Iowa Old Press

Burlington Weekly Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
July 28, 1860

Iowa News

- The Maquoketa Excelsior says:  A young woman was arrested in this city
yesterday, charged with having caused the death of her child, under the
following circumstances:  A farmer who lives three or four miles south of
the city, hired the young woman to work for him about a week ago.  Last
Saturday he was coming to town and asked her if she wished to come home with
him.  She said she did not.  Next day she told the farmer's wife she
wouldhave to go home, as she was quite unwell, and would not perhaps be able
to work for several days.  Her statements seemed entirely natural, and she
was brought to town by the farmer's son.  After she had left, a child went
to the privy and coming into the house, told her mother there was a noise
there, but the mother being an invalid was unable to go to see about the
matter.  The farmer returned home some time in the afternoon, and having
been informed of noise, went to the privy and heard it, and immediately took
measures to ascertain it's cause, and upon examination found a living child
in the vault.  He took it out, had it washed, and started with it for the
city; but the child was dead when he arrived here.  The next morning an
inquest was held, and the young woman was arrested; but her state of health
would not admit a judicial examination to take place at present.  The child
must have been in the vault twenty hours and dry ashes had been thrown upon
it.

- Terrible Storm, Three Children Killed - Yesterday morning about half-past
eight o'clock, jsut as our paper was being made up, a severe storm from the
north-west came up, accompanied by heavy rain and severe lightning.  there
was a succession of claps seemingly close at hand, one of which struck the
house in the north part of town in which Miss Kellogg was teaching school.
Owing to the early hour at which it occurred only seven children had
assembled.  Had all the scholars been present who are usually in attendance,
the calamity would have been undoubtedly greater.  We learn from the
teacher, Miss Kellogg, that she was herself felled to the floor with all in
the room; that when she recovered she found all the children still on the
floor, three of whom were dead -- the others soon recovered.  Those that
were killed were, a son of Joseph Cooper, aged about twelve years; a son of
Mr. Joshua Bennett, nine years, and a son of Mr. Fifer, seven years.  thus,
in a moments time, in the twinkling of an eye as it were, have three
promising youths been hurried into eternity, and three households laid in
mourning bythe destroying angel. - Linn County Register, July 21.

- Hydrophobia - Channoy D. Rounds, residing in Van Buren township, died in
this place on the 5th inst., from the effects of a bite from a mad dog,
which he had received in March last.  Several others of the same family were
bitten at the same time, but the horrible malady had not seized upon any of
them up to the time of Mr. Rounds' death, and for this reason we were
requested not to say anyting in regard to it; but since that time another
one has been taken, though we have not as yet heard the result of the last.

- Well Done - Mrs. Dunn, of Harrisburg township, presented her husband the
other day with three little Dunns at one birth -- all daughters, alive as
yet and doing well. - Keosauqua Rep.

- A splendid Republican meeting was held in McGregor, on Monday evening
last, which was addressed by Messrs Odell and Calkins.

- Hail Storm - On Tuesday night last about twelve o'clock, one of the most
violent rain and hail storms ever before known in that vicinity, visited
McGregor.  The rain fell in such torrents as to overflow the gutters and
sewers, and flood very many cellars; and the hail stones were so large that
they caused great destruction to window glass and garden vegetables.  We do
not learn that the storm extended a great distance.

- Pottawattamie co. Hail Storm - A destructive hail storm passed through the
north part of this county on the 4th inst., doing great damage to the crops.
The hail stones are said to have been the size of hen's eggs.

- Mad Dogs at Davenport - A mad dog was killed Wednesday, on the Ferryboat
between Davenport and Rock Island.  He had made several attempts to bite the
passengers on the Ferry Boat before he was killed.

- A Convention of Baptists was held at West Union, onthe 14th inst. to form
an Association, separate from the Dubuque Association.  Delegates were
present from all the Baptist churches, with one exception, Allamakee,
Claton, Fayette and Howard Counties, and from one church in Buchanan County.
A Consitiution was adopted and an organization completed to be known as the
Turkey River Baptist Association.  About a dozen churches, heretofore
connected with the Dubuque body, belong to it.  Its first meeting is to be
held at Waukon in a year from next September.

- Dr. Ignatius Lunger, of Scott county, an Abolitionist who formerly acted
with the Republicans, has declared his purpose to vote for Douglas.  He says
that the election of Douglas is the only hope the Abolitionists have of
keeping up the slavery agitation, by which slavery shall finnally be
abolished.

- Man Lost - Wandered from the residence of his brother, in Fremont
Township, Johnson county, Iowa, on Tuesday evening, July 10, 1860, an insane
man, named Ferdinand King, 49 [or possibly 40] years old, 5 feet 10 inches
high and quite thin.  Had on when he left a white shirt, mixed cotton pants,
nearly new, an old vest, an old chip hat, no coat, has black hair and beard;
the shoe on one foot run-over, and when last seen was carrying a bridle and
a halter in his hand.  Any information regarding his whereabouts left at the
Republican office, Iowa City, will be thankfully received; and any erson
seeing him will confer a favor by taking him in charge and sending
information to the Republican office, or Daniels & Co's store in Iowa City.
All necessary expenses will be paid.

