Iowa Old Press

Allamakee Journal
Lansing & Waukon, Allamakee co. Iowa
Wednesday, June 4, 1902

ADS:
-GEO. COPPERSMITH, CHURCH, IOWA-Flour, Rye flour, Corn Meal, Graham and Sugar by the barrel or sack.
-J. P. Conway, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Lansing, Iowa, office two doors west of P. O.
-J. H. Trewin, H. E. Taylor, Trewin & Taylor, Attorneys at Law, Lansing , Iowa, office over the Bank.
-State Bank of Lansing, Main Street, Near Corner of Second. S. H. Hazelton, Pres., H. Nielander, Vice Pres., B. F. Thomas, Cashier.
-B. G. Bassler, M. D., Harpers Ferry, Iowa. Office in Klett building.
-H. W. Riser, Dentist, Lansing, Iowa, office over Julson’s Jewelry Store, New Albin every Monday.
-Wm S. Hart, Attorney at Law, Office in O’Brien block, Waukon, Iowa.
-James Byrnes, Attorney at Law, Waukon, Iowa, Office over Lee Brothers.
-D. J. Murphy, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Probate Law a specialty. Office over Tracy’s store, Main St., Waukon, Iowa.
-A. G. Stewart, Attorney at Law, office in Stone block, over H. Simmonson’s Store., Waukon, Iowa.
-J. E. O’Brien, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, office in Opfer-Martin Block, East Main Street.
-L. B. Mason, Auctioneer, sales of mercantile stocks a specialty.
-J. C. Crawford, Physician and Surgeon, Waukon, Iowa.
-Nachtwey & Co., The Reliable Pharmicists, includes wallpaper in ad.
-I. T. Green, Waukon, Iowa, two doors south of P. O., VOSE Pianos.
-Pioneer Meat Market, Main St., opp. Bank, Lansing, Iowa.
-Modern Laundry, Carl Roggensock, Agent, “Little Gem” Barber Shop.
-Thomas Saam’s, Lansing, Iowa, A full line of wallpaper, latest styles.
-Citizen’s State Bank, President - W. C. Earle, Vice President - Mrs. J. E. Duffy, Cashier – W. E. Beddow, Ass’t. Cashier – W. H. Niehaus, Teller – C. H. Earle.
-J. E. Tully & Co. We buy all kinds-Pearls, Slugs, Boroques, 14 Maiden Lane, New York.
-Mrs. M. C. McKeenan, view at Mrs. L. M. Sharp’s Millinery Rooms, Main Street, Waukon, I have the Newman Bros’
–The best organs manufactured and one that took first prize at the World’s Fair. Come and see me.
-West Side Meat Market, (opp. Britain’s old stand.) Schelsmidt Bros., Prop’rs.
-M. A. Wittlinger, Stone Block, Allamakee Street, Waukon, Iowa, (restaurant).
-The Waukon Laundry, Geo. W. Green, Proprietor. Three doors south of the P.O.
-City Meat Market, Jacobsen & Ashbacher, South of Slitor House, Waukon, Iowa.
-WEBSTER’S INTERNATIONL DICTIONARY, 25,000 new words, standard authority of the English-speaking world. G. & C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Mass.
-Waukon Granite and Marble Works, Bircher & Riley, Proprietors, Waukon, Iowa.

EXCURSION RATES.
Round trip rate to Clear Lake, Iowa, $6.10, good to return 30 days from date of sale.
Only $47.50 to Portland, Oregon, and return via c. M. & St. P. R’y. Tickets on sale May 27th to June 8th. Return limit 60 days from date of sale. Stop over privileges going and returning. You can go via Omaha, Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake and Huntington and return Via Northern Pacific R’y or Canadian Pacific R’y and St. Paul or vice versa. The C. M. & St. P. R’y will run onr or more of their sleepers through to Portland. $50.00 to San Francisco, going one way and returning another. For further information call on agents of the C., M. & St. P. R’y, or write John R. Cook, special Excursion Agent, West Union, Iowa. J. Boeckh, Ag’t.

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In view of the adverse results of the caucuses in Cerro Gordo county J. E. Blythe last week withdrew from the congressional race in this district. This, we opine, is in the interest of neither Haugen nor Rule but rather a sharp political move to the advantage of some “dark horse.” Chickasaw county has already announced a candidate and Speaker Eaton of Mitchell county, and ex-speaker Bowen of Allamakee, will bear watching. The latter would make a good compromise candidate and we have heard not a few of our leading republicans say that his candidacy would be a happy solution of not only the Blythe-Haugen contention but the old Gear-Cummins fight as well. The latter, in the opinion of many, contributed as much to the undoing of Blythe as the former. Allamakee could not be kept from her favorite son and if the genial Waukon doctor can only be induced to put up his lightning rod the congressional convention at Charles City on the 19th will do the rest.

LANSING, MAIN OFFICE, BLUFF BLOCK, OPPOSITE POST OFFICE
WEDNESDAY NOON, JUNE 4, 1902

-ELMENDORF’S, FIRST DOOR WEST OF BANK. Excellent styles in Children’s hats. The best in Shirt Waist Hats, of our own trimming—hence exclusive. Headquarters for mourning goods. Hats, Bonnets and Veils always in stock. Our great advance sale before Easter has necessitated large invoices of new goods, which are arriving this week. Miss Hazen’s trimming, for originality and knowledge of the best the market affords, is unsurpassed. Manufacturers’ Agents for Kimball, Hallet & Davis Pianos and Kimball Organs. We can save you from $25 to $100 if you buy of us.

