The Dubuque Herald May 26, 1886 LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF
DUBUQUE, May 25, 1886.
Mean barometer 30.065
Mean thermometer 58.
Mean relative humidity 55.
Maximum temperature, 70.
Minimum temperature, 45.
Prevailing Winds S. W.
Total precipitation, 0.00.
RIVER BULLETIN.
The following are the stages of water at the points named along the Mississippi river: St. Paul, 5.2 ft —0.3 ft Davenport, 8.0 ft—0.1 ft. LaCrosse, 7.7 ft —0.1 ft Keokuk, 10.2 ft—0.5 ft. Dubuque, 9.1 ft —0.2 ft, St. Louis. 22.3 ft.— 0.7 ft.
[Note —Rising river for the preceding 24 hours is indicated above by +, a falling by —]
—W. H. Torbert’s, wholesale and retail druggist,750 Main street.
—Jordan and photographs. tf
—There is a baby in the doctor’s house.
—Eggs are firm and advancing in price.
—Lindeman Piano, C. Sass, Agt., 1050 Clay
—Halford Sauce invaluable for soups, hashes, etc.
—Mr. Henry Kolb, of Eagle Point, is the father of twins.
—The mother of Mr. Maurice Noonan, on Hill street, is not expected to live.
—J.& P. Coates’ spool cotton is the best in use. For sale by all retail dealers.—2-4-6
—Roofing, repairing and tin work of all descriptions at Fry’s, 648 Main street. —eodtf
—Which shall it be. A pontoon bridge or a railroad bridge: Either would serve the public.
—Go to Paul Traut’s new hat store, No. 1330 Clay street, for the latest spring styles in hats—10t.
—Strawberries were a scarce fruit yesterday. But few crates came and orders were unfilled.
—H. F. C. Schneider has removed his jewelry store to 808 Main, opposite the town clock. —tf
—Halford Sauce blends admirably with all gravies.
For Rent—A seven room house on west Fourteenth street in good repair. Enquire of W. H. PEABODY. 3t
—Wanted—At this office, a boy who has had some experience at setting type. Apply to-day after 1 p. m.
—For the latest styles of silk, stiff and soft hats, go to Paul Traut’s new hat store, No. 1330 Clay street—10t.
—The artillery company will meet at S. E. Wilcox’s office this evening at 7:30 o’clock. Per order of the secretary.
—The Linehansen goes to Galena again next Sunday on the levee clerks’ excursion. Tickets are going off lively.
—Coal delivered on flats and steamboats at $2.12½ per ton or 17 cents per box. Address L. Lowry, Port Byron, Ill. —d1m
—From all indications and preparation Decoration day will be more generally observed this year than ever before.
—A sample lot of parasols to be closed out at wholesale prices at Baumhover’s, St. Cloud block, 940 Main street—ecod 3t
—Purify your blood, tone up the system, and regulate the digestive organs by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Sold by all druggists.
—Carriages, Buggies, Phætons, Surrey Wagons with Canopy Tops, best quality, low prices, at Kuntz &. Altona, 1225 Clay St.
—The wife of Mr. A. Hann, employed by the Dubuque Furniture and Burial Case company, died yesterday. She leaves one daughter.
—Halford Sauce is used at all first-class hotels.
—Rt. Rev. Bishop Hennessy will administer the sacrament of confirmation to the children of the West Dubuque church next Sunday.
—The house of Dr. Joel H. Green resounds with a strange noise, emenating from an infant visitor, male persuasion, arriving yesterday.
—A boy 17ycars of age who came from the interior of the state was found on the street
drunk, hatless and coatless. He was sent to jail for ten days.
—A runaway took place last evening near the fair grounds. The horse was attached to a light wagon which was demolished. The animal escaped injury.
—Noah E. Faust sells only the best lightning rods in use. Buy only of a responsible dealer and save money. No. 1001, corner Tenth and White, Dubuque—2-4-6.
—Dr. Green is three inches taller today than he was yesterday, and treats his friends to the best Havana cigars. “It is pleasant when you feel that way.”
—Messrs. S. W. Keck and John Fustel of Fairport, Ia., are in the city endeavoring to dispose of two barge loads of stoneware which they have brought here.
—Fales Woods has accepted a position with the Chicago, Burlington and Northern railroad in the capacity of Engineer. He was formerly engineer on the Illinois Central.
—Police officers Kintzinger and McCollins, of the day force, have been changed and given a position on the night force. Officers Klauer and Murphy take their places respectively.
—John Klein, charged with striking Jacob Heim of Peru township, was before Justice Hoffman for preliminary examination but was discharged, the defendant having failed .to appear.
—The town clock was stopped several times yesterday by the workmen who are about to repair and paint the tower. Why it is necessary to stop the clock just because the tower is being painted is not evident.
