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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
August 3, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
-Hon. H.A. Wonn died at his home near Belknap in Davis county, a
few days ago and was buried by the Masonic fraternity of which he
was an honored member. Mr. Wonn represented his county in the
Iowa Senate one or two terms and has served often in a public
capacity, and always to the satisfaction of his constituents. He
was an honorable, upright citizen, a true friend, and his death
will be sincerely mourned by many personal friends throughout the
state.
-Chicago papers chronicle the issuance of a marriage license to
Senator W.S. Knight of Dubuque and Miss Gantt of Chicago.
-A bridge is to be erected at a cost of $13,000 across Turkey
river at Elkader, Clayton county.
-Fletcher Woolsey, formerly Adjutant of the 17th Iowa, afterwards
and for some time chief clerk in the business house of General
Bussey, at St. Louis, but for the last ten years a resident of
Bloomfield, went to St. Louis last March to dispose of a valuable
book he had compiled, combining interest, wages and weight tables
since which time nothing had been heard from him, until a few
days ago when, in answer to inquiries set on foot by his friends,
it was found that he had fallen down stairs at a boarding house
and broken his neck, and was buried in potter's field.
-Chairman Beardsley has selected Gen. James M. Tuttle to be
Temporary Chairman of the Republican State Convention.
-The man whom Sheriff Mooney captured at Burlington, Iowa, not
long ago, on the charge of having killed Chas. Sharp, at Manilla,
last August, has been discharged from jail on motion of County
Attorney Talley. The witness who promised to come and testify did
not appear.
-A four year old son of Mr. A. Hullsizer, living four miles south
of Humboldt, had his left leg cut off just above the ankle by a
mower. He was playing in the hay field.
-George W. Smith, the 10-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Smith, of Davenport, was drowned July 23.
-James Ormrod, Sheriff of Franklin county, died at his residence
in Hampton, July 22, after a long illness. Mr. Ormrod was
universally liked and his death cast a gloom over the entire
community.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
August 10, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
-Paul Pacquette, a French Canadian, died at the insane asylum at
Independence recently and was buried at Sioux City. Pacquette,
was the third white settler in the vast region of the upper
Missouri valley, having taken a claim on the Big Sioux river,
three miles above Sioux City in the spring of 1849. For years he
and a number of his countrymen lived there isolated and alone,
trading with the Indians with whom they were on friendly terms.
Only one of the original band of settlers is now living. His name
is Theophile Brughler and he lives on the farm that he entered in
1849, two and a half miles above Sioux City.
-Mrs. Lizzie F. Jansen, 45 years of age, the mother of nine
children, three of whom are living, committed suicide by hanging
herself at Davenport. She had been drinking excessively, and
drove her elder daughter out of the house because she would not
fetch her liquor.
-The Hotel Manawa, at Lake Manawa, near Council Bluffs, was
burglarized. The thieves entered several guests' chambers and
robbed them while sleeping. Many valuable watches and jewels were
taken. The room of Charley Harmon, the proprietor was entered and
his watch and four hundred dollars taken. It is thought that the
robbery was committed by an organized band and that chloroform
had been used. The hotel was crowded with guests.
-At the election of the officers of the Clear Lake camp meeting
association Rev. G. W. Pratt, of Algona, was elected President.
Rev. R. Swearinger of Tama City, vice president, Rev. S.P. Marsh,
of Algona, corresponding secretary, and T.B. Taylor of Hampton,
treasurer.
-The adjutant General's office reports changes in the National
Guards as follows: Lieutenant-Colonel Boutin of the Sixth
Regiment, at Hampton, promoted to Colonel of the regiment, the
vacancy of Lieutenant-Colonel filled by promoting Major L.B.
Raymond of Hampton and Captain J.M. Emery, of Le Mars, made
Major.
-Carl Dahl, late emigrant from Sweden, having been in this
country but two months, and working for the C.B. & Q. company
on bridges for the last twenty-five days, was overcome with heat
Monday, at but little, slept very hard Monday night, insisted on
working next day with the gang near Whitebreast, west of
Knoxville,and was again prostrated in the afternoon, brought to
town on the 4:30 train, and died at the City Hotel a little after
midnight. He was about 40 years of age and leaves a wife and two
children in Sweden.
-Altoona, Polk county, is having a building boom. D.W. Ainey is
building a substantial brick block across from the postoffice,
24x60. The Masons will build the second story, thus having a home
of their own equal to any in the State. The society is in a
flourishing condition. Hon. T.E. Haines and R.A. Crawford are
building fine new residences.
