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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
July 6, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Alfred Heney, living near Plymouth, Hancock county, was bitten by
a dog supposed to be suffering from rabies last week. A mad stone
was applied to the wound. It adhered for several hours and it is
thought the boy is out of danger.
It will be of interest to old soldiers everywhere to know that
Colonel Milo Smith, commandant of the Iowa Soldiers' home, has
issued an order as follows: "An old soldier who is admitted
as an inmate to the Iowa Soldiers' home, who is drawing a pension
of $8 a month or more and has no dependents to whom it should go,
is charged the cost price of his clothing. If he draws less than
$8 he is required to furnish what tobacco he uses. In no case
does the home appropriate a cent of his pension money, but
controls it and pays it out in small amounts as called for. But
in case the inmate has dependents, friends or relatives he can
send any or all his pension money to them and everything will be
furnished him at the home.
The Governor has appointed Mrs. Coggeshall of Des Moines and Mrs.
N.T. Bemis of Independence, delegates to the National Prison
Reform Congress which meets in Boston July 14th.
Marshalltown Times-Republican says: Thomas McBride, an old
soldier who came to the Home from Jackson county poor house, ran
away Monday and started for Clinton. He was found last evening on
the Central Iowa track. He had been struck by the pilot of an
engine and his body badly crushed. He was taken to the Home,
where he died last night from his injuries. McBride was 72 years
of age and a veteran of Company H, First Kansas infantry. he was
"out of his head" at times, and he wanted to go home.
The home authorities had notified the railroad people not to let
him on the train. He had started out to walk and is supposed to
have been sitting on a culvert when struck. The police had been
notified and were looking for him in town.
Colonel Warner, Agent for the Omaha and Winnebago Indians at the
reservation just below Sioux City, on the Nebraska side of the
river, states that about one hundred of the Indians have died
with measles during the past four months. The disease broke out
early in the spring and spread with frightful effects. There are
about a thousand Indians on the reservation.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
July 13, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
The large implement house of B.P. Lewis & Co. of Atlantic was
totally destroyed by fire at 12 o'clock at night, July 8. About
two car loads of twine burned. The loss is about $10,000,
partially insured.
In a communication to the State Board of Health the Creston Ice
Company makes serious objections to the results of the analysis
made by the chemist of the Agricultural College under the
direction of the State Board. The chemist, Prof. Bennet,
announces himself ready to defend the analysis and reiterates
that the ice is bad and not fit for drinking purposes.
A disastrous fire burned David Joyce's saw mills at Lyons on the
night of July 6th. The flames were discovered in the planing room
as they caught, but despite the prompt action were beyond human
control. In a few minutes the mill and machinery were destroyed,
also several piles of lumber. The loss is estimated at $75,000,
covered by following insurances: Manufacturer's Mutual of St.
Louis, $3,500; Reliance Mutual of Dubuque, $1,500; Lumber
Manufacturers of Eau Claire, $5,000; Mutual Fire Association of
Eau Claire, $2,500; Manufacturers of Milwaukee, $1,000. No lives
were lost, but sorrow was brought to many poor families who were
depending on the summer's work in the mill for a living next
winter.
The Des Moines river swallowed up two persons, at Des Moines,
July 4th. Late in the afternoon a gentleman named Cooper went
down to the river bank just below the old mill and his two boys
went wading in the edge of the water. One of them ventured too
far and there being a very deep place just below the dam he was
in immediate danger of drowning. The father saw the danger and
plunged into the water. At the same time Mr. Fitzgerald's
boatman, Mr. Hardy, saw the danger and started out in a boat. The
little boy had gone down, but Mr. Hardy jumped from the boat and
rescued him from the bottom and brought him safely to shore. A
number of persons were on the bank watching the whole proceedings
and helped to care for the almost strangled boy when he was taken
from the boat. While the attention of all was turned toward the
rescue of the boy, Mr. Cooper sank. He was missed but no one
could tell just where he went down. Mr. Hardy commenced a search
for him and in about ten minutes found the body devoid of life.
