Burlington Hawk Eye; Burlington , Des Moines , Iowa ; May 9, 1878  

A farmer named Christian Waltze, living near Farmington , had his skull fractured, on Saturday morning, by a blow with an ax in the hands of a neighbor, named John Thierer, receiving a probably fatal wound.  

Dangerous Assault.
Correspondence of THE HAWKEYE.
            Farmington , May 6, 1878.- An old quarrel between John Tyes and Christian Woeltze resulted in a meeting on Friday last, the latter receiving a blow from ax in the hands of the former, which bids fair to prove fatal. Tyer had an examination to-day before Justices Coulter and Benson, at Boyer Station, and was held to bail in $1,000. G.W. Ringer, of Farmington , for the state, and M. Beaman, of Keosauqua, for the defense.

[submitted by C.J.L., May 2006]

Burlington Hawkeye
Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa
May 23, 1878

Washington, May 18 - The following are the postoffice changes in Iowa
during the week ending May 18:
Established:  Blooming Prairie, Pochahontas county, Mrs. E.C. Van
Alstine, P.M.
Discontinued: High Lake, Emmet county.
Postmasters appointed:
Fairmount, Jasper county, J.Z. Volk
Garden, Boone county, John B. Strouse
Lakeside, Emmet county, Mrs. Betsey W. Day
Liscomb, Marshall county, S.A. Emery
Rossville, Allamakee county, Jackson Mitchell

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[submitted by S.F. Mar 2004]