Iowa Old Press
Lime Springs Sun
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
Thursday, April 6, 1905
County Seat Chronicles - Pithy Paragraphs Pleasingly
Penned.
-Rev. Gammons has ordered a fine automobile.
-Mr. Luers has rebought his drug store of the Shuttleworth Bros.
and they expect to move to Washington.
-Mrs. David Easler was buried from the Kendalville church last
Saturday. Thus the old settlers are passing away.
-The body of Mrs. Hazen, formerly of Lime Springs, was brought
from California to the home of her brother, H.T. Reed, last
Wednesday, where appropriate ceremonies were conducted ere it was
bourn to its final rest at Oak Lawn cemetery.
Of Interest in Iowa - A Diary of Noteworthy Happenings.
-Six new telephone lines will be built out of Muscatine this
spring.
-Rev. Marsh has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church at
Swaledale.
-The home of Carl Hunter near Shenandoah was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $1,000.
-Eddie Osborn and Earl Maher, two youthful house breakers, have
been arrested at Des Moines.
-Amos Elliott, a resident of Genesco, holds the record as
champion skunk catcher. He caught eighteen in one week.
-W.F. Hunting, secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Newton, has resigned
and will go to Ottumwa to take charge of the boys' department of
the Y.M.C.A. of that city.
-Wallace Hubbard, vice president of the St. Joe and Des Moines
interurban, is authority for the statement that construction work
will be commenced on the road in May.
-Freeman H. Bloodgood, for the past six years superintendent of
the East Waterloo schools, but who has been having considerable
trouble lately, has tendered his resignation and will engage in
mercantile pursuits.
-By the death of Osborne E. Hole at Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 9,
relatives at Marshalltown, Iowa, and the First Church of Christ.
Scientist, at Marshalltown, were bequeathed real property valued
at $52,625 and personal property valued at $11,105.92. Marcia E.
Hole, wife of the deceased, has petitioned for probate of the
will.
-Dickinson county has just purchased a tract of land and will
establish a poor farm.
-Max Hansen of Davenport has sued the Davenort locomotive works
for $5,000 for the loss of an eye.
-Roy Bostwick, an Iowa Central employe, was set upon by tramps at
Coalville and seriously stabbed.
-O.J. Alseth, an aged man at Sergeant Bluffs, who was badly
burned last April, has died of his injuries.
-Mayor McNutt of Muscatine, in an address to the Council,
declared that the city ought to own the light plant.
-John French, arrested in Cedar Rapids, was identified as the
slayer of Policeman Claude Brice of Joplin, Mo.
-Maurice Welsh, Sr., of Waterloo has been promoted to the
position of chief detective of the Illinois Central road.
-Singleton Weaver, a resident of Muscatine since 1852, is dead at
his home in that city, at the age of 77 years.
-Louis Moehler, an employe at the Bettendorf Axle Company's works
at Davenport, was badly injured in an accident.
-While singing a song at his home in Muscatine, William Busch, a
pioneer of that city, dropped dead. He was 68 years old.
-Frank Green of Olin fell through the manhole in the hay mow of
his barn and suffered a broken leg and other severe injuries.
-Christian Otton, a pioneer resident of Muscatine, died at his
home in that city, the result of a stroke of paralysis, at the
age of 69 years.
-M.L. Beem, a farmer living near Winterset, has mysteriously
disappeared and his wife has asked the assistance of officers to
find him.
-L.C. Holdridge, ex-supervisor of Sac county, who was short $800
in his accounts, has reimbursed the county and effected a
settlement.
-Miles P. Sigworth, Jr., of Anamosa, a prominent young druggist,
pleaded guilty to selling liquor illegally and was fined $300 and
costs.
-William Hofmeister, an 11-year-old Davenport boy, fell in
convulsions, while walking along the railroad tracks and died in
a few moments.
-The thirty people empoyed by the State to canvass the census
returns will be paid according to the amount of work they do.
Heretofore employes have been paid at the rate of $2 a day.
-Robert Terry, the 3-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Terry of
Ottumwa, set fire to his nightgown while playing with matches and
was fatally burned. The house caught fire and was slightly
damaged.
-Because Attorney William Rex of Des Moines, during the trial of
a case in justice court at Des Moines, made statements reflecting
upon his father, Charles Hubbard, Jr., made a lunge at him with a
knife and murder undoubtedly would have been committed had not
others interfered.
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Lime Springs Sun
Lime Springs, Howard co. Iowa
Thursday, April 13, 1905
The State of Iowa - Occurrences During the Past Week.