—The Key City house, corner Main and Third streets, Dubuque, is for rent. It is regarded as one of the best located hotels in the city. Address, John Deery,
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—Mr. Herman Ternes and Miss Clara Schmidt and Mr. Gottleib Weigle and Miss Anna Schmidt were married last evening at the residence of the bride’s parents on Sixteenth street, between Clay and White.
—St. Joseph’s branch of the Roman Catholic Mutual Protective society Monday evening selected Messrs. J. M. Werner and Peter Klauer as delegates to the state convention to be held at Iowa City two weeks from tomorrow.
—Kotze was arrested yesterday at the instance of James Milhollan, both of Center township. Mr. Milhollan charges Mr. Kotze with chopping wood on his (Milhollan’s farm. The trial will take place Friday before Squire Duffy.
—The Marion fire department will be present at the tournament and have about forty firemen inline. This will be the first time for Marion to attend a state tournament. Mr. Joseph Limback was here yesterday to look after the interests of the Dyersville department.
—Notwithstanding much is said about the importance of a blood purifying medicine, possibly the matter has never claimed your serious attention. Think of it new! If, by using Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, you avoid scrofula, and transmit health to your offspring, thank us for the suggestion.
—Mr. Lyman M. Ayers, chief of the Cedar Rapids fire department, is in the city arranging for the appearance of his department at the coming tournament. Mr. Ayers informs us that Cedar Rapids will send eleven companies, and two bands of music of thirty-two pieces, in all about 225 men.
—Don’t forget Hansen & Linehan clerks excursion on the steamer Linehansen, Sunday, May 30, to Galena and return. The Italian band will be in attendance. There will be a celebration at Galena on that day which ought to attract a large number of people. Boat leaves the levee at 10 o’clock a. m. sharp. —6 2-5-6.
—Mr. Ed. Beiler, the popular clerk at Fred Ruh’s, went north on the “Dutchman” yesterday to Potosi, Wis., where he will wed Miss Julia Esslinger, daughter of Mr. Esslinger, Esq. Mr. Beiler is one of our most promising young business men, brim full of enterprise and energy, and the bride one of Potosi’s most intelligent and charming young ladies. Mr. and Mrs. Beiler will be “at home” in Dubuque on Friday next, and will be cordially welcomed by hosts of friends..
—By land or at sea, out on the prairie, on in the crowded city, Ayer’s Cathartic Pills are the best for purgative purposes, everywhere convenient, efficacious, and safe. For sluggish bowels, torpid liver, indigestion, bad breath, flatulency, and sick headache, they are a sure remedy.
—Tuesday night three ladies’ two married and the other single—were on their way home from shopping. They had started up Sixth street and were in front of H. B. Glover & Co.’s factory when a lecherous villian came up and insulted them. One of the ladies, more daring than the rest, picked up a stone and threw it at the insulting cur. It unfortunately missed its object and struck the front wall of Glover’s building. This abject of humanity is known and the husbands of the ladies are on his tracks. He lives on Seventh street below Main.
—The funeral of the late John Kaltenbach yesterday was largely attended. The services were conducted by Rev. Herman Ficke, pastor of the German Congregational church. The dry goods firm of Mr. James Levi was closed at 2 o’clock, and proprietor and employes attended the services. They contributed a beautiful floral design, “Gates Ajar,” three feet high and of the same width at the base. Over the gates a white dove was perched, and on the arch the name of the beloved fellow-employe appeared in purple immortelles. The pall-bearers were selected from the clerks of the establishment, they being Messrs. Victor May, Henry Rose, Wm. L. Jackson, August Butt and I. J. Cheatham.
Mr. Geo. Richardson arrived in the city yesterday from the west. He is now traveling for a Chicago boot and shoe house.
Hon. J. K. Graves is reported as being in Washington. He accompanied Mrs. Graves east, she having sailed Saturday for Europe in company with Mr. and Mrs. Harger.
Mr. Bart E. Linehan was summoned to Maquoketa yesterday by telegraph to attend the suits now in progress there against the Inter-State fair managers, of which he was one.
Mr. Alphonse Rhomberg arrived from Texas yesterday to visit his brother, who leaves for Europe next Friday night. Mrs. Rhomberg, daughter, and son Joseph will leave Saturday morning.
Mr. Ezra Cowdrey, the tonsorial artist, departed last evening for Breckinridge, Col., 150 miles southwest of Denver, where he accepts a lucrative position in a large shop at that place. Mr. Cowdrey is one of the best workmen that ever came to Dubuque and the boys are all sorry at his leaving. They hope, however, that he will do well in his new home.
River News.
Arrival and Departure of Packets—Rafters Passing the Bridge—
Stage of Water—Other Interesting River Items.
From below came the Sidney with a good cargo of freight and some passengers and passed on to St. Paul.
