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IOWA STATE NEWS.WiibuinanThe case of the State zs. Isaac Brandi has been postponed until the November fol term.Ten thousand head of outide cattle rel arc being herded in Wright County thisyear. , DMTub annual fest of the Davenport a* Schutzen Verein occurs on the loth and (rf 16th days of August. clt;:!Mrss E. Evans recently committedsuicide at the Pacific House, in Council Bluffs, by taking strychnine in her coffee.Montrose claims to have the oldest ap- ] vpie tree in the State. It was set out by iniLouis llonore Tesson, a French trader, in vat 1703. gaJohn Weaver, a farmer in Competine ye;Township. Wapello County, was horribly , kr mangled by falling in front of a rcapertho gri other day. He lived but a few hours. theIt is generally understoM that the Supreme Court i- divided in respect to the Brandt ease, and the impre-don prevailsthat there v. ill be no decision for some time to come.buamomcrsamCharles Martin, of Strawberry Point, c.., is luckv. A few days ago be concluded• • C» | | | wlto square accounts with a Chicago firm, n,(, and drew his money, amounting to $3,000.The next day tl*e firm failed.antellA fine horse belonging to Mr. 0*1- adi ledge, of Strawberry Point, while run- outnine in a pasture stuck a fore foot through ng;a tin pan and cut all but one of the cords, dn leaving the foot to dangle loose. He ha 1 anlt; to he killed. : fa|jAt half-past twelve on the morning o me tiie 7th. at Des Moines, the lumber yard of tooVGetthell A Son4* was set on fire in half a “ dozen places, and at one o'- 1 t the whole ‘B* square was in flames, and oyer $30,000 Li* worth of lumber on fire. I enthisatt(Dr. IIatton. who was shot sometime since near Council Bluffs by a man who claimed that he was responsible for the death of his wife, died a few days ago, and the man who shot him has been imprisoned, on the charge of murder.BuklixqtuN no more beholds the light da\*of the countenance of Mr. E. T. Knight, yar In the night, when all with sleep were ' m.i blind, he took up his things and left his* the debts behind. He was a carpenter, who : tin owed considerable money in that city. la!Iwitsueintlt;lattOW]•tcm;allcginthe is lt;guiIKMeiTiie total population of the Second Con-gresional District—the only one that had I made report in full to the Secretary of State up to the 4th—is 153,700. At the last State census, taken in 1873, the population of the district was 150,212—again of 3,54*Dubuque has a population of 23,605 according to the late census. Her'industrial ~{-r statistics show 180 establishments, em- j jli(1 ploying 2,230 hands, w ith thirty engines and three water-wheels of 80 horse-pow-. | q-j or. The value of manufactured goods lorthe past your was $6,002,007. j jlirThe Ottumwa Courier says: “An old 1 gentleman • ! Agency Town-hip applied to Clerk Dudley a d.iy or two ago for a ni u riage license for his son and a sister i c »f ills wife. Three women accompanied him, viz.: His wife, his nephew's wife j rios and the woman that was lo fit* his son's will wife, and they were a',1 sisters. Now ini please t* 11 Ur w hat- relation these parties ri‘ * are to each other, and if so, how much?*’ ' i*G. G. Cummin*;*, an insurance agent at 1Tipton, a special dispatch to the ChicagoTn'tiKu? of the 7th savs. has al»seonded.Since his departure the fact has been de-vcloped that he committed forgeries amounting in an aggregate to over *3.000, the Meclmnicsville Bank holding about j $650, die Tipton $300, and the Clarence !B ink the balance. To offset thi- there isproperty left to the amount of perhaps $400.A FKwVlays ago Fred Wolf, a German (Mill-* County) fanner, went to Council Bluff's and bought several gallons ot whisky, which he took home with lua| him for the purpose of having a glorious s|lt. drunk. He succeed'd in keeping it up j moj until the evening of the 20th, when he he* nun came disgusted with himself nnd the rest jvn of mankind, and shuffled oil'his mortal ijjy». coil by hanging himself in a coru-crib, ' jj where his w ile found him dead next morn- bet\ ing. ow iJacob Weaver, of Wapello County, gottseems to have been born out of season, or gua•under an ill-omened star. Eighteen I it. months ago he had a shoulder dislocated, j ovoiHe got able to go to work and a sand-pit Lascaved in upon him, breaking one of his 11 leg*- and nearly burying him alive. A few i soilmf *days ago he was le idingfour horses before spot a re iper. wlr n the horses became trac* and tious, knocked liirodown and dragged the his machine over him, which nearly severed un : one leg from his body, c .using death in a she!few minutes. whiA letter h is been received from Rev. j Hnlt;‘ J. II. Eccleston. of Philadelphia, Bishop, j K*n elect of Iowa, in w hich he states that he | rt':l( had delaved responding to the announce- ^[ i Iuientofhis election in May last because ! of the protect again-t the manner of his election that had been sent him; that he has carefully weighed the evidence on both *0,»l sides and sees no good grounds for the , 'charges made. He therefore leaves the 11:1,1 final result with tiie standing committees a and the HoU'e ot Bishops—with their de.cou.dr.theG runanFc*ntin inggnufirmceplamdenslatthecision he will be content. 1f)Ibishre(beaThe Davenport Democrat -ays: “Notfar from Des Moines, a poor man’s cow, browsing wherever she could find a dr-fective garden gate, wedged her legs in a catile-guard on the railroad, and waited for the freight train. When it came she maintained her position, and gracefully tossed the engine nnd four cars into the ditch; but the reaction and nervous excitement consequent on the effort proved _ \ fatal, and she fell into a relapse and seventeen or eighteen pieces, and tlied all over )!' j that part of the country.’*aff*theiS' m.uon notlA Mu Douvian, a farmer in Cedar trea County, put his coat on in the harvest thrlt; field the other evening with the following stul result, as told by himself: “I happened and to look down and discovered a rattlesnake uiai of twenty inches in length crawliug out of whi the inside pocket of my coat, its head not ncsj being more than two inches from my chin is i w hen discovered. The snake had doubt- miu lc96 remained in my pocket since the day whi before. He appeared to be very peaceable spot and not at all inclined for battle, but I ini- affo mediately proceeded to lake my coat off ft j. and dispatch the intruder, which act was con-witnessed by several men.’* it iins*sort me: it ai flt; rtheitheternOiltiesThere’s a case of true love in Des mnlMoines. On Ninth street dwells a family ^:innumbering two daughters of marriageable UL/' age. One of the young maidens was be-trothed to a young man in Missouri. The ‘‘:M other day he arrived in fivs Moines for the purpose of obtaining his bride, hut on going to the house was met by the young lady’s mother with the statement that he could not have her nor could he see her. Meantime she had been secreted, and ut last advices the lover had not been able to get sight of her, although he watches the house night and day and pluckily declares ^‘r that he will have the girl unless assured l»y her own lips that she does not wish to manyr him. j fpA horrible accident occurred lately in 0f c a wheat field about seven miles west of Qf j Davenport The harvesters had been to gno,dinner, and w ere about to resume work in the ‘be wheat field. Mr. Telzow, sixty four r0st years old, took a notion to drive a reaper tent team about the field. As be was climbing to the scat the horses started at some-thing and plunged forward. Mr. Talzowh»st bis balance, and a jolt of the reaper ^ threw him right in front of the sickle. ^ ^ The horses ran ahead. The sickle caught tiie old man just above his knees, severed both legs, and he was hauled for ward, the apron passing over him. The hands ran to him and attempted to raise him, but he died in less than ten minutes after receiving his injuries.AstrcTiship t» l)inon-the i
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Thu, Aug 12, 1875
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