Iowa Old Press
Paullina Times
Paullina, O'Brien co. Iowa
August 1, 1895
Mike Callahan, a former saloon keeper here, died at Fonda, last
Saturday.
A. H. Roden, a prominent hotel man and saloon keeper of Sanborn,
has skipped out and his wife has brought suit against his
property to secure his indebtedness to her. The business of the
hotel is being continued, but the saloon is closed. Sheriff
Carter was up Monday taking invoice of the property.
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Paullina Times
Paullina, O'Brien co. Iowa
August 8, 1895
Mrs. Montzheimer is enjoying a visit from her aunt, Mrs. H. C.
Hillock, of Williams, Iowa.
The funeral of Mrs. Dunning, the mother of Mrs. G. W. Schee, was
largely attended last Tuesday. Mrs. Dunning was 61 years old, and
died quite suddenly from a ruptured blood vessel.
Joey, son of R. Culp, is suffering with a severe attack of spinal
meningitis.
Mrs. Gotch, wife of Claus Gotch, in [?] township, died last
Friday morning after an illness of several months. The funeral
was held Saturday and the remains were placed in the Liberty
township cemetery. Several small children are left without a
mother's care.
Miss Mable Dagger of Alta, in company with her cousin, Jennie
Thayer, is the guest of her brother, O. P. Dagger.
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Paullina Times
Paullina, O'Brien co. Iowa
August 15, 1895
Born - To Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Steen, [?]day, August 10th, a
daughter.
Mrs. J. H. Monyhan of Des Moines is visiting her mother, Mrs. P.
H. Andreson.
Mrs. B. F. Paul is here from Blairstown visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Matt Temple.
One of the unwashed kids of Sam Boughman was captured here last
Friday and our generous business men raised a purse and had the
boy washed and clothed with a new suit of clothes including
shoes, stockings, etc. The improvement was decidedly marked and
if his parents had a proper sense of decency or the eternal
fitness of things they would treat each of their children
likewise. It is said that out of a large family of six or eight
children, not one of them has received any schooling and is being
brought up in ignorance while their parents own 240 acres of land
worth $40 an acre.
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Paullina Times
Paullina, O'Brien co. Iowa
August 22, 1895
Dora Rohwer is spending the week with her sister, Mrs.
Harrington.
Mrs. F. P. Baker returned home from Jefferson last week where she
had been attending her mother who is quite ill.
The 11-months old baby of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Lasher died Monday.
The grief-stricken parents have the sympathy of all in their sad
hour of sorrow.
Born - To Mr. and Mrs. Thomas [Duggem?] on Wednesday, August 21,
a daughter.
Frankie Lasher, the little 11-months-old child of T. J. Lasher of
[?] township, died Monday as was interred in Union cemetery
Tuesday. The funeral was conducted by Rev. A. [?] at the family
residence.
Justice Fell united in marriage last Saturday evening, Mr. John
Cleghorn and Miss Sadie Heckert, both of [?], O'Brien county. The
ceremony was performed at the home of C. C. Cleghorn, brother of
the groom, in this city. - Everly News
G. W. Eveland and R. W. Harkins were granted permission to wed by
Clerk Armstrong last Saturday.
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Paullina Times
Paullina, O'Brien co. Iowa
August 29, 1895
A marriage license was issued last week to H. E. Correll and Mary
Barret.
Crow & Hillyard, of Paullina, have brought suit in the
district court for Christene Thonssen asking for a divorce from
Fred Thonssen.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Manley on Monday, August 26th.
Richard Culp received a telegram last [?] that his son-in-law,
Fred Burch [sic, Birch] was very near death. Mr. Burch had [?] in
a well soon after the explosion of a dynamite cartridge and was
overcome by gas. He lay unconscious [?] over a week, dying a
short time before Mr. Culp and his brother, [?] arrived. Mr.
Burch lived near [?], Iowa.
Suicide Near Calumet - Oscar Frankel, a German Farmer,
Takes Morphine With Fatal Results
(Special Primghar Correspondence) - Another sad case of
suicide has occurred in our county. This time the unhappy victim
was Oscar Frankel, a young German some 25 years of age who has
been working for Nick Steffen on his farm two miles east of
Calumet.
Coroner Algyer was summoned by telegram Sunday morning and
immediately went to the scene of the tragedy accompanied by
Sheriff Carter. A coroner's jury consisting of Ernest Pape, D. B.
Harrington and E. W. Macomber was impaneled and evidence as
follows adduced:
Richard Branco: I was acquainted with deceased for the last
fifteen years; we were boys together in Germany. He has been in
America about three years, and was an exemplary young man, quiet
and orderly in his habits. I last saw him Monday night when he
was at my house and he was sad and cried some, telling me that he
had received a letter from his mother and sister telling him not
to return to Germany as he had proposed as they had trouble
enough there without him increasing it. His brother-in-law in
Germany had shot himself and his mother had lost a large sum of
money in a bank failure. Oscar was a Jew in religion but never
very strong minded.
Nic Steffens: Deceased has worked for me for about a month past.
I went to Calumet yesterday returning at about eight o'clock.
Frankel came out to help me unhitch, and he was staggering, but I
attributed this to drunkenness, although I did not know where he
could have obtained the liquor. He went to supper with us, but
would not eat and I urged him to go to bed. He went upstairs and
soon I heard him groaning, and going up myself I found him on the
floor unconscious. I went for Dr. Seeley of Sutherland and we
worked with him till he died Sunday morning at 6:30 o'clock.
Mrs. Paulina Steffens: I noticed something white on Oscar's lips
at about six o'clock Saturday evening and after he had milked I
noticed that he staggered and was getting blue.
Virge A. Barmore: I am a pharmacist and have a store at
Sutherland. Deceased came to my store the first of last week and
asked me to put up something that would make him sleep. He asked
if I had morphine and said he wanted a bottle. I asked if he knew
the dose, and he said he did. I sold him a bottle containing
one-eighth ounce. The bottle I see here is the same bottle. The
bottle was full when I sold it to him.
Dr. W. A. Seeley: Was called to see deceased Saturday night at
about nine thirty o'clock and found him lying on floor and think
he was unconscious. I was satisfied from his breathing that he
had been poisoned. I administered restoratives. Looking for
evidences of poison we found a bottle labeled morphine in the
pants pocket. He must have taken a very large dose and I am sure
the poison was morphine and the cause of his death was poison.
Verdict
State of Iowa, O'Brien County
An inquisition holden in Liberty township on the 25th day of
August, A. D. 1895, before David Algyer, coroner of said county
upon the body of Oscar Frankel there lying dead, by the jurors
whose names are hereto subscribed. Said jurors on oath say that
Oscar Frankel came to his death on the 25th day of August, 1895,
in Liberty township, O'Brien county, Iowa, and the cause of his
death was poison, to wit, morphine, and that the said poison was
administered by his own hand and that no other person is in any
way or manner responsible for his death, except himself. In
testimony whereof the said jurors have hereunto set their hands
the day and year above written.
Ernst Pape
D. B. Harrington
R. W. McComber, Jurors
Attest: David Algyer, Coroner
A search of the trunk of the deceased was made by the jury and
they found two small memoranda books in which was closely
written, in German, a statement of his intentions to commit
suicide and disposing of his effects and making some requests as
to writing to his relatives in Germany. Aside from a few personal
effects and an interest in a town lot in Calumet, the deceased
had nothing. Clerk Armstrong appointed R. Branco his
administrator last Monday.
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