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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1842 -
Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, NY
March 28, 1842
Shocking -- The daughter of Mr. John West at Burlington, Iowa,
was thrown from a horse on the 24th ult., and her feet remaining
in the stirup, she was dragged through the woods and killed.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, NY
May 5, 1842
Lead in Iowa. -- The Iowa City Standard says that a lead
mine has been discovered in Johnson County, in that territory.
The discovery was made by Mr. Jesse McCart, on the banks of Iowa
River about nine miles above Iowa City. He found "a load of
lead fifteen inches thick by digging fourteen feet below the
surface." The Standard considers the discovery a very
important one for that region.
Iowa City. -- Three years ago, on the section of land embracing
that city, there stood but a solitary, unfinished log cabin. Now
there is a State House nearly two thirds completed, at an expense
of several thousand dollars, a number of fine bricks, a good many
houses and stores of every description, and nearly one thousand
inhabitants. This is cited as the most rapid increase ever known
in this country.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, NY
June 8, 1842
Explosion -- The steamboat West Wind burst her boiler at
Louisville on May 31. One person was killed, and several -- names
not given -- dangerously wounded. The Advertiser says:
"An incident occurred that ought not to pass unnoticed. Mrs.
Hait, a respectable looking middle aged lady, from near
Burlington, Iowa Territory, where her husband and family reside,
was a passenger for Marietta, Ohio. When the explosion took
place, seeing no other way of escape, she had the courage and
presence of mind to leap into the stream, and swim to the shore,
which she effected, and by that means saved her life. What
renders it the more remarkable is the fact, that she never before
had even made an attempt to swim."
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Pittsfield Sun
Massachusetts
July 14, 1842
MARRIED
At Hannibal, Mo. Mr. JONAS HOUGHTON, formerly of Amherst, to Miss
JANE DUNNING, both of Farmington, Iowa Territory.
To Hymen Jonas owed a debt;
But yet with all his cunning,
The means to pay he could not get,
Until he took to DUNNING.
[transcribed by C.J.L., July 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, NY
August 11, 1842
Appointments by the President and Senate -- Land Officers -
Receivers
Thomas McKnight, Du Buque, Iowa, reappointed.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, NY
October 12, 1842
Sac and Fox Indians -- The annual payment of the Sac and Fox
annuities, was made at the agency, at Burlington, Iowa, about two
weeks since. On enumeration, it was found that the Sac and Fox
nation consists of about 2,300 souls, among whom the sum of
$41,000 was distributed, by paying the same to the head of each
family.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]