CITY CHIT-CHAT
-Early potatoes in bloom.
-Fire company meeting to-night.
-Mass at New Albin next Sunday.
-A $25 wheel for $10, enquire at this office.
-Carpenters scarce – Theo. Kerndt has them all employed.
-Fred Troendle of LaCrosse, spent Friday and Saturday in the city.
-The Strong pearl, mentioned in our last, was sold Wednesday for $250.00.
-But five were ticketed out of here for the Waukesha excursion Saturday night.
-The swimming season has already been inaugurated on the sandbar opposite town.
-Thomas Dixon, the R.R. contractor, orders his paper changed from West Chicago to Waverly, Iowa.
-Dr. Fisk’s optician trade increases with every visit here. He fitted glasses for fourteen different parties here one day last week.
-If you want a bargain in lands in the Dakotas, Minnesota or Wisconsin it will pay you to look over those in Rob’t Hufschmidt has listed for sale.
-Yesterday was an ideal summer day.
-Some cultivating, others plowing for and planting corn.
-Examination, the pupils’ bane, in progress at the City Schools this week and next.
-Capoli Button Works bought 25 tons of shells Saturday, for which $14 a ton was paid.
-Mrs. Herman Haas is visiting relatives in St. Paul, leaving for there yesterday morning.
-Mrs. M. P. Hogan of Dubuque, arrived Monday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. M. Whalen.
-Miss Anna Thomas left Monday to attend Commencement at the Young Ladies’ Seminary, Rockford, Ills.
-Frank Peters went to LaCrosse Thursday to consult Dr. Mauer, being the latest victim of the “cattle disease.”
-June, the month of roses and first of the summer calendar, promises to be as wet as May, if we may judge by the opening days.
-The Wagner berry patch north of the city has changed hands, Hans Hasse being the new proprietor. He pays $1800 for the seventy acres.
-Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Regan of Lycurgus, have become the possessors of a new piano, purchased recently of Boothe Bros., Davenport, Iowa.
-Artist McGarrity secured several views of the dedicatory ceremonies at Gethsemane cemetery Decoration Day, which will doubtless soon be on sale at his photo gallery.
-A perfect pearl weighing 121 grains was recently found near Prairie du Chien and Bundy and Upmeyer of Milwaukee, who bought it for $2,000.00, now claim it to be worth $10,000.
-W. P. Dodds has engaged in the land business as will be seen by the notice elsewhere in these columns. He is an old real estate man and will be pleased to let his friends in on the ground floor before good land goes skyward.
-Geo. P. Bellows, having sold his farm in French Creek township, will have a public sale of all his personal effects, including cows, horses, young stock, swine, farm machinery and household furniture, on Tuesday, June 10. J. P. Becker, auctioneer.
-After a two weeks’ suspension for needed repairs and improvements, the City Mills are again in [business] They inform us that they are better prepared than ever to do custom grinding of all kinds. Remember them with your next grist.
-Senator Hoar’s speech on the Philippine bill in this issue.
-St. George’s Court, No.. 1255, C. O. F., meets Friday evening.
-Home grown strawberries have been on the market for a week past.
-The H. W. Riser family left yesterday for a week’s visit with Minneapolis relatives.
-Doctors have been busy since early last winter and the sick list shows no perceptible dimunition as yet.
-Weeks and possibly months are expected to elapse before the county bridge at Columbus can be replaced.
-“Capt.” McGarry is the ferryman at Columbus. He transferred sixty-seven teams by actual count Saturday.
-The dance advertised for Forester Hall, Harper’s Ferry, June 6, by Mr. Hamilton, has been postponed till the 13th.
-Charley Riser took the early train yesterday for a trip to Fergus county, Montana, where he has a brother residing.
-It is reported that Frank Whaley has traded his Front street property, the old Simonson place, for North Dakota land.
-The fishing season opened on the 15th ult. But high water since has prevented much of anything in the angling line as yet.
-N. & Co. have painted their Boat Store and the old Kemble warehouse, No. 7, which wonderfully improves the appearance of both.
-Will Lyons of Chicago is renewing acquaintances in the city after an absence of eight years. He says it feels good to get back to the old town.
-Oak Hill never looked more beautiful on Memorial Day than this year. Flowers would have been more plentiful a week or two earlier or later, however.
-Something of the nicest and latest styles of wall paper just in and at prices to suit the times. Look them over before buying elsewhere. At Nachtwey & Co’s.
-The H. Bensch family have been entertaining a relative, Mr. George Eager of Jamestown, N. D., the past week. He is one of the prominent attorneys of his city.
-Wise is the girl whose sense of self interest prompts her to take Rocky Mountain Tea. It fills her full of vigor and there is always honey in her heart for you. J. Ackerman.
-Not a few of Hon. J. H. Trewin’s friends have been heard to remark the past week, that if still a resident of the district he would stand a mighty good show of going to Congress.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Funke of LaCrosse were among Saturday’s arrivals. J. B. returned Monday but his wife remains for a week or ten days’ visit wither parents, Capt. And Mrs. Turner.
-Wm. Gelo of Lycurgus went to LaCrosse Monday to secure medical aid, having suffered for the past month from a disease supposed to be contracted from cattle and of which thee have been quite a few cases hereabouts.
-Capt. Bascom and Mr. Schreiner, a Dubuque steamboat contractor, drove out to the Ryan & Miller camp Monday in quest of hardwood lumber. They took dinner with the boys and report that chef Shields set out a spread fir for a king.
-Mrs. A. H. Woodruff is back at the old home in this city after an all winter sojourn with her daughter at Chippewa Falls, Wis. She came to look after property interests that needed her attention and she may remain for the summer.
-J. Ackerman, Drug store.
-“Children’s Day” will be observed Sabbath morning, June 8, at the M. E. Church, service beginning at 10:30. In the evening there will be a union service at the Presbyterian church, this being the occasion of the class sermon before the graduating class of the high school.
-John Miller returned from Houston county, Minn., last Wednesday, where he purchased $5,000.00 worth of hardwood timber, enough to keep the Ryan & Miler saw mill busy for a year. They will remove to Houston county in about six weeks if no more timber is offered them hereabouts.
-B. F. Thomas was summoned Saturday fro Dubuque where he had gone to attend a Masonic school of instruction, by a sudden change for the worse in the condition of his father. Dr. Greene accompanied him and Mr. Thomas rallied so that the doctor was enabled to return home Monday.
-Lansing Camp, No. 2142, M. W. A., is planning for a big turnout to the County Picnic at Postville next Wednesday. The Cornet Band has been hired and the Camp will go in style. The railroad has arranged for a special excursion train that day, leaving here at 8 a. m., fare for the round trip, $1.25. This ought to insure a big crowd from here.
-At the First Presbyterian church on Sunday at 11 a.m., “Children’s Day” services will be held under the auspices of the Sunday School. Subject: “Seven Glimpses of the Sunday School.” In the evening at 7:30 p.m., a union service at which Rev. C. E. Stinson, of them. E. Church, will preach the baccalaureate sermon to the High School graduating class. The other services are as usual. We invite all who do not worship elsewhere to come with us.
-Woodruff’s pasture is again in shape for the reception of stock and affords fine feed.
-The finding of one or more valuable pearls is almost an everyday banality hereabouts.
-Herman Roggensack went to Sparta, Wis., Thursday, for an over Sunday sojourn with his brother Henry.
-See Hufschmidt before investing in Western lands. His lists comprise some of the very best on the market.
-Rev. John Webb was the M. E. pastor here in 1853, swinging round the circuit once a month. Who remembers him?
-John Saam, principal of the Hopkinton city schools, is home for vacation. He has been re-engaged there for another year.
-A steel ceiling of Romanesque design is being put in the old Kemble storeroom by N. & Co. Work on the new double front begins to-day.
-Dr. J. H. Thornton, office over Schobert’s barber shop, residence on diagonal street, corner Platt. Prompt attention to medical and surgical calls at any hour, day or night.
-Lutie Roggensack of Lafayette township [illegible] fourteen years, a pearl [illegible]. He has been clamming five or six weeks and in all has cleaned up about $500.00
-The barbers’ “merger” is the latest. The proprietors of the three shops here have signed an agreement to close at 8 p.m. after June 7. Sensible move, and one that the public will approve of.
-The C. Riser farm of 139 acres on May’s Prairie, the old Fred Feurhelm place, has been sold to Chas. Dee. Consideration, $7,000. Mr. Riser takes off this year’s crop and afterwards will most likely move to this city and take life easy.
-Phil Roggensack, the blacksmith, having a little leisure yesterday, borrowed a clam outfit and made a few hauls in front of the city. On “cooking out” his wife found a beautiful round pearl weighing 22 grains, and variously estimated to be worth between $200.00 and $500.00.
-John Howe of Lafayette, was wearing his sweetest smile as he passed the cigars to friends in honor of a brand new girl baby, and Mr. and Mrs. John Cassidy of the same township, were favored Saturday by a similar streak of good fortune. Congratulations to both proud papas!
-A fatal wreck occurred on the Burlington at Alma, Wis., last Thursday, resulting in the death of two and the maiming of several of the head officers of the road. Sup’t. Cunningham of LaCrosse, is among the latter, and although obliged to submit to the amputation of one limb close to the body, it is thought he will recover.
-Yesterday’s Dubuque papers chronicled an accident to Wm. M. Dickens, formerly of this city. He is an employee of the Key City Roofing Co. and Monday was blown from the roof of the main building of the Iowa Iron Works plant, a distance of sixty feet. His skull was fractured and he was injured internally, from which it is not thought he can recover. Dickens has a wife and two children.
-The blessing of Gethsemane cemetery, the Memorial chapel and stations of the cross therein, on Decoration Day, was an imposing affair and largely attended. Rev. M. K. Norton of Lycurgus, officiated in place of Archbishop Keane, and was assisted by Fathers Haxmeier, Schwartz and Brady. The latter preached on the text: “It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead.” The cemetery presented a most beautiful appearance and now
enjoys the distinction, if we mistake not, of being the only Catholic burial ground in the county that has been thus consecrated. A potter’s field was left in the northwest corner and not blessed.

Excursion to M. W. A. Picnic at Postville.
Special train will leave Lansing at 8 a.m., Wednesday, June 11. Fare for the round trip, $1.25. Everybody invited to attend. Good time guaranteed. There will be sports of all kinds including tugs of war, Forester drills, trap shooting, races, balloon ascension, game ball between the Chicago Marquetes and Algona “Colored” Club, and many other attractions. J. Boeckh, Ag’t.

-Supervisor Cavers has made a careful examination of the bridges in his district and finds the number of bridges gone out as follows: Center 6, Iowa 1, Lansing 3, Lafayette 0, Paint Creek 3, Taylor 1. He also finds the approaches to thirty-five or exactly one-half the bridges in the above district damaged.

-We are still doing business at the old stand, two doors west of the Bank, and invite you to drop in when in want of anything in the general merchandise line. Our groceries will always be found fresh and prices the lowest, J. B. Zoll.

-Miss Ita Mitchell, who has been teaching the past year at Fairmont, Minn., returned Saturday via this city to her home near Waukon.
-Jim Brown, the Indian, was fined $10 and sentenced to twenty days in jail at Ferryville one day last week for trying to drown his squaw.
-Rob’t Wittbecher is at Postville attending the County S. S. Convention.

A SAD HOMECOMING
The many friends of the family hereabouts were shocked Saturday on learning of the death early that morning in Chicago of William J. Whalen, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Whalen of Lafayette. The father had been called to Chicago by telegram the day before and arrived a few hours before his son breathed his last at the Alexian Brothers’ hospital after just one week’s illness with pneumonia. He had the consolation, however, of being recognized and bearing to mother and loved ones at home the dying message of a most obedient and affectionate son and brother.

