Iowa
Old Press
Dubuque Weekly Observer
Dubuque, Dubuque co. Iowa
Friday morning October 6, 1854
Elkader, Clayton Co., Iowa
Elkader is about sixty miles from Dubuque, and contains
a population of about three or four hundred persons. It is
located on Turkey River, and has one of the best water powers in
the state. A fine mill was erected in 1847, with two run of
stones, at a cost of $25,000, and is owned by Messrs. Thompson
& Davis. The amount of wheat purchased last year amounted to
forty-nine thousand sixty-seven and a half bushels. There are
also an Iron Foundry, built in 1852, at which mill-gearings and
all other kinds of castings are made to order, a large Furniture
Factory, a Tin Shop, a Saddler's Shop, two Hotels, and so forth.
The professions are represented by three Doctors and one Lawyer,
Mr. Davis, one of the Mill owners, and formerly a resident of
Dubuque. The country surrounding Elkader is unsurpassed for
fertility and beauty, furninshing the settler with pure water,
fine prairie and good timber, the essential requisites of a
desirable farming country, which is well known to be the
character of Clayton county.
A Turn
Mahony of the Dubuque Herald and Dr. Thomas of
the Dubuque Observer, are both foreign born. The Herald
and Express have both blackguarded Thomas until he has
finally become naturalized and deprived them of any further
opportunity of finding fault. The cream of the joke is, however,
that Dr. Thomas now turns about and pitches into Mahony on the
same subject - but the latter has not as yet declared through his
paper whether he is a citizen or not. We expect that Brother
Mahoney, however, has taken the oath of allegiance. If he has it
will of course "do him proud" to tell it out directly.
If he is not a citizen, why the Doctor has certainly got him
"on the hip." - Anamosa News
If our information is derived from a reliable source, Mr.
Mahoney, has not taken the oath of allegiance, unless he has done
so very recently. If he has, it will do us "proud" to
chronicle the fact. We patiently await his reply to our inquiry.
Died.
Lewis R. Reeves, Esq., a highly respected and able
lawyer of Keokuk, died in that city on the 18th ult.
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Dubuque Weekly Observer
Dubuque, Dubuque co. Iowa
Friday morning October 13, 1854
Murder in Burlington
We clip the following from the Burlington Telegraph:
Mr. Thomas B. McCormack lost his life on Saturday last. Mr. M was
engaged in hauling wood to the city, and in the course of his
route he was compelled to pass by the residence of S.M. Trulock
(late Justice of the Peace for Dubuque) where an alteration is
being made in the road, teams in the meantime passing over Mr.
T.'s premises. Mr. Trulock seized a bludgeon and dealt him a
heavy blow on the back of the head, from the effect of which he
died on the following morning. Mr. T. was subsequently arrested,
and is now in jail. Mr. McC. was an industrious and most
peaceable citizen, and member of the Baptist Church of this city,
and his untimely fate is deeply deplored by all who knew him.
A Senator of the U.S. Hit
Brigadier General George Wallace Jones, Senator of Iowa,
and Peter A. Lorrimier, Esq., had a chuck of a fight in Dubuque
on Wednesday last, in which Jones was considerably clapperclawed
in the fact and parts thereto adjacent. The fracas originated in
the fact that Jones called Lorrimier a "d----d liar" -
words current and polite with the Wellers, petits and Douglas of
the United States Senate, but offensive and punishable among
gentlemen in the West.
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Dubuque Weekly Observer
Dubuque, Dubuque co. Iowa
Friday morning October 27, 1854
Captain Bogy, of the Dubuque and Dunleith Ferry-Boat, done the
liberal "up brown," on Thursday morning, for the
"Turner Association" of this city, by raising steam
three hours earlier than usual, and passing the company over the
river, on their way to Galena and back again on their return,
free of charge. The members of the society express themselves as
being under many obligations to the Captain, for the kindness
they received at his hands.
A stranger, supposed to be a Scotchman, was found drowned in the
river yesterday, a short distance below the Ferry-boat landing.
From the appearance of the body when found, it had been in the
water but a short time. We did not learn the name of the
deceased.
The first fatal case of cholera occurred at Urbana on the 1st
inst., the victim being Mr. James Collins, of Iowa, who had been
on a visit to his friends.
The Millerites have now fixed on the 10th of May, 1855, as the
day when the world wil positively come to an end.
Board of Trade - City of Dubuque
Monday evening, Oct. 23, the Association met and
proceeded to the election of officers by ballot. The following
gentlemen were declared duly elected:
F.V. Goodrich, President
J.P. Farley, Vice president
Edwin James, Jr., Secretary
M. Mobley, Treasurer
J.H. Lull, G.W. Burton, R.C. Waples, R. Spaulding & P.H.
Conger - Directors
A. Gillespie, M. Collins & O.F. Bissell - Arbitrators
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