Iowa Old Press

Davenport Daily Republican
Feb 17, 1902

MRS. FOLEY ASKS FOR DECREE OF DIVORCE
Alleges Her Husband Beat Her and Threatened to Kill Her.

By her attorney, A.P. McGuirk, Estella Pearl Foley has begun an action for divorce from John R. Foley. She tells the district court in her petition that she was married to the defendant on June 25th, 1900, that no children were born to them and that they have no property. She alleges, as grounds for her present action, that since their marriage the defendant has been guilty of such cruel and inhuman treatment as to endanger her life, that he has struck and beat her, that he threatened to kill her, that he had in his possession poisonous drugs, that he threatened that she would go to bed some night and never wake up, that she feared he would kill her and believes now that he intended to kill her.
Adultery is also charged.
Mrs. Foley asks restoration of her former name, Estella Pearl Buergel.

Davenport Daily Republican; Davenport , Scott , Iowa ; February 19, 1902

Notes from Washington
     Washington , Feb. 17 – Iowa postmasters appointed – Coralville, Webster county, E.B. Burke, vice A.M. White resigned; Jerome, Appanoose county, W.S. Fox, vice J.F. Stevenson, resigned.
            A postoffice has been established at Bronson, Woodbury county, with M.G. Smith as postmaster.
            Iowa Pensions – Original – John McDonough, Oskaloosa, $6; Thomas C. Brown, Marion, $6; Samuel L.C. Rhodes, Davenport, $12; John E. Marshall Farmington, $8. Increase, restoration, etc.- Abraham Welss, Murray, $10; Jacob Snell, Urbana, $12; William N. Johnson, Muscatine, $8; Charles W. Beck, Leon, $10; Philip F. Bird, Oakland, $12; Wm. H. Lammey, Des Moines, $6; Samuel Williams, Dedding, $6. Original widows, etc.- Maggie Galligan, Monticello , $8; Barbara Meyer, New Haven , $8; Hester A. Linn, Selby, $8; Nancy A Justus, Belmond, $8; Hannah Bohan, Carroll, $8. Renewal – Maria Norris, Bloomington , $12.

Submitted by C.J.L., July 2005 & May 2006