Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
January 11, 1897
STATE ITEMS
The city council of Anamosa has passed a curfew ordinance.
A stock company has been organized at Carroll by capitalists for
the purpose of establishing a coffee plantation in Mexico.
John Hutchison, of Whitten, was arrested Saturday night by Deputy
Sheriff Rathbone on the charge of bigamy and taken to Eldora. He
was formerly city marshal of Whitten and well established.
While engaged in chopping wood at the residence of Henry Ingalls,
about three miles south of New Hartford, Chas. Ensign, ages 19,
son of George Ensign, was struck by a falling tree and so badly
injured that he died Saturday.
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows has just purchased two lots
in the same block with the opera house at Grand Junction, having
a frontage of forty-four feet on Main Street, where they
contemplate the erection of a two-story building.
Rolla B. Taylor and Roy D. Taylor, about sixteen years old, were
taken to Council Bluffs Saturday from their homes near Wiota,
Iowa and arraigned before Commissioner Steadman of the United
States court on the charge of having broken into the post office
building at Wiota.
At Centerville marriage licenses have been issued to Matthew
White, 56, and Mrs. Louisa Burgess, 49; James H. White, 27, and
Anna Belle Burgess, 15. The gentlemen are father and son and the
two ladies mother and daughter. They reside about two miles
southeast of Centerville.
It is stated that the loss of a great number of hogs in the
vicinity of the Badger Lake Circle, south of Sloan, is not due to
the ravages of hog cholera, as was at first supposed, but is the
result of a disease styled by some as “nose rot”, and
by others as catarrh. The disease makes its first appearance in
the nose and head, forming ulcers from which the animal
eventually dies.
Fred Floyd went hunting in the big timber about fifteen miles
from Atlantic and expected to return early in the afternoon. On
his failing to return a party went in search, and after tracking
him for several hours, found a body horribly mutilated and
recognized as Floyd’s by the bits of clothing found. Around
on the snow a good deal of blood was seen and a gun barrel also
found which was recognized and which gave unmistakable signs of
his having had a bad fight. A short distance away was found a
dead sow, with a broken leg and a shot gun wound in its side.
Several hogs have been seen running in the timber, and it is
supposed Floyd wounded one of them and its cries of pain brought
the others and they becoming ferocious attacked him before he
could reach a place of safety, pulling him down and literally
tearing him to pieces bit by bit. He had been working in the
neighborhood only a short time and was single. His relatives are
not known.
[transcribed by J.M.P., August 2008]