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Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
August 5, 1857
MORE DISTURBANCES
On Tuesday evening last, the Sheriff was sent for to go to
Mechanicsville to put down a mob there assembled, to punish John
F. Cole and Ambrose Keith, who had been implicated by Soper and
Gleason as
connected with the horse thief gang. They had left the county on
the arrest of Soper and Gleason by the mob; but, thinking the
danger was past, had returned when a mob assembled and took them
into custody. The Sheriff summoned a posse and went up. A jury
had been selected to try them, to which, we understand, they
confessed to having been concerned in passing counterfeit money,
and also to having harbored horse thieves; but on promise of
amendment they were discharged, after which the mob quietly
dispersed.
This is all the disturbance we have had since Gleason and Soper
were hung, and we believe it will be the end, as people begin to
feel that they have gone too far, and now see the consequences of
their rash acts.--Tipton Advertiser.
Andy Mullin was fined one dollar and costs by Justice Harris,
yesterday, for driving his team upon the sidewalk.
Julia Shelly, a woman of ill-fame, committed suicide in Iowa
City, on the 27th, by taking poison.
A ROMANTIC MARRIAGE
Married, in this city on Tuesday, July 21st, by Rev. Alexander
Nesbitt of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (Scotch), Mr. Adam
Tate, of Chicago, to Miss Jeannette Pettigrew, late of Scotland.
There is a bit of romance and enough in its character, connected
with this announcement, which the parties will forgive us for
relating. Six young Scotchmen of this city, worthy men who had
left their plighted faith and lassies all of them behind them
when they sought contentment and fortune on our shores, united
for the purpose of sending for those to whom their troth was
pledged. They were to, and did come out together. For mutual
protection
and society, they took passage on the same vessel. The perilous
ocean voyage was made without accident, and the party-a merry and
happy party-arrived safely at Quebec, where they took passage on
the Montreal. Our readers know and have lamented the fate that
overtook the ill-fated steamer and her hundreds of passengers.
When she burned, of the six trusting and generous girls, Miss
Pettigrew was the only one saved. Her five companions found
either fiery or watery graves. Miss P. was rescued, she knows not
how or by whom. Taken up for drowned, the struggle between life
and death as long and doubtful, but at last decided in favor of
the former. The kind-hearted at Montreal learned her history, and
admired her modest worth. By them, for she had lost everything
but herself, her immediate necessities were supplied, and in few
days, with their blessing and prayers, she continued her journey
hither. A few of the five young men who, besides the now happy
husband, had precious freight on that steamer, attended the
wedding yesterday. How sad
that festive gathering was- how the shadow of the fearful past
dimmed the brightness of the present, who that has not felt the
destroyers touch, can tell.--Chicago Tribune.
SHOCKING
We learn from the Fremont Journal that a young son of
Mr. M. Thomas, living a couple of miles west of Fremont, was, on
Monday evening, kicked by a young colt and his under jaw torn
entirely from the neck under
the ear on the left side, and the jaw bone on the right side
broken in two. Drs. Wilson and Stillwell were called, who sewed
up the neck and set the jaw bone. He was tolerably comfortable on
Wednesday morning, and there was hope of his recovery.
DIED.
On the 25th inst., George, the youngest son of Richard Howard,
aged 7 months and 18 days.
FATAL OCCURRENCE
On Monday afternoon, a man by the name of Griffin, descended the
well at the Des Moines House, which is about 20 feet deep. The
necessary precautions for testing the presence of Carbonic acid
gas was not
resorted to, and the consequence was that suspension of life
immediately ensued. Wm Harris, a very worthy and industrious man,
passing by at the time, attempted to rescue him, but in
descending, when only about eight feet from the top, overcome by
the same obnoxious gas, let go his hold and fell prostrate to the
bottom, sharing the fate of the other. Means were immediately
employed to disperse the gas, and in a few minutes, Mr. E.L.
Burnham safely descended, and the lifeless bodies of the
unfortunate men were drawn out. But it was too late. Life was
extinct. This is a truly deplorable accident, and one, too, which
should teach a
lesson of caution to any who may contemplate making a descent
into wells. Mr. Harris leaves a family.
--Des Moines Citizen, 29th ult.
LYNCHING IN OSKALOOSA
Wm. Redman was made the subject of popular violence in Oskaloosa
a few days ago. As the overseer of a house of ill-fame, he was
tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail and expelled from the
city. The women in the house were also notified to leave, which
they did forthwith.
