Iowa
Old Press
Chief Reporter
Perry, Dallas co. Iowa
July 19, 1900
PROVED HIMSELF A HERO
Fort Dodge, July 14 - Ed Early, flagman at the Farley street
crossing of the Illinois Central, proved himself a hero to the
admiring public of Ft. Dodge by risking his own life to save the
fives of four others. A lady with four little ones was driving a
carriage up the hill to cross the tracks and neither saw the
on-coming express train nor the frantic signals of the flagman.
Just as the horses had set foot on the track, with the roaring
engine not a half dozen paces away, Ed Early sprang into the
almost certain jaws of death, seized the horse by the bridle
and forced it back upon its haunches, just as the train flew by,
grazing his back.
FARMER ACCIDENTALLY KILLED
Rowan, July 15 - O. J. Suntken, a farmer living one and a half
miles north of Alexander, accidentally fell off a load of hay and
his head struck on the edge of a watering tank and broke his
neck. He died immediately. He was quite a well-to-do farmer and
owned a farm of 240 acres. He leaves a wife and four children.
SERIOUSLY INJURED FROM A FALL
Fort Dodge, July 15 - Chas. Hansen, a laborer at the Blandon
Gypsum mill, fell from one of the company's trestle works upon a
pile of stones twenty feet below. Several ribs were broken and
the spinal column injured in such a manner as to paralyze the
entire lower part of his body. He will probably die.
ACCIDENT AT CEDAR RAPIDS
Cedar Rapids, July 18 - Bert Edwards attempted to board a
Northwestern freight running forty miles an hour, fell under the
wheels and had both legs taken off. He cannot live.
ARSENIC IN THE BREAD
Remsen, July 14 - At a gathering at Mrs. D. Franks, five miles
south of town, fifteen persons were suddenly taken ill. Upon the
arrival of physicians it was found their symptoms resembled those
of strychnine poisoning. Doubts were entertained for the recovery
of a number of the victims at first, but at the present writing
it is thought there will be no fatalities. Upon chemical
diagnosis of the water and food partaken of it was found that the
bread contained a great quantity of arsenic. Whether the poison
was put into the bread accidentally or intentionally, is not
known.
TROUBLE FOR SIOUX CITY SALOONS
Sioux City, July 13 - Unless the saloonkeepers of the city take
out their screens and wine rooms, the Anti-Saloon League, of
which the ministers of the city are the most prominent and active
members, will
bring injunction suits. A few weeks ago the league gave notice
that the screens must go, but the liquor men have been slow in
complying with the order, and the injunction statues probably
will be resorted to.
ALLEGED COUNTERFEITER
Dunlap, July 12 - Untied States Detective Stephen A. Connell of
Minneapolis, Minn., arrested James S. Magden, alias J.S. Stone,
here on the charge of counterfeiting United States treasury notes
by raising the
designations of various bills.
ROBBERS MAKE BIG HAUL- HOLD UP A TRAIN IN KENTUCY AND GET
OVER $10,000
Paducah, Ky., July 12 - The Illinois Central fast train from New
Orleans to Chicago was held up and robbed two miles south of
Wickliffe. The train was flagged, and when stopped, six bandits,
after knocking the
fireman in the head with a revolver, and injuring him badly, cut
off the engine and express car, and ran a mile and a half down
the road. They blew the express safe, securing all the valuables.
They left the engine and car and crossed into Missouri. They
dropped a package containing seven hundred dollars, but got away
with ten thousand. The passengers were not molested.
[transcribed by L.Z., April 2005]
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Chief Reporter
Perry, Dallas co. Iowa
July 26, 1900
General Iowa news
David Riddles shot and killed Dolph Adams at Newmarket last
Friday night. Riddles was placed in jail at Bedford.
Corporal Dan Newsome of Company D, Fifty-first Iowa, died at Camp
Merritt, San Francisco, Sunday of pneumonia.
George, John and Fred Shuckman, brothers, while crossing a bridge
on a grain separator and engine at Volga city, the engine broke
through the structure, turned over and crushed George and John to
death. Fred saved himself.
Koert Huising, a young man about 27 years of age, met death by
drowning in the cutoff of the Rock River at Rock Valley the other
day.
Hog cholera has broken out in Dubuque County and is raging
unchecked. In Vernon Township the loss has been heavy, one man
losing 159 hogs, another 100. Nearly all of William Burns'
younger hogs have died, and James O'Brien, Jr., is minus the
greater part of his herd.
J.M. Byers, one of the most prominent pioneers of Mahaska County,
died at his home in Oskaloosa a few days since.
[transcribed by S.F., Oct. 2003]