Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Daily Courier
Waterloo, Black Hawk County, Iowa
June 7, 1897
STATE ITEMS
John Walters was killed Saturday afternoon at Centerville while
making an ascension. He was caught in a cluster of telegraph
wires and fell forty feet.
A farmer named Hart, living near Marengo, attracted by the
peculiar actions of a dog, followed the brute into the woods
Friday night, and found the body of a stranger hanging to a tree.
The dead man is thought to be William Smith, of the Amana Colony.
The Iowa Traveling Men’s association is to hold its annual
convention this week at the Nashville exposition grounds.
The three grains of strychnine which pretty little 14-year-old
Minnie Stahl took Friday night to end her life because her
parents would not let her keep company with a neighbor’s
boy, failed to accomplished the desired result, and she is alive
but is a very sick girl. She lives is Webster City.
V. M. Lohmann, for 21 years a prominent businessman of Wiota, and
at one time quite wealthy, hung himself Saturday morning.
Financial troubles are supposed to have been the cause. He was 65
years of age, and leaves a widow, and one daughter, Mrs. J. W.
Brooks, and a son, Frank.
There is but little doubt now that Essie Emert, who died last
Thursday near Kilduff and was buried Sunday, committed suicide by
taking poison. She was to have been married Saturday to a young
lad named Morgan, of Newburg, Mo. As her life had been an
exemplary one, no one can imagine why she did the rash act. The
intended husband was present at the obsequies.
[transcribed by J.M.P., August 2008]