Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Courier
Waterloo, Black Hawk co. Iowa
May 14, 1879
STATE ITEMS.
~The Mt. Pleasant Reporter says that not less than seven
hundred dollars goes out of Mt. Pleasant each month for beer and
whisky. The money goes to Ottumwa, Burlington, and Chicago.
~Daniel Coffee of Dubuque has sued Patrick Logan & Sons for
$5,000 damage for injuries sustained by him in being knocked down
through the carelessness of a driver of a hearse at a funeral.
~The editor of the Worth county Eagle is bragging of two
quarts of new potatoes, this yearıs crop, a present on the 1st
of May from H. H. Renmore, of that vicinity.
~The Iowa City Republican says, Hon. Rush Clarkıs life
was insured for $12,000. This, with the pay of salary for the
full term, as customary, will leave to his wife and four children
ready means to the amount of nearly $20,000.
~The widow of G. B. Brown, assisted by Frank Wightman, will
continue to conduct the Aborn House of Des Moines, until the
expiration of Mr. Brownıs lease, May 29, 1880. Wightman has been
manager of the house for some time.
~Ada Raridon, of Keokuk, 15 years of age, attempted suicide with
laudanum a week ago last Friday evening because of jealousy, her
mother having shown favoritism to an orphan boy of the same age
as the daughter. She was restored.
~The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, with a posse of
fifty men, headed by the Sheriff of Audubon county, are ousting
the squatters on the lands of the company in that county, and
their houses are being torn down. The squatters claim a
pre-emption title.
~It is rumored that the leading members of the Methodist church
at Des Moines and throughout the state are moving to organize and
establish at Des Moines a university, the same to be under the
patronage of their church, and to be known as the Methodist
university.
~Last Wednesday officers raided a beer saloon at Logan, and
succeeded in capturing forty gallons of gin, whisky and other
spirits, which were emptied into the streets. An effort by United
States officials was made to seize the liquor for unpaid taxes,
but the local officials were too fast.
~While some young men were playing baseball in Cedar Rapids on
Sunday, one of them named Fienke accidentally struck a little
5-year-old son of Moses Lenhart over the forehead with a base
ball club, inflicting a large flesh wound and producing severe
concussion of the brain.
~Nelson Porter, living near LeMars, has been for some time
abusing a six-year-old child of Ambrose Daw, of OıBrien county,
which was adopted by Porter. Daw came to hear of it and kidnapped
the little one, and the courts refused justly to have it
returned.
[transcribed by L.Z., November 2010]