-The mysterious disappearance of one of the oldest residents in
Dubuque county has produced a sensation. The aged father of Dr.
Watson wandered from home, went across the river on the ferry,
and when last seen was sitting on a box on the platform of the
Burlington depot about 4 p.m. All traces of him after that hour
have been lost. The old man was 91 years of age and childish, and
was accustomed to taking walks about the city, wandering at will.
Two days' search has failed to find his whereabouts. The opinion
prevails that his body will be found in the river.
-Daniel McNalley, a Stuart miner supposed to be insane, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with a pen-knife. His friends
thwarted his insane purpose.
A local politician named Smith stabbed Senator Mcservey of
Cherokee county in an altercation about local affairs. The
Senator was severely cut about the head and in the side.
-At the Iowa and Wisconsin coal mines, two miles west of Albia,
August 2nd, Michael Dial, an old timer, killed his son Dick with
a shot gun. The son was about twenty seven years old and
divorced. The old man is in the custody of the sheriff and nearly
crazed with grief. It seems that there was a family row and the
father claims to have killed the son in self defense. The father
has a good reputation.
-Eddie Kotizi was drowned in the Cedar at Cedar Rapids on the
31st.
-J.R. Sovereign has been nominated for congress by the Union
labor party of the Ninth Iowa district.
-A young man named Jennings, working on a farm about four miles
from Knoxville, was overcome with the heat and but little hopes
are had of his recovery.
-At a special election of officers for the Sixth Regiment, Iowa
National Guard, C.W. Bontin of Hampton was elected colonel, T.
Raymond of Hampton, lieut. colonel and J.N. Emery, of Le Mars,
major.
-Hon. D.D. Miracle, one of the Judges of the Webster City
District, died at his home in that city of cancer of the stomach.
For two months he has been confined to his bed, and for four
months to his house. For a year past he has been unwell but in
the early stages his difficulty was thought to be dyspepsia. He
leaves a widow and five children. He was born in London, Ontario,
January 23, 1810, admitted to the bar in 1861 and came to Iowa
the same year, practicing his profession with marked ability and
success until he was elected to the bench in 1879. In 1866 he was
married to Ella M. Bell, daughter of Col. Ralph Bell, a pioneer
and leading citizen.
A SAD CALAMITY
The Wife of Ex-Senator Lot Abraham Instantly Killed at Mt.
Pleasant.
Mt. Pleasant special.- A sad accident resulting in the sudden
death of Mrs. Senator Abraham, startled our city yesterday
morning. She was driving into the city from their farm, which is
about three miles out, to attend church and consult a physician
in regard to her mother who was quite feeble. Her horse when near
the court house took sudden fright and started to run away and
making a short turn threw her out with great violence on the hard
macadamized street. She struck on her head with such force that
several small stones went through the skull and she died almost
instantly. She was a good driver and was alone at the time. She
was a woman that was beloved by all who knew her and was of far
more than ordinary intelligence. She had lived here since 1841,
and was united in marriage to Senator Abraham in 1863. Besides
her husband, she leaves four children to mourn her loss, three
daughters and one son. She was a sister of John B. Alden, the
book publisher in New York, and traced her decent from the
Mayflower, and who was immortalized by Longfellow's poem,
"Miles Standish." Her husband, Senator Abraham, it will
be remembered, represented this county in the State Senate from
1882 to 1886 and is well known in G.A.R. circles all over the
state.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
August 17, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
-The governor has received the discharge of John Pierce of
Company E, Thirty-sixth regiment of Iowa infantry. It was sent to
him from Ohio and he would like to find the whereabouts of Mr.
Pierce.
-Word was received at the offices of the State Board of Health
that at Blakesburg, Wapello county, there had been over one
hundred cases of measles, none of which proved fatal, although
some were nearly fatal, caused by the attendants administering
hot tea instead of cold water.
-A.L. Kaiser, photographer of Belle Plaine, Iowa, was before
United States Commissioner Hobbs on the charge of sending obscene
matter through the mails. Said obscene matter was an immodest
picture. Kasier waived examination and gave bonds to appear for
trial.
BUTCHERY AT SHENANDOAH
The Terrible Deeds of Frank Gallup, a Desperado.
