killing him
instantly. The only indications of
the stroke was black spot on the
back of his neck, but physicians
found on closer inspection that his
skull was crushed.
John w. : Robinson, the Calamus
forger, whose arrest in Tennessee a
week ago by his principal victim. +.
III. Wood, caused SO much rejoicing
in Clinton county. is free man again,
having escaped from his captor by
jumping the train on his way north.
Three days and nights Mr.. Wood
guarded his prisoner without sleep,
but on the fourth night, despite all
bis exertions, the dfowsy god over
came him, and on awakening, as he
says, in not more than fifteen minutes,
the captive was gone. BciIg almost
ont of money, Mr.. Wood made no
effort TO follow the rascal, but came
home to DE Witt, thoroughly dis
gusted, for all in all, he isnut Of pock-
1t by Robinson's swindling just
| SIS, 900.