Iowa Old Press
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
November 4, 1857
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE- With pain we are called upon to record the death of Mr. Wm. Ilginfritz, which occurred on Friday morning last, 23d instant. He was found, about one mile and a half north-west of town, lying in the road. It is supposed that he was seized with a spasm or fit, to which he was subject, and had fallen with his face in the mud and strangled. When found his hands were in his pockets, and his face was buried in the mud. He was an estimable young man, and bore an upright and honorable character. His loss will be deeply mourned and felt. We believe he was a worthy member of the M.E. Church.--Fair. Ledger.
MARRIED.
At Burlington, Iowa, Oct. 29th, 1857, by Rev. G.J. Johnson,
Pastor of the First Babtist [sic] Church, Rev. TRACY M. OVIATT, Pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, of Burlington, and Miss REBECCA PARKS, of the same
city.
Oct. 29th, by Rev. Edmund H. Waring, Mr. JOHN BRIDGES
to Miss MATILDA C., daughter of Mr. D.A. Wycoff, all of Yellow Spring tp., Des
Moines county.
By Rev. S. Reynolds, Oct. 26th, 1857, Mr. DUDLEY
HUTCHINSON and Miss AGNES PHILKOUSKY.
By Rev. Mr. Johnson, on the 22d inst., Mr. HENRY PAUL
to Miss MARTHA V. HARLE, both of this county.
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
November 11, 1857
OUTRAGE ATTEMPTED- STABBING-GREAT EXCITEMENT- Last Sunday afternoon a little daughter of Mr. Gallanar, aged only six or eight years, went to the house of a neighbor, Mr. J. Crawford, carpenter, living on the corner of Second and Iowa streets. Soon after returning home, she commenced crying, and it was discovered that an outrage had been attempted upon her. She accused Crawford of the crime. Crawford was sent for by the mother and denied the charge, but the child accused him of it to his face. Afterwards Mr. Gallanar, who went not at the time, got a whip and went after Crawford to thrash him. He attacked Crawford, and would have accomplished the business, but several of his own friends prevented him. In the fracas, Crawford stabbed the other in the arm with a chisel. A large crowd surrounded Crawford's house and serious threats were made of lynching him. This excitement was principally among his neighbors, some of whom thought they had from certain past actions of this man, a right to share the feelings of those who had been wronged on this occasion. The police officers, however, soon came, and Crawford delivered himself up to them, and was taken to jail. During the evening there was a strong feeling against the prisoner, with some talk of taking him out of the jail and inflicting summary punishment. His examination will take place this morning.- We give the facts of the case as we have heard them.--Davenport Gazette.
Western Iowa.
Now when everybody in the east is complaining of hard
times, it may not be out of place to present to them the inducements offered in
Western Iowa to the man of small means. There is in Council Bluffs Land District
4000,000 acres of land subject to pre-emption, and as the land office is closed
at this time, the time is propitious for those who desire a home to look up a
good location, without the fear which constantly haunts the actual settler, that
the tract located upon will be entered before he can go to the office!
Speculators have all either collapsed, or "Vainoused," and the way is
now clear for persons who desire to make a permanent home in Western Iowa, to
come and select it. Under the pre-emption law the poor man has one year from the
time he makes his settlement to pay for the land. This gives men possessing
small means a good chance. They can select the tract and commence improving it,
say on the first day of April. They can get the prairie
"broke"-ploughed for $3 per acre- and can raise enough the first year
all of twenty acres to support their family, and have enough to sell to pay for
the land. This is no exaggerated statement, as thousands who have already
secured their homes in this way, will attest. If the emigrant has stock he will
have no difficulty in taking care of it-in summer it will take care of
itself! All the owner has to do is turn it out upon the prairie and salt
it once a week, and long before winter it will be as fat as a scal. He can go
upon the prairie and cut hay for the winter, and by setting four forks in the
ground and placing poles in them he can stack his hay upon and around the forks
and thus make a comfortable shelter for his stock during the winter. In the
east, where all are accustomed to see large frame or brick barns, people cannot
understand how we of the west survive upon what they look upon as "bleak
prairies" during the winter, and hence many that would come west are
