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The conviction of Earl Jones, for the alleged abduction of Grace Rynyon, daughter of a Corning banker, was set aside by the Supremem Court of Iowa last Friday. It is thought that the matter will not come up for trial again....

Jones is now working in a seed house in Shenandoah.

Mrs L.A. Lewis and A.J. Enbody, who were visiting here this week, went down to Rock Port Wednesday and were quietly married, much to the surprise of her many friends here. The matter was hardly hinted at here, but there must have been someone who knew something of the intentions of the couple.

Mrs Lewis is an organizer for the Knights & Ladies of Security and largely through her work this order has a large membership in Hamburg. During her many visits to Hamburg she has endeared herself to the people. Mr. Enbody is not so well known here but is a man in every sense of the word. The editor of this paper worked on a newspaper in Dunlap while Mr Enbody was located there as editor of the Reporter and postmaster of the town, and has the pleasure of knowing him as a man of sterling qualities. The best wishes of a host of friends is extended to the happy couple. They will make their home in Council Bluffs, at least for the present.

While working in the timber two and one-half miles east of Riverton, on Monday, Art Elston was killed by a falling limb.

He was working with another hired man on the farm of Asa Tackket and between 11 and 12 o'clock had felled a tree. The other man was in the act of picking up the saw, to see if it had been bent by the falling tree, when he heard a crash. Upon looking up he saw that Elson had been thrown to the ground by a falling limb from another tree. It seems that the limbs of two trees had interlocked, and in falling had broken off a large limb, which did not give way until several minutes after the tree had been felled. Elston was crushed about the skull and his shoulder and neck were broken. He was taken to the house nearby and a doctor called, but he passed away before the doctor arrived.

The young man came to this section from Missouri, where his brother lives. His parents live in Oklahoma, where the body will be taken.

After a lingering illness covering most of the winter, W.F. James passed away on Saturday. For some years he has lived in and around Hamburg, and is well known to all. For a short time he was engaged in the grocery business, owning the store now conducted by D.R. Finley.

William Franklin James was born in Pike county, Missouri, Sept 21, 1834, having reached the advanced age of 81 years, 5 months and 22 days. He was married at the age of 20 to Mrs Eliza Headley, and to this union were born four children, two boys and two girls, of whom one son and one daughter survive. Mr James was married to his present wife on Nov 3, 1909. Of his immediate family, so far as known, an only brother remains, J.D. James of Shenandoah. Mr James served in the Civil War, was a high Mason and a member of the Christian church for many years.

The funeral services were held Tuesday at the Baptist church, conducted by Rev A. Welby Tandy, with interment in the Hamburg cemetery.

Word went out Sunday evening that Fred Johnson had passed away and the news brought sadness to the town and community. While life held by only a slender chord for many days, yet it was thought at times that he might again recover. For over a year and a half Mr Johnson had been in poor health, part of the time up and in good spirits and again bedfast.

Fred Johnson was born in Hjorning, Denmark, Oct 11, 1856, and died in Hamburg, Iowa, March 14, 1915, aged 58 years, 5 months and 3 days. He came to the United States in 1872, and located at Riverton, Iowa. On Feb 18, 1880, he was married to Miss Susan C. Cox. To this union nine children were born, six boys and three girls, six of whom are now living, four boys and two girls. Of the others two died in infancy, and Carter died at Red Oak, Iowa, May 26, 1909. He joined the Lutheran church in Denmark by confirmation, but after coming to this country united with the Methodist Episcopal church in 1876, of which he has been an official member for years, and was such at the time of his death. His judgment was good, his life was consistent and he never failed to sustain the church of his choice, financially and by regular attendance when in good health. For over a year his health has been poorly, and though he and his wife and family did all they could to ward off the coming of death, yet for some time they knew the end was coming and he faced it with the faith of a Christian and died in the hope of eternal life.

Thus Hamubrg loses a good citizen, the church a faithful and consistent member, the family a good provider and father, and the wife has lost a kind and faithful husband. May a kind Providence help them all.

Two brothers and three sisters were at his bedside. He has three brothers living, John of Riverton, Ia., Christ of Los Angeles, Calif., Martin of Nebraska City, John and Chris attending the funeral. Three sisters, Mrs Tena Christenson of Union, Neb., Mrs Hanna Baumgatten of Wyoming, Neb., Mrs Rihka Breece of Red Oak, Ia. His nephew's acted as pall bearers. He also leaves four grandchildren.

Mr Johnson was a member of the Modern Woodmen.

We are in receipt of a paper from Luray, Va., containing an account of the death of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Biedler, a sister of H.F. Brumback of this place, who is now visiting his old home in Virginia. The death occurred at "The Locusts," the old homestead of the Biedler's, on Tuesday, March 16.

We clip the following regarding the family, who are people of advanced age. "She was a member of the Brumback family, remarkable for its longevity, and her's is the first death that has occurred in the generation to which she belonged. Her surviving brothers and sisters are: R.T. Brumback of Rileyville, age 90; Dr David H. Brumback of McMinnville, Tenn., aged 87; Henry F. Brumback of Hamburg, Iowa, aged 85; Mrs Ann Hudson of Luray, aged 81; Mrs Fannie A. Forrer of Luray, aged 79; Dr J.B. Brumback of Springfield, this county, aged 75; E.T. Brumback of Ida, this county, aged 73; and Mrs Mattie Stover of near Luray, aged 68. The combined ages of the nine children was 721 years, an average of over 80 years each. Their father, John Brumback, died at the age of 77, and their mother, who was a Miss Thomas of near Broadway, was 89 years old when she died at the old Brumback homestead near Ida, now the residence of E.T. Brumback."