Iowa
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
June 8, 1888
Mariposa Township
-Mrs. Maves, wife of Charles Maves, died in the asylum at Mt.
Pleasant a few weeks ago.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
June 15, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
A special from Waterloo, June 11, says: Word has just been
received here of a tragedy that occurred last Monday night in
Hazel Green township, about seventeen miles from Monticello. An
old man by the name of Rothbacker, who was working in a stone
quarry with another man undertook to whip his boy, a lad about
twelve years of age, when the other man interfered. In the
evening the old man tried to whip the boy again but he ran away.
This enraged the father, and he caught the boy, knocked him down
and cut his head off with an ax. Up to last night the officers
have been unable to find him. Threats of lynching are freely
used; and if Rothbacker is caught he will undoubtedly be hung up
by a mob.
Anna L. Hower, a female convict, made her escape from the
penitentiary at Anamosa, June 11, by sawing off an iron bar over
her window in the top tier of cells, and letting herself down by
means of bed clothes, then climbing up a rope and scaling the
wall. She was sent from Cedar Rapids for eighteen years for
murder in the first degree, she having assisted a man in killing
her husband, with whom she afterwards ran away. She had served
five years. She is the first female that has ever escaped.
During a quarrel last week John Lofstedt, a respected farmer
living near Rippey, slapped a farm hand named Shoemaker on the
side of his head bursting an artery. The boy started to Rippey
but sank to the ground on the way. He was properly cared for but
died from the effects of the blow. Lofstedt is bound over
to the grand jury in the amount of $1,200.
A hoop snake has been killed at Floris by George Milton. This
kind of a reptile is rarely seen in this country.
A shoemaker named Samson Erz was drowned in the river at
Burlington, June 11, whether by accident or suicide is not known.
A body was found in the river June 11 near Montrose. It is
supposed to be that of a man named John B. Sweeney, who has been
missing since last fall.
A man while trying to board the Rock Island train at Council
Bluffs, June 11, fell and had his right arm badly crushed the
full length and his head and shoulder badly hurt. The accident
will probably prove fatal. J.B. Kently is his name. He is a
collar maker by trade and hailed from Omaha recently. Age about
45 years. He was inebriated and forced a door on the side of a
freight car and was climbing in when he fell under from a mishap
on the cable rod.
James W Summers has brought suit against the Santa Fe railway
company in the Clark county district court for nearly $6,000. His
claim is for work on the company's line last summer.
Four indictments have been found against Al Swihart, a machinist
of Hampton, two for burglary and two for larceny.
DERAILED BY A COW
A Gravel Train Thrown from the Track-Conductor Killed.
STUART, June 9- A serious railway accident occurred on the
Guthrie Center branch of the C.R. I. & P. near Monteith about
3 o'clock this afternoon. A gravel train in charge of Conductor
O.J. Embody was backing up with a train of gravel cars and a
caboose, when they struck a cow, derailing the caboose and piling
up six cars. Conductor Embody was instantly killed, brakeman Tom
McKane had a leg broken and brakeman Basset had a hip sprained.
Fireman Quinn jumped from the engine and fractured a knee. The
wounded men were conveyed to their homes in Stuart, where Dr.
Hannawalt met them. Conductor Embody leaves a wife
and five small children to mourn his death.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
June 22, 1888
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At the Annual State Encampment of the Sons of Veterans, in Des
Moines, the election of officers elicited a good degree of
interest. Mr. Cato Sells, of La Porte, was elected to the office
of Colonel. His majority was six votes. James York of Cedar
Rapids, Lieutenant Colonel and D.L. Freeman of Audubon Major.
Members of the Camp Council were elected as follows: Walter
Ellis, of Villisca, L.G. Consigny, of Avoca, and G.L. Goodale of
Lenox.
The annual encampment of the Sons of Veterans shows quite and
increased attendance over former years. The convention met in Des
Moines June 14 at the hall of Kinsman Post and on the platform
sat Gen. G.B. Abbott, of Chicago, grand commander of the new and
growing order. The following standing committees were announced:
Credentials- A.H. McNulty, Des Moines; Geo. L. Newton, Vinton;
G.L. Godale, Lenox; L. M. Bonar, Osceola; E.M. Phillips, West
Union.
Ritual- W.K. Dillon, Mt. Pleasant; W.A. Brower, Early; E.M.
Riccards, Dubuque; A.L. Soter, Iowa City. Resolutions- R. Shaw
Van, Dennison; R. M. Dewitt, Des Moines; J. H. Pickett, Ames;
T.F. Cooke, Algona; A.M.M. Derman, Mediapolis.