Linn Co. - A Mr. Ammerman of Marion was lately dangerously bitten by a
rattlesnake, and had the "mad stone" applied.  The Register states that the
stone adhered twenty times before exhausting the poison, but as Mr. A had
imbibed huge quantities of whiskey; it had double-bended "pizen" to deal
with and required longer to do its work.

Keokuk Co. -- U.B. Shellenberger has become associated with the Keokuk
county Democrat.

Shooting Scrape - On Wednesday afternoon last, Henry Kennedy and James
Clark, living near Buena Vista, got to quarreling over a jug of whiskey, and
the latter received a charge from a U.S. musket through his hand and thighs,
wounding him horribly, and perhaps fatally.  Kennedy was arrested yesterday
and brought before Esq. Davis.  the examination was postponed until next
week.  We hear that there were no witnesses of the quarrel, but that Kennedy
confessed to the neighbors that he had done the deed.

- A man named John Ash had his leg badly fractured on Saturday last, while
working in Atlee's saw mill, in this city.  A plank six inches wide and
about 12 feet long caught by accident on a circular saw and was hurled with
great velocity some 20 feet, striking Mr. Ash on the back part of hisleg,
producing a compound fracture of the most serious nature.  -- Ft. Madison
Plaindealer.

- Accidents at Davenport - On Wednesday last a man named Edward Flinn was
thrown from a buggy at Davenport, by which his shoulder was badly broken.
John Hickman, while engaged in throwing off a load of hay on Monday inst. at
the same place, slipped from the wagon on which he was standing, and fell on
one of the stakes of the rack, inflicting a dangerous wound on the right
side of the neck.  Dr. Langer thinks the man will recover.

- Frightful Runaway - On Tuesday morning last, Mr. H.D. Merritt drove to the
door of his residence with Mrs. Jno. Shaffner, Mrs. Frank H. Crosby, and
Mrs. Merritt.  In a light wagon, and having left the reins on the dash
board, proceeded to assist the ladies in alighting from the vehicle; when
Mrs. Merritt jumped out the horses took fright and started down Williams
street.  Mr. M. ran and caught the leader by the head, but was unable to
control them, and they finally broke loose from him, and, turning North,
made directly for the timber above Soldier Spring.  When immediately over
the brow of the hill, the wagon came in contact with a tree, which threw the
body of the wagon off.  The ladies wee thrown with considerable violence,
injuring both considerably, but not seriously.  Mrs. Crosby struck the tree
with the side of her face and head, punishing her considerably, and leaving
one of her ear-rings sticking fast to the bark of the tree.  Strange to say,
Mrs. Shaffner's little babe, less than a year old, although thrown quite a
distance, escaped unharmed.  Moral -- Don't take your wives out riding
behind unbroken colts. - Ft. Dodge Sentinel.

Bound Over - C. Pierce, Jr. of this place, was on Thursday last, bound over
to the next term of the District Court, by Esquires Frost, Houston and
Murray, on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder, in the sum of
$3,000.  - Iowa City Republican.

- Theodore Collins, aged seven years, son of Mr. James Collins, of
Davenport, was instantly killed at the furniture factory of Collins & Wood,
on the 19th inst. by a pile of lumber falling on him, crushing him
shockingly.  The little fellow had just brought his father's supper to the
mill, and was attempting to climb upon a pile of lumber, when it fell over
on him.

- Struck by Lightning - A man named Peter Tobin, 29 years of age, was killed
by a thunder bolt yesterday, in Vernon township.  He, with several others,
was working in a wheat field belonging to T.C. Gace, when it began to rain,
and they all sought places of shelter, the deceased and a little boy taking
refuge under a shock of wheat.  The boy very soon started and ran away, and
had gone but a few feet when there came a flash so close and sharp that
several others imagined they had been struck.  This man was immediately
observed to be prostrate upon the ground.  Upon going to him no signs oflife
were manifested, and he could not be resuscitated.  - Dubuque Times.

- Cornell College - Prof. S.M. Fellows has been elected President of this
flourishing institution, located at Mr. Vernon, Linn county.  At the late
commencement, the Baccalaureate degree was conferred upon four students -
two ladies and two gentlemen.  The degree of D.D. was conferred upon the
Rev. T.M. Eddy, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, and the
degree of A.M. upon the Rev. Mr. Kaig, both of Chicago.

- Foundry and Machine Shop - Mr. C. Hendric, of Burlington in this State,
has contracted for the erection of a Foundry and Machine Shop in this city.
The building is to be 100 feet front by 85 feet deep, with two wings 25 by
35 feet at each end, making it in the shape of an E. We have known Mr.
Hendric for near twenty years, and can truly say that for energy and as a
machinist he has no superior in the west. - Council Bluffs Bugle


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