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Escape—Inkpadutah Never Captured—Major Williams’ Report—Governor Grimes’ Message
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321-329
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| XXVII
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The Banditti of the Mississippi Valley—Brown’s Michigan Colony at Bellevue—The Beginning of Their Depredations—Battle at the Headquarters Where Their Leader is Slain—Capture and Death of Outlaws and Summary Punishment of Prisoners—Murder of Colonel Davenport, Capture and Execution of Murderers—John Ingle Murdered, Lynching of the Assassins—Murder of Mrs. Barger, Lynching of the Murderer—Proclamation of Vigilance Committee—Seven Hundred Members Bound by Secret Oaths—Young Man and Wife Murdered—Summary Fate of the Assassin—“Regulators” Organize at Big Rock—Killing of Alonzo Page in Cedar County—Peter Conklin of Johnson County Slain—Lynching of Charles Clute—Hanging of Bennett Warren of Clinton County—Crimes and Lynching of Alonzo Gleason and Edward Soper in Cedar County—Lynching of Hiram Roberts in Jones County—Citizens Condemn Lawless Acts of Regulators—Brave Canada McCollough Defies the Regulators—Their Lawless Acast Cease
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331-350
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Failure of Des Moines River Improvements—Removal of State Officers to Des Moines—Election in 1857—The New Constitution Adopted—Great Financial Depression—Legislature of 1858—Financial Condition of the State—Acts for State Banking System and State Agricultural College—Des Moines River Land Grant Diverted to Aid a Railroad—The Code Commission—Lathrop’s Estimate of the Seventh General Assembly—Governor Grimes Elected United States Senator—Crop Failure and Financial Distress in 1858—Indian Troubles in the Northwest—Growing Conflict Over American Slavery—Political Conventions of 1859—Samuel J. Kirkwood Elected Governor
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351—371
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| XXIX
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The “Underground Railroad” in Iowa—John Brown in the Kansas War—Young Men of Iowa Become His Followers—Pardee Butler of Iowa Assailed
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