After Killing Two Good Citizens the Desperado Pays the Penalty
With his Worthless Life
Shenandoah, usually one of the quietest of places and most devoid
of sensational features of any of the thrifty little cities of
Iowa, is just now undergoing an intense strain of excitement. And
there is ample reason for it, for one of the bloodiest tragedies
ever enacted in the state occurred there between 9:30 and 10:30
on Saturday night, August 11th. Three men were shot down and
killed and two wounded, one probably fatally. Two of the dead men
were among the most highly respected citizens of Southwestern
Iowa, and the other was one of those mal-formed marplots upon
humanity.
One hundred and fifty yards west of the C.B. & Q. depot
stands the Gallup domicile, a white story and a half cottage,
fronting east and south, decorated with green blinds and almost
hidden by tall Lombardy poplars. It was the scene of the terrible
battle of Saturday night, where three men lay dead at one time
and two were badly wounded.
The Gallup family consisted of the parents, who are own cousins,
and seven children, four boys and three girls. The oldest boy,
Charlie, is a drooling idiot, of powerful physique, aged
thirty-five, next came Frank, aged thirty, next the three girls,
who are married and gone, then Hank, aged twenty-two, and Bert
aged eleven. Frank was the terror of the family as well as of the
town, and on Saturday afternoon had prepared himself for a murder
by putting a loaded revolver in his pocket and drinking enough
whisky to excite his devilish disposition. The whole family are
brutalized and depraved to a low degree.
By the idiot Charlie creating a disturbance at the "Q"
depot, after which he was carried home by Hank and the old man,
was the first of the trouble. In his efforts to quiet him the old
man knocked him down with his fist and with Hank's assistance was
in the act of drenching him with salt water when the surly giant
Frank came in and took part in the fray by knocking his father
down and trying to shoot Hank. The idiot and his big brother
turned upon the old man and Hank ran out screaming help and
murder and crying with all the strength of his lungs.
Frank Pine, who kept a hardware store within a short distance of
the Gallup abode, his clerk, Joe Ballard, T.E. Patterson, a
Chicago commercial man and W.T. Reining answered the call for
help, and ran over to the house. They met the old man at the gate
staggering and apparently hurt. He began to tell how badly Frank
had treated him, when Pine interrupted with the remark that
tarring and feathering was needed right there. The words were no
sooner spoken than the burley Frank strode out of the darkness
through the gate and pushing Patterson aside grasped Pine by the
arm and exclaimed: "What do you want here? Take that, G_d
d__n you! firing his pistol point blank at his heart and killing
him almost instantly. Turning to Ballard he made an attempt to
shoot him but the young man escaped by running. When the news of
the killing of Pine was known the town was ablaze with
excitement. Marshal Schwartz declared he could not take the man
without the assistance of a strong armed band, and Sheriff
Skinner was telephoned to at Clarinda to order out the militia.
The request was complied with and Capt. Mount marshaled twenty
members of Company E. Fifth Regiment. These men surrounded the
house and began a search for Frank. Then the devilishness of the
old man and woman showed itself. It had been one hour since the
killing of Pine and ample opportunity had been give the desperado
Frank to escape and when the cordon of loaded muskets was thrown
around the house the old man and old woman vehemently declared
Frank was not there and urged the crowd to come in and see.
Bert Rice, Dave Campbell, T.F. Patterson, a Chicago traveling
man, T.H. Winfrey, and other of the militia company and citizens
went in the house. They had searched in the cellar and were
coming out of it when Frank Gallup appeared with two loaded
revolvers. Dave Campbell, who was unarmed, grappled with him at
the door, and received probably a fatal wound in the neck from
the desperado's revolver. Standing over the prostrate form of
Campbell, the desperado now reloaded his revolver with cartridges
handed him by one of the women from within the house, and
commenced an indiscriminate fire upon those in sight. His next
shot took effect on T.H. Winfrey, wounding him in the leg
slightly. He then started to run around toward the rear of the
house and countered Militiaman, Bert Rice. Both fired almost at
the same time. Rice's shot, it seems, did not take effect, but
the shot from Gallup's pistol entered Rice's breast and he died
in a few minutes after being removed by a comrade. Gallup then
encountered Marino Fletcher, another militia man. The latter
raised his gun under his arm, being so close he could not bring
it to his shoulder, and with the muzzle almost touching Gallup's
back, fired, the ball passed clear through his body. It was not
yet known that Gallup was dead and preparations were continued
for a closer investment of the place and to prevent any further
loss of life by the treachery of the other members of the family.
