Iowa
Old Press
Oxford Mirror
Oxford Junction, Jones co. Iowa
May 31, 1894
Local Matters.
-Miss Rena and M. L. Carter have a new bicycle.
-Miss Lena Arlen went to Davenport this morning.
-Jerry Mulverhill of Monmouth was in town Tuesday.
-George D. Cook of Marshalltown is here visiting for a few days.
-Miss Vinnie Tyrrell of Belmond is visiting relatives and friends
here.
-Lyda Brennimen of Brooklyn, Iowa, has been here this week
looking after her property.
-S.S. Zigler has been in Ohio at his old home for the past ten
days. He returned home yesterday.
-A bright little daughter entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. A.
White last Friday afternoon, where she met with a royal welcome.—Wyoming
Journal.
-Mrs. J.H. Keech went to Mt. Carroll on Tuesday.
-Mrs. George Field has been quite sick during the past week.
-Mrs. James Dubois, who has been quite sick during the past two
weeks, is now improving.
-Leon Niles of Wyoming took the train from here Monday night for
Colorado where he expects to stay this summer.
-Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sturdevant and little baby started from
Clarence last Friday morning for Honolulu, the largest, city of
the Hawaiian Islands.
Obituary
Jane G. Young was born in Clarion county, Penn., Oct. 14th, 1831,
and died at her daughter's, Mrs. Thomas Dawson, in Center
Junction, Iowa, May 27th, 1894, being 62 years, 7 months, and 13
days old. The deceased was married to Mr. Miles H. Corbett, April
1st 1851; came to Jones county in 1856, where she has since
resided.
Mr. Corbett entered the army and died in Memphis, Tenn., March
4th, 1862, leaving his wife a war widow with four children. She
remained five years a widow and was married to W.W. Sutliff,
Sept. 4th, 1867, who survives with three children to mourn the
loss of a good mother and faithful wife.
The departed was a devoted member of the M.E. church at Oxford
Mills, where she has labored in all parts of the church work, and
was an active W.C.T.U. worker until sickness and infirmities
prevented. Mrs. Sutliff was a great sufferer in body and mind
during the last year of her life, one of her children having to
be with her most of the time as her condition was such that death
might come suddenly. She left her home in Oxford Mills a few
weeks ago and visited her daughter, Mrs. Bumgarner at Orin and
returned for one day only, when her daughter, Mrs. Dawson at
Center Junction, came and took her home with her. She was but one
day in Center Junction when she died, very suddenly, early Sunday
morning. The funeral services took place at the M.E. church in
Center Junction where her pastor, W.F. Bacon, of Oxford
Mills, assisted by Rev. [illegible words] service, and laid her
body away to await the resurrection.
A Pioneer Judge Dead.
Judge Thomas S. Wilson died May 16 after an illness of several
weeks. Thomas S. Wilson was born at Steubenville, O., October 13,
1813. He graduated at Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, in l832,
and after studying law for two years he was admitted to the bar
by the supreme court of Ohio in 1834; after being admitted he
began practice with Gen. Stokley at Steubenville; soon after,
contrary to the advice and wishes of his friends, he determined
to come west; having a brother — Capt. George Wilson of the
First United States infantry, under command of Col. Zacharay
Taylor at Prairie du Chien. He went there with his wife and
remained there until he could select a place of settlement,
deciding to locate at Dubuque. He removed there in October, 1836,
.and in the spring of 1837 he was elected president of the board
of trustees of the town of Dubuque. Iowa was then a part of the
Wisconsin territory and contained two counties, Dubuque and Des
Moines.
In June, 1838, he was nominated a delegate to congress by the
northern counties of Iowa; at the same time he was appointed by
President VanBuren judge of the supreme court of Iowa. His
appointment was renewed by Presidents Tyler and Polk, and he
continued judge of the supreme court until a year after the
admission of Iowa into the union as a state in 1846. When the
first legislature met and went into joint ballot he came within
one vote of being elected United States senator; the first court
ever held in Iowa territory was held by Judge Wilson at Prairie
La Porte, now Guttenberg, on the second Monday in November, 1838;
he resigned his office as judge of the supreme court in 1847, and
practiced law in partnership with Platt Smith and his brother,
Hon. D.S. Wilson; in April, 1852, he was elected without
opposition judge of the district court, and by successive
elections held the office until January 1, 1863, serving over
twenty years as judge.
He held the first courts in the counties of Clayton, Delaware,
Allamakee, Jones, Winnesheik, Black Hawk, Chickasaw, Bremer,
Fayette and Clinton. It is stated, on good authority, that Judge
Wilson never had ten cases reversed during all the time he was on
the bench. Judge Wilson was elected two consecutive terms
to the legislature, in 1866 and 1868; at the session in 1866 he
was [illegible] by the democratic members the nomination of
United States senator, which he declined.
IOWA STATE NEWS
Murdered Near His Home.
Conductor Redpath, of the Great Western road, was shot by two
unknown young men while on his way to take a train to St. Joseph.
The shooting occurred about 10 o'clock in the evening and within
two blocks of his home in Des Moines. He was dead when assistance
reached him. Robbery was the motive. He leaves a wife and three
children. John Krout and Barney Hammill were arrested for the
crime, and Krout confessed they were out of money and decided to
hold up the first man they met.
Tragedy at Keokuk.
Jacob Dygraff, an insurance agent, killed his wife and himself at
Keokuk. Several weeks ago his wife obtained a divorce. Dygraff
met her on the street and pleaded for a reconciliation. She
refused, whereupon he drew a revolver. She started to run, and he
fired four shots into her back, killing her instantly. He then
placed the revolver to his own head and blew out his brains.
Boy Found Shot.
Daniel Thompson, 12 years old, son of Stephen Thompson, was found
dead in a cornfield on the Thompson farm near Marshalltown. He
had been shot through the upper part of the body. The body and
gun were found 50 yards apart, and it was believed impossible for
the boy to have gone that distance after having been shot.
A Double Crime.
Annie Hansen, aged 16, was shot and killed at her home 10 miles
north of Remsen by her uncle, Herman Peters, aged 25. The
rest of the family were away from home. Peters told the neighbors
it was an accident and then shot himself through the head.
News in Brief
-During the absence of a man named Sheffer, living near Osage,
his wife borrowed $25, cashed a check, boarded a train at Charles
City and left for parts unknown, presumably in Nebraska.
-Bismarck Wise, son of one of the principal farmers in the
northeastern part of Marshall county, was killed by the cars
while returning home from a visit to a young woman whom he
expected soon to marry.
-Henry Somerville, aged 50 years, a prominent resident of
Somerville, after whom the town was named, went in swimming in a
pond near his home and was drowned.
-Henry Watterson is to deliver the Fourth of July oration at
Oskaloosa.
-Clarence Plopper, aged 22, committed suicide by cutting his
throat at the farm of F. Conklin in O'Brien county. He had been
in poor health for a few days and was low spirited.
-A. A. Johnstone, a well-known crockery dealer, died in Des
Moines aged 41 years.
-W. J. Warner was indicted at Primghar for murdcr in the second
degree for killing Maj. Inman in a quarrel over the division line
between their farms. The trial was set for June 11.
-Frank Post left Le Mars for a bicycle tour through central
Europe.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2009]