Deceased was aged about 27 years. He was a fine young man, a credit to his parents and one whose memory will ever be cherished by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. After leaving school he taught for a time and then graduated from Toland’s Business University at LaCrosse. At the time of his death he was filling a position as a stenographer for the Theile Detective Agency and was educating a younger brother, Kerr, in the city. The father and son accompanied the remains to this city Monday where a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends met them at the depot. The funeral occurred yesterday at Wexford and was largely attended. The Journal extends sympathy to the bereaved ones, feeling confident that it is well with him who has gone before and that his awakening in the realms of bliss will bring him peace and contentment, and that he will patiently and lovingly await the coming of those he so loved while on earth.

ADS:
-The man who likes a GOOD FISHING OUTFIT!—ACKERMANN’S PHARMACY.
-JOHN JOHNSON—GROCERIES AND CROCKERY, CANNED FRUITS, The “Daisy” and “Charm” flour, the best in the Market.
-Spring and Summer MILLINERY, MISS M. SCHACH. “White front”, Main Street.
-Modern Floors for Modern Houses, LANSING LUMBER CO.
-Parasols, 50c to $5.00, Our $1.00 Parasols are made of fast black mercerized twill material which will keep color, will stand the sun and rain and made with steel rods.Our $1.50 Parasols are made of guaranteed silk serge in a big variety of pretty handles of silver and pearly mountings.Plain colored Taffeta Silk Parasols in endless variety in green, red, navy and brown at $1.50, $2.00, $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00.Fancy Colored Silk Parasols in all variety of colors of white, black, pink, blue, red and lavender from $1.00 to $3.50. Children’s Fancy Parasols, all styles, all colors, all prices—15c to $1.50 at G. KERNDT & BROS’S.

WAUKON BRANCH OFFICE, WEST MAIN ST., UPSTAIRS, UNION BLOCK
WEDNESDAY NOON, JUNE 4, 1902.

