Iowa Old Press

Dyersville Commercial
Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa
Thursday, Aug 5, 1875

MURDER AT FARLEY
A Shoemaker's Hammer Does the Work
Too Much Bad Whiskey at the Bottom of It

Last Sunday afternoon, our neighbors over at the quiet and moral little
village of Farley, were greatly surprised and chagrinned to find that a most
foul and bloody murder had been enacted in their very midst and that it had
been caused by a drunken Sunday row. The murderer and his victim were old
time friends, who had met together to have a good old fashioned spree, but
by some means or other, they brought in the new-fangled notions, got into a
row, and soon one of them lay an inanimate corpse, bruised and mangled, by a
blow from his friend, with a shoe hammer, the victim of an over dose of that
damning fluid, rot-gut whiskey. Whiskey, it was that heated the blood, and
over a light and trivial dispute, that otherwise would never have taken
place, the fatal and cursed blow was dealt. The name of the murdered man is
David GIBSON and his murderer's name is Edward McCABE. McCABE had been
working for a man named ELLIOTT who lives a few miles south of that place.
GIBSON was a shoemaker and kept a little shop north of the railroad. It
seems that they had got into a difficulty about the time McCabe was gone for
the whiskey, GIBSON accusing him of being gone a much longer time than
necessary. The first that was seen of them by the citizens, McCABE was
dragging GIBSON out of the shop by the heels. That GIBSON made an attack
upon him with the shoe knife, seems quite clear, and McCABE claims that he
was acting only on the defensive. An axe and bloody whiskey bottle were
found in the room after the affray.

Whether this murder was committed in self defense or otherwise, it can but
vividly depict to the public the direct consequences fo the excessive use of
intoxicating liquors. Crime after crime do we hear of being enacted from
this source alone, and as we read the sickening details, it almost causes
the blood to curdle in one's veins. Death at the best, is a solemn and
horrible monster to think of, but when we think of a man, whose locks are
already turning gray, being hurled off into eternity in a drunken row, and
that too, without a moment's warning,brought before an awful tribunal to
answer for multitudes of sins committed in the flesh, it can but give a most
gloomy and foreboding aspect to the picture.

Whether McCABE is punished or not (but he most certainly must be) for his
horrid deed, what must his feelings be now that he is sobered off, and as he
lies in jail and realizes that he has killed, perhaps his best friend and as
he looks forward and beholds himself serving out his few remaining days in
the pennitentiary, a curse to himself and a disgrace to his relatives, and
all on account of man's worst enemy, strong drink. It is a gloomy picture,
but how else should we look at it?

McCABE has been lodged in jail. He is a slender man of about 50 years, and
his victim was between 40 and 45.

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New Meat Market
SPERRING & FLAHERTY
Dealer in Fresh Meats
Butter, Eggs, Etc.
The Choicest Meats of hte season always on hand. We buy and sell for cash
only, hence can sell as low as any other first-class market in the city.
Market on Union Street, in Limback's basement, Dyersville, Iowa.

Dyersville Commercial
Dyersville, Dubuque, Iowa
Thursday, Aug 26, 1875

Local Headscratchings
--Camp meeting at Farley this week.

--Potatoes are only 20 censts per bushel.

--Get your miscellaneous merchandise of HOLSCHER BROS.

--The roof is on the new school house and the building is rapidly
proceeding.

--The watermelon crop in these parts did not "pan out" well this season.

--The foundation of the new Hotel and town Hall will be completed this week.

--Dr. TREMAIN's new house is nearly finished and the work on Frank FAHA's
new residence is rapidly progressing.

--Mr. Frank LUTHERMAS, we understand, will open out his stock in Bullingers'
building, just west of the bridge.

--A great deal of lumber is being brought to this place now. Messrs.
FREIBURG & KRAPFL are doing an immense business in that line this season.

MAD UNTO DEATH'S MYSTERY
A Woman Has a Falling Out with Her Husband and Attempts to Shake Off this
Mortal Coil With a Cup of "Cold Pizen."

The vicinity about our beautiful town, has, during the past week, been
filled with excitement, from the fact that suicides and othe awakening
matters have been unpremeditatingly forced upon the minds of the people
withouth the slightest warning, as of course such matters are.

The would be victim of self destruction this time is a Mrs. GOULD, who has a
history as full of romance and pathos as that of 'Red Handed Mike', 'Wild
Bill of the Plains', or any other of the champion characters and heroes of
Beadles' and other ten cent literature. She has been married two or three
times, and has had a vast amount of trouble and last Sunday she endeavored
to put an end to all of earth's woes with an overdose of morphine.

It seems that she and her husband, had some trouble, so one day last week
she brought suit before Esq. TRICK for assault and battery, intending, so we
understand, to apply for divorce and division of property. The case was
decided in her favor, but Sunday it seems she became tired of life, or tried
to make her friends think so, and endeavored to find a balm for her wounded
feelings, and shake off this mortal clay. However, Dr. TREMAIN was summoned
and she was brought to life in due time.
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Go to Stephen MULLER for a nice clean shave.

Get your soda water at Wm. MACFADDEN's.

A fresh arrival of military clothing at J.G. BAILEY's.

Jos. BUCKNAM will give you a good clean shave in a neat and workmanlike
manner, for very little money.

Watson SMITH at the post office will give you a cool and refreshing glass of
soda water filled with shaved ice.

The celebrated "Miller Boot" manufactured at Dubuque, for sale at J.G.
BAILEY's.

PERSONAL
Mr. Michael MILLER, that genial, good natured millinery commercial traveler,
from Cedar Rapids, was in town last week, brightening things up with the
light of his benign countenance. While here he favored the Commercial with a
call, as usual. He is always a welcome guest about these parts.

Mr. E. COUNSELL of Chicago is in town giving his numerous friends and
relatives in this section a visit.

Mr. J.V. BRIDGEMAN of Boston was in town over Sunday. He travels for one of
the leading wholesale clothing houses of that city.

Charlie and Hattie MATHEWS, nephew and niece of Mr. Jno. MORLEY, are here
from Chicago.

Submitted by: C.J.L.