Iowa Old Press

Davenport Gazette
Davenport , Scott , Iowa
Saturday morning, May 1, 1875

IOWA CONDENSED

-         The population of Charles City is 2,270.

-         The number of Black Hills explorers arriving at Sioux City is daily decreasing.

-         The expenses of Susan B. Anthony’s lecture at Marshalltown exceeded the receipts just $15.

-         Mrs. Wiley Wray, of Oskaloosa, was attacked by a vicious cow a few days ago, and badly bruised before she was rescued.

-         Mr. Thompson, of Ames , has invented an improved Pitman Head for sickles for reapers and mowers.

-         The supreme Court, at its recent session in Dubuque , passed resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Judge Conklin, of Vinton.

-         Mr. W.F. Mccerney, a much respected citizen and a gallant soldier in the Rebellion, died at his residence in Wheatland, Tuesday evening.

-         Hon. John H. Bacon, for twenty years connected with our State Agricultural Society, has removed to Colorado and taken a position on the Colorado Farmer.

-         C.W. Bodeman, a prominent citizen and one of the early settlers of Burlington , died, Wednesday. He was born in Hanover and came to this country in 1838.

-         An Irishman named Thomas Whalen, had his skull fractured in a drunken row at Tyrone, one day last week, and it is thought he will die from the effects of the blow.

-         Rev. A. Crowell, a minister in the United Brethren Church at Shueyville, Johnson county, attempted to commit suicide last Wednesday by cutting his throat. He has been partially insane of late. At last reports he was in a precarious condition.

-         John Little, who shot the negro Tait, at Newton, September 26^th, and, it is supposed, aided in the murder of Henry Malland, the same night, twenty miles west of Newton, was arrested, Wednesday morning, in Warren county, about daylight. Since the murder he has been in Texas , Mexico , and over the West, returning about a week ago, to his brother-in-law. He was expecting to start west at daylight the morning of his arrest. He says he killed the negro in self defense, and denies all knowledge of the murder of Malland, but the proof against him is strong.

Davenport Gazette
Davenport , Scott , Iowa
Sunday morning, May 2, 1875

Iowa Condensed

-         Mr. S.R. Drury, whose home at Muscatine was burned Thursday morning, lost even his family’s clothing, as well as all his furniture.

-         Miss Tillie Thomas, a young lady of Iowa Falls , became suddenly and violently insane last week. She has been sent to the asylum at Independence .

-         A little daughter, five years old, of Wm. Myers, living seven miles north of Burlington, was killed, the 28^th ult, by a tree falling on her. Two other children and the mother narrowly escaped, as the branches of the tree struck them.

-         One of the proprietors and publishers of the Muscatine Tribune, Mr. Edward H. Betts, was married on the evening of the 28^th ult, to Miss Rita Stewart. Among the many presents received by the happy bride was the suggestive one of a washboard. The giver evidently took into careful consideration the profession of the groom.

-         A saw mill in Cass county recently had its roof nearly destroyed by Walter Marsh, who, while at work, fainted and fell on the balance wheel, and went up sky wards like a rocket. The roof was made of one inch oak boards, battened. Marsh scattered the boards and tore off a rafter, and when he came down, reposed on the roof a badly injured man, but alive and likely to recover. Mill not insured.