The Hawk Eye Burlington, Des Moines, Iowa March 19, 1874 THE STATE - Scarlet fever is raging in Garner, Hancock county. - Coal has been discovered in Linn county near Fairfax. - The hearing of the case of Lewis M. Johnson, accused of the murder of Mrs. Brownlie and her son, is set for Monday the 23d instant, at Davenport. - Mrs. Mierker and her family were very nearly suffocated by gas one night last week, having left a lid partially out of its place on the coal stove in one of the sleeping apartments. - Colcord, the man arrested on the charge of embezzlement of money in the Shelden post office, has been released. The story of the embezzlement was without any foundation. - Mrs. William H. Clausen of Council Bluffs is the mother of a healthy son, forty-eight hours old, or rather young, weighing fifteen pounds. And yet old fogies croak about the degeneration of the human race. - The roof and ceiling of a school house near Council Bluffs caught fire last Monday and Mills Boucher went aloft and fought the fire with snow which the scholars passed up to her, until the progress of the devouring element was checked. The Council Bluffs fire companies propose to elect her an honorary member of the department. - Gunn, the detective, who tried to work up the Egglesht gang in Davenport, and made a signal failure of it, has made another brilliant movement. He played the agreeable to Egglesht's wife, and got four thousand dollars' worth of diamonds from her, on the plea of serving in her husband's cause. Before he could turn the jewels over to the bank he was working for, the woman replevined them. There may be, and indeed there are, more bungling men than the detectives of the nineteenth century, but they are dead. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/