In a short time Frank's wife appeared and stated that her husband
was dead. But fearing further treachery, a rope was passed to
her, with instructions to put it around her husband's neck. She
complied, and in this manner the body of the dead desperado was
hauled from where it lay at the rear of the house. Such was the
fury of the mob that the remains were dragged through the streets
at the end of the rope. Old man Gallup and his wife have been
arrested and sent to Clarinda to stand trial accomplices to the
nights terrible deeds.
FATAL SHOOTING
David Arnold Killed by Abe Bollinger at Afton.
A.H. Bollinger shot and killed David Arnold of Afton, the county
seat of Union county. Arnold was shot directly through the heart
and died instantly. The trouble was partly an old feud existing
between the two men, but which had been recently revived by a
liquor case. Last week Arnold, who has been drinking and handling
considerable liquor of late, was arrested by a United States
Marshal and taken to Council Bluffs for trial. On his return to
Afton he accused Bollinger of being the cause of his arrest. A
quarrel ensued in which Arnold seized Bollinger by the throat,
the latter shaking him off and drawing a revolver with the above
result. Bollinger gave himself up to the authorities. Both are
old residents of Afton and both have families. The murdered man
leaves a wife and three children.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
August 31, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
-J.R. Cole of Oskaloosa aged 73, was seriously hurt internally by
the upsetting of an omnibus on the way to the fair grounds near
that place. Gates, the driver, had his left collar bone broken
and a great gash cut in his head. Both are in a precarious
condition. Two little girls and several other passengers were
also injured.
-The First National Bank of Ida Grove perfected its permanent
organization on the 22d, with the following officers: President,
Henry M. Whinery; Vice President, Alex McHugh; Cashier, E.M.
Donaldson; Assistant, Edwin Coles; Teller, Chas. E. Eldridge. The
capital stock is $100,000, with nearly $75,000 already paid up.
-The reunion of the 4th Iowa Cavalry Regiment at Mt. Pleasant was
a notable event. Addresses were made on the part of the citizens
by Senator Harlan and Senator Woolson, and on the part of the
regiment by Generals Winslow, Stone, and Belknap, Col. Peters and
Lieut. Ware, while Miss Hattie McClure, a daughter of Surgeon
McClure, and granddaughter of Col. Porter, happily responded to
the toast, "The Daughters of the Regiment." The reunion
was in every respect so successful, the local management under
the head of Capt. C.H. Smith, of McFarland Post G.A.R., was so
complete in all its departments, that the regiment unanimously
accepted the invitation to hold the next reunion, in 1891, at
that city. The officers-elect of the Association are: President,
Gen. E.F. Winslow; Secretary, Capt. C.H. Smith; Treasurer, Capt.
Lot Abraham.
-The three-year-old son of Peter Boarts recently fell into a
cistern at Iowa City and was drowned.
-The widow of Conductor Weber, who lives in Dubuque, has sued the
C.M. & St. P. for $20,000 damages. She claims death was due
to the carelessness of employees in coupling cars.
-The Glucose company of Marhalltown has been sued for the alleged
poisoning of Lime creek.
-Fritz Reichel and two friends went across the river in skiff
with a keg of beer, at Clinton, to spend Sunday. The beer keg had
been emptied and the three men were returning. Reichel was
sitting on the keg, when over he went, his companions being
unable to save him.
-The Sixth Regiment Iowa National Guards, commanded by Col.
Rowton, of Hampton, went into camp at Mason City Aug. 27th. The
regiment numbers about 800 privates.
-E.L. Hostler's furniture store, at Waterloo, burned. Estimated
loss on building and stock, $10,000; insurance, $8,000.
-The annual meeting of the State Agassiz Association was held in
Mt. Pleasant recently. Arthur Cox, of Iowa City, was President,
and presided with a skill and suavity which many an older
chairman might well emulate. Miss Mariam Woolson of the Mt.
Pleasant Chapter, delivered an appropriate address of welcome, to
which the President happily responded. The election of officers
for the ensuing year resulted as follows: President, J.G.
Speilman, of Fairfield; first Vice President, F.M. Irish, of
Dubuque; Secretary, Miss Olive Cole, of Mt. Pleasant. The next
Iowa Assembly will meet at Oskaloosa some time next summer.
-Mr. A.H. Wilkinson, assistant train dispatcher of the C.M. &
St. P. railroad company, Dubuque, was awakened by a shot fired
close to his premises. He paid little attention to it, but on
getting up about four hours later he discovered that a bullet had
been fired through his front window on a line with a bed occupied
by himself and wife. The ball struck the bedstead within a few
inches of his head, then passed through a folding door and lodged
in the opposite wall.
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