Iowa
Old Press
Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
September 14, 1888
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
-Adolph Louisen, aged 15 years, was killed by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun at Dubuque. He threw the gun under a
table, the hammer striking one of the legs, and the contents
entered his side.
-While Frank Court, a farmer living four miles from Dyersville,
Iowa, was driving his family to church the team ran away pitching
the inmates to the ground. Mrs. Court was instantly killed and
the others sustained more or less injuries.
-John Welsh, a laborer, was buried in a caving bank at the
approach to the new Missouri river bridge at Sioux City. One of
his legs was broken in two places, his collar bone broken and
three ribs broken, he will die.
-Judge Linehan, at Waterloo, denied the application of the
Chinese laundryman, Fong Wing, to be made a citizen. No opinion
was delivered, but the denial was made on the ground that the
Chinese were not eligible to citizenship under the laws and
constitution of the United States.
- Miss VonBlack, daughter of a farmer living near LaPorte,
committed suicide by taking poison. She has always been a cripple
and told her parents she was tired of life. She was twenty-eight
years old.
-There are now about 100 person on the pay roll at the Fairfield
Iowa Canning Company. They are canning corn and tomatoes.
-Albert Loeper, a one armed veteran of the Sixth Iowa Cavalry,
committed suicide at Dubuque by taking strychnine. After
swallowing the drug he attempted to write out his sensations
while dying but the action of the poison was so rapid that only
incoherent sentences were recorded. He was an inmate of the
Soldiers' Home at Marshalltown and was home on a furlough to see
his children, who reside in Dubuque. Before taking the fatal dose
he wrote a letter giving his reason for his act, which he signed
"self-murderer." He was tired of life and wished to be
at rest. Before coming to this country he was a fine officer in
the German army and was a highly educated man.
-Nicholas Perry, Postmaster at Hospers, Sioux county, was
arrested by a Deputy United States Marshal and bound over by
Commissioner Henderson on a charge of tampering with the mails.
-Samuel Crozer, the first Mayor of Clinton, died at that place
Sept. 2, aged 76 years. He has pursued a mercantile life
successfully, at one time being of the firm of Crozer &
Willis commission merchants, Clinton.
[transcribed by C.J.L., April 2004]