The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-21
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An Algona man shipped 1000 bushels of
oats to the Pacific coast at cost of $3.15
He paid II cents bushel for the oats and
the freight was 80 cents bushel.
Capt Tom Burns, the well.known steam
boat inspector, died at his home in Galena,
Ill. He was pilot on the Mississippi for
over thirty years.
johnson post. G. A. R., ofGrand Junction,
has ordered fine soldiers monument from
Vermont. to cost about 81 900, which will be
unveiled in the cemetery at that place May 1.
The Creston Gazette would like to see the
law so amended as to make the school treas
uryship an elective Office, thus divorcing the
question of finance and bank deposits an ele-
ment OF choice in selection ofschool directors.
Henry Kerwin, aged 40, of Davenport was
found in his hut with his neck broken. Ap-
pearances indicated that while intoxicated he
had fallen downstairs. His only son had just
been sent to the reform school.
DR.. Van Epps. of Sheldon, was wounded in
the leg on the southern battlefield in 1863.
He has been troubled with the limb ever
since, and few days ago had to have it am
putated below the body in order to save his
life.
A peculiar condition of affairs politically
exists in Moulton, growing out of the Murdy
murder trial. At the municipal election the
friends of DR.. Murdy, who is now serving a
sentence in Fort Madison for the murder Of
Silas Upton, took one side and his enemies
the other. Murdy g followers were victorious.
Charles Beal of Bancroft, had all his fn-
- ,ko% 81 80 - ofL
day. He was tying horse in the manger,
when the animal suddenly jerked it's head up,
and catching the young mans hand in a
loop in the rope and cutting off the fingers
as nea tly as ii done with a Ratchet.
A sneak thief made q sweep of the clothes
line in the yard of Rev. 8. R. ]. Hoyt at
Waverly the other night. and the Republican
congratulates the reverned gentleman on
having coat that buttons close up about
his neck, "thus concealing scarcity of linen.
which is sufficiently uncomfortable without
ostentatious display"
A queer case was tried before Justice Love-
joy at Jefferson the other day. Billy McCo .
mick had Dick West arrested for assault and
battery, and West was fined 81 and costs,
which he paid. He then had Mccormick ar
rested for being the aggressor in the affair,
and the latter was fined $40 and costs.
County Attorney Church prosecuted both
cases, using the same justice and witnesses in
each case, which, oil things considered, was
somewhat novel.
The usually quiet little town of Rome,
Henry county. INDUCED in alittle excitement.
A train laden with liquor was wrecked near
there and the vessel in which the liquid was
contained burst. Everybody turned out with
pans, tin cans. ETC., and succeeded in saving
large quantity of the spirits. Then ensued
q scene which. according to witnesses, rivaled
the bacchanalian orgies ofthe ancients. The
tough element took possession Of the town
and pandimonium reigned supreme. The
good people of the place barricaded them
selves in their houses and waited till the
food had subsidized. The circus lasted two
days, and it is sac to say that Spartacus,
with all his gladiators, never made Rome
howl SO successfully as did the wrecking of
that carload of whisky.
Only few years ago the country rang with
the praise ofMiss Kate Shelley, of Moingona,
who crossed swollen stream in the dark at
great risk to herself, and in the midst of q
bowling storm, to ssve passenger train, for
q bridge had been swept away by q torrent.
Poems were written on the episode, pictures
appeared in the illurtrated papers, and in
Vulnerable paragraphs were written about
the heroine. 1t is said that she saved the
railroad company $4,000 or more in
property, to say nothing of what they
might have been called upon to pay for
lives lost and passengers injured. To-day
Miss Shelley is the whole support of Wild
owed mother and three small children. and
they are living in aheavily mortgaged house,
which is their only property. Three years
ago she risked her life for others, and her re-
ward is chiefly the consciousness of brave
and successful deed. The railway company
gave her a small reward, less than the value
Of the cars which she saved, and the passen-
gers whose lives she preserved by her act,
have entirely forgotten her.