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Last evening a cow fell into the sewer trench in the alley between Fifth and Sixth and Main and Locust streets. She was ex tricated from the same by a half dozen men. A newspaper man who twisted her tail gave her the proper encouragement to climb out. ~Mr. Mullins, of the firm of Blakewell Mullins, artists and modellers, Salem, Colum biana county, Ohio, while at the World's Fair, New Orleans, was seized with a severe attack of quinsy. He used St. Jacobs Oil and, he writes, that it effected a wonderful cure. The casket containing the remains of Martin Brown arrived yesterday afternoon from St. Paul and were conveyed to his brother's residence, No. 1580 Jackson street, from which place the funeral cortege will move this morning at 9 o’clock. The remains look remarkably natural and life-like. ~The funeral of the lamented Justus Bech tel, Sr., occurred yesterday afternoon, and was very largely attended. Schiller Lodge of Odd Fellows, headed by the Dubuque band, attended the funeral in a body. The cortege was a long one and included many of the prominent Germans of the city who knew the deceased in life and held him in high esteem. ~The young friends of Charley Reinecke were royally entertained last evening at the parental home on Bluff street. Without Charley’s knowledge his friends planned a surprise party and invited about thirty young misses and masters to join in a birth day celebration. The Italian band was pres ent and during the evening furnished the dancing music. It was a very happy affair. Key City Lodge of Odd Fellows number ing with guests 120 people or more, cele brated at their hall in the Eagle block Mon day evening, the sixteenth anniversary of its institution. After the lodge meeting, the exercises opened with a song. Past Grand Alexander sketched the history of the lodge. He said that when it was established it was $450 in debt, now it had $4,000 in the treasury and 125 members. —There has just been submitted in the supreme court of the United States the case of George A. and Fred W. Bowman, plain tiffs in error, against The Chicago and Northwestern railway company. The plain tiffs desired to ship from Chicago to Mar shalltown, Iowa, 1,000 kegs of beer. The de fendants refused to carry the freight for fear of violating the prohibitory laws of Iowa. The question at issue involves an interpreta tion of the law regarding inter-state com merce. In reference to logging operations about to be prosecuted with vigor in the pineries, a report from Eau Claire says: The move ment of loggers to the pineries has been in creasing for several days. Crews with teams and supplies from Winona, Minn., and from Black River Falls, Wis., passed through here Sunday evening, for the purpose of com mencing work on one of the tributaries of the Chippewa. Arrivals from upper sources of the river report several inches of snow. The ground is in no condition to receive a snow fall, nor will it be for some time to come. Ed. Smith, of Birmingham, England, who appeared in Dubuque last summer with Jack Burke’s combination, and John P. Clow, of Colorado, who fought Jack Burke a draw in Denver soon after the latter left Dubuque, had a boxing match at the opera house, Wichita, Kansas, last Saturday night. It was with four-ounce gloves, and six rounds were fought in forty-two minutes, London prize ring rules. Smith forced the fighting throughout and was declared the winner.
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Dubuque Daily Herald
Dubuque, Iowa, US
Wed, Nov 25, 1885
Page 4
Full Page
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