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Around Burlington: Horse's death, muddied ownership spurred a lengthy dispute over its disposal cost thehawkeye.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehawkeye.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Around Burlington: Circuses provided regular entertainment for 19th and early 20th century Burlington thehawkeye.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehawkeye.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye History books try to ignore it and no where in Burlington is there a suitable plaque raised to those that dealt with it. But before the start of the 20th century, our forebears were fighting an often disgusting battle to keep the problem in check. Simply put, the problem was poop. Human waste, excrement, night soil. And it was for good reason that early Burlington was cursed with the nickname “Turd Town.” The city’s natural drainage lines, a lack of laws and horrible hygiene habits converted the streets and alleys of the “Lower Town” into a quagmire of waste animal and otherwise. Hawkeye Creek was an open sewer, raw sewage floated in the river and the levee was considered a public lavatory. ....
Bob Hansen for The Hawk Eye It certainly did not merit the courtroom gymnastics of that fictional lawyer, Perry Mason, and regardless of whatever intoxicant Sherlock Holmes may have consumed that day, the famous detective would not deem to consider it. But in September 1894, the mystery of Nyhart’s oats was just about the most exciting crime on Burlington’s court dockets. The basics of the case were relatively straightforward. A.J. Nyhart farmed in the northern reaches of Des Moines County. That summer he had produced a bumper crop of grain. After an early harvest, he had seven stacks of oats and wheat valued at $350 standing in his south field awaiting movement to market. But that all changed on a warm late summer night. ....
This lucky shot served to momentarily curb the enthusiasm of the mob and it hesitated, allowing the gunman to disappear in the darkness around the Catholic church. But the mob quickly rallied and the hunt was on. “The audacity of the attempt at the murder and the utter absence of any motive dazed the people who appeared at the city street corners to hear a statement of facts. It was the town’s ghost story. For four hours, people gathered as a growing mob of searchers scoured every corner of North Hill,” the paper recorded. Then, shortly after 1 a.m. there came the sound of shots. Henry Stroh had opened the door of a shed and flushed a figure that ran off, pursued by Walter Fritsche and others. Near George Lane’s house, a lucky shot grazed the gunman and persuaded him to stop. He was quickly gathered up and marched off to the jail. ....