The Daily Gazette City of Davenport Tuesday Morning June 3, 1862 Local Matters In Town-Mr. James F. Morton, formerly postmaster at Hickory Grove, is in town and stopping at the Pennsylvania House. We are informed he is now adjutant general of Dacotah Territory, and is on his way to join Gov. Jayne at Springfield. New Methodist Minister.-Rev. Landon Taylor is expected this week to take charge of the Methodist church in this city for the balance of the conference year, in place of Rev. J. G. Dimmitt. We believe Mr. Taylor has been stationed here before. Serious Scuffling.-James Conners and Patrick Hennessy, lately employed as deck hands on the steamer Bill Henderson, got into a playful scuffle on the platform in the rear of R. M. Prettyman's store, and while so engaged they fell over the low railing into the cellar beneath. Both seemed to be seriously injured-one in the leg, the other in the breast. They were able to walk home, however. Suicide by Poison.-Mr. Richard Platt, of Rock Island, poisoned himself yesterday in that city by taking a large dose of strychnine. When discovered he was in spasms. He died at 4 1-2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Mer. Platt was a picture-frame maker, and was formerly a resident of this city, doing business in Merwin's block. He had been much dejected, and indeed always seemed to be unfortunate, which weighed on his mind very much. He was about fifty years old, and leaves a wife and large family in really destitute circumstances. A Fellow Citizen Turned Up.-It has been a question in our mind, from his long silence, whether our former active fellow-citizen and correspondent, Hiram A. Reid, had not gone to the shades. We did not suppose he could live so long in this active world of ours and amid times so stirring, without us seeing his name figuring in some capacity connected to the war. Here it is at last. In the report of the Western Sanitary Commission, located at St. Louis, occurs the following sentence, "A very energetic and efficient relief agent, Rev. H. A. Reid, is employed to procure transportation, and superintend the debarkation of the furloughed and discharged men, form all the hospitals of the city." Death of a Davenport Soldier.-The Cincinnati Israelite, of the 30th ult., contains a notice of the death, at Paducah, Ky., of Louis Schoen, of this city. Mr. Schoen was a sergeant in Capt. Wentz's company, in the first Iowa regiment, and was honorably noticed in the accounts of that battle. He subsequently endeavored to raise a company for a new regiment, and, failing in that went to St. Louis, and enlisted there in a Missouri regiment. Mr. Schoen was a native of Kalserslantern, in the kingdom of Bavaria, and was about 26 years old at the time of his death. He came to the his city in the fall of 1857, and was in the employ of Mr. Isaac Mass and Straus & Billstein till the breaking out of the war. His death was caused by typhoid fever. Board of Supervisors The Board of Supervisors assembled for the June term at 11 1-2 o'clock yesterday. In the absence of the President, Mr. Shaw, of Buffalo was chosen President pro tem. The following members answered to their names: Thos. K. Fluke, Homer Carpenter, Giles M. Pinneo, Dan B. Shaw, Phillip Earhart, John Coleman, George M. Matthes, Jno. C. Quinn, William M. Murray. ~~~~~~*~~~~~~ Elaine Rathmann ACC Scott Co, IA USGenWeb Project List Adm: *IA-CIVIL-WAR *IA-DANES