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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1856 -
The Weekly
Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
Saturday, April 12, 1856
Vol. VI. -- No. 20
Wolves in Iowa. -- Owing to the extreme cold weather, the wolves
in Pottawattamie county, Iowa, have become dangerous neighbors.
Poultry yards and sheep folds have been robbed to a frightful
extent, and to serveral instances the hungry beasts have not been
inclined to spare the human species -- A late number of the Keokuk
Post says "About three weeks ago a man was returning
from a prayer meeting, accompanied by his two daughters, one
sixteen and the other twenty-three years of age. They were all
riding the same horse, when suddenly a pack of timber wolves
assailed them, and being unable to escape by flight, they
attempted to defend themselves. But the ferocious brutes attacked
the horse, rendering him unmanageable. The oldest daughter was
partly thrown and partly dragged to the ground, and nearly
devoured. This enabled the father and the other daughter to
escape. Several neighbors were soon mustered, but upon repairing
to the spot nothing was found but one shoe, and a very few
remenants of the unfortunate girl's clothing. A boy about
thirteen years old left his father's house to get water at a
spring which was about half a mile distance, since which time
nothing has been seen of him. The pail was found near the spring,
also some marks of blood, and a lock or two of hair.
[transcribed by C.D., January 2007]
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The Weekly
Oregonian
Portland, Oregon
November 15, 1856
A scientific Expedition. -- We noticed about a week since, the
arrival in the city of Prof. Moore, Of Iowa, on his way to South
America, to make a Scientific exloration of the Adean regions of
Equador. We have now the pleasure to note the arrival Prof E. C.
Francis, of Keokuk, Iowa, who joins Prof Moore, and will go out
with him on the same mission. They expect to start on the fifth
of next month, and to be occupied in their investigations about
eighteen months. In addition to their zoological researches, we
are informed that they intend to make instrumental measurements
and examinations of some of the mountains and examinations of
some of the mountains and volcanoes of the Andes, about which
little is now accurately known. We anticiapate very valuable and
interesting results from their from their labors. N. O. Delta,
Sept 21
[transcribed by C.D., January 2007]