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Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
August 12, 1857
THE POWESHEIK MURDER - In closing its notice of
the hanging to Thomas, by the mob, the Montezuma Republican
give the following particulars. It says, after the culprit had
been let down from the tree the third time:- This time it is
stated, that, he said he knew who did the crime but if he made a
confession it would only bring others into trouble and would not
secure his own life. After talking with him some fifteen or
twenty minutes, and failing to draw from him anything in regard
to the perpetration of the horrible crime, he was again drawn up
to the limb and permitted to remain there until dead. After
remaining in that position for some two or three hours, he was
taken down and buried in the Grove, some ten or fifteen rods from
where he was executed. It was but a short time until the crowd
dispersed and every one went about his business. In the evening
the town was almost, if not quite, as quiet as it was the evening
previous, and at this time the transaction has almost ceased to
be talked of.
HOMICIDE AT OSKALOOSA
The Herald Office attacked and a man Shot by the Editor.
We learn from a gentleman of Oskaloosa, that at twelve o'clock on
election night, Aug. 3d, a lamentable affair occurred in that
city. The particulars of the case as gathered from eye-witnesses
are as follows: The editor of the Herald, Mr. J.M.
Brown, with Mr. E.W. Rice, was sitting at the window of Mr. S.A.
Rice's office, which is in the 2nd story, and in the same
building and was just across the hall from the editorial room of
the Herald. The moon was shining brightly, and there was no light
burning in Mr. Rice's office. At this time, Mr.
Bowen, who has kept a saloon in the city for the last twelve
months, came along, and with a number of others, stopped on the
steps beneath the window where Brown and Rice were sitting. Some
one in the crowd said to Mr. Bowen, that Mr. Brown was in the
window above. At this, Mr. Bowen commenced cursing Mr. Brown,
swearing, if he came down he would "cut out his heart,"
"take his life's blood," "stamp him into the
earth," and other threats of violence, made with the most
fearful and bitter profanity. To all these threats Mr. Brown made
no reply. Bowen, getting more exasperated, said, "I will
head a mob to clear out the Herald office, " and
rushed up the stairs, followed by one or two others. Mr. Brown
drew a revolver, and as Bowen was trying to force open the door
fired, the ball striking the casing at the side of the door.
Brown then said to him to try the door again at his peril. Bowen
made another effort to get in when Brown fired a second time,
the ball passing through a pannel of the door, striking Bowen in
the breast and lodging in the right lung. Bowen made his way down
stairs, sunk upon the pavement, and in about twenty minutes was a
corpse.
A FEARFUL CRIME- WOMAN MURDERED BY ABORTIONISTS
- Within the past week our police, and particularly our worthy
and efficient Coroner Hansen have been at work ferreting out the
details of a shocking crime committed in this city little more
than a week since, by which an unfortunate and caring young woman
has come to her death. At the request of the officers we have
foreborne reference to it until now, and the adjournment of the
Coroner's Jury from Saturday to to-day postpones the particulars
we had thought to be able to give in this issue. The outline of
the case may be briefly stated as follows: Early in week before
last, a Mr. Temple from Chillicothe, Bureau Co., in this State,
came to this city accompanied by a young woman named Regnate
Lawson and a physician named Dr. Swazey. The girl, who was about
twenty-two years of age, had been adopted and brought up by the
family of Mr. Temple. By him she had become enciente, and the
trip to this city was made it would appear, for the express
purpose of procuring an abortion. This was certainly the
intention with which the physician made one of the party. They
put up at the American House in this city, and there on Wednesday
of week before last an abortion was performed with instruments to
which the poor girl who was bound by the wretches, was forced to
submit. Such were her sufferings, and so much was she injured,
that the two men fearing she would die on their hands, and
dreading exposure, had her conveyed by night to the cottage of a
German woman on State street, near the southern limits of the
city, with whom she was left under the representation that she
was a stranger taken ill and suffered a miscarriage.
The girl grew rapidly worse, and the woman sent for Dr. Bevan,
who at once was put in possession of the facts, as also Coroner
Hansen, who had been summoned by the woman, under the impression
that he was the Health Officer. On Friday night the girl was
taken in a carriage by Temple and Dr. Swazey, and carried to
Bull's Head, and either died on the way or soon after her arrival
there. The man Temple then came to the Undertaker's shop of Mr.
Jourdan, on Clark street, to procure a coffin. It chanced that
Coroner Hansen who had been in search of the man, was at the time
sitting in the coffin wareroom. He immediately proceeded to
Bull's Head and took possession of the remains of the girl and
caused Temple to be arrested. He was committed on Saturday by
Justices Milliken and King to appear on examination for murder.
The Coroner's jury was empanelled and had a view of the body,
upon which a post mortem was held by Dr. Cheney assisted by other
physicians. The inquest was then adjourned until this morning.
Our next issue will contain more definite particulars of this
fearful crime, until which we forbear comment.-- Chicago
Democrat.