Kills Daughters While They Sleep
Michael Nelson, a farmer living near the town of Poplar, killed
his two daughters, aged 10 and 13 years respectively, and then
committed suicide. The murder was not discovered until 2 o'clock
in the afternoon, when county officers, summoned by the
neighbors, broke open the door of the house. The two girls were
found in bed, each with a bullet hole through the head. The had
apparently been murdered as they slept. On the floor lay the body
of Nelson, his rifle at his feet. Nelson had been suspected by
the authorities of the murder of Francis Richardson, a wealthy
money lender, who disappeared seven years ago, and whose body has
never been recovered. An effort was being made to learn where the
body could be found through the instrumentality of a
spiritualist, and it is believed that Nelson, fearful that the
blame might be laid at his door, killed his daughters and himself
rather than face the charge.
Spirits Tell of Murder.
From the spirits of the dead Mrs. A.E. Baker of Des Moines claims
to have discovered the cause of the sudden disappearance of Frank
S. Richardson, a prominent farmer living near Audubon, six years
ago. Through her visions she claims to have seen a murder and has
actually directed excavations near an old tree on the Richardson
farm which have resulted in the findings of a human skeleton
believed to be that of the missing man. When Richardson
disappeared there was quite a sensation, and though many murder
theories were evolved no trace of the man could be found.
No Trace of Indian Girl.
No trace of the missing Indian girl who disappeared from the Tama
reservation a few weeks ago, can be learned. The Indians have
searched the Iowa river as far down as Iowa City. The general
belief is that she was murdered and thrown into the river. She
was about 20 years of age, very handsome, and it is supposed she
was foully dealt with through jealousy, although there is not the
least evidence so far as to her whereabouts.
Victim of Husband's Vengeance.
The body of Frank Ogden, a young farmer, was found in the yard of
Claude Whistler in Moulton, with a bullet through the heart.
Whistler has disappeared. Ogden and Mrs. Whistler were
sweethearts before her marriage to Whistler.
Crazed Man Hurts Family.
John Striegel, a Burlington carpenter, suddenly gone crazy with
drink, choked his aged wife nearly to death, slashed his
daughter's cheek open with a knife and cut his son's clothing to
shreds before he could be arrested.
Twins.
Mr. and Mrs. James Bradley of Chariton are the parents of twins.
The father is 78 years old and the mother 63. The babes are a boy
weighing eight pounds and a daughter seven, both healthy and well
developed. This is the seventh pair of twins of which Bradley is
father, having seventeen children in all. He stands 6 feet 1 inch
in height and weighs 180 pounds, being a powerful man physically.
Both are colored and were slaves together under Gen. Bradley in
Louisiana.
State News in Brief.
-An Afro-American civil league has been organized in Keokuk.
-C.O. Hunt of Des Moines, a brakeman on the Rock Island, lost an
arm while making a coupling at Menlo.
-Theodore Merritt, a well-known Dubuque county farmer, has died
of blood poisoning, the result of a pin scratch.
-Albert Nelson was pinioned under a falling roof at the army post
at Des Moines and seriously, if not fatally, injured.
-T.I. Sampson, a Northwestern news agent, was found unconscious
upon the floor of his car on arrival at Des Moines. He is
seriously ill and it is believed he had been doped. The matter is
clothed in the deepest mystery.
-The little child of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Weekly of Muscatine is
suffering from blood poisioning as a result of an accidental cut
in the face sustained in a runaway.
-David Copenhaver of Sloan, while cutting down a big tree, was
crushed to death.
-Tom Davis, colored, employed in the mines at Foster, was
instantly killed by a fall of slate.
-Mr. and Mrs. D. Householder of Chariton have just celebrated
their sixtieth anniversary of their marriage.
-Mrs. James White, a resident of Iowa since 1852, is dead at her
home in Clinton, at the age of 82 years.
-Samuel Wood Tucker, a pioneer resident of Keokuk, is dead at his
home in that city at the age of 85 years.
-Capt. Norman E. Tibbals, a veteran Mississippi river captain, is
dead at his home in Dubuque, at the age of 71 years.
-At Oskaloosa, E.D. Oylesworth, convicted of horse stealing, was
sentenced to two years in the Fort Madison penitentiary.
-Stephen L. Downing of Oskaloosa, a prominent traveling man,
dropped dead at his home in that city of apoplexy, at the age of
65 years.
-Nicholas Grouganet of Dubuque attempted to commit suicide by
hanging, but was discovered by members of his family and cut down
in time to save his life.
-Five thousand dollars is bequeathed the the National
Spiritualist Association of Wahington in the will of Samuel W.
Tucker, a wealthy citizen of Keokuk, as filed from probate.
-Jacob E. Smith died very suddenly at Des Moines. An
investigation leads to the belief that death was due to a
ruptured blood vessel, caused by an overdose of headache tablets.
-Harley A. Barclay, a waif, who discovered that his right name is
Harley Seedore, appeared before the Polk County Court the other
day and petitioned that it be changed accordingly. The request
was granted.
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