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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1854 -
Washington Pioneer
Olympia, Washington Territory
January 14, 1854
Council Bluffs - The city of Council Bluffs, to which four or
five Pacific Railroads are already tending, with the prospect of
a dozen more, was founded by the Mormons, after their expulsion
from Nauvoo, in 1847. It first bore the name of Kanesville, which
was changed by the last legislature of Iowa, to the name it now
bears. Its present population is between 2000 and 3000. It is
located on Indian creek, about two miles from the Missouri river,
300 west of Burlington, and 150 south of west from Fort
Desmoines, in the midst of a well settled region. Its chief trade
for the last few years has been with the emigrants across the
plains, of whom it is estimate from 50,000 to 100,000 have
annually procured wholly or partially their outfits at that
place, since the commencement of California emigration in 1849.
It has some forty good stores, a number of mechanical shops,
&c., with a printing office and a well conducted weekly
paper. - from the Western Eagle.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2007]
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New York Daily
Times
New York, New York
April 28, 1854
Married.
In the R.D.C., at Port Richmond, on Thursday, April 27, by Rev.
James Brownlee, M. Louis Boisot, of Dubuque, Iowa, to Miss
Albertina Bush, of Staten Island.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2007]
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS'
PAPER
Rochester, New York
September 8, 1854
Arrison, accused of sending the infernal machine to the
Cincinnati Medical College, and consequently of the murder of
Allison and his wife, is prowling about in the woods in his
father's neighborhood in Iowa, where traces of him are seen every
day, and where he has been shot at several times.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2006]
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New York Daily
Times
New York, New York
October 14, 1854
Married.
At Peesskill [sic], N.Y. on Tuesday Oct. 10, by Rev. George F.
Wiswell, Mr. George E. Kilbourne, of Keokuk, Iowa to Miss Augusta
Wells, daughter of Albert Wells, of Peckskill.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2007]
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FREDERICK DOUGLASS'
PAPER
Rochester, New York
November 17, 1854
ARREST OF ARRISON THE MURDERER. The Columbus Lender is informed
upon good authority that Arrison, the contriver of the infernal
machine which caused the death of Dr. Allison and wife, at
Cincinnati, some time since, was captured at Muscatine, Iowa. It
seems that Arrison, under the assumed name of Wilkinson, has been
engaged at Muscatine for two months past as a clerk in a drug
store. Recently he addressed a letter to O.F. Willard, of
Cincinnati, making inquiries and giving directions concerning a
judgement in his favor, which was in the hands of a lawyer of
that city. The first initial of the superscription being
indistinctly written, the letter fell into the hands of O.F.
Williard, who, on learning the name of the writer,
placed the letter in the hands of the Mayor. The postmark
revealed the locality of the author, and the Mayor, with the
advice of the Council, sent the Chief of Police and one of his
deputies to Muscatine after the murderer. Arriving there, the
chief immediately found Arrison at the drugstore aforesaid, and
recognizing him, took him into custody. He was immediately taken
via Rock Island to Chicago, and thence by Railroad to Cincinnati.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2006]