THE TOWN TALK.
-W. T. Gilchrist, Optician.
-Wall paper at Grimm Bros.
-Eggs taken in exchange for Wall Paper at Grimm Bros.
-Dr. Cain, office at residence, West Main Street.
-Everything new and knobby in the hat line at J. F. Dougherty’s.
-The Feast of Corpus Christi was celebrated in St. Patrick’s church last Sunday.
-Guests at The Grand were regaled with new potatoes last Sunday, the first of the season.
F. H. Molumby moved into his new home, purchased from H. Krieger, last Wednesday.
-Harry Gibbs has taken the position of clerk at The Model restaurant, Mr. Gordon, the former clerk, returning to his home in Ohio.
-Rev. J R. Caffyn of Evanston, Ill., will occupy the Methodist pulpit during Rev. W. G. Crowder’s absence in Europe. He and his wife will occupy rooms at Mrs. Taggart’s.
-The writer received a pleasant letter recently from Father Mahoney, formerly of Cherry Mound, who is now located at Quigley, this State, and we are sure his old parishioners and other friends will be pleased to learn that he is well and happy.
-Matt Egan of Cherry Mound is another one of our good young men to leave us. He has rented his farm and departed the fore part of the week for Emmons county, North Dakota, where he has recently purchased land He will remain until winter.
-Home grown vegetables are plentiful in the market this week.
-Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. Reid arrived home from Chicago last Thursday.
-Henry Lamont went to Hot Springs, Ark., last week to take a course of treatment for rheumatism.
-Miss Louise Minert, who teaches music and art in the Austin, Minn. public schools, is at home for the summer vacation.
-Sidney Bowen, who is attending Northwestern Medical college, Chicago, arrived home Friday to spend the summer vacation.
-Capt. Colsch and his detachment returned Thursday from Cedar Rapids where they had been qualifying as sharpshooters. The Captain says the shooting was “fair”.
-Frank McCabe, who runs Ryan feed barn, has moved into the Ryan house near by recently vacated by Frank Molumby. It will make it more convenient for his business.
-Mrs. P. H. Magruder and children went to Lawler Monday, called thither by news of the serious illness of her sister, Miss Gurnett, who recently visited here. Later news reported her better.
-New Hampton papers state that the August Buntrock family resided in the flooded district in Decorah, and suffered considerable damage to their furniture.
-James Flanagan, one of Waukon’s bright young men, who has been teaching the past year in the Toland Business College at Fairmont, Martin county, Minn., arrived home Saturday for the summer vacation.
-Carl Strand, who has had charge of Gilchrist’s jewelry department, went to Fayette last week where he goes into partnership in the jewelry business with Dr. M. W Baker, the optician, who makes periodical visits to this city.
-Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Miner departed yesterday for a visit with their son, Dr. Miner at Traer. From there they go to Iowa City where their daughter, Miss Cora, graduates from the dental department of the State University next week.
-The Decorah Public Opinion and the Journal both contained lengthy and well written accounts of the flood disaster which overtook that city week before last. The former had a number of views of the wreck and ruin appearing after the subsidence of the waters.
-The Waukon and Lycurgus Catholic Foresters, who have been having some good natured jousts at baseball for several years past, opened the season at Conner’s meadow on Silver Creek last Sunday afternoon. Waukon won with a score of 11 to 5. Seven innings were played.
-It is reported that the railroad company has abandoned the excursion train from Waukon to the Woodman picnic at Postville next Wednesday on account of the poor condition of the track on the branch. If this is correct it will play sad havoc with the attendance from Waukon.
-The first ball game of the season took place at the fair ground Saturday afternoon and a right good one it was, too. The Waukon and Postville High School teams were the contestants and the latter won by a score of 4 to 3. Considering the fact that this was the first game that Waukon has played this season, while their opponents have played several, our boys did very well.
-John H. Kelly, Carter’s right hand man in the shoe store, whose wife and little daughter left three weeks ago to visit with relatives at LaCrosse and Jamestown, N. D., received the unwelcome intelligence that the little one had contracted scarlet fever either in LaCrosse or on the way and the family were quarantined at Jamestown. He had a letter Monday saying that she was getting along all right.
-Ole Quam, who has been in charge of the section here for a number of years past, was notified last week by Roadmaster Brennan to engage a crew of twenty-five or thirty men for work all summer ballasting and repairing the damage done the branch by the recent storms. Mr. Quam has been a faithful and reliable employee and the promotion was a well deserved one. It brings with it a substantial increase in salary. Ole’s brother-in-law, Mr. Skaaden, who has been working with him on the section, will succeed him as boss.
-Messrs. Ingram and Beard, the promoters of the iron company and electric railroad to Lansing, appeared before the Board of Supervisors Monday for the purpose of securing the right of way on the county highways for their projected line. They presented a consent petition signed by eighty percent of the abutting property owners, in fact, they met with no refusals, all they talked with along the proposed line being enthusiastically in favor of it. At this writing the Board has not taken any action in the matter but there can hardly be any doubt that the request will be granted.
-Mabel Dunlevy closes her spring term of school in District 1, Jefferson township, next Friday.
-Mrs. C. D. Beeman returned from the east last week whither she had been called to attend the funeral of her brother.
-Mr. and Mrs. Jo. Burton are enjoying a visit from their daughter, Mrs. Maud Tubbs and little one, who reside in Nebraska.
-Friends are congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Collins of Reid’s Ridge on the advent into their home of a little baby daughter.
-Dell Hoag returned Thursday from the Indiana mud baths where he had been taking a month’s treatment for muscular rheumatism. He is considerably improved.
-Secretary Hopkins favors us with complimentaries to the grand carnival to be held in Dubuque by the Elks week after next, June 16 to 21. It bids fair to be the biggest time ever given in the Key City.
-Matt Kelly, Jr., agreeably surprised relatives and friends here Monday be dropping in for a visit. He is acting as extra station agent on the Burlington and leaves to-day to take charge of the station at Lynxville.
-Henry Jeglum commenced work last week for John Hager in the farm machinery line. Henry is a reliable, trustworthy young man, well acquainted and popular throughout the county and well posted on farm machinery. Mr. Hager is to be congratulated on securing his services.
-After two weeks of “innocuous desuetudue” (state of disuse or inactivity), the railroad boys got a train through Saturday evening. Sunday they made two trips and brought up sixteen cars of freight, and have been making regular trips since, though generally late on account of the poor condition of the road.
-Rev. Crowder departed Monday for a visit to his old home in England. Four weeks from last Sunday he expects to occupy the pulpit in the Methodist church in the city of his nativity. Prof. J. F. Smith, who will accompany him, left Thursday for a visit with friends in Clinton and the gentlemen will meet in Chicago.
-Rev. G. H. Stull of Wellington, Kan., has accepted the call extended to him by the Baptist church of this city and occupied the pulpit Sunday. For the present Rev. and Mrs. Stull will board at the E. M. Hancock home. Friday evening a reception, to which all are invited, will be given in their honor at the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Johnson.
-Guy P. Benton, President of the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, has resigned to accept the Presidency of Miami University at Oxford, Ohio. The new position brings with it a salary of $4,000 per year as against $1,700 paid by Fayette. He has been President of Upper Iowa for three years and was doing good work for the college. During that time he occupied the M. E. pulpit in this city a number of times.
-Matt Kelly returned Thursday from Dubuque where he had been for several weeks taking treatment for the cancerous affection that has appeared near the corner of one of his eyes from the cancer specialists, Drs. Kegler & Co. They do not use a knife but treat it with outside applications and are confident they can cure him. We join with Mr. Kelly’s many friends in hoping they are right. He will have to return to Dubuque in the course of a week or so.
-A Scandinavian Saengerfest will be held next Sunday afternoon in the grove near the East Paint Creek Lutheran church, which will be participated in by all the Lutheran choirs in the county and several from outside. The choruses will be composed of over a hundred voices, and there will be solos, duets, etc. A similar gathering last year was attended by a large crowd and was productive of some fine music and much pleasure, as will undoubtedly be the case on this occasion.
-Mr. R. F. B. Portman, the attorney and Commissioner in Bankruptcy of Decorah, was in town Monday and Tuesday. He was here as the agent of Bishop Morrison of this Episcopal diocese for the purpose of straightening up matters in regard to the Episcopal church property so that it can be sold to parties who will improve it. The city has a sidewalk assessment against it and he appeared before the Council Monday evening and made them an offer which was accepted. He also had some tax matters to straighten before the Board of supervisors.
-Mr. and Mrs. Charles Helming, living east of town, were married ten years ago last Monday, and a large number of their friends from city and country took occasion to remind them of it by making a descent on them just before supper. A fine feast was enjoyed and the company made merry until a late hour. As a memento of the occasion a number of handsome and useful presents were left with Mr. and Mrs. Helming, Henry Carter making the presentation speech and now they say that he can make a better speech than Haugen, at least, in German.
-No. 3. Dr. Dowling moves his dental office to his new location over C. A. Beeman’s down town grocery store this week.
-Miss Mathilda Henry, daughter of Chas. Henry, living northeast of town, returned Thursday from a six months’ visit at Chicago.
-D. J. Murphy spent Sunday at his old home, New Diggings, Wis., and brought his mother home with him for a long visit.
-The frame work of the new flour mill is up and an idea of the size of the structure can now be obtained. It is going to be a larger institution than most people expected.
-The New Century Club celebrated the third anniversary of its organization at the J. F. Dougherty home last Thursday evening. After the banquet a literary and musical program was given.
-The date fixed for the annual encampment of the Forty-Ninth regiment, to which Company I belongs, is July 8. While the location ha not been definitely decided on it is almost certain to be Cedar Falls.
-Ex-County Superintendent J. F. Smith has leased for a year the Thompson interest in the Waukon Business College and will be associated with Prof. Peck in its management when the next term of the school opens in September.
-The ladies of the Rathbone Sisters gave a farewell party to their departing sister, Mrs. H. Krieger, at the K. P. Hall Tuesday of last week. On the same evening the Misses Edna and Florence Carpenter invited a number of little misses to a farewell party in honor of Miss Rilla Krieger.
-The High School Athletic Association, composed of the high schools of Waukon, West Union, Cresco, New Hampton, and Decorah, will hold the field meet, which was to have taken place at Decorah May 23, but which was postponed on account of the storm, Friday afternoon of this week. Waukon expects to be represented.
-Word was received Tuesday of last week of the death of Dr. Wilcox of Frankville, which took place in a hospital in New York city, whither he went some time ago for the purpose of having an operation performed for Bright’s disease. The remains were brought to Frankville for burial, the funeral taking place last Friday.
-The Henry Krieger family departed by team last Thursday for their new home at West Union where Mr. Krieger has purchased a hardware business. We have previously mentioned the sorrow with which Waukon parts from this estimable family, and will only add that all hope they may find the new home pleasant in both business and social life.
-Mr. and Mrs. Will Holaban of Mason City and Maurice Holaban of Atlanta, Georgia, arrived here last week, summoned on account of the illness of their mother, Mrs. James Holaban. James of New Albin, was also at her bedside. She is somewhat more comfortable than a few days ago but is still in a serious condition. She is virtually grieving herself to death over the loss of her husband, whose death occurred three months ago.
-“Bob” Tucker’s many friends are congratulating him on the new lease of life he has secured through the agency of an operation for hemorrhoids which he underwent at the Rochester, Minn. Hospital. After convalescing from the operation he visited with his brother John Tucker at Lake Benton, Minn., returning here Thursday. He says he feels first rate and looks a hundred per cent better. When he has fully recuperated he will go to North Dakota.
-Memorial Day exercises were carried out to the letter as published. The crowd was not quite as large as on former occasions, but this was doubtless owing to the farmers being in their cornfields. The oration by Prof. Dwelle was a fine effort, both in thought and delivery, and was one of the very best we have heard in Oakland. The singing, too, was, we thought, better than usual. While the weather was a little threatening during the afternoon the clouds broke away and nothing happened to mar another successful observance of Memorial Day in Waukon.
-Representatives from a number of Catholic temperance societies in this diocese met in Dubuque last Friday afternoon and organized a central society under the title of Archdiocesan Union of Dubuque. Among the list of delegates present we notice the following from this county: Rev. P. A. Walsh, D. J. Murphy, Waukon; Rev. F. McCullough, Dorchester; Rev. E. Ryan, John P. O’Neill, West Ridge; Rev. M. K. Norton, D. J. Whalen, P. E. O’Donnell, Lycurgus. A meeting presided over by Archbishop Keane was held in the evening at the Grand Opera House and among the speakers we notice the name of D.J. Murphy of this city.
-At the residence of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Hays in this city, at 10a.m. this morning took place the marriage of their daughter, Miss Lillian and John Horace Jefferson of Chicago. Rev. Vannice performed the ceremony in the presence of the relatives and a few intimate friends. Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson departed on the noon train for a visit with the groom’s relatives in Michigan and afterward will be at home in Chicago. The bride was born and reared in Waukon and is a young lady of many accomplishments and estimable qualities. The groom, of course, is a stranger to us, but the fact that he is the choice of his fair bride is a sufficient recommendation. The Journal joins the many friends in extending congratulations.
-J. M. Murray has moved from Perry to Stroud, O. T., so he informs us in a note ordering his Journal changed. He reports himself and family well, says Stroud is a nice town and that he has engaged in the real estate business.

Fine Allamakee County Farm For Sale.
The farm known as the Pat O’Brien farm, five miles north of Waukon, will be sold at a bargain if taken at once. This farm comprises 240 acres and will e sold as a whole or either half will be sold separately. For further particulars apply to KELLEHER & BUGGY, Waukon, Iowa.

Dairy Farm and Milk Business for Sale.
Because of other business interests necessarily requiring all my attention I have decided to sell my dairy farm, cows and dairy equipment, located on the north side of Waukon, an opportunity which cannot be excelled in this line. Will make favorable terms. C. O. Howard.

-DOUGLAS DEREMORE, ATTORNEY.
-HENRY CARTER, WAUKON, IOWA, FOOTWEAR. We sell Men’s Women’s and Children’s Shoes.
-J. F. DOUGHERTY, CLOTHIER, under Boomer Opera House, Waukon. (men and boy’s clothing)
-If you have a prescription to fill take it to the new drug store. J. C. OPFER, Waukon, Iowa Opfer Block, Main St.
-HEISER BROS., carriages.
-H. RHEMSTEDT, Waukon, Iowa, LATEST SYLES AND PATTERNS SPRING CLOTHING , JNO. MITCHELL FASHION PLATES.
-Dr. W. K. SEELYE, Practice limited to EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT, GLASSES scientifically fitted. BANK AND INS. BUILDING, DUBUQUE, IA.
-H. A. BROUILLET, hardware, stoves, tinware, furnaces, roofing, eave spouting, well casing, pumps and all kinds of piping.
-JULIUS RIETH, nearly opposite Kerndt’s, Lansing , Iowa. Gasoline stoves, hot plates, meal steel ranges, oak ranges, hot air furnaces, novelty ranges and cookstoves.
-Pearl Exchange! Verdon & Gilroy, Prop’s., Two doors east of the Dudley House. Wines, Liquors and Cigars, Fresh beer always on tap. (Ben Hur Whiskey)

COUNTY CORRESPONDENCE.

