Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-11-29
State News.

Five men in Blackhawk county
husked sos bushels of corn in twelve
hours, one day during this fall. The
corn weighed Is bushels to the acre.
A joint stock mining company has
been organized in Hampton, and known
as the Hampton Silver Mining Co. The
company propose to engage in mining in
Colorado.
w. Fl. Ainsbough, a Maquoketa
grain dealer, suddenly vamoosed last
week, after swindling several Milwau-
kcc and Chicago Commission men to the
turn of $4,000.
Usage people are horribly scanda-
lied by the wedding of a beautiful
young lady and colored man, which
took place there recently 1t bears un-
usually hard upon all good Democrats.
George G. Holland, for three years
agent of the G., b. 4 @. road at Daven-
port, has run away with 81, 400 of the
company S money He was a good bust
ness man, a member of the Baptist
church and stood well.
Pork packers in Marshalltown are
charged with buying diseased hogs, and
rendering out the lard, which is sold as
the pure article. They, in turn, declare
that their patent rendering apparatus
cleanscs the pork thoroughly of dis
ease.
H. A. Hegg, of DEBORAH, was found
last Thursday, lying dead in "A small
stream near that city, only few inches
deep. He was harness maker and an
industrious, sober man. Suicide or foul
play is suspected to be the cause of his
death.
The busy reporter of the Cedar
Rapids Repubhcon found a twelve year
old boy there the other day, born in
Philadelphia, who has been out seeing
the world for the last four years. He
has been to San Francisco and all over
the country, and has lived in forty cities
-Decorah ladies do not pay anything
for their tea. According to the RepuJ-
Hcnl, two of them went into grocery
store in that city one day last week, and,
stating that they wished to purchase a
large quantity, obtained samples of each
kind in the store. 1t was subsequently
discovered that they had performed the
same operation in nearly every store in
town, thus getting enough to last them
nearly all winter.
"A few days ago search was made
in Keokuk of the building occupied by
John fancy and Philip Reiter the two
men arrested for showing the queer.
Counterfeit silver coin to the amount of
$l27 was found hid in the opening to a
fuc. Crucibles were dug out of a sack
of potatoes, metals unearthed from a
sack of -four, ard dies found secreted in
an out building on the premises. The
wife of fancy was arrested at Keokuk
and the wife of Reiter at Ottumwa
Rciter, the leader of the gang, is thought
to be an old hand at the business named
Riggs, whom the secret service have
been after for several years.
Marshall county has produced a
prophet in the person of one r. Cole.
who maps out the weather for the win
ter as follows: The general charac-
ter of the coming winter I have care
fully calculated as follows: December.
very cold, the temperature going below
zero eight times, the lowest being 10 or
-, with but light or moderate snow
fall; spell of warm, thawing weather
in the central part of the month. At
ter the first week of January, generally
warm, with bare ground for the next
six weeks or two months; there will be
some cold days in the latter part Of
January, and spell of quite cold
weather in February In March there
will probably be two weeks of cold win
ter weather.