We have to record another case of juvenile drunkenness: a little
fellow was found in Mr. Gardner's room on Main st., lying dead
drunk upon the counter. Do these babies steal money to buy rum-do
they steal the liquor, or is it given to them by the older ones,
for the fun of seeing the little fellows stagger. We are sorry to
say that some persons in this town who delight in fastening tin
pans to dogs' tails, and all sorts of such intelligent and humane
amusements; and the people of such tastes, are none too
high-minded to lead little shavers into
inebriation.
FIGHT - A small row occurred at "George's
Saloon" yesterday between Tom Burns and Rusk, a butcher. The
fracas had its origins in some scrimmage that took place the
night before. Rusk went away with a broken mouth.
It must be very obvious to our adopted fellow-citizens, in the
light of the late election, that no man not born upon the sod can
hope to be elected to any office by the Democratic party of the
city, county or State. However much they may blarney the Irish,
or love the German, it is clear that no adopted citizen can be
elected to office by that party. Look at the recent case of
Patrick Smith. He was nominated for the office of Coroner. But
being an Irishman, he was defeated, while the balance of the
ticket was elected. So it goes. There are men enough in that
party who turn up their noses at an Irishman, simply because he
is an Irishman. They do not want to see him or know him in order
to be his enemy-it is enough for them hat he was born upon Irish
soil. Our doctrine is that every man should be judged by his
manhood, and not by his features or the
place of his birth. It is notorious that the Democratic party is
fast becoming monarchial and proscriptive. It is engaged in the
extension and propagation of human slavery. It has abandoned the
old landmarks-equal and exact justice to all men-and rallies
under another and a very different standard. To suit its purpose
it amends the organic law of Kansas so as to do what ever has
before been done in this country, exclude foreign born citizens
from territories. At least the Senate-the Democratic Senate,
passed an amendment to that effect, which was only defeated by
the Republican House. Now that they have majorities in both
Houses, we look for amendments to the organic laws of all the
territories, excluding foreigners from the privileges of
participating in this government. And this they do for the sole
and only reason that foreigners, being for the most part
laboring men, are unwilling to stand upon the same level as the
negro slave that is bought and sold. They are therefore opposed
to slavery, and as a matter of course it is the policy of the
pro-slavery party to exclude them from the territories. And while
they are cutting short their rights in one direction, they are
dependent upon this same party for all their victories.
Guardian Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that the subscribers have been duly
appointed Guardians of the person and property of Philip Loutz,
an insane person of Des Moines county, Iowa, by the county Court
of said county, with all the powers conferred by law.
JOHN DAVIDSON)
ELIZA A. LOUTZ )
Guardians
Publish in Hawk-Eye 4 weeks.
T.W. NEWMAN, Judge of County Court.
July 29.
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Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Wed., Aug 26, 1857
GAS- The city lamps having arrived, Muscatine is
to be lighted by Gas, and to enjoy a general illumination next
Tuesday night.
AN ACCIDENT- We learn with regret that Mr.
Bowersock, an old and estimable citizen of Springdale, while
riding in a wagon with his wife last week, the horses took fright
and ran away, by which they were thrown out, and Mrs. Bowersock
killed, and himself badly injured.- He is still in a very
critical situation, with small hopes of his recovery.-- Tipton
Advertiser.
BOYS GORED BY A BULL- On Thursday of last week,
two boys, sons of Mr. Edwin Temple, in the town of Freedom, were
dreadfully gored by a ferocious bull which they were attempting
to drive from a cornfield. As the boys approached him, he rushed
at them, and first tossed the smaller boy upon his horns,
producing a
severe rupture of the muscle over the bowels. The boy however was
able to jump up and run out of the bull's reach. The other lad,
about 11 years old was not so fortunate as to escape. The bull
tossed him some 8 or 10 feet in the air, dreadfully lacerating
the flesh over his stomach, and rupturing the intestines. When he
fell he co'd not move, but the bull was unable to discover him
again until some men came to his help. Drs. Stone & Hathaway
were called to dress his wounds, but they found his injuries very
severe. he died on Saturday evening. The bull was an estray,
unknown in the neighborhood, and was a very large ferocious
animal. He drove two men out of another cornfield but a short
time previous. The father of the boys, in company with two men,
went on the prairie the same day and shot the bull. He manifested
a disposition to attack the party, and probably would have done
so, had not a bullet put a period to his existence. From last
accounts, no person had claimed ownership of him, and it is
probable that he had strayed from his owner at some distance
away.--Ottawa Repub.
A SCYTHE FIGHT- The Princeton (Ia.) Clarion
tells a story of a scythe fight near Oakland in that county. Some
of the hands in a wheat field got into a row, and used their ugly
weapons so effectually that two men were wounded, if not more
dangerously, certainly more fearful to look at than any we have
ever heard
of who survived. One man received a wound in the thigh-eighteen
inches long by two inches deep, and another was wounded quite as
badly in the chest.