HARPER’S FERRY
-Early Mass here next Sunday.
-Mrs. Berry came up for a visit Monday.
-M. Fitzgerald was a Lansing caller Monday.
-Crowe Bros. shipped a car of cattle from here Tuesday.
-John McCoy has purchased a new piano for his daughters.
-Pearl buyers Young and Kettleson were looking up trade here Monday.
-Miss Mary Mullally of LaCrosse, visited at home from Friday until Monday.
-John Wiedner returned from West Union Saturday. He reports a good week’s work.
-After appropriate exercises on Memorial Day the schools here closed for the rest of the day.
-Carl Jackson has fenced his island. He will use it for pasture and by having it fenced cattle cannot stray.
-It rained quite heavily here for about half an hour Monday. Some hail fell but not enough to do any damage.
-Miss Alice Ryan was the recipient of a fine new Vose piano recently, the gift of her three brothers—Thos., George and Tim.
-The dance here Friday night was largely attended. The one scheduled for the 6th has been postponed until the13th inst.
-Tuesday’s market: Hogs $6.40 to $6.60; Oats 37c; Rye 50c; Barley 50c; Corn 55c; Butter 18c; Potatoes $1.00; Chickens 5c to 5 1/2c; Eggs, 14c.
-Robin Hood Gun Club’s score Sunday was as follows: J. M. O’Brien 17, J. J. Roach 16, T. A. Oestern 15, John Wiedner 13, W. E. Wiedner 4.
-Mrs. Mike Hogan and two of her children surprised relatives here by dropping in for a visit Saturday. They went to Lansing Monday.
-The Robin has taken outs several pleasure parties the last week. It is about the fastest craft of its kind, making a speed of about ten miles per hour.
-T. W. Melaven delivers goods every Tuesday and Friday to the clammers and others along the river via the Robin. Ostern & Co. also intend to soon.
-A baseball nine from here, accompanied by several fans, went to the Junction on the Robin Sunday. They defeated the Junction nine by a score of 12 to 8.
-Pearl finds for the past week have been picking up. Demers found a pearl he sold for $70.00 and a slug worth more; Ben McCormick sold a piece for $130; Hammond found three in four days, one of which he sold for $100, one for $700 and the one he has left he values at $800.
-At a meeting of the school board Monday evening, Miss Alice Rafter was elected to the principalship of schools for the ensuing year. The choice, which is a good one, was made out of about a dozen applications. The board has been fortunate in securing the services of Miss Rafter and Miss Calvey.
-Peter Martell, aged 14, and the second son of Deo Martell, was accidentally drowned last Wednesday. [illegible] brother was eating. A few minutes later persons going by heard his cries for help while he was in the water but they could not get to his relief. Several parties from town aided in dragging for the remains and they were found between 4 and 5 o’clock about 100 feet from where he fell into the water. It is thought that he must have steeped on a clam shell and as he quickly got off lost his balance and fell into the water, as there were no evidences of his having been pulled in by the hooks as is often the case when one throws a bar in carelessly. Dr. Bradley held an inquest Thursday morning. The funeral occurred at Wexford Friday. This is the first serious accident that has happened here through clamming but the work is dangerous, especially to young boys and they cannot be too careful.

NEW ALBIN.
-Mass here next Sunday.
-Henry Rippe spent last Friday at LaCrosse.
-Mrs. Henry Ayer spent Sunday at Lansing.
-Minnie Missell is spending a vacation with LaCrosse friends.
-Frank Kumph visited home folks at Caledonia a few days recently.
-Mr. and Mrs. Ed Collins spent Sunday with relatives at Hanover.
-Mrs. Mary Morgan spent a few days recently with Lansing friends.
-Mamie Fitzgerald and Hazel Haberkern spent Sunday at LaCrosse.
-Fred Price and W. A. Travis were Lansing visitors Decoration day.
-John Kavan of Winnebago, now rides in one of Holahan’s fine buggies.
-Emma Missell and aunt arrived last Friday for a brief visit with home folks.
-Mrs. Chas. Hartley and son spent a few days lately with grandma Hartley.
-Quite a few from town attended the dance at Dan Phalen’s Friday evening.
-Frank Weyermiller is erecting a fine new dwelling on his farm just south of town.
-Mrs. Chas Bjorklund of LaCrosse, is making home folks a most welcome visit.
-Mrs. Mart Collins spent a few days with her parents up the Winnebago last week.
-James Holohan returned to New Albin Monday after spending a few days at Waukon.
-Mrs. A. B. Hays and daughter Verona tarried a few hours last Friday with New Albin friends.
-Mrs. E. Hartley and children, Chas., Walter and Mrs. Kearney and son, attended the funeral of Wm. Hartley at Rio, Wis., last Tuesday.
-Wm. Lager and James Holohan drove to Waukon last Wednesday. Jim remained for a few days on account of the dangerous condition of his mother’s health.
-Bills will soon be out for a grand ball at Armory Hall, New Albin, Wednesday evening, June 18. Music by Carpenter’s Orchestra. Tickets 75c per couple. Come everybody and have a good time.

ENGLISH BENCH.
-Our band boys gave a little open air concert Sunday afternoon.
-Farm work has commenced again along the river after the flood.
-Road supervisors were kept busy last week repairing the highways.
-Fred Harlam spent Sunday on the Bench with his young friends.
-Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sires of Dorchester, were Bench callers Sunday.
-Mrs. Frank Mathys has been entertaining a lady friend from Janesville, Wis., the last two weeks.
-Joe Sieren was on the Bench Saturday delivering farm machinery for W. D. Reynolds of Dorchester.
-Mr. and Mrs. Lew Deters and children of Eitzen, Minn., were guests at the E. J. Sadler home Sunday.
-Dr. Cass was on the Bench Friday looking after the telephone lines and stayed over night at the E. J. Sadler’s
-Mr. and Mrs. James Danaher and daughter passed through these parts Friday on their way home from Caledonia.
-Jim Martin passed over the Bench Friday on his way home from New Albin, the river road being impassable at the present.
-Mrs. C. J. Bjorklund of LaCrosse, and Miss Lizzie Wild spent last week on the Bench with their sister, Mrs. E. J. Sadler.
-The high water has all subsided, the mud nearly all dried up and everything apparently seems to be catching the right cog again.
-Owing to the high water it was impossible to get our last week’s items shipped in in time so this week we have brightened them up the best we can.
-Jim Regan acted as cream hauler on the south end of the route last week, there being more cream than the regular driver could haul on account of bad roads.
-Thos. Bulman, Sr., came down from Waukon the fore part of last week to see what damage the flood had done and says he never remembered seeing the water a high.
-Mr. and Mrs. Steve Burroughs have become residents of the Bench, occupying the vacant house on the James Healy farm. We welcome these aged people to our midst.
-Quite a number of our young folks spent Sunday afternoon at the John Sires home. Although the reporter was unable to be present we were informed a most enjoyable time was had.
-Decoration Day was observed by our school as usual; the flag waved to the breeze over the building and the pupils, accompanied by their teacher, Miss Manning marched from the school [illegible]

WAUKON JUNCTION.
-Another large pearl sold last week for $2,000.00.
-Lena Kinley is home from McGregor for a few days.
-The two hotels here are crowded with railroad men.
-John Boardman made a business call in McGregor Monday.
-R. E. Blackwell was a business caller at Ion one day last week.
-The washouts here are being to numerous to mention of late.
-M. E. Cahalan and sister Winnie returned home from a very pleasant trip in Wisconsin.
-The basket social was a grand success Saturday night. No basket was sold less than $1.00.
-Mrs. Chas. Globke and children are spending few days at Brownsville, Minn., with friends.
-Martin Powers is seriously ill with pneumonia. No change for the better is as yet noticed but we sincerely home the poor little fellow will soon recover.