deterred from coming. Had thousands of people who now reside in the east, and
perhaps always will continue to reside there in poverty, only the nerve to make
the start for the west, they would on their arrival here find things quite
different from the representations they have heard and in a few years would find
themselves the owners of good farms and surrounded by all the luxuries which
they could desire. All that is wanting is never enough to induce them to pack up
and start west. When they once start, we may say that their fortune is made, for
few faint by the way. Now is the time to start west-in consequence of the money
panic-everything is cheap-perhaps cheaper than it will be again for many years
to come. Now is the time for the man of small means to come to the west-to come
to Western Iowa. Lands of the best quality can easily be obtained at $1.25 per
acre, and a year allowed to make the payment, and at the end of that time the
best title in the world can be secured-the United States of America will warrant
and defend it. Now is the time to come-now while the speculators are all hard
up, and while everything is cheap. Some suppose that it is not a good time to
move to a new country when times are dull. In this they are mistaken - dull
times are the very times for one who wants to procure a farm to move on-at such
times he will find second hand farms with considerable improvements cheap, and
if he has no money he can "squat" upon good land in a good
neighborhood, and the scarcity of money will prevent the speculator from
molesting him.- When times are dull the avaricious portion of the residents of a
country are not "claiming" all the land that joins them, and will be
willing to relinquish any pretended claim which they may have, that their own
land may be enhanced in value by the improvements which the new comer will make,
and which in dull times they cannot make themselves, and will aid him in making
his settlement. In view of these facts we may say now is the time to come to
Western Iowa.--Council Bluffs Bugle.
A fight occurred last Saturday night, at a grocery store on Jefferson street. An Irishman tolerably drunk, assaulted a comrade, twice,- the second time with a butcher knife. A friend of the party attacked attempted to beat back the assailant, and in so doing received a very bad cut in the face. The breeder of the fight, Thomas McDermott, was brought before Esq. Harris yesterday and fined eight dollars and costs for the first attack, and held to bail in the sum of five hundred dollars to appear at the District Court, and answer to the record.
MARRIED.
In Burlington, 3d inst. by Rev. W. Salter, Mr. GEORGE
R. DEMING to Miss LUCY T. PURDY.
On Wednesday evening, Nov. 4th, by Rev. T.M. Oviutt,
Mr. JACOB DAIRY, of Tipton, Iowa, to Miss JANE CULBERTSON, of Burlington, at the
residence of Dr. White.
In Danville, Oct. 26th by Rev. Aaron Leonard, Mr. E.C.
SAWTELL and Miss KEZIA Y. JAGGAR, all of Danville.
DIED.
In this city Sunday evening last, AMBIA, infant
daughter of Mr. Daniel Winter, aged 9 months.
The funeral will take place from the residence of Mr.
Winter on Washington street, this day at 2 o'clock.
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, November 18, 1857
MARRIED.
On the 12th inst., by Rev. W.M. Boyce, of Keokuk at the
residence of the bride's father, Mr. THOMPSON McCOSH, of this city, to Miss
MATILDA, daughter of Rev. I.P. Chambers, of Middletown.
In Burlington, Nov. 12, by Rev. S. Reynolds, Mr. PHILIP
V. MINNER and Miss MARGARET E. DANIELS.
Also, on the same day by Rev. S. Reynolds, Mr. RICHARD
P. MORGAN and Miss HANNAH ROBERTS, all of Burlington, Iowa.
In Burlington, Sunday evening, November 15,1857, by
Rev. S. Reynolds, Mr. LEWIS M. RUNYAN of California and Miss ELIZA HARMOND, of
Burlington.
Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, November 25, 1857
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION- The village of Glendale in Jefferson county, (consisting of an old house and a new one,) was nearly annihilated by fire one night, last week. Only one house was left standing.
Proceedings of City Council.
MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 16.
Present- The Mayor, and Aldermen Denise, Haskell, Herschlar,
Howard, McCash, Rand and Walbridge.
Absent- Aldermen Anderson, Hager, Scott, Tracy and Wightman.
The petition of O.F. Gear, asking leave to transfer his
auction license to O.H. Harris was read and referred to Alderman Walbridge,
Denise and McCash.
Several communications from E.W. Clark, Dodge &
Co., acknowledging the receipt of moneys sent to pay coupons, &c., were read
and placed on file.
The Recorder reported a list of assessments for the
improvement of Fourth Street, between Court and High Streets and of Main Street,
south of Valley, which were read and placed in the hands of the Treasurer for
collection.