Herman Cooper was about 30 years of age and leaves a wife and
three children. He lived about one block from where the accident
happened. Late in the evening another drowning took place in the
river near the ferry. A number of boys were in swimming and one
of them, a lad named Miller, was drowned. He was about 12 years
old and the son of a laborer living in Sevastapol. The body of
the boy was not recovered.
The foundation of the new Huiskamp shoe factory is being laid at
Keokuk.
L.F. Andrews, of the State Board of Health, is preparing a table
of vital statistics. He states that the average number of
children per family in the State is five. The largest number is
in Allamakee county.
Mr. Aldrich of Webster City, recently contributed to the public
the first paper ever printed in Hamilton county. It is framed and
hung up in the court house at Webster City in such a way that
both sides can be read through the glass.
A SEVERE STORM.
Buildings Unroofed and Much Damage Done at Emmetsburg.
Emmetsburg, July 4- A wind and hail storm struck the town at
noon. The Catholic church was unroofed, the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids & Northern depot unroofed, hundreds of lights of glass
broken, numerous outbuildings blown over, gardens all destroyed
and shade trees very badly broken. Nobody was seriously hurt.
A STRANGE CASE
A Convict in the Penitentiary Turns out to be a Woman
SIOUX CITY, July 10- News was received here yesterday that
Charles Miller, who at the last term of court was sentenced to a
penitentiary for horse stealing, was a woman, and that she had
been transferred from Fort Madison to the Woman's Department at
Anamosa. Previous to conviction, Miller had lived in this
vicinity for six years with a woman who claimed to be her wife,
and they have an adopted child that they have kept with them. For
the past three years Miller did a man's work on a farm, while the
alleged wife die a woman's work in the house. Miller hired a
horse at Chamberlain's stable in March, for two hours, but did
not return until arrested at Odebolt over a month later. While in
jail here for over two months, no one suspected that Miller was
not what was claimed, all the time occupying a cell with a male
prisoner. The jailor never saw anything to arouse his suspicion
and strange as it may seem attorney Boles, who conducted the case
for the defense declared that his client was a woman. Since
coming here the first time Miller has been under arrest twice
before for petty offenses. For eight months she worked in the
Gipson barber shop, and because of her feminine appearance was
often jokingly accused of being a woman, but never once betrayed
herself. The pretended wife has been working as a domestic in the
city until about a week ago, when a man called for her and she
left her washtub and accompanied him, telling her mistress with
tears in her eyes that she must go away, but could not tell her
troubles. Chief of Police Nelon says the disguise was undoubtedly
kept up for the purpose of stealing.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
Friday, July 20, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Charlie Phicie, aged twenty-four, died at Dubuque, July 16, after
twenty-four hours of suffering from lock-jaw, the result of a toy
pistol wound on the middle finger received July 4th.
Judge Howat, at Clinton, July 14th, ordered twenty-one temporary
injunctions against saloon keepers.
Jasper Swinny, a farmer four miles from Bloomfield, being
informed that his wife, who had been sick several weeks, could
not recover went out and hanged himself to a tree.
James Lee, of Council Bluffs, has been arrested for embezzlement.
He was an employe of a tea company and during a period of several
years it is thought he has appropriated $5,000.
The State Board of Health is taking active measure to prevent the
sending of any more lepers into this State from Norway. The U.S.
consul at Christiana, Norway, has been notified, and any others
brought to this country will be promptly returned.
Mr. Perry Summers, a prosperous farmer living about six miles
north of Fairfield, was struck by lightning while driving to
town, July 16, and instantly killed.
A case of supposed leprosy is reported from LeGrand, Iowa. The
victim is a Norwegian woman who has been in this country about 2
ears. She is married but has no children. She claims that there
has been no leprosy in the family for generations as far as
known. The doctors are guarding the case carefully. One can
hardly think of leprosy without a shudder of horror. The cause
and cure of the terrible malady is unknown to medical science. It
is a contagious disease strictly and its spreading is prevented
only by the complete isolation of its victims.
