Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-04-26
State News.

Mt. Pleasant has a Red Ribbon
Opera House."
-Cresco has a population of 1907, a
gain OF 3O5 since the census of 1879.
-Elkader opened her new reading
rooms last week.
J. L. McCreery, of Dubuque, is
holding a TEMPERANCE revival at Volga
City, and is making many converts.
Theodore Tilton lectured at Deco
rah, one evening last week.
20. L. Ingebretson, the wretch who
bit off a schoolma'am' nose, in ALBANIA
kee county, last fall, has been sentenced
to II year in the county jail.
The DEBORAH Driving Park Associ-
alton offers 5000 in prizes, at their June
races.
-Allamakec county is infested with
pirates in the interest of Chicago gro
Gerry houses, The Lansing Journal says
that n of them went out of the coun-
ty with 1880 or $1,000 worth of orders.
in sums ranging from ten to one hun
bred dollars.
Charles City is worked up by a re.
Gently developed case of incest and rape
involving the NEST sickcning details.
1t appears that A. n. Thomas, of that
city, heretofore regarded and esteemed
highly, has been, by threats and force,
on terms of criminal intimacy with his
own daughter, a young lady of 10 years,
who, through fear of him, has yielded to
his beastial passions, and been kept
from divulging the secret. II transpires
that this demon commenced his horrid
work when his daughter was but four
teen years old, and since that time she
has been constantly subjected to his
lust. She was taken suddenly i'll, a few
weeks ago, and led to confess the whole
story. Hanging is too easy a death for
such a monster.
"A Fort Madison man has been ar
rested and fined $15 for catching fish
contrary to law. This is encouraging.
Burglars entered the bank of Low
ell Il Corbett, at Endfeld, Iowa, one
night last week, broke open the outer
door Of the safe, and took away 800.
An attempt was made to get into the
inner part of the safe, but was not sue
cessful.
Last week Friday evening, an at
tempt was made to murder a girl named
Anna Rickels, living near Monticello.
She had retired early, and was awaken
ed about II o'clock by the clothes being
pulled from her bed, and she saw a man,
gun in hand, standing at the side Of the
bed, who Immediately fired at her, the
charge grazing her temple and carrying
away Il part of her arm. She recognized
the villain as one Garhart Kline, a fell
low who had been going with her some
months. 1t is supposed that his con-
nectlons with her have been unduly in
innate, and that he thus desired to put
her out of the way. A warrant for
Kline's arrest has been issued.
"A gang of burglars have long
infested the towns in the Cedar Valley,
from Waterloo north to the State line,
and last week the whole gang were cap
tured in the big woods of Chickasaw
county, by Shattuck's Detective Agen-
cy. Their d%cpredations becoming bold
er recently, it was determined to catch
them at any cost, and was finally sue
cessful by taking the notorious Elias
Lyon family, living in the said biz
woods. Large quantities of seoreted
goods were found In the house, showing
that they have been engaged in the bus.
mess for a long time. The family con-
sists Of the father and six or seven sons,
all OF whom were captured.