Iowa
Old Press
Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
May 4, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Owners of Jersey cows near Marshalltown are alarmed over a
disease which is carrying off that class of animals. The disease
is malignant in the extreme: it attacks the brain and the animals
remain most of the time in a drowsy state.
The first Masonic lodge in Davenport was chartered November 10,
1851, and organized with Austin Corbin its worshipful master.
Bert Pardun, of Dexter, a brakeman on the Rock Island, met with a
painful accident April 27, at Neola while trying to perfect a
coupling. Reports from Neola state that the accident in all
probability will prove fatal, as the
attending physicians have serious doubts of his recovery. Mr.
Pardun was an active and industrious young man and has the
sympathy of his fellow railroad men and a wide acquaintances of
friends.
Nicholas Eis, a prominent and wealthy farmer of Muscatine county,
committed suicide by drowning, April 26. Recently, while burning
brush, his clothes caught fire and were consumed. His body was
terribly burned and it is supposed that his mind became deranged.
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Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
May 18, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Thomas Olson, aged twenty, fell into the Missouri river at Sioux
City, May 18 and was drowned. The body was not recovered. He was
fishing on the bank.
About three weeks ago Mary Span eight year old living near
Melrose, was bitten by a mad dog and is now suffering from
hydrophobia. Her physician, Dr. Riordan, says there is no hope of
saving her life.
At the Biennial session of the Ancient Order of United Workmen,
which met at Dubuque, May 14, Grand Recorder Whitaker's report
shows the following statistics: Number of lodges in the State,
199; number of new beneficiary certificates issued, 1,071, of
which 12 have been cancelled; number of deaths, 147; number of
beneficiary certificates in force May 1 8,033; amount of
beneficiary fund paid on losses by death $276,000, making a total
of $1,196,000 since the Grand Lodge became of age in 1876.
Assessments for the first quarter of 1888 are eight.
John Surry and John Laffery, young men living in Keokuk, were
drowned May 14 near Warsaw, five miles below there. They with
three other companions had been to a brewery. After remaining
there some time they started to pull for Keokuk and had only
proceeded a short distance from shore when their craft
overturned.
The three who were saved clung to the boat until assistance came
from the shore.
Mrs. Daniel Griffith, of Correctionville, was suffocated by coal
gas, May 13, her body being found in bed the next afternoon.
Fred Greeninger a youth of Sioux City, aged fourteen years, was
instantly killed, May 14, by the horse he was riding falling on
him. The accident happened within a few feet of his father's
house on Pearl street.
Elizabeth Fountain, convicted of keeping a house of ill-fame at
Clinton, was sentenced May 11 to States prison for fifteen
months. Before receiving sentence she harangued the judge for
about fifteen minutes and when sentence was pronounced fell on
her knees begging for mercy and pleading to remain with her
child. Finally, frothing at the mouth, and becoming violent while
two officers were taking her from the court room, she raved,
swore, called the Judge and jurors vile names and acted like a
wild woman.
Major J.B. Sine, of the Allamakee Iron Mining Company, Rockford,
Ill., arrived in Waukon accompanied by Jas. A. Wood, iron expert
of Hurley and the original discoverer and locator of the famed
Gogebic mines of Wisconsin. After examination, Mr. Wood says he
never saw a more extensive deposit and it is of fine quality on
the surface and as easily worked as an ordinary stone quarry. The
mine will soon be extensively worked, and being only two miles
from Waukon, that city and vicinity are apparently about to enter
upon an era of growth and prosperity. It is estimated that iron
can be made there at from $10 to $12 a ton. The kind of ore, home
hematite, is in good demand.
The craze of saving 10 cent pieces is all the rage in a number of
Iowa cities and towns. The scheme is this: Every 10 cent piece
you receive through change is not allowed to be spent, but it is
placed in a bank for safe keeping. It will be found that
one-tenth of one's income will be saved.
Cedar Falls has a woman's exchange where employment is furnished
to all deserving women.
A Sioux City special, May 8, says: An accident occurred to-day
which, though it may not prove fatal, was such as to deserve
mention, as one of the few instances of the kind on record.
Reginald Ford, a young Englishman, was driving rapidly on Pearl
street when the vehicle was stopped suddenly by the wheel
catching in the street railway track. Ford was thrown fully
twenty feet, alighting on his head. Allan Vinton was the first
person to reach the prostrate man, and found him to all
appearances dead and his neck dislocated. He took hold of his
head and gave it a sudden turn, when the vertebra slipped back
into place with a report that was plainly heard on the sidewalk.
Ford soon regained consciousness, and if he escapes from the
effect of the brain concussion, can boast of being one of the few
living persons who have had their necks
dislocated.
The hospital for the insane at Mt. Pleasant, is again becoming
crowded beyond possibility of best results in remedial treatment.
As a necessary consequence and in order to make room for the
fresh cases constantly arrived, the trustees are returning to the
counties which sent them, the patients appearing least harmful,
and less likely to improve under hospital treatment. For the
benefit of the insane of the State, let the Clarinda hospital be
pushed to speediest completion.
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