The Grand Lodge of colored Masons elected the following officers
at their last session at Cedar Rapids: Grand Master, J.K.
Hilyard, St. Paul, Minn.; Deputy Grand Master, C.S. Gomer, Cedar
Rapids; Grand Senior Warden, E.T. Banks, Des Moines; Grand
Treasurer, S. Fox, Keokuk; Grand Secretary J.E. Gilliaur, Keokuk.
Rev. John Hayden, a Methodist minister at Fairfield, had been out
fishing, July 10, a pastime he very frequently enjoyed and was
returning home, walking along the Rock Island railroad track,
when he became very tired and sat down upon the rail to rest
himself. He in all probability must have fallen asleep, and being
partially hard of hearing, did not notice or hear a heavy freight
train as it came around the curve until it was too late. The
cow-catcher of the engine struck Mr. Hayden and knocked him from
the track, and when he was picked up he was dead. The engineer
did not see him in time to stop the train as they were coming
around a short curve.
A WOMAN MURDERED
The Horrible Fate of Allice Kelly at Ottumwa.
OTTUMWA, IOWA, July 11- Allice Kelly, a fine looking woman,
twenty-five to thirty years old, was found dead at 7 o'clock
yesterday morning in the edge of the timber on the "Old
Field" in the outskirts of the city. A horse and buggy
standing hitched near attracted the attention of two passers-by,
who found the body covered by a lap-robe, the throat cut and head
badly pounded. Lying near was a razor and an iron bolt a foot
long. Miss Kelly's first appearance here was June 13 when she
registered at Dick's hotel as hailing from Detroit, Mich. Two
weeks later she left and went to a private boarding house.
Arrested for jumping a board bill, she escaped on a point of law.
She left her boarding house, the proprietor refusing to keep her
longer and went to the Revere house, where she took supper. About
7 o'clock last evening she engaged a buggy and drove alone to the
greenehouse, where she got a boquet, afterwards found on her
body. An hour later she was seen on Third street alone in the
buggy. This was the last seen of her. The nature of her wound
shows it to be murder. She was a bright, bold woman, and the
opinion prevails that the murder is the result of her
blackmailing somebody.
A BAD CHARACTER
He Abandons His Family and Elopes With a School Marm.
MONTICELLO, July 16- Hiram S. Lee, a prominent farmer living near
here, on the edge of Delaware county, last week, after sending
his wife and child to Canada with a promise of following, went to
work and disposed of all his property and skipped with a school
marm, leaving numerous creditors in the lurch. Yesterday he was
arrested in Denver by Sheriff Cruise, on a requisition to the
Governor of Colorado, on a charge of arson. Last October a
creamery belonging to the Diamond creamery Company of this place,
in Lee's neighborhood, was burned. Since Lee ran away many
suspicions pointed to him as the author of the fire. Patient work
has developed sufficient evidence to justify his arrest. It
appears that he employed his hired man to burn the creamery in
order that he might sell a building he owned in the neighborhood
to the Diamond Creamery Company. The hired man has made a full
confession of his part in the affair and says that Lee paid him
$50 to do the job. He has also turned over to the authorities a
letter received from Lee, in which the latter speaks of the
crime. The Sheriff will be at Manchester with his prisoner this
week, when a preliminary hearing will be accorded him.
FOUND IN THE RIVER
E.C. Small, Sioux City Bank Bookkeeper, Drowned.
SIOUX CITY, July 12- The business circles of this city were
shocked yesterday morning to hear of the drowning of Edward C.
