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Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
February 13, 1864

MARRIED

    On the 9th inst., at the residence of the bride's mother, Kossuth, by Rev. H.H. Hayes, Mr. F.H. CROCKER, of Payson, Ill, to Miss HANNAH HARPER.
    By the same, Dec. 16th, at the house of Mathias Ware, JAMES M. LUKINS to Miss MARTHA O. WARE.
    By the same, Dec. 24th, at the residence of Edward Ware, JOHN A. McCULLOUGH to Miss MARIA WARE.
    On the 5th inst, by Rev. W.F. Baird, Mr. WM. P. PERRY, of the 30th Iowa Volunteers, and Miss M.J. HILLEARY, daughter of James Hilleary, Esq. all of Des Moines County.
    On the 11th inst, at the house of Mr. James Walker, by the Rev. W.F. Baird, Mr. WILLIAM HOPLEY and Miss MARY OKELL (or ORELL), all of Des Moines county, Iowa.

DIED.

    On the 10th of February, near Middleton, Des Moines county, Iowa, Mrs. SARAH McMAKEN, consort of John McMaken, in the 69th year of her age.
    Hamilton and Cincinnati (Ohio) papers please copy.

--Mr. H.K. Eads, living in this vicinity, was bitten by a mad dog Saturday, as is believed. The dog bit several other dogs, hogs, cattle, &c., before he was killed.

    MONEY FROM THE SOLDIERS.- W.W. Harper has received from the 2nd Iowa Cavalry the amount annexed to their names, which they will please call for:
    Henry Blair, $70; Albert Husted, $40; Wm. Vanice, $20; Joshua Brown, $35; D.H. Harper, $60.
    Also the following sums from the 14th Iowa Infantry:
    From D.T. Hopkins for Tracy Hopkins, $45; O.P. Eads to S.J. Eads, $20; D.B. Heizer to Nathaniel Heizer, $20; James C. Robinson to Elihu Robinson, $10; C.C. Proctor to Julia Proctor, $15; James R. Cartwright to Mary Cartwright, $15; John McChestua to John McChestua, $20; H.C. Haight to Isaac Tyson, $80; Jacob Fritz to David Fritz, $60; W.P. Tilton to John Tilton, $35; W.S. Tenant to Christina Tenant, $40; Alex Bell to Eliza Bell, $10; E.Driskell to Sarah Driskell, $30.

Sheward's Paper Mobbed.
    FAIRFIELD, Feb. 8.- The veterans of Co. E, 2d Iowa Infantry, to-day, when starting from here to report at headquarters at Davenport, went into the office of the Constitution and Union, a paper edited by David Sheward. They threw the type and paper out of the second story window and also destroyed the subscription books.

    AN OLD LADY OF SIXTY-FIVE GIVES BIRTH TO A CHILD- We are informed, on reliable authority, that Mrs. Raymond, of Moline, wife of Sumner Raymond, a woman aged about sixty-five years, gave birth to a child on Wednesday morning, the 3d inst. She has been married to Mr. Raymond some twenty years and this is her first offspring. She had been complaining of a heaviness in the stomach, for nearly or quite a year past, and had consulted several physicians. Dr. Truesdale, of this city, among the number, who gave it as their opinion that she had the dropsy. At last she consulted a spiritualist doctor, in Davenport, and he at once declared her true condition to her. The child was alive at last accounts and doing well. It is certainly a very remarkable case.--Rock Island Union.

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
February 27, 1864

MARRIED.
    At the Brazelton House, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, on the afternoon of Tuesday, March 1st, 1864, by Geo. B. Jocelyn, D.D., Mr. George W. Swailes of Middle Boulder, Colorado Territory, and Miss Nancy Dougherty, of Rome, Iowa.

    Feb. 29th, 1864, at the house of Mr. James H. Brown, by Rev. E.H. Waring, Mr. George D. Brown, of the 59th Illinois Regiment, to Miss Nancy Haislett of Henderson Co., Ill.

DIED.
    In this city, on the 3d inst., Mrs. Rhoda wife of Wm. E. Brown, aged 51 years, 3 months and 17 days.
    Mrs. Brown was  native of Westchester county, New York, and emigrated to this place in the spring of 1835, since which time she has resided here.

    In this city on the 27th of February, Anna, only daughter of Hans and Ellen Thielsen, aged twelve years and two months.