Report of Officers- W.W. Hill, Clarinda; T.B. Wales, Iowa City;
H.H. Wilson, Osceola; C.M. Noble, Cedar Rapids; F.M. Jump,
Northboro.
Constitution- Cato Sells, Laporte; D.L. Freeman, Audubon; E.M.
Phillips, West Union; John N., LaBane, Waterloo; B.A. Taylor,
Stewart.
The only business of importance in the afternoon was the
selection of Iowa City for the next place of meeting. Col. Jas.
D. Rowen made a clear view of the work of the order in Iowa
during the year. Delegates were present representing about
seventy posts.
The new postmaster at Oakland, J.F. Huntington, has taken charge
of the postoffice.
DARING ROBBERY.
How Two Sleek Ones Worked a Crawford County Farmer.
DES MOINES, June 17- About 9 o'clock yesterday morning the
following telegram was received at police headquarters:
DEDHAM, Iowa, June 16- Chief of Police, Des Moines: Arrest two
men who will arrive on south-bound train from Slater, for robbing
a man on train of $1500, one large man, has whiskers all over
face, five days' growth; one small man, whiskers on face, about
four weeks' growth. They will get on train at Slater Junction;
had better go outside of city and meet train; inquire of
conductor for the two men that got on at Slater. Answer here as
soon as arrested. L.P. Moody, Sheriff of Crawford county.
Officers Page and Livingstone started north on the 10 o'clock
Northwestern passenger and met the objects of their search on a
freight train a few miles out of town. The men were at first
disposed to resist, but the officers got the drop on them and
easily took them in. The larger of the two men, giving the name
of Wilson, had a very bad looking gun, a 48-caliber six-shooter,
and between them they had $1320 in their possession, were well
dressed and carried gold watches. But they were toughs all the
same. In the evening Sheriff Moody with two assistants arrived on
the scene and started back to Crawford county with the men in
irons. The story of their crime
as told by the Crawford county sheriff is an interesting one. The
smaller of the two men, giving his name as W.C. Greene, appeared
in Denison several days ago and talked of buying a farm. He
approached an old man named Eastman, who lived in Denison, and
proposed buying a farm of him. He told the old man he would come
around the next morning with a carriage and they would go out and
look at the farm, which they did. A few miles out of town in a
woody, secluded place, they met a heavy, rough looking fellow on
foot, who pretended to be an extensive stock buyer. They entered
into conversation and the stock buyer finally proposed a little
three card game. The old man wouldn't bet, but the stock buyer
produced a roll of $1500 and offered to give it to Eastman if he
could pick the right card, which Eastman did. The stock buyer
said he would keep his word and handed the money to Greene, whom
he termed a friend of Eastman's, to count and asked to see if
Eastman had as much money to make good the bet if he had lost.
The old man innocently handed over a roll of money to Greene to
count. There was $1500 in the roll, and when he had counted it
Greene cooly handed both rolls to his partner, the stockbuyer,
who quickly got behind his gun and backed off with the boodle.
Greene warned Eastman not to follow as the man was dangerous, and
promised to make good the amount, saying that he thoughtlessly
gave both rolls of money to the bold footed man. They then went
back to town and Greene went to Eastman's house and took dinner,
excusing himself in time to join his
confederate in getting out of town on the 12:30 a.m. train, and
then farmer Eastman began to be alarmed and notified the sheriff,
who forth with telegraphed to Carroll, but failed to catch the
men there but overtook them at Dedham. They escaped him in the
dark there, when after learning they had gone to Slater
(Sheldahl) he wired the Des Moines police with the above results.
The men laid in the depot at Slater five or six house, with the
impatient sheriff only thirty miles away, unable to get at them,
but supposing the Des Moines police were after them.
A TRAGEDY AT MOULTON
Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe Quarrel with Mr. Morrison With Fatal Results.
CENTERVILLE, June 16- News comes to our city of a shooting affray
that occurred at Moulton yesterday. As near as we can learn the
particulars are these: Mrs. Abner Thorpe informed her husband
that Thomas Morrison a blacksmith, had insulted her. Mr. Thorpe
was very indignant and wanted to go and see Mr.