Small, book-keeper at the Sioux National bank. Mr. Small, along
with five friends, went out to the Big Sioux river to swim. Not
having a bathing suit, Mr. Small took a boat and went into the
water alone some distance from his companions and to a swimming
dock. It soon grew dark but nothing could be seen of the lone
bather. A search was instituted, and the five companions looked
and shouted for their friend all night long. The next morning at
10 o'clock he was found in three feet of water all doubled up,
having been taken with a cramp. Mr. Small came to Sioux City from
Atchison, Kansas, in January. His home is at Hartford, Conn. He
was a great favorite in society and well liked in business
circles.
DEATH OF A VETERAN
H.C. Henderson, Recently Injured at Council Bluffs, Passes Away.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, July 16- H.C. Henderson, who sustained a
dislocation of the neck by falling into a cellarway last Monday,
and who was confidently expected to recover after the physicians
had successfully reduced the fracture, died at 1 o'clock this
morning. The case has created a great deal of interest and the
patient was visited by many prominent physicians in this part of
the country. He was sixty years old, was a soldier, serving from
1862 until the close of the war, in Company C, Thirty-fourth Iowa
Infantry, of which Company he was First Lieutenant. Financially
he was in straightened circumstances, and has been cared for
since the accident by his G.A.R. comrades.
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A new postoffice has been established at Fiscus, Audubon county,
Wm. Littell postmaster. The Ottumwa Courier is
wondering what will be done with the bad boys if they continue to
increase in numbers. The Eldora school is crowded.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
Friday, July 27, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
John Moody, employed on the Peavy Grand Opera House at Sioux
City, met with an accident, July 20, that in nine cases out of
ten would have proved fatal. He lost his balance and fell
thirty-five feet to the floor of the parquet circle, turning two
complete somersaults in his descent, and alighting astride a
carpenter's neck who was on his knees nailing down a flooring
board. Strange to say, neither of the men were injured and in
five minutes both were at work as usual.
John Greasar, a workman in J.A. Green's quarries at Stone City,
four miles west of Anamosa, fell from a ledge to the bottom of
the quarry a distance of seventy five feet, alighting on his
shoulder. It was supposed he was crushed, but upon examination it
was found that not a bone had been broken. At this writing he is
still alive and bids fair to survive the shock.
Charles Miller, the woman who was supposed to be a man and sent
to the penitentiary from Sioux City for horse stealing, is
employed at Anamosa mending prison clothes and is becoming a
favorite among the officials at the prison for her good behavior.
It will be remembered that when her sex was discovered she was
transferred from Fort Madison to Anamosa, the female prisoners
being kept at the latter place.
The citizens of Ogden were somewhat surprised a few days ago to
learn that Mr. W.M. Hall, agent for the M. & St. L. Elevator
company, was short in his accounts with the elevator company, and
other creditors here. Before the facts of his shortage became
public he left for parts unknown having disposed of all his goods
here by chattel mortgage to parties he owed. The exact amounts
are not known, but rumor says he is short to the elevator company
about $900 and to his creditors about $300 above what he had
secured payment of. Mr. Hall has always been considered a
straightforward, honest business man and his sudden departure was
unlooked for by all.
The annual meeting of District No. 30 of Grand United Order of
Odd Fellows was held in Des Moines July 19th. It was well
attended by representatives from various lodges throughout the
district. The following are the officers elected for the ensuing
year: K. Bartlett of Mt. Pleasant, D.M. W.F. Watts of Des Moines,
Deputy M. G.O. Terrell of Oskaloosa, Treasurer, C. L. Young of
Ottumwa, Grand Director. The reports of the Grand officers showed
that the order was in a flourishing condition in this part of the
world and is keeping well up with the other secret societies. It
was decided that the next place of meeting is to be at Keokuk,
July 18th, 1889.
Governor Larabee has offered a reward of $500 for the murderer of
Alice Kelly, who was murdered near Ottumwa on the 9th of July,
the reward is to be paid when the criminal is convicted.
Articles of incorporation of the Bondurant Creamery company, of
Bondurant, in Polk county, were filed with the county recorder,
capital stock, $3,000. Incorporators, A.C. Bondurant, W.F. Scott,
L. Saylor and J.W. Redlingshaffer.
Hugh Copeland, a laborer on the government canal at Keokuk, was
instantly killed by lightning, July 16th.
