Iowa
Old Press
Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Polk co. Iowa
December 18, 1897
Lehner Files Petition
Joseph Lehner, keeper of a restaurant on West Walnut street,
filed today his expected petition for a divorce from Effie May,
his wife, to whom he was married last October, and with whom he
had many troubles as soon as the ceremony was finished. He
charges that she, whose name was given to him as Culver, deceived
him, married him by making him think she was single and of good
character, and ran him out of his own restaurant. He needed a
wife and thought she would make a good one. He learned, however,
that a negro named Lane was her husband and that she was a
drunkard and was full of quarrelsomeness.
Deaths.
Harrigan - William Harrigan, at 1016 West Second street, Saturday
morning, December 18, at 1:40 o'clock. Mr. Harrigan was a well
known member of the city police force. He died from an attack of
typhoid pneumonia, brought on by exposure while on duty. The pall
bearers will be Capt. R.B. Cook, J.F. Flannery, Joseph Danoghue,
Isaac Heator, Samuel Gibson and Louis Sevrud. The funeral
services will be held from St. Amborse church Monday morning at 9
o'clock. Rev. Father Flavin officiating. The city police force
will attend in a body, as will the different secret orders of
which Mr. Harrigan was a member. Interment will be in St. Ambrose
cemetery.
Elliott - The funeral services of Alexander Elliott will be held
Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Memebers of Gus Smith camp are
requested to meet at their hall at 1:30 p.m. to attend. Members
of other camps are also invited to be present.
Bates - The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bates, of 820
Maple street, Dec. 17. The funeral at the home this afternoon.
Interment in Oakwood cemetery.
Powell - The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. D.E. Powell, of East
Des Moines, Dec. 17. The funeral this afternoon. Interment in
Woodland cemetery.
Marriage License
James H. Ozmun, North Des Moines, 48, and Laura Ross, North Des
Moines, 30.
Iowa Newspapers and Newspaper Men.
-Henry A. Cook, late of the Denison Bulletin, will make
a good newspaper of the Grinnel Signal, which he has
purchased. He knows how.
-The Woodbine Twiner has been sold to Mr. Clark of Sac
county. Consideration, $3,300 without the building.
-J.V. Drips has purchased the Decatur City Advocate.
Success to Mr. Drips.
-The Sigourney News, an excellent paper, has changed its
name to The Keokuk County News and is vastly improved
typographically.
-S.L. Sage has bought the Sibley Herald. The Herald,
though young in years, is good property.
-The retirement of Editor Sinclair from the Britt News
is regretted. A good man. Editor [Lord or Bond] succeeds him.
-The Huffman Brothers should be proud of their first year's work
on the Oskaloosa Herald. The Herald always has
something in it.
-C.L. Caswell is bringing his new property, the Denison
Bulletin up the bill of success.
-The Manchester News has purchased a new two-revolution
Campbell press to take the place of their Prouty, also a new
doder. The News is prosperous.
-Muscatine Journal: The Daily Record, started
at Cedar Falls to run out the old established Gazette,
has failed - the fifth effort of the kind to fail. Mr. Snyder,
who has been editor and publisher of the Gazette for
many years, has given the community a good paper, but, as is
often the case, there are some ambitious young fellows who think
they know better how to publish a paper than the veterans, and so
they try [illegible] rival; only to involve themselves and others
in a financial maelstrom.
Iowa in a Nutshell
Cedar Rapids - About a year ago Samuel Sawyer died in Audubon
county, leaving a large estate, a greater portion of which was
willed to the Methodist church. The heirs contested the will, and
after a long trial the will was set aside. Elwin Sawyer, a son,
was appointed special administrator of the estate by the Audubon
county court. The elder Sayer had formerly lived in Jones county
and last April the son was appointed by the district court of
that county to be administrator of his father's estate. A few
days ago Attorney Nash of Audubon county was appointed
administrator of the estate by the Audubon county court. Elwin
Sawyer refused to turn the estate over to Nash, who secured an
order of court, and upon his refusal to turn it over, the court
issued a bench warrant, and Thursday he was arrested. Late that
night a writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Gilberson of
the superior court of this city, and served up the sheriff of
Jones county while he was returning to Audubon with young Sawyer.
The hearing will be had today.
Chicago - Ernest Albright, said to be a resident of Madrid, Iowa,
was swindled out of $240 here Thursday.
Davenport - Charles Grik, one of our Davenport boys, was crowned
with honors at Harvard on Wednesday. He was elected class orator.
Dubuque - Some time ago the wife of F.P. Grapes, a farmer living
near Strawberry Point, fled to Dubuque with her two children and
then went to [illegible] where she secured employment in a hotel.
Grapes followed with Constable Love of Dubuque, and suceeded in
inducing his wife to return home. She left him again, and again
he followed and patched up a truce at Elkader and the wife and
children went to the hotel to spend the night with him. In the
morning they were gone. Now the case comes up again. Mrs. Grapes
has been in Galena for some time, working at the City hotel,
having her two children, girls aged 4 and 6 years respectively,
with her.
Dubuque - Charles Heller, a cigarmaker of this city, was crossing
the railroad bridge to his home in East Dubuque, when he stumbled
and fell from the foot wide plank walk and striking the ice
below, was instantly killed.
Ida Grove - The jury in the case of the state against Meyers
found the boy not guilty of rape. Nellie Evans was the
prosecuting witness. She and her father swore that she was under
15 and the defense admitted illicit relations.
Eldora - A criminal case, almost unparalleled in its nature, has
been brought before Justice Burling. John Hutchinson had Mrs.
Cora Parish arrested for lewdness, announcing himself as the
other party. Hutchinson desires revenge. When Mrs. Parrish was
Cora Zufall, there were rumors of her intimacy with Hutchinson,
who was town marshal. To stop gossip they were married, and he
was sent to the penitentiary for bigamy. When he got out he found
that Cora Zufall had become Mrs. Parrish, her husband being a
respectable farmer. Mrs. Parrish was held under $4,000 bail,
furnished by her husband.
Stuart - Friends of J.A. Gilmore, of this place, are putting him
forward as a candidate for chief doorkeeper of one of the houses
of the coming legislature.
Dubuque Herald - Delilah Faies of Bremer county got
twenty years in the penitentiary for her self-confessed murder.
Her partner got twelve years. Here is one case where a woman gets
more than her rights.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2007]