The White Eagle was due to arrive last night, probably not until this morning. She was at Davenport at 8 a. m. yesterday.
The Mary Morton is due down Thursday.
No regular packets due to-day.
The following rafters passed the draw since our last report:
Up—Kit Carson, Abner Gile, Eclipse.
Down—Netta Durant, Moline, Golden Gate.
Stage of water, 9 feet.
St. Paul Pioneer: The White Collar line will run its steamer Centennial this season as an excursion boat. It will leave St. Louis June 5, make several stops before reaching St. Paul, and arrive here June 15. She will spend two weeks here during the camp-meeting season and then leave for St. Louis. On her way down she will stop at each town and run on excursions.
The White Collar line steamer War Eagle will arrive at St Paul Thursday morning, and leave the same afternoon on her return trip down the river.
Garbage Contract Awarded.
The board of health at a meeting yesterday awarded the garbage contract to T. E. Frith, well knowing from past services that he would perform the duties faithfully and well. The contract takes effect to-day when small wagons will form a train to collect garbage from alleys and door ways, to preserve the health of the city.
A New Wrinkle.
The employers and employers of the Galena Boot and Shoe Manufacturing company at Galena, with their wives and daughters, sweethearts, their sisters, cousins and their aunts, engaged in a picnic and social reunion at Smith’s Ferry yesterday. The party numbered about forty and created quite a stir when they drove down Main street early in the morning. The manufacturing company’s motto must be, “We are all on a level.” Such good feeling displayed between the employer as well as employe will eradicate all ill-feeling which may exist, and all ideas of strikes will be foreign in the breast of every workman in that establishment. Let it be a lesson for all to copy. Encourage good feeling and strikes will become unknown in this country.
MRS. CATHERINE LUCK.
One of the Early Settlers of Dubuque.
To the Editor of the Dubuque Herald.
The death of any of the earliest pioneer settlers of our city, county, and state awakens the eventful memories of the past in the minds of all the surviving friends and acquaintances. The venerable and highly respected Mrs. Luck, who died on Wednesday evening last, and whose funeral was well attended on Saturday afternoon by early settlers and other citizens, was born at Lancaster, Ganard county, Kentucky, in 1808. Her maiden name was Bright, and her father was one of the early settlers of that part of Kentucky many years before. Her husband was Larkins P. Luck, also from Kentucky, but born in Virginia, and brought his family to Dubuque in 1833, as soon as white men had a legal right to occupy any part of the region west of the Mississippi river and north of the state of Missouri, and even before what is now Iowa became a part of the territory of Michigan. He was the first wagon and sleigh maker in our city, and probably in Iowa. At that time there was but little demand for his good work, and he removed to Bowling Green, Pike county, Missouri, where he remained until 1836, when he where he remained until 1836, when he returned to Dubuque and for some years prospered in his business and then engaged in the grocery trade, and established a store in the mining neighborhood of Buena Vista, Clayton county, about 1850, and died at his home in this city in 1852.
Mrs. Luck was the mother of eleven children and five of them are still living. What interesting contrasts and reminiscences arise in reflecting on the time of her life and that of her surviving descendants. Some of her children were born at Dubuque when it was included as a part of Wisconsin territory, and some when the region was included in Iowa territory which then embraced the vast region west of the Mississippi and north of the state of Missouri, in which a number of new states and territories have since been organized.
Her surviving descendants are Mrs. Eliza J. Clark, widow of the late Simeon Clark, a well known early settler of Dubuque county; she now resides at Omaha, Neb. Another daughter is Mrs. Catherine Patterson of Peru township, Dubuque county; Mr. Greenberry Luck of New Hartford, Butler Ci., Ia., Mr. Geo. C. Luck of Dubuque city; and Mr. John T. Luck, at present a resident of Union Hill, N. J.
THE CROP PROSPECT.
Reports Received Indicate a Better Crop Generally than for Several Years Past.
Farmers who were in the city yesterday report the crops in a flourishing condition. Corn is looking well—better than at this date last year. The seed was better than for some years back and consequently the corn is stronger. The condition of cats, however, is the reverse of this in Iowa, as the last year crop was damaged considerably in many places in the stacks: a large number of farmers were compelled to purchase seed in consequence. A report from Wisconsin says that eats look well, in fact better than for some years and all other crops as well. Grass is not any better than last year at this time, although it is improving wonderfully of late. The frost of a week ago damaged garden crops slightly, particularly in low lands. On high ground it was not noticeable. The spring season has been warm and dry up to a week ago, which enabled the farmers to plant with little difficulty. There was only one unfavorable week since the season opened. All crops are now in the ground. Early in the season the ground was wet, and afterward became baked, which is perhaps the cause of the slight deficiency in the oat crop. The prospects, notwithstanding the condition of the Iowa oat crop, are brighter at this date than for several years past.
An Accident.