VILLAGE CREEK.
-Phone lines in fine running order now.
-Miss Bergman has opened up a dressmaking shop in Lansing.
-C. T. Ahlstrom has sold his farm to A. Christ of Round Prairie.
-Lewis Drake was a guest of friends on Thompson’s Corners Sunday.
-The Frauen Verein met at E. D. Tiesdale’s on the Corners last week.
-Mr. James Aldrich purchased a fine family carriage of R. Hufschmidt last week.
-M. T. Phipps has build a fine large barn, which adds to the looks of his place.
-Casper Jeglum and man staid over a night last week with the J. A. Deremore family.
-Mrs. M. T. Phipps is in Lansing with her niece, Miss Susie Bacon, whose father is very ill.
-Alma Markwardt will give a box social at the Drake schoolhouse Saturday evening, the 8th.
-One of David Sjogren’s children was quite ill last week and Dr. Huecker was phoned for Thursday.
-Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Beiber, Master Phillip and sister Silena were guests of grandma Cavers Sunday p.m.
-Mr. W. Howard of Nebraska, a former resident of this place, was a most welcome guest at dinner with the Drake family Friday.
-Mr. W. Howard, a former resident of this place, made pleasant calls at Mr. W. Conkey’s and several other home here Friday last and stayed with the Jas. Aldrich family Wednesday night.
-Minnie Aldrich entertained a surprise party Thursday evening last in honor of her birthday anniversary and was presented with a nice work basket by her guests.
-Postmaster E. Roese of Elon, was a welcome guest of the Drake family one afternoon last week. Time passes all too quickly where Mr. Roese is as he always has something interesting to relate.
-Mrs. Drake and son Lewis dined and suppered with the N. Colsch, Sr., family Thursday last at their pleasant home in Waukon and enjoyed the visit exceedingly. Miss Katie being a fine pianist, they were royally entertained.

ORIGINAL NOTICE:
Legal notice-September term, A. D. 1902;
Anton Goepel and Sophia Brandsmeier vs Donald D.Downs and Unknown Claimants-Land dispute.

IOWA STATE NEWS.

Corn Belt Editors
The ninth annual session of the Corn Belt Editorial association was held in Le Mars, and Mayor E. W. Caldwell, of Sioux City, delivered an address: “Pioneer Newspapering in Iowa.” A business session was held and papers read and discussed. The visitors were driven over the city and a banquet was held at Washington hall and a toast programme given. The association will meet next year in Sioux City. Ferd Reichman, of Le Mars, was elected president; E. W. Caldwell, of Sioux City, secretary, and D. O. Stone, of Hawarden, treasurer.

Eloped to Milwaukee.
Because her father objected to the attentions shown her by the young man whom she loved and forbade her to have anything more to do with him, Florence Putnam, the 17-year-old daughter of a prominent Dubuque business man, has eloped with Leonard Evans, a young man 19 years old, and at last report their whereabouts were unknown. It is believed they have gone to Milwaukee, where Evans formerly resided.

National Banks.
The abstract of the condition of national banks of Iowa (exclusive of Des Moines), at the close of business on April 30 as reported to the comptroller of the currency, shown as follows: the average reserve held was 26.65 per cent. against 29.29 per cent. on February 25. Loans and discounts increased from $63,148,459 to $66,674,756. Gold coin from $1,752,874 to $2,017,166. Total specie from $13,157,940 to $3,486,911. Lawful money reserve from $4,912,172 to $5,313,785. Individual deposits from $63,648,434 to %65, 745, 322.

Three Fingers Short.
The absence of three fingers from the left hand of Leonard Brant caused his undoing. By this mark he was recognized and is now lying in the Union county jail at Elk Point, S.D., under three charges of grand larceny for stealing a horse belonging to F. Grabbe, of Union county, another belonging to Frank Nelsey, of Sergeant Bluff, this state, and a buggy belonging to F. J. Smith of Sioux City.

Murder in Second Degree.
The jury at Shenandoah brought in a verdict of murder in the second degree, with life sentence, for Wesley Irwin, the third boy tried for the murder of Oscar Miller in a Wabash sandhouse last December. Edward Dennis also received a life sentence for the same crime, and Eugene Mason was acquitted.

Loves Another Man.
Because her infatuation for a married man had been discovered, Mrs. Mary Jandl threw herself in front of a switch engine in Cedar Rapids, and the timely assistance of a brakeman alone saved her. She was taken to the police station and declares she will yet kill herself if she cannot have the man.

Crop Outlook.
The weekly crop report of the Washington weather bureau says for Iowa: Week excessively warm, with heavy showers over three-fourths of the state, considerable damage by washing and floods in limited area; in northeast district corn planting delayed, and some replanting necessitated; crop condition fairly good in bulk of state; grass and small grain making rapid growth.

News in Brief.
-Iver Svaleson was crushed to death under a ton of rock in one of the mines of the United States Gypsum company in Fort Dodge.
-Oil has been bubbling up from the center of the bed of the Des Moines river, which bisects Ottumwa.
-F.W. Kammerle and A. J. Feeley, of Aurora, Ill., purchased for $60,000 the brewery in Iowa City and all machinery from Dostal Bros.
-The partially burned remains of a new born babe were found in the woods near Hamilton.
-Lou Miller, aged 80, a farmer at Clarion, hanged himself from the rung of a ladder.
-Passenger train No. 4 on the Rock Island, carrying several hundred students from Grinnell and Iowa City, returning from the state meet at Des Moines, were derailed and several students were bruised.
-Mrs. Robert Thomson, wife of the president of the Cresco Union savings bank, died of consumption.
-Johnnie Hanley, the four-year-old son of John Hanley, a laboring man in Fort Dodge, was run over and instantly killed by a street car.
-L. R. Raymond, editor of the Hampton Chronicle, has announced himself as a candidate for commander of the grand army next year to succeed John Lindt, of Council Bluffs, elected a the last encampment.
-A. J. Raymond, formerly a brakeman on the Northwestern and traveling salesman with headquarters in Chariton, was found dead by an employee at the roundhouse in Ottumwa.
-At the Dubuque club’s annual tournament Fred Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, made the highest score, 351 out of a possible 360.
-Frank Moffitt, who has been manager of the Sioux City office of the Western Union Telegraph company for 13 years, has been promoted to the management of the Milwaukee office.
-Word was received in Clarion of the drowning of the 18-year-old daughter of William Graves, a farmer living near Dows.
-Bert Houston, of Muscatine, attacked John Shaughnessy, a barkeep, at Davenport, and when pushed away by the latter fell over a beer keg and broke his neck, dying instantly.
-Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Walthall celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage with a big reunion of relatives and friends at Iowa Falls.
-The post office at Louise, Black Hawk county, has been discontinued; mail to Laporte City.
-The eleventh biennial reunion of the Crocker brigade will be held at Muscatine on Wednesday and Thursday, September 24 and 25, 1902.
-Rev. Dr. Guy Potter Benton, president of the Upper Iowa university at Fayette, has accepted the presidency of Miami university at Oxford, O.
-Sarah Kuhn, sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her aged husband at Delta by placing poison in his beer, has been denied a new trial by the supreme court.
-Rev. P. J. Garrigan was consecrated at Springfield, Mass., as bishop of the Sioux City diocese.

Defense Unshaken
Questions of Whether William Lucas Killed Anna Moore in Clarinda Not Decided.
The results of the inquest held over the body of Anna Moore in Clarinda, has not convinced the police that she was murdered by her sweetheart, William Lucas. Anna Moore died from a 32-caliber pistol shot in her heart. Lucas carried a pistol of that caliber, but it was a rim-fire weapon, while the bullet which caused her death was from a center fire shell. Lucas says he was out driving with the girl, but left her early in the morning near town, where her body was found. ******and gone toward his home at Clearmont. Lucas’ shoes were found to fit these tracks exactly. In coming to the inquest, after walking from one room into another, he came suddenly upon the body of the girl lying on a slab, with her eyes staring up to where he stood For a moment Lucas’ knees trembled violently, then he sat down, the chords of his neck swelling and beating, but not a muscle of is face moved, nor did he change expression or say a word but protest his innocence. The coroner’s jury, however, recommended that Lucas be held for the murder.

Gives Them Credit
Mrs. U. S. Grant, Col. Henderson and Senator Allison Secured Location for Vicksburg Monuments. (Special Correspondence.)
Capt. J. F. Merry, of Dubuque, gives Mrs. U. S. Grant, Col. David B. Henderson and Senator William B. Allison the credit for doing the work which resulted in the creation of the Vicksburg National park for the Iowa Monuments, on which the state has appropriated $150,000 to be expended by a commission of which Capt. Merry has been elected president and H. H. Rood, of Mount Vernon, secretary. Capt. Merry conceived the national park idea for Vicksburg, went to Washington, met with discouragement, was advised by Allison to visit Mrs. Grand, did so, found her enthusiastically for the proposition when he had outlined it to her, enlisted Col. Henderson, and within two weeks had every member of congress ready to vote for the bill. However, Speaker Reed refused to permit it to come up. He positively refused. Finally Col. Henderson went to him and made an effective plea, with the result that the bill was allowed, at last, to come onto the floor, where it received every vote. In 15 days it was signed by the president. Mrs. Grant’s influence, and the fact that she wanted it, had a good effect with the congressmen who were lukewarm.