Morrison right away, but his (Thorpe's) father, by main force
prevented so doing. But later in the day Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe went
to Morrison's shop and had a severe quarrel with him, which
resulted in Morrison's ordering them out of the shop. Thorpe
picked up an iron bar and made for Morrison when they clinched
and
fell to the floor. Thorpe called on his wife to shoot Morrison,
when she fired two shots, one passing through her husbands hand
and entered Morrison's ear and the other taking effect in
Morrison's left lung. The Marshal arrested Mr. Thorpe and wife
and telephoned to our city for Sheriff Jennings, who immediately
started for the prisoners. Morrison is in a critical condition
with but one chance in ten of living.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
June 29, 1888
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The new improvements to the Marshalltown soldiers' home are being
estimated at $6,000.
Burglars entered the boarding house of Mrs. A.M. Cose, at Sioux
City, early on the morning of June 25, and secured $500 in cash
and valuable jewelry. The lady was awakened by a man in her room
and got up, when she was knocked down and severely beaten. The
man then made his escape. No clue, but the robbers are
supposed to be followers of Sells Bros.' circus, which was in the
city.
Geo. Lucas, a well known resident of Dubuque, entered his
mother's residence at noon, June 25, and proceeded to his room
and shot himself with a revolver, the ball entering the middle of
the forehead and coming out at the back of the head. He is a son
of ex-Alderman Lucas, of the First Ward, and about thirty
years of age. He had been drinking heavily of late and this, with
a peculiar difficulty, probably influenced him to the rash act.
Governor Larrabee has reappointed the following Board of Curators
of the State Historical Society: W.J. Knight, Dubuque; J.O.
Crosby, Clayton; D.M. Richardson, Scott; John F. Duncombe,
Webster; A.H. Hamilton, Wapello; Marion Murdock, Humboldt; George
D. Perkins, Woodbury; S.M. Clarke, Lee, and J.P.
Bushnell, of Polk, who is a new member of the Board.
Sioux City has a defaulter in the person of E.S. Voorhees, who
recently decamped with a justice of the peace's money, $40 in
all.
Charles Myers, a farmer residing near Marne, Iowa, was killed by
lightning Sunday afternoon June 17th. His wife was shocked by the
same bolt and became insane.
The colored people of Keokuk have organized themselves into
different societies.
A thunder storm a few evenings ago committed sad havoc on the
farm of Thomas Collins in Houser township, Benton county.
Lightning struck and killed for him 11 horses and colts and one
mule. Just as the storm was approaching one of the boys who was
plowing in an adjoining field went to the barn. In passing the
pasture the horses walked up and stood with their breasts against
the wire fence. As the boy got to the barn a cottonwood tree
standing about 40 feet east of the horses was struck by
lightning. Two currents ran down the tree and onto the wire
(which was fastened to the tree), along the wire to the horses
killing them instantly. All except one dropped dead against the
fence, and this one reeled over and dropped with its head from
the fence. The next day when digging a trench to bury the
animals, a mule team ran away, one breaking its leg which had to
be killed. Mr. Collins carried an insurance of $1,000 on horses,
colt and cattle.
David Edwards, one of Iowa's early settlers, died at his home in
Tama county, June 19. He came to Iowa in 1856 and settled in
Chickasaw county, which he helped to organize, and made the trail
from Dubuque to McGregor, which was afterward adopted as the
State road.
Rev. D.E. Skinner, of Mason City, was awakened out of a sound
sleep one night recently by a severe pain in the arm and upon
examining it found the point of a needle coming through the
flesh. The needle was pulled out and found to be almost
three-fourths of an inch long and very rusty. He remembered
running a needle in his foot when he was a child and after twenty
years it now makes its appearance.
TRAIN WRECKED
Two of the Train Men Seriously Injured at Murray.
MURRAY, June 22- A train wreck occurred at one of the switches in
the yards at this place about 5 o'clock this afternoon. Engineer
Mike Johnson and Brakeman Harvey Scott are badly hurt but it is
hoped not fatally. The firemen escaped with slight injuries. The
engine and five freight cars are badly wrecked, all having been
thrown from the track. It is supposed to have been caused by the
switch being left unlocked and that the engine in passing on the
main track jostled and moved the rails sufficiently for the
tender and cars that followed to be thrown upon the side track.
The Roman Catholic Mutual Protection Association of Iowa, which
met at Waterloo, adjourned June 21, after electing following
officers: President, Rev. James Baron, LeMars; Vice-President,
W.E. Corkey, Burlington; Secretary and Treasurer, John Suppel,
Iowa City; Directors, Geo. Hammer, Iowa City, Richard O'Brien,
Independence, Louis Kurz, Des Moines. It was decided to hold the
next convention in Fort Dodge next June.
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