Iowa
Old Press
Nashua Reporter
Nashua, Chickasaw, Iowa
March 8, 1906
FARMER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
James Nolan, Near Belle Plaine, Smothered by Hay
James Nolan, a prominent farmer living near Belle Plaine, while
hauling hay, met with a fatal accident. In some manner the load
was overturned and Nolan was buried beneath the hay, where he
smothered to death. He was found twelve hours after the accident.
Heads a Numerous Family.
To be the mother of a family of fourteen living children, with
the total of their ages aggregating 902 years; to be enjoying
excellent health at 96 years of age, while she is able to number
her grandchildren by more than half a hundred, her
great-grandchildren by the score and her
great-great-grandchildren at eight, is the distinction which
belongs to Mrs. Rachel Hughes of Salem, Henry County.
Aged Indian Woman Dies.
Mawiso, the mother of Jim Peters, or Pyepahal, the Musquawki
Indian, who took part in the recent anthropological meeting at
Iowa City, died in camp on the Iowa river north of that city. She
was nearly 80 years of age and was one of the original settlers
on the Tama purchase. Her husband, Kwiyama, is still living, and
one of the oldest tribesmen.
Missing Husband Returns.
Mrs. Brown Says Charles Walker Threatened to Kill Her. Mrs. J.
Brown of Carbondale, filed information before Justice Christy of
Des Moines, charging Charles Walker with assault and threat to
kill. Walker was placed under arrest. "Walker used to be my
husband," said Mrs. Brown. "Twenty-seven years ago he
deserted me when I had seven children to take care of. I brought
them up and thought he was dead so married again. He came to my
home and told me that if I did not desert my present husband and
go back to live with him he would kill me."
Laborer Tries to Kill Himself.
Crazed by the death of his brother and sister and the critical
illness of another sister, and suffering from hallucination that
some one was trying to take his life, Christianson Orte, a
laborer living in Clinton, attempted to take his own life by
cutting the arteries of both his wrists. His condition is serious
and may prove fatal.
Young Man Burned to Death.
William Plog, a young man 19 years of age, was burned to death in
a shanty where he lived along in Davneport. He was not discovered
until the body was burned to a crisp.
Miner State Matters.
-Mr. and Mrs. John Ford, who lives near Fort Dodge, are the
parents of a baby that weighs only a pound and a half.
-A gasoline tank in the rear of P.D. McMahon's residence at
Denison recently exploded with great violence. Windows were
shaken for several blocks around. The fire was confined to the
gasoline pit and no further damage done.
-While William Schaeve of Davenport was riding on a street car in
that city, his hat blew off and in an effort to regain it he
hurled himself to the pavement with great force and is now
suffering from concussion of the brain. He will recover.
-The new inebriate hospital at Knoxville which was just recently
opened, is reported to be filled about to its capacity. It can
only accommodate 200 persons.
-Engineer John Wright of the Indiana Harbor railroad, formerly a
member of the Clinton police force, a fireman on the Northwestern
and a Clinton grocer, successively, was instantly killed in a
wreck on the Indiana road at McCook, Illinois.
[submitted by C.J.L., March 2004]