Shiloh Monuments - Gov. Cummins Will Make the Address at Their Dedication on May 30, 1903.
(Special Correspondence). Although a year remains before the dedication of the Iowa monuments to the soldiers from this state who fought and died at Shiloh, the committee which has the programme in charge has secured the consent of Gov. Albert B. Cummins to make the address on that occasion. The date has been fixed for May 30, 1903. George W. Crosley is chairman of the commission which has the matter in charge. The monuments are now in course of construction, the designs having recently been decided upon by the committee. There has been talk of trying to take every soldier who fought at Shiloh and survived, and who was in an Iowa organization, to the dedication of the monuments. However, the commission has but a bout $3,000 of the appropriation made by the legislature of 1890 left, and probably this plan will not materialize.

Odds:
-Nineteen states of the American union have each more population than Cuba. Each of the nineteen leads Cuba immeasurable in wealth.
-The Boston Transcript notes the fact that a woman recently went to a strange town to marry a man she had never seen, and says that it is not so strange as that so many women marry the men they have seen.
-Jerusalem is described by William E. Curtis as a place where religious visitors will have their ideals shattered and their confidence shaken, the location of every holy and historical spot being disputed by the people, who make their living off pilgrims and tourists.
-The island of Barbadoes, which is nearly a hundred miles from St. Vincent, received in 12 hours a coating of volcanic dust amounting to 22 tons to the acre, or 2,352,120 tons for the entire island. Barbadoes is anything but thankful for this sudden addition to its real estate.
-According to the record of a family in the east that has descended from a woman of criminal tendencies, who died in 1827, out of 800 descendants 700 were criminals and were convicted at least once each. Thirty-seven among them were executed for murder. In trying and punishing this family the people have paid $3,000,000. The second commandment appears to be still in operation.
-Flood, famine, tornado, mine disaster—to say nothing of the Martinique horror (Mont Pelee eruption)—have followed each other so closely that it is little wonder that believers in the literal sense of the Bible hold that the consummation of the age is at hand. In the face of such horrors as these the Christendom of 500 years ago would have been on its knees. It might be well if the Christendom of today were to take to its knees. The attitude is one that it woo seldom assumes.
-The Chicago Tribune estimates that 50,505 lives have been lost so far this year by elementary disturbances, volcanic eruptions, accounting for 48,450, storms for 704, tornadoes for 416, cyclones for 220, floods for 333, avalanches for 228, tidal waves for 103, snowslides for 39 and waterspouts for 12. Even if not a single life more should be lost from any of these causes during the balance of the year—and of course that’s out of the question—the record thus far is sufficient to make 1902 memorable in the world’s history. This is to be a record year.
-C. F. Periolat, of Chicago, a man who has extensive fur interests in Alaska, and has traveled much in that region, says that America has an active volcano within its boundary lines in Mount Redoubt, some 9,000 feet high. This volcano, he relates, has covered Alaska six inches deep with volcanic dust and ashes for a radius of more than 150 miles, while at 125 miles it was possible to read a paper in the light of the volcano even during the long Arctic nigh. We thought it very strange that somewhere in our great territory an active volcano could not be found.

A WEEK’S HISORY-The Important Happenings of a Week Briefly Told. In all Parts of the Union.

From Washington:
-Charges of wasting funds during his administration of affairs in Cuba are denied by Gen. Wood.
-Funeral of Lord Pauncefote, British ambassador, was held in St. John’s Episcopal church in Washington. An American warship will carry the body to England.
-“McKinley” postal cards will be in the hands of all post offices throughout the country by July 1.
-The president, addressing war veterans at Arlington, said that self-government would not be granted the Philippines until they had proved themselves fit for it, and also said that charges of cruelty against the army were as unfair as blaming the state of Texas for the burning of a negro by a mob.
-It is announced by the war department that the military force in the Philippines will be reduced to 25,000 men in less than two months.
-The president will appoint a national commission to study the tramp problem.

The East:
-Soft coal miners will strike if the anthracite strike does not end in eight days.
-Edison has invented a cheap storage battery to enable automobiles to run 100 miles without recharging.
-J. L. Blount, of Fort Wayne, Ind., a trainer, was killed by an elephant in a circus at Brooklyn, N. Y., that he had teased by burning with a lighted cigar.
-It is said that immigration is now at the highest point in the history of the United States, and it is said to be due to the country’s great commercial prosperity.
-In the United States there were 191 business failures during the week ended on the 30th, against 148 the same week in 1901.
-It is said that President Mitchell is in doubt as to the wisdom of calling a general coal strike, fearing the attitude of the bituminous workers.
West and South:
-Dr. B. M. Palmer, the best-known preacher in the Presbyterian church in the south, died in New Orleans, aged 80 years
-Saturday, June 14, has been designated by Gov. Yates as Flag day in Illinois.
-Bishop Turner, of Georgia, heads an organization of colored men that will ask congress for $500,000,000 to assist negroes to leave the United States.
-In Chattanooga, Tenn., a distinct earthquake shock caused houses to tremble.
-In session at Wichita, Kansas republicans nominated W. J. Bailey, of Baileyville, for governor and pledged themselves to the support to Theodore Roosevelt for president in 1904.
-In the Eighth Michigan district the republicans have renominated Joseph W. Fordney for congress.
-P. J. Sorg, former congressman and multimillionaire tobacco manufacturer, died at this home in Middletown, O., aged 62 years.
-The Ohio republicans in convention nominated Lewis C. Laylin for secretary of state and adopted a resolution for the crushing out of anarchy.
-Gov. Davis, of Arkansas, has been expelled by the Little Rock Baptist church on charges of drunkenness and gambling.
-The death of Noah Brookway Beacon, aged 102 years and five months, occurred at his home in Des Moines, Ia.
-On July 30 Michigan democrats will hold their state convention in Detroit.
-Tennessee democrats have nominated James H. Frazier, of Chattanooga, for governor.
-At Muskegon, Mich., a statue of President McKinley, the first in the world, was unveiled.
-Ivy and Herbert Martin and Libby and Lizzie Durkee were drowned near Martins Bluff, Ore., by upsetting of a boat.
-Throughout the country Memorial day was generally observed.
-Four were killed and six fatally injured as the result of a gas explosion in a mine near Eagle Pass, Tex.
-At the age of 71 years Sylvester Pennoyer, governor of Oregon from 1886 to 1894, died suddenly in Portland.
-At Salt Lake City, N. F. Graves, a mining man, shot and killed his wife and fatally shot himself.

Foreign Intelligence:
-The developments in the condition of Mont Pelee indicate eruptions to come, greater and more destructive than any that have yet occurred in Martinique.
-Cuba’s congress has voted to fix the salary of the president of the republic at $25,000 a year and that of members of congress at $3,000.
-Adolf Kussmaul, who introduced the stomach pump into medical practice, died at Heidelberg, Germany, aged 80 years.
-Peace sentiment in London has reacted on a rumor that the Boer leaders are trying to reopen the independence question.
-By acquiring the three largest concerns dealing in Cuban cigars and tobacco the tobacco trust will practically control the whole Cuban output.
-Inability to establish peace in the Lake Land district, Philippines, unless defiant natives are wiped out, is reported by Col. Baldwin.
-The Boer delegates in Europe now admit peace in South Africa has been secured.
-In Havana the grave of battleship Maine dead was decorated by the Cubans and Americans, and flowers were put on soldier’s graves at Manila.
-Great Britain is warned by Lord Roseberry that she is not concluding peace with a crushed foe, but must treat the Boers liberally if satisfactory results are expected.
Later News:
-The Boer war ended at 10:30 p.m. May 31, when the peace treaty was signed at Pretoria. The announcement was cabled to London by Gen. Kitchener and given to the public. The news was read at the church services, and London crowds celebrated in the streets.
-Fifty persons committed suicide in Chicago in May, the greatest number ever recorded in one month.
-Four persons were burned to death at Rockaway Beach, N. Y., and nine small hotels and many other structures were destroyed.
-A chime of ten bells at Lincoln, Neb., has been dedicated to the memory of William McKinley.
-The transport Meade arrived in San Francisco from Manila with 28 officers and 854 men of the Twenty-first infantry.
-Three hundred Japanese fishermen were drowned in gales during May.
-By direction of the president Secretary Root has issued an order decreasing the strength of our permanent military establishment to 66, 407 men.
-Mount Redoubt, Alaska, is in eruption, and ashes thrown up from the crater fell at Kenai, 60 miles away.
-French delegates to the unveiling of the Rochambeau statue sent a message of thanks to President Roosevelt for the “kindly welcome” given them.
-Members of the French Rochanbeau mission were given a farewell dinner on the battleship Gaulois at Boston and sailed for home.
-A new boxer outbreak occurred in Chi Li, China, where several missionaries and a large number of converts and officials were slaughtered.
-The government’s cash balance at the close of 11 months is $195, 470, 222. The surplus is close to the country’s high record.
-The South Carline Interstate and West Indian exposition has closed.