The Troy Laundry, at Dubuque, has failed. Liabilities, $3,500;
assets, next to nothing. It was run by E. King, of Troy, N.Y. and
the principal creditors are east.
A Storm Lake special, July 19 says: Sheriff Weddington made a
trip to Alta yesterday, and when he returned he had A.W. Seymour
in custody, under a warrant sworn out by the State Insurance
Company. It seems that Mr. Seymour was in the habit of taking
applications for insurance, but instead of sending the money to
the company he would put it in his own pocket and send the
company a bogus note.
From the preliminary examination this afternoon it would seem
that he is a forger and defaulter to the amount of about $3,500.
He was found over to the grand jury, the bond being fixed at
$800.
THREE GIRLS DROWNED.
The Sad Calamity Which Occurred at Jefferson.
JEFFERSON, July 19- Prof. M.L. Bartlett's little daughter,
Cornie, with W. I. Chandler's daughter Myrtie, and Dr. Chas.
Enfield's daughter Grace, were drowned in the 'Coon river while
bathing yesterday afternoon. Prof. Bartlett's residence is in Des
Moines but he is here holding a musical institute. Two hundred
people turned out in search of the bodies and all were found.
Their ages were from 11 to 12 years. There is a deep gloom over
the city and probably an end to the musical.
MURDER AT CLEAR LAKE
A Night Prowler Fatally Shot by a Woman.
MASON CITY, July 23- Camp Reiniger at Clear Lake was the scene of
a disgraceful shooting affray last night. Three men were
discovered lounging around the cottage grounds in which Mrs.
Jessie McKinney and her daughter, Miss Bernice Bishop, are
camping. Mrs. McKinney stepped to the door and told them if they
were gentlemen to come in, if not to leave the grounds. One of
the three responded that upon invitation they would go in and
started to enter the door. Mrs. McKinney stepped to the rear of
the cottage and picked up a revolver and told them to leave. They
started to run but the woman fired five shots at them, one of the
balls striking J.F. Sullivan just back of the left ear,
penetrating his skull, from the effects of which he will die.
Mrs. McKinney has been arrested on the charge of assault with
intent to commit murder and a hearing has been set for to-morrow.
The affair produces much excitement. But little is known of the
woman's character.
MUST NOT SELL GINGER ALE
An Iowa Judge Holds That it Falls Under the Ban of the Law.
WATERLOO, July 19- Judge Couch has decided that ginger ale
"must go" in the cases of certain saloon keepers in
Buchanan county who have been selling ginger ale which contains 3
per cent alcohol. It was claimed that the drink contained so
little alcohol that a healthy man would have to drink a large
quantity to become drunken. The Judge holds that if there is any
malt in the beverage, and it would produce intoxication if taken
in any quantity, it comes under the ban of the law. This decision
knocks the last prop from under the saloon interests in this
district. The court granted a perpetual injunction against the
buildings and the saloon men and ordered the sheriff to proceed
at once and close the saloons and sell the fixtures to meet the
costs.
A Boy Killed Near Hastings While Shooting With a Revolver.
HASTINGS, July 20.- A terrible accident occurred here yesterday,
resulting in the death of one of Hasting's promising boys. The
particulars are as follows: Oscar Furguson, a boy of about
fourteen years old, accompanied by two of his companions went
east of town about half a mile to the creek. Each of the boys
carried a revolver and anticipated spending the rest of the day
shooting. Oscar had been shooting for some time when finally one
of the cartridges failed to discharge. At this juncture the
unfortunate boy made an effort to look down the barrel of the
revolver, when instantaneously the cartridge struck fire, the
ball passing through the boy's head producing death at once. This
untimely accident coming without a moment's warning, cast a gloom
over the town of Hastings. The boy in question comes of a good
and respectable family.
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