    In this city on the 28th inst., of Pleurisy, Mrs. Mary, wife of Frederick Funk, aged 37 years.

    Near Naples, Italy, Alfred D. and Cassola, only children of Alfred D and Mary K Green of this city.
    So have passed away two lovely boys, the only hope and joy of afflicted parents. The Father voiceless, the Mother a cripple, they were deserted by physician and nurse, and at first refused the rights of sepulture by a bigoted priesthood. Strangers in a strange land, their cup of woe is full to overflowing.

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE-
In County Court of Des Moines Co, Iowa.
ESTATE OF ISAAC FARIS DECEASED.
    Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of said Estate. All persons indebted to said Estate, will make immediate settlement with the undersigned and all persons holding claims against said Estate are requested to present the same to said Court for allowance.
    JOHN K. FARIS, Adm'r.
    H.C. OHRT, Co. Judge.

    The Ladies' Union Aid Society have made arrangements with Mr. of the Sunderland House, to board and lodge, for a limited time, all soldiers who arrive in Burlington without means.
    Sick Soldiers will be taken to the U.S. Marine Hospital, on application at the office of Dr. H.B. Ransom, on Jefferson street.

ARREST OF A MURDERER FOUR YEARS AFTER THE COMMISSION OF THE CRIME- Yesterday afternoon Capt. Egbert, Marshal Means and officer Severance arrested at a small saloon on Brady street, opposite the Post Office, a notorious villain and murderer, who, among many other crimes, is said to be guilty of the shocking murder which took place near Ottumwa, Wapello county, in this State, some four years ago, the victim of which was a young girl whom this man, McCombs, and an accomplice named Lawrence, had abducted from her home in Rockford, Illinois. The circumstances accompanying this atrocious crime are yet fresh in the memory of many of our citizens. Large rewards amounting to $2000 in all, were at the time offered for the apprehension of the criminal, but without avail. Although he was at different times tracked by detectives very closely, he always managed to escape, and the hopes of ever getting him had of late almost vanished. The circumstances that lead to his discovery and arrest are somewhat singular and were purely accidental. A young soldier who is at present stationed at Camp McClellan, and who knew this man McCombs previous to the commission of the murder referred to, happened to meet him in the city and recognized him. McCombs had been  in the employ of this young soldier's father for three years, near Rockford, Illinois, and was recognized by him instantly. The young soldier being cognizant of the details of the murder and the fact that McCombs and the girl left Rockford together, immediately informed Capt. Ward at Camp McClellan, of these facts, and a messenger was sent down to Capt. Egbert, who, accompanied by the young soldier and the two officers above mentioned, started out to find the individual. He was found at the saloon just as he had concluded a trade with a man for a horse for which he paid $180. When arrested, he quietly asked "what for?" but made no resistance. He was then taken before Justice Wheeler and ordered committed for examination. The man who had sold him the horse agreed to give him back $170 and retake the horse, which was agreed upon.
    McCombs seems flush with money, and when arrested evinced not the least uneasiness. He said nothing about the affair, and only remarked that he wanted a fair trial. His business of late is said to have been enlisting and deserting. He would enlist at a certain place, receive the bounty and premium, and then desert as soon as possible, in order to re-enact the proceeding at some other place. He is also reputed to be a dealer in counterfeit money, and, to judge from his looks, he seems capable of doing almost anything but a good action. His examination will probably take place as soon as necessary witnesses can be procured.
    His accomplice, Lawrence, has not been heard from since the time of the murder.- It was at one time reported that he had also been found murdered somewhere, but of this there is no certainty. The young woman whom these two scoundrels abducted from her home, seduced, and then murdered, was the daughter of respectable parents at Rockford, Ill. She fell into their meshes by means best known to themselves. The trio traveled together in a light spring wagon from Rockford through Illinois and Iowa, and were last seen together at Ottumwa in the early part of April, 1860, where at the hotel at which they stopped one of the men pretended that she was his sister. Shortly after their departure from that place she was found in the Des Moines river, a short distance from the village, and an inquest holden over her body revealed the fact that she had been brutally murdered. Her skull was broken in and other marks of violence were visible about the corpse.
    It is indeed to be hoped that the perpetrator of this horrible crime has at last been apprehended and that he will receive the punishment the enormity of the deed deserves.-- Davenport Gazette

 

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