Iowa Old Press
Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
June 11, 1874
THE STATE
Friday afternoon, Willie Orndorf, a Davenport boy, was playing with a
revolver, as is the custom in those families where a famine of brains is
hereditary, and the bullet saved the doctor some trouble in searching
therefore by going clear through the boy's thigh.
Mr. J. Russell, of Adel, displayed his intelligence by carrying a revolver
in his coat tail pocket. Last Sunday evening it went off and shot at
everything in that township, and made a centre shot on Mr. Russell's right
foot perforating it neatly. Any man who would carry an arsenal in his coat
tail pocket.
Dubuque, which will be remembered as a city which was entirely taken in by a
greeny from the backwoods who personated Mark Twain, has again run wild
after another celebrity, this time the end man of a strolling minstrel
troupe, who was lionized, to his great amazement, as Thomas Nast.
The Cedar Rapids 'Republican' says: Mrs. Newell, of Fichford, recently
sold
a cow to a party in Cedar Falls, and according to contract was to deliver
the animal to the purchaser in that city. This she did on a recent
Saturday, leading the cow all the way from Finchford, unattended and alone,
and although she is nearly seventy years old, she did not appear to be at
all exhausted by her ten miles walk. But maybe the old lady rode the cow
part of the way.
Judge Bond, of Council Bluffs shut himself out on the rear platform of a
sleeping car the other night and couldn't get back. He was in his night
dress at the time, and we are unable to give even a synopsis of the eloquent
and pathetic remarks he made on the occasion, as our paper goes into so many
religious families.
At Davenport, Wednesday forenoon, one of Bassit & Schafer's grindstones,
weighing three thousand pounds, flew into several thousand pieces while in
motion. The accident was caused by the sudden increase of speed in the
machinery. Fortunately for the grinder, he had just left his station and
gone to another part of the room, or instant death would have been the
result.
Three miles from Vinton lives -- or did live -- a Mr. Drake. 'Tis rumored
that a while ago the wife and an elder son drove the old man away, and told
him if he ever came home they would kill him. Last Saturday night Drake
was
seen in the vicinity of his home; at midnight a pistol shot was heard at or
near his house, and there is suspicion of foul play.
At Clinton, Thursday afternoon, while the steamer 'Nellie Thomas' was trying
to tow a raft into temporary shelter from the sudden storm, a line stretched
from the boat to the raft caught on a pin and drew taut. A sudden lurch of
the boat threw the line from the pin and it swept quickly along the logs,
catching a boy named E. Andrews around the legs and throwing him several
feet into the air. As he came down his head struck a log, fracturing his
skull and causing injuries from which he died about an hour and a half
afterward.
At Eldora, on Sunday, May 24, John Yonkers, George Moir and John Dickey,
went out on the Iowa river in a boat for a pleasure ride. While on the
river the boat capsized, and they were thrown into the water. Young Dickey
soon swam ashore. Yonkers, who also could swim, reached within a few feet
of the shore, when heard men shouting that Moir was drowning, and turned to
help him. As he came to the surface the third time, Yonders seized him by
the hair and swam with him so near the shore that Moir was rescued, but
Yonkers himself sank, and was drowned.
Indianola is on the eve of organizing a millingtary company.
Monona has a $9,000 school house, accommodating three hundred pupils.
N.C. Taylor died very suddenly at a hotel in Cedar Rapids Thursday night.
A waterspout waltzed up the Mississippi river past Fort Madison, last
Thursday.
The residence of M.D. Caverly, near Indianola, was totally destroyed by
fire, Wednesday night.
Mary Hayes, of Davenport, has sued five saloon keepers for $10,000, for
selling whisky to her husband.
Friday night an incendiary fire in Waterloo, damaged Lincoln's block to the
extent of seventy-five dollars.
A Tipton poultry man lost $150 worth of Dark Brahmas and Patridge Cochin
chickens, one night last week, by rats.
The total loss by the Independence fire as figured by the adjusters of the
various insurance companies, was $225,000.
A Cedar Rapids kleptomaniac is stealing all the harness about that city, and
it is hoped that he will soon reach the halter.
Lansing will not get to see a circus this summer, the extortionate license
demanded by that city frightening the shows away.
Mrs. Eliza B. Lyon, an old and highly respected resident of Des Moines died
on the fourth instant. She had lived in Des Moines since 1848.
The chintz bug has unpacked his trunks in Ringgold county and announced his
intention of staying there to have an eye on the corn and things.
Rufus E. and Elzy F. Irish, two brothers, aged respectively sixteen and
eighteen years, were drowned while fishing in a pond near Tama City, week
before last.
William G. Belknap, son of the Sectretary of War, died at his home, in
Keokuk, Monday morning, of consumption. He was in the twentieth year of
his
age, and had been an invalid for the past two years.
They are nice people out in Warren county. Last Saturday night some
friends
of S.W. Alexander, who owns a saw mill near Summerset, visited his mill and
cut and slashed all the lead pipes and leather belting to pieces.
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