Minor News Items:
-Members of the National Lamp association are accused of operating a trust.
-Pat Meagher, the well-known steeplechase jockey, was killed at the track in Toronto, Ont.
-Ada Gray, a noted actress in her day, but now an invalid, was found almost destitute in a cottage at City Island, N. Y.
-The steamer Amura, from Alaska, reports that navigation through Lake Barge has now started and all the Yukon is clear.
-Whenever President Roosevelt goes riding he carries with him a loaded pistol, which he knows well how to use should occasion demand.
-A German firm has offered the Chinese government $15,000,000 annually for the exclusive right of selling opium throughout the empire.
-A circus tiger escaped and entered a car with 30 draft horses near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. A battle followed and the tiger was killed.
-Officials of German steamship companies are satisfied with the plan to combine shipping and say they have no fear of the “American peril.”
-The leader of the Biscayan Spanish nationalists sent congratulations to President Roosevelt on the Cuban republic’s establishment, but censor stopped.
-Extension of the Gould railroads to tidewater at Baltimore will cost $20,000,000. The mileage will soon exceed the Vanderbilt, Pennsylvania or Harriman systems.
-Balzac’s works were held immoral by a jury in a Chicago court, and a woman who bought them for her children is held not liable for the subscription she gave.
-Thomas A. Edison announces the perfection of his storage battery, which, he says will revolutionize motive power and do away with horses for commercial uses.
-The removal of Jews from Chicago and New York Ghettos to the country, by force if needed, was advocated at a national conference of Jewish charities in Detroit.
-Flax raising is assuming increased importance in the northwest, and it is interesting to note that the Minnesota and Dakota crops will be larger this year than ever before.

VETERANS INTERESTED. Want the address of Gen. Dodge at the Encampment in Des Moines Published in Book Form. (Special Correspondence)
Gen. Grenville M. Dodge read an extended address before the grand army encampment here the past week, which it is proposed to have brought out in book form. It related to the personal recollections of Gen. Sherman entertained by Gen. Dodge. The two men knew each other intimately, fought together through the civil war, and Sherman was always in deep sympathy with the transcontinental railroad projects which Dodge had matured and out of which grew the Union pacific, which he built in 1867-69. The address was made up of unwritten bits of history which are tremendously valuable, in the opinion of the veterans, and it is probable that some of the state historical organizations will undertake to publish it. Col. H. H. Rood, of Mount Vernon, is preparing a history of the Iowa Crocker brigade which he will bring out in a short time. He is at the head of that organization.

Has No Money
Game Warden Lincoln Is Without Resources to Conduct His Work and May Try to Borrow Cash.(Special Corespondence)
Fish Commissioner and Game Warden George A. Lincoln, of Cedar Rapids, has not yet decided to attempt to get a loan of enough money to conduct his department during the ensuing two years, the legislature having neglected to appropriate the $15,000 agreed upon as necessary. It was suggested that he secure loans from persons interested in fish and game protection, the lenders to depend on the next legislature to reimburse them, as was the case when the banks of the state advanced enough money to bring back the Fifty-first Iowa soldiers from San Francisco. Mr. Lincoln has not determined whether to try this or not. He has had plans made for a fishway through the dam at Bonaparte. It will cost $800. Meek Bros., owners of the dam, declare they will fight it.

Charged With Arson
Two Women Who Try to Burn Liquor Joint Have Warrants Sworn Out Against Them.
Warrants were sworn out in Blencoe, before Justice Thomas E. Brown for the arrest of Miss L. Holman, a school teacher, and Miss Allen, daughter of William Allen, who are charged with arson in attempting to burn a floating barge in the Missouri river where liquor has been sold. The barge touches on Holman’s Island, Neb., land which was cut off by the Missouri and is really in Iowa.
Several Indictments have been issued against the owners, but were not served. Indignation finally grew so great that the young ladies took matters into their own hands in Carrie Nation style, and, it is said, tried to set fire to the barge.

To Be Slighted.
According to river gossip the Diamond Jo steamers will make no more stops at the small towns. All places of less than about 2,000 inhabitants will be taken from the time schedule. For instance but one stop will be between Davenport and Clinton, and that at Le Claire, to take on a pilot. It is said that the business which the through packets get from the small towns is not of enough value to pay for the time lost.

Saloon Keeper Sued.
Hannah Meltvedt filed a petition in Fort Dodge in a $10,000 damage suit against A. J. Croat. The plaintiff alleges through the petition that the defendant illegally sold her husband intoxication liquors, which caused his fall from a wagon. Meltvledt sustained injuries in the fall which resulted fatally in a few days. The accident occurred at Badgar, where Groat runs a “mulct” saloon.

Project Revived.
The Atkinson & Niobrara River railroad project has been suddenly revived, and the announcement is made by the promoters that the road will be built. The road will be an extension of the Pacific Short Line from O’Neill into that part of the Rosebud Indian reservation which soon will be opened for settlement. It is said the road will be equipped and operated by the Great Northern.

Turns Inventor.
“Brother Eugene,” the monk who recently left New Melleray monastery at Clinton, after spending 23 years in solitude, subsisting on vegetables and rising from his hard bed at two a. m. in order to sing matins, has been granted a patent on a tail-board fastening for wagons. He is now a resident of Dubuque, being known to the world as Joseph B. Graham.

Over A Century.
Iowa’s oldest resident, Noah Brockway Bacon, died at the residence of his son in Des Moines last week aged 102 years, 5 months and 20 days. He was born December 19, 1799, in Westmoreland, N. Y. He lived in three centuries. He retained his faculties to within a few months of his death. On his last birthday he wrote the last of the poems which he had written annually to celebrate his birthday anniversary for a local newspaper. He then said that he did not expect to see many more birthday celebrations. His relatives held a reunion last December, however, and this he was able to enjoy to the fullest extent. This man delighted at a century old to tell of the “good old days,” when there were no steam railroads, no street cars, no electric power, nor lights nor machinery, when there were no matches and no sewing machines, no binders and reapers and threshers; When there were no automobiles or bicycles, no pens and no typewriting machines, no mowers and no seeders; no linotype nor cylinder printing press; no fire arms except flintlocks, no steamships, no nitro glycerine, no cotton gin nor woolen mill, no fire engine and no steel structure, no elevator, only a 20,000 word dictionary, no lithography, no photography, no electro-magnet nor dynamo, no arc light or incandescent, no x-rays, no telephone and no telegraphy, no moving pictures, no ether, chloroform, or cocaine, no antiseptic surgery, no cold storage, no Bessemer steel, no barbed wire, no artesian well. All of these things this man saw come into the world and the knowledge of men. At 13 his father and brothers went [into the] war of 1812, and he tried driving stage from Ithaca to Oswego, N. Y. H learned the printers’ trade at Oswego, and from 1849 to 1889 farmed in Wisconsin.

BELLES OF THE KITCHEN.
Mistress—Where are the hard-boiled eggs I ordered?
Butler—If you please, ma’am, the cook and chambermaid are playing ping-pong with them.”

GOSSIPY GLEANINGS.
Garden parties have been inaugurated by Mrs. Roosevelt, must to the gratification of the president, who may be depended upon always to favor any form of amusement in the open air.

Russell B. Harrison, son of the late Benjamin Harrison, expects to deed to the United States the tract of land known as the burial plot of William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, O. The government will take care of the lot and erect a statue to “Tippecanoe” Harrison.

Judging from the way physicians are going into politics in Sumner county, Kansas, the people out there-away must be a healthy lot. The republican convention recently held there was called to order by Dr. T. A. Mayhew, Dr. William Hobson was elected permanent chairman and Dr. E. G. Farris was nominated for the legislature.

Just how sensitive Wall street is was manifested on a recent morning when it became known that Russell Sage was unable to come downtown. This is so unusual that an uneasy feeling at once manifested itself and could not be quieted until it was certainly known that the octogenarian multi-millionaire was merely suffering from a slight cold. Mr. Sage has only absented himself thus on one or two occasions since Norcross tried to blow him to pieces with a dynamite bomb.

[transcribed by A.K., January 2012]

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