Iowa
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler co. , IA
August 10, 1910
General News of Iowa Collected and Condensed from many
Sources that Will Prove of Interest
Davenport.- After carefully arranging the burial robes for all
three, Mrs. Nick Nehlsen, wife of a prosperous farmer living
eight miles from the city, administered fatal doses of strychnine
to herself and two infant
daughters aged 2 and 4 years. The husband upon returning from
town found all three of the lifeless bodies lying in one bed. The
action of a wayward daughter in running away with a man many
years her senior greatly prayed on the mind of the mother. This
worry is supposed to have caused temporary aberration of the
mind, and in this condition Mrs. Nehlsen took the lives of
herself and loved ones.
Fort Dodge Man Killed. Webster City. - Patrick Cahill of Fort
Dodge was instantly killed in this city when run over by a
westbound Illinois Central train. He was walking on the track on
his way to the depot. Evidence before the coroner's jury
indicates he was under the influence of liquor. He was employed
in the gypsum mills.
Miss Mabel Welker, daughter of respected parents living in
Council Bluffs, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. Worry
over the absence of her sweetheart, who left the city two months
ago, is given as the cause of the young lady's act. She was still
living when discovered and pleaded that her life be saved.
Noach Cooper, a young lad who broke out of the Estherville jail,
was captured at Emmetsburg.
While working on the night shift at the Streepy mine,
Centerville, Clarence Campbell, aged 35, pushed a rt car into an
open shaft and fell 176 feet and was instantly killed.
Mrs. Minnie Nash has started a suit in the Plymouth county
district court against the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad company asking $25,000 for the killing of her
husband, the late James Nash of Hinton. Nash was struck by a
freight train on the night of April 9 while driving across the
railroad track on the main street of Lemars and was instantly
killed.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Aug. 2003]
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Iowa Recorder
Greene, Butler, Iowa
August 31, 1910
IOWA NEWS NOTES
-Ernest Hill, aged 14, son of E.E. Hill, a carpenter at Mason
City, was drowned at LeClaire, while boating.
- Miss Amelia Valeski, aged about 19 years, died at Charles City
Tuesday from infantile paralysis. This is the second case there.
- M.G. Wiggins, postmaster at Dow City, has been stricken with
paralysis and his recovery is the deep concern of friends. He
served in an Ohio regiment during the civil war.
-Killed by a Milwaukee train, while crossing the track of that
road near Monona, was the fate of James Wickson. The victim was
returning from mill when the accident occurred.
-Solomon Hartman, councilman at large, was elected mayor of
Ottumwa Tuesday by the city council, succeeding Thomas J.
Phillips, ousted under the Cosson removal laws.
-Sam White, a driver in the Cricket mines at Oskaloosa, was
kicked by a mule and killed. The animal had just been shod and
three sharp caulks were buried in the man's temple.
- Because of the hobo epidemic, Mayor Brannan of Ida Grove has
ordered six sets of balls and chains. The balls will weigh 35
pounds. Hereafter the hoboes will be given thirty days hard labor
on the streets and roads.
Seeks Share of Estate
Marshalltown.- Seeking a share of his father's estate in the sum
of $29,140, L.H. Smith, a merchant of Liscomb, has brought suit
here against E.L. Meeker of this city as administrator of the
estate of Peter E. Smith.
STATE CAPITAL CHAT
W.C. Barber, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon league, who
brought the charges of maladministration against Chief of Police
George Yeager, announced Tuesday that he would invoke the Cosson
removal law against Yeager, providing he could get the proper
backing. It requires five signatures on a petition to bring such
proceedings. Mr. Barber declared that several business men of the
city were convinced that the lid was off in Des Moines, as a
result of the hearing, and although Yeager was reinstated by the
council, they were willing to back a procedure under the Cosson
laws. Mr. Barber declared that he was not able financially to
start such a case because if he lost he would have to stand all
expenses of the case.
[transcribed by C.J.L., June 2004]