Iowa
Old Press
Kellogg Enterprise
Kellogg, Jasper, Iowa
Friday, March 8, 1889
IOWA CONDENSED ITEMS
Pronouncing matches are coming into vogue in Keokuk.
E.R. Wheeler broke his leg by jumping from a train at Walker.
John Oatman was killed at Keokuk by being run over by an engine.
The saloons of LeClaire have been closed by order of Mayor Rambo.
Chicago capitalists are figuring on opening a paper house in
Dubuque.
Michael Austin, of Grinnell, is a candidate for minister to
Buenos Ayres.
Arthur Springer of Columbus Junction, aspires to be Governor of
New Mexico.
The Salado Cattle company of Clinton has incorporated with a
capital of $100,000.
Daniel Gillis, a well-known citizen of Iowa City, suddenly
dropped dead of heart disease.
Mr. Farlow, a Woodbine butcher, has left for parts unknown,
leaving numerous debts behind.
Sioux City sent her corn palace train to the inauguration. It
consisted of five Pullman sleepers and a baggage car.
At Creston, Mrs. Aspelmire, aged over fifty, died from the
effects of severe burns caused by an explosion of gasoline.
Articles of Incorporation for the Farmersburg, Clayton county,
creamery association have been filed with the Secretary of State.
A box of glass weighing 1,500 pounds fell upon J.W. Currie while
he was uploading it from a wagon in Council Bluffs, dangerously
injuring him.
Chas. Taylor, a brakeman on the C., M. & St. P railroad, was
killed at Dixon. Six cars passed over the body, mangling it in a
horrible manner.
The Crooked Creek Coal company is preparing to do a large amount
of prospecting in the southern part of Webster county as soon as
the season opens up.
Mark Kelley, a former resident of Hardin county, and later
publisher of the Edmond Times at Edmond, Kansas, has mysteriously
disappeared. Friends fear for his safety.
John Butler was cut to pieces while coupling engine tanks at the
round-house in Creston, and died instantly. Two thousand dollars
insurance goes to his wife and children.
The town council of Hampton, at a recent meeting, passed an
ordinance requiring bowling alleys and billiard halls to take
down all blinds and screens from windows.
The dwelling of John Gillispie of Rose Hill, burned. Loss $500;
insured in the Western Home, of Sioux City, for $200 on the
building and $50 on the clothing and household goods.
E.L. Billings, of Humboldt, and F. A. Harvey, of Iowa Falls, are
recent violaters of Uncle Sam's internal revenue law, who are in
Fort Dodge in charge of United States Marshal Holbrook.
Near Logan, Lottie Pategood, 18 years of age, was found
supposedly died in her chamber, after having eaten a hearty meal.
Preparations were made for the funeral, after which signs of life
were discovered, though the body was lain rigid for 24 hours.
John Keefe, who has for many years been an employe of the
Northwestern road at Clinton, was run over and killed while at
work on the track. A freight train struck him, mangling the body
most horribly.
In the trial of C.D. Huston, who killed Ed. Hall, a striking
switchman at Creston, Nov. 8, the jury returned a verdict of
"not guilty." The defense clearly established the fact
that the shooting was done in self-defense. Huston was a
"scab" engineer and Hall was a striker.
The New Market Post tells of a Miss Nellie McCartney, who lives
near there, and who attempted to commit suicide recently by
shooting herself with a revolver. The ball went within an inch of
her heart and was taken out near her back-bone. It is thought she
will recover.
Mr. Hiram Loomis, of Monticello, claims to be the oldest living
soldier of the rebellion. He was born in Cayuga county, New York,
December 25, 1800. Another aged veteran is David Averill, of
Sibley, Osceola county, who was born in Windham county, Vermont,
February 6, 1802.
Hoelker & Koenig's grain elevator at Halbur, eight miles
south of Carroll, burned. The fire started from sawdust and hay
packed around steam pipes to prevent freezing. Over 8,000 bushels
of grain burned. The firm estimate their loss at $7,500, with
$2,000 insurance. They intend to rebuild.
David Kelly, a farmer near Walnut, was seriously if not fatally
injured by a train. He was badly bruised, received a scalp wound,
and one leg was broken in three places. He has a wife and a large
family of children. Both horses were instantly killed and the
wagon was completely demolished.
The body of Eugene McKellar was found in a ravine twenty miles
north of Sioux City. He disappeared from his home December 22,
and although a search was made by the neighbors no trace was
found until March 1st, when a party of hunters accidentally
discovered the body. A musket lay by his side, and the
supposition is that he committed suicide.
John Fofsted, who has been on trial at Jefferson for
manslaughter, was acquitted. Last fall during and altercation he
slapped a young man named Shoemaker, who soon afterwards died. It
was held that his death resulted from the blow, but the defense
showed that although given in self-defense the blow was a mild
one and death was caused by hemorrhage, resulting from
over-excitement, and heart derangement.
William Emerson, a colored convict at Ft. Madison, made a
murderous attack on Deputy Warden Townsend with a keen-bladed
knife. Townsend fired at the negro, intending to disable him, but
the bullet severed an artery in the arm and internal hemorrhage
set in which resulted fatally. Deputy Townsend is spoken of
as a kind-hearted, humane keeper, popular with convicts and
officers, and is believed to have only acted in self-defense.
Emerson was sent up for three years for burglary committed in
Pottawattamie county.
By the death of Jeremiah F. Hunt, who was struck by a train on
the 23d of February, Parsons college comes into possession of
property valued at $15,000. In 1883 Mr. Hunt, who was an aged
farmer living near Donnellson, Lee county, made a transfer of a
240 acre farm, three lots in the city of Keokuk, forty-five
shares of stock of the Northern Pacific railroad and other
property to the college, the only condition being that he was to
have a life interest in the management of the property. Mr. Hunt
was about eighty years of age, had never been married and was
almost without relatives.
Sheriff Palmer, at Red Oak, arrested the old man named Pickett
and three of his sons on a telegram from the sheriff of Page
county. These are believed to be the parties who have been
extensively pilfering through Taylor, Page, Montgomery and Cass
counties, stealing grain and anything else of value they could
find. A
large quantity of harness was found stored away in a box in the
house. Al Pickett, one of the number, was married last month to
Hulda Thompson. It is currently reported that both have living
mates and are liable for bigamy.
A. Joynt, formerly of Grinnell, who had by honest toil amassed a
few hundred dollars, went to Chariton to meet a man named
Dennison for the purpose of buying a half interest in a stock of
groceries. The business was quickly concluded, Joynt paying over
$700 into the hands of his future partner. In a few hours
afterwards, Dennison was arrested for forgery, the goods were
taken possession of by former creditors, everything else was in
his wife's name, and in less than two days after leaving home Mr.
Joynt's earnings of years were swallowed up.
[submitted by C.J.L., December 2003]