The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-05-31

The gold excitement still continues
at Brush Creek.
keokuk had three incendiary fires
week ago last Monday-all in barns.
Three carloads of Russian immf-
grants passed through Sioux City
Monday.
sachell, Baker d Co. are manufac-
turing terra Gotta, or artificial stone,
at Grinnell.
The Western Amateur Press Asso-
citation are thinking of holding q con-
vention at Davenport.
The HteHigeacer says squaw gave
birth TO bouncing pair of twins on
the street corner at Ames one day last
week
Cal. Wagner has offered his cornet
band for the ceremonies of Decoration
Day at keokuk. lie plays there that
evening.
A Bloomfield young man named
Starrett was arrested and fined SIS a
few days ago for threatening to thrash
his father.
Rev. Miss Kalloch, the Universalist
minister, has to ride from ten to eigh-
teen miles in addition TO holding reg
ular services.
Lightning struck the Dexter Herald
office one day last week, knocking
the type from compositor's hand
and melting the metal.
The Cedar Rapids Driving Park AS
sociation will hold meeting on June
18th, 18th, l4th and 10th, at which
II, loo premiums will be given.
Oskaloosa has a new daily-thc
Free Press-James Berry Perry, pub
Usher. 1t is a newst little sheet not
much bigger than postal card.
A eolored girl, named Fannie Car
ter, has been arrested ut Keokuk,
charged with four attempts to fire the
residence of Captain Hutchinson.
Ii is reported that man named
Cotter was found hanging to tree
near Fort Dodge on Saturday the 10Th.
1t is thought to be case of suicide.
Charles Bates, the young man at
Sabula who lived so long without
food, and was for some time kept
alive by tobacco juice, died on the 18th.
The steamer j. Donald Cameron
struck snag i'm Fat Woman's Bend,
forty miles below Sioux City, on Fri
day last, and sunk. Loss over SlO0,-
ono.
George Backart was killed by an ac-
cident on the Illinois Central railroad,
near Dubuque, about two months
ago. The company offered the widow
S3 900, and she accepted.
Ole Ellingson. living two miles
south of Lake Mills, Winnebago
county, had his barn and four horses
burnt up hy flames last week. He
met with similar calamity a few
years since.
The Council Bluffs postoffice is to
have an entire new outfit. consisting
of 900 call-boxes, and SIS lock-boxes
and drawers, to be furnished by the
Yale Lock Manufacturing Company,
of Cincinnati.
A young man, named Thompson,
was drowned in Cedar river, near the
mouth of the Shell Rock, on the Goth
inst. He, with others, was attempt,
ing to swim across and was taken
with cramp.
The German churches of Muscatine
are In a terrible quarrel. The pastor
of one denies the trinity, and has been
advised by some members Of the other
to leave the city under penalty of
death.
II think they might keep such
things out of the paper" says an Adel
woman as she reads three line item
of Iowa scandal, and then she runs
her eye down the column to see if there
are any more.
Last Saturday afternoon the wife of
Myron Ellis, residing at Viola, Linn
county, shot herself through the heart
and died instantly. Physicians had
that she had an inward
tumor, and could not live long.
In a Circuit Court at Davenport,
Mollie Morrie, IA cigar-stand woman,
was acquitted of keeping house of
ill-fame on the technical point that
no woman living alone could be con-
victed Of that oilense.
The Clinton Herald says a man
giving his name as Williams, but sup
posed to be one Ferris, was arrested
at that place week ago last Saturday
for the murder of James Campbell at
McLeansborough. ILL.,. on the 4th inst.
The body of Mr.. David Johns was
found in the river at Clinton week
ago last Sunday. On October 5th,
last, Johns, Ruel Clapp and Clarence
Bates sailed off on a fishing expedi-
ton and We're never seen afterwards.
Conjecture as to their fate is now set
at rest.
The creditors of Christian schuttler,
Of Iowa City, on saturday, agreed to
his Indebtedness at sew
enty cents ON the dollar, and allow
>chuttler to retain forty acres of land,
some stock and this years produce Of
the farm. This will completely settle
the affair.
Five young men attempted to cross
the Mississippi from Port Byron to
Lee Claire, sunday, the 10Th, in "A skiff,
and when about the middle of the
river the skitf upset. Four of them
to hold on To the skifi' till it
was righted, but the fifth IA Swede)
was carried down stream and drowned.
Last week Tuesday was a pretty
good day for meetings in Cedar Rap
ids. The Iowa Railroad Land Com
pany, the Blair Town Lot and Land
Company, the Missouri Valley Land
Company, the Magnolia Coal Com