The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-06-28
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The cherry crop i pretty much
. failure this year.
The Sioux county grasshopper seal
Is at an end. no rlors danger is antie
pa,ed.
Hon. Ed. johnson. Of keokuk,
spoken of as the Democratic candidat
for Governor.
Mr.. II. L. Hopkins, OF Mancheste,
has obtained a patent for finger-ha
for harve~ters.
Mother Stewart the Ohio crnsad
er, has been stirring Muscatine witt
her temperance talks.
Rudolph Fleming. a child Of si'
wears. was drowned in five feet Q
water at Davenport last Monday.
Burglaries are of almost nightly &C
currence i'm all the river towns. Thu
thieving gentry are getting desperate
/ The butter factory in Fairfield
| Blackhawk county, is doing well
Stock is said to have advanced 3 pei
cent.
! A Mr.. Goodrich. of Chicago, bought
| the Muscatine county trotter, West
Liberty, at the Dubuque races last
week, for S4,ooo.
Mrs. Maggie Van Colt held ihe last
of her revival meetings in Clinton last
Sunday, and commenced in Daven-
port Tuesday night.
Fifty dollars has been determined
on a the smallest sum that will he
loaned by the Muscatine Lean and
Building Association.
Up 10 the 9Th inst. the packing house
at Waterloo had been killing about
90 hogs a week, very good number 10
npt away during hot weather.
Davenport veteran soldiers are TO
celebrate with the veterans of Rock
Island and Moline in sham battle at
the latter place on the 18th of July.
Harrison Combs, . wealthy farmer
living east of Arlington, has been SUI
et, for sln.Ooo by servant girl for in
mating that she poisoned his wife.
nr. William H.slen., t.s s wear past
resident physician of Monticello,
was taken TO the insane asylum at In
dependence on Friday last for treat
ment aud security.
Over ,291 eNcursionists visited Da-
buque last sunday from Clinton and
Lyons. The affair wa, gotten up for
the benefit ofthe st. lreneus's German
Catholic church of Clinton.
Last saturday Mr.. Corbin Cody was
drowned while bathing in the Iowa
River, in Monroe township, johnson
county He was young but well
known citizen, with wife and one
child
The Eddyyille Advertiser says ALI
son Rowe, who was forcibiy elected
from a X. 4 ID. NJ. freight train one
day last August, has been placated b.
the payment to him by the eompan,
Of $500,
The crop prospects In central low;
were never better. In the northern
part the weather has been too cold
and the southern too wet. On tn,
| whole, the promise of corn and whea
il about average.
Charles keradt, twenty-one year
old, and residing at Lansing, Wa
drowned while hunting pigeons sur
day. the 18th. 1t is supposed that Ia
discharged. his gun while In a boa
and that the recoil threw him oyel
board.
Cedar Rapids Is negotiating wit
Leslie, the aeroEaut, for balloon ascer
sion on the Fourth. For 81 900 Lesli
+, will contract to Jump from the balloo
I ut o height of 1000 feet, and descen
TO the ground with the aid Of para
chute.
The Marshall Times tells of the acci
/, dental and fatal poisoning of Mrs. Me
e Iona A. Speer, at Liscomb, Marshal
t county, on saturday last. Decease'
was rs years of age, and took an owe
dose Of gelsenium during sickness.
Superintendent kimbaIl, Of the G
!, ! X. |. & p. railroad, with a specia
train on Tuesday, make the distanc
from the top of the grade above Dav
export to Wilton, a distance of twent,
five miles, in twenty-six minutes.
. :. w, Jacobs, of West Liberty, tn
cattle king filed petition in tn
L. =. Court at keokuk on Tuesda,
morning, asking for discharge undo
the bankrupt law. His assets ar
about 1900; liabilities, includin
liabilities a. endorser, near $4,000.
Not long ago they had Sunda
, School picnic down at Cascade, and II
two senior deacons threw couple
lemons and pint Of sugar into II
creek and charged strangers five cen
every time they took drink. Burtin
fon Hawkeye.
, In Cedar Rapids, according TO Il
: Republican, they hang lemon pee
: ings between the moon and the IA
d ing Cedar, and dip up water whe
n the shadow strikes. This they q
leieh-moon aid. This is used
church festivals where they are /;
temperate.
The School Board IF Cedar Fa
~ have appointed Prof. James N
Naughton. of Fairibauit. Mimi.
PRINCIPAL of the public schools Of tn
ar city, in place Of Prof. NJ F. Arr
Vi The gazette thinks the change "a
~ unwise, and says that Prof Arey "
a. the bert principal that Cedar Fa
IN ever had
J. q. Grin-eli, Railroad ~tati
Agent al DEBORAH. went to Prairie
I'd CHEN couple of weeks ago to
n, married. but for some cause there "
e failure in that enterprise, and
T. suddenly disappeared, but on Mood
~ his body wa- found in Yacan, no,
IL in the latter place Cause of dea
IL unknown, but suicide SUSPECTED
!" Mr. Joseph Smith, farrnerin VI,
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