The following bills were allowed by the Council:
Ross & Whipple, for nails, &c., for Market
House.
$27.08
E.W. Clark, Dodge &
Co.,
2.50
C. Colgan for making gates at
Cemetery,
22.50
H.S. Bartruff, salary as
Marshal,
41.66
H.S. Bartruff, to pay for wood
sawing,
2.00
E.Smith, for wood for Council
Room
8.00
L. Kreaus, for
ice
4.00
Assistant
Engineer,
4.50
C.P. Johnson Engineer's
salary,
50.00
R. Flagler, Street Commissioner,
salary
94.50
Luke Hughes, work on Fifth st,
285.30
M. Lillie, work on Main st
332.54
""
64.75
Divers, work on
streets,
31.75
Haskell & Buttels, for
lumber,
32.25
C. Neeman, for cleaning
gutters
3.00
On motion, the Council
adjourned.
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During the excavation of a street in Evansville, Ia., a few days since, the
workmen came up across the remains of a cabin eighteen feet below the surface of
the earth. Within the wall were found portions of an old fashioned spinning
wheel, a wooden maul, several pairs of boots and shoes, and a charred stick
which the former occupants of the cabin had used to poke the fire with.
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Mr. John Sweeney, a Hibernian, was found in a glorious and belligerent state of
intoxication. He refused to go to Esq. Harris', whereupon Wedge took him there
via et armis. This offended his dignity, and he delivered several indignant
orations at the crowd, while waiting for the justice. This plea of his friends,
(privately made,) that he was crazy, did not have the desired effect upon the
court, who fined him ten dollars and sent him up for thirty days.
MURDER AT SIOUX CITY.- A couple of weeks since,
William O. Allen, a doggery keeper in Sioux City, shot and almost instantly
killed, A.W. Cravens.
Allen had previously beaten a friend of Craven's and
the latter went into the grocery and commenced quarreling with Allen about it.
Allen, who was standing behind the counter, caught up a double barreled gun and
discharged both barrels, the second one taking effect and causing the death of
Cravens in a few minutes.
The Eagle gives a white-washing notice of the affair,
and the Justice of the Peace bound Allen over in the sum of $1500 to appear at
the September term of the Court.
A saloon is a great institution in an ambitious little
place like Sioux City, and its proprietor is usually a man of much importance
and influence which general facts will account for the milk in the cocoa nut, we
presume.--Gate City.
TAKE NOTICE- The person who took those Buffalo Overshoes from the door of Mr. C.H. Sweetser's Shoe Store, on Friday last, will do well to immediately return them, as they are well known, and unless they are forthcoming they will be dealt with in a summary manner, but if returned no summary steps taken.
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Some evil-disposed individual attempted to burn the residence of Mr. R.C
.Ferguson, in Hibernia, on Thursday night last. A pile of combustibles was
gathered at each end of the house and ignited. Mr. F. discovered the fire before
it was under much headway, and extinguished it.
NOBLE GAME- J.P. Bennett, while hunting on Beaver Island on Monday last, shot a large brown eagle, which measured seventeen feet six inches from tip to tip of its wings, and stood three feet high.
MARRIED.
In this city on the 21st inst., by Rev. Dr. Harrison,
Mr. NELSON INNMAN, of Burlington, to Miss LUCIA WILLIAMS, of Ohio.
DIED.
On the 12th inst., in the 52d year of his age, Mr.
EPHRAIM STEENROD, of this Township, at his residence, four miles north of this
city, after a sickness of only four days disease lung fever.
The deceased has for thirteen years been a resident in
this Township and on the farm where he died. He was well known by all the older
citizens of Burlington and vicinity and universally respected for integrity of
character and uprightness of life.
On the 19th inst, in the 14th year of his age, JOHN
STEENROD, son of the above, after a protracted illness of several weeks.
How afflicting the dispensation of Providence with this
family. Less than three years since there were seven in this family, dwelling
happily together under one roof, the father, mother, four sons and one daughter.
First death called away two sons within a few days of each other, then a
daughter a little time after, recently the father and now again a son. Only two
of the desolated household remain, the mother and one son. Surely "we all
do fade as a leaf."
The above Providence will be improved on the coming
Sabbath morning in the First Baptist House of worship by a Sermon from the
Pastor of the Church which all friends of the afflicted recently are invited to
hear.
[submitted by C.J.L., Sept. 2003]