Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Iowa Items

Chickasaw county donates three dollars a month to every private in the army from that county while absent, while the wife or widowed mother of each has four dollars a month, and each child under twelve years of age one dollar during the same time. – The widow and children of a soldier killed or dying in the service of his country continue to draw the bounty.  So says a letter in the Dubuque Times.

The Supervisor system had a ventilation in the State Senate one day last week, and the general expression of opinion was decidedly favorable to it.  On what might be called a test vote, the House divided – 26 for to 11 against the system.

Delilah A. Tellyea has lately been on trial up in Clayton county, charged with complicity in the murder of her husband.  The jury were unable to agree in a verdict, and were dismissed.

A little child of G. W. Harlen, New Oregon, Howard county, fell into a kettle of boiling water, and died in a few hours from the effects of the scald.

The Ladies’ Sanitary Association of McGregor has made and donated $9,000 worth of supplies to relive the necessities of Iowa soldiers.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, February 15, 1862, p. 2

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