The fourteen year old son of Henry Becker employed in the office of the Iowa, on sixth street, ran his hand through a glass door and cut it terribly. A little finger was cut off. He picked it up and carried it to the office of Dr. Staples, who stitched it and will endeavor to grow it on again.
OUR CONTINUED STORY.
The Principal Actors in the “Love at First Sight Case” Now in Chicago—The Sheriff on Their Trail.
The continuation of the “love at first sight affair” published in the Herald of yesterday is as follows: The gentleman’s name who fell in love with the sixteen year old Miss near Sherill’s Mount is Mr. Marion Valentine and his bride expectant’s Miss Alma Nyss. Mr. Valentine has been working in this city for some time and is a son of sunny Italy having come to Dubuque from Chicago a few weeks ago. Miss Nyss is a young lady who has been working in the farm houses around Sherill’s Mount since her mother died some years ago. Her father lives in Milwaukee but does not support his daughter. So the story goes. At the first meeting it was arranged that the marriage should take place as soon as possible, and the betrothed ones separated. A week after Miss Alma wrote to her affianced stating that it was time he should fulfill his promise. He thought likewise and in company with a Dubuque gentleman went to the from house at which she was living. It happened that she had a brother who opposed the match, and endeavored to put an injunction on the proceedings, but as usual love laughed in his face. The young lady went up stairs, secured her belongings by means of a ladder which the lover placed at the window and escaped from the house. A carriage was in waiting near by, and in less time than it takes to pen it the runaway couple were on their way helter shelter to Dubuque. Of course it was understood at this time that a license could not be obtained here on account of the blunder the expectant bridegroom made by telling the true age of his fiance to Clerk Dunn. So
the did not attempt to get married without the license as the story goes, but drove to the Page house where they engaged a room for the night, and registered as Marion Valentine and wife. Fearing perhaps the angry brother would give chase, they concluded to leave Dubuque and so took the 10:40 train for Chicago the same night.
The brother did give chase, but came on the late train, as the birds had already flown. He at once notified the sheriff of the occurrence. That gentleman is now on the trail, and will probably go to Chicago for the purpose of bringing back the runaway couple. It is very likely that he will find them man and wife, and beyond the reach of his iron grasp, unless he charges the young man with abduction. The abductor, if such he may be called, is not what we represented him to be yesterday as far as looks go. He is inferior in size and intellect and is any thing but handsome. The sixteen year old Miss is not what could be termed a beauty either, but unlike her companion is rather intelligent.
DECORATION DAY.
A Committee Meeting in the Façade Building Last Evening.
There was held in the Facade building last evening a largely attended meeting of the committees having in charge the arrangements for the coming national holiday. The committees made their final reports. Indications are that there will be a larger turnout of societies, etc., than ever before in Dubuque. The two drum corps and the comet band will adorn the procession. There will be a floral car drawn by six white horses and containing thirty young ladies, one to represent each state. Invitations have been extended to the Mexican war veterans and also to the ex-confederate soldiers of Dubuque. Any of the societies wishing to join in the procession should report at once to the chief marshal, Capt. Langstaff.
The finance committee are collecting funds with which to defray the expenses of the day. Rev. Dr. Carroll will, as already announced, be the crater of the day, and will no doubt attract large crowds of people to Linwood. Rev. Mr. Brown will act as chaplain. Mr. H. F. Buxton has generously offered the use of the basement of his store for the storing of flowers.
Galena Firemen.
The members of Liberty Fire company No. 1 held a very enthusiastic meeting at Liberty hall, Galena, last Monday night, for the purpose of making arrangements to participate in the Fireman’s tournament to be held in this city. Forty-two members signed the roll to attend, and pledged themselves to turn out in full uniform. Other companies will follow suit, and we shall expect a large delegation of Galena’s firemen.
The Grey’s Flag.
Private Joseph E. Skemp, of the Governor’s Greys has been appointed color-sergeant of the company, and will be duly respected and obeyed accordingly. The rank of color-sergeant is always considered one of considerable honor and the promotion is therefore a compliment and well deserved. Sergeant Skemp will have charge of the stand of colors, consisting now of the flag recently presented by the young ladies of the city, and of the one borne by the second organization of Governor’s Greys in their lower Mississippi campaign in 1864. Steps are also being taken to present into the custody of the company the flag of the first organization of the Governor’s Greys of 1850—61. This flag was presented to the old company in 1860 by the young ladies of the city and was carried by them through the Wilson’s Creek campaign. It is now in possession of Maj. Gen. Frank Herron of New York. the captain of the old company. The surviving members now in the city are agitating the subject and it is probable the old flag will be publicly presented to the Greys, perhaps by Gen. Herron himself.
The Greys will act as the escort of the veterans of the two G. A. R. posts on memorial day. They will appear in full dress uniform.