Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
January 28, 1904
State News in Brief
-The postoffice at Avon has been discontinued; mail to Levey.
-Smallpox in virulent form has broken out near Neola, and an
epidemic is feared.
-The diphtheria epidemic at Fort Dodge has abated and there is
now not a case of contagious disease in the city.
-Petitions are in circulation in Henry County asking for the
construction of a bridge over Skunk river at Ketcham's ford.
-Levi Reed is one of the latest Linn County pioneers to answer
the final summons. He resided in Prairieburg since 1857.
-James Duffy, school janitor at Pocahontas, went suddenly
violently insane and led the officers a chase of seven miles
across the country before he was captured.
-There are several cases of diphtheria about Cleghorn.
-Mrs. Hannah Gibbons was appointed postmaster at Dunreath, vice
J.F. Maplethorp, resigned.
-Prof. Edward A. Steiner has been made professor of applied
Christianity at Iowa College.
-Dr. Williams, the last surviving member of the pioneer medical
society at Ottumwa, is dead.
-Fire partially destroyed the livery barn of S.M. Linn at State
Center. Loss, $500, insured.
-John Smalley, a veteran business man of Burlington, is dead,
aged 80. He came to Iowa in 1839.
-The fine of $200 imposed on Grant Hoon, the Stanwood druggist,
has been remitted by the Governor.
-The stock of the D.S. Good Grocery Company of Marshalltown was
badly damaged by fire and smoke.
-Mrs. Frank Benedict who was shot by her husband at Burlington
Jan. 4 following a quarrel, is dead.
-The 2-year-old child of D.T. Dale, of Lehigh, was seriously
scalded by falling into a pan of boiling water.
-Frank Zak, whose home was at Oxford Junction, was run down by a
passenger train in Clinton and died an hour later.
-By the bursting of a circular saw which he was assisting to
operate, Bert Craig, a young farmer south of Mitchelville, was
seriously if not fatally injured. A piece of the saw struck him
between the eyes, splitting his skull.
-Al. C. Bowen, a Council Bluffs plumber, was struck by a freight
train in the Missouri Valley yards and instantly killed.
-Waterloo is to have a new bank. J.D. Eaton, formerly president
of the Waterloo National Bank, is at the head of the enterprise.
-Jack Evans of Keokuk, conductor on the K., St. L. & N.W.
road, will sue the Iroquois Theater management. His wife was
among the victims.
[submitted by C.J.L., March 2004]