Iowa
Old Press
Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
January 1, 1885
NORTHWESTERN NEWS IOWA
- There is a foot of snow on the level in Ida Grove.
- Leigh Hunt, of Des Moines, has been elected president of the
State Teachers' association for 1885.
- At Des Moines, J R Sage, editor of the daily Capital, was
married Tuesday night to Mrs. Josephine Adams.
- Black leg, which prevailed to a considerable extent among the
cattle of Ida county a short time since, has subsided.
- Des Moines citizens are flooding the town with petitions asking
the board of supervisors to grant permits for the sale of
intoxicating liquors.
- At Humboldt, last Thursday, 2000 sheep were received from
Montana, over the Albert Lea route. They will be wintered at
Humboldt and shipped east in spring.
- Cherokee has a genuine bigamy case on its hands. Sam Shook, who
was married at that place about two years ago, it appears had a
wife back in Ohio, and it is liable to go hard with Samuel.
- A verdict was recently rendered at St. Paul, for $50,000
against the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad in
favor of C.L. Dunn, who was injured in an accident in February
last near Green.
- While John Robinson, a bartender in Pat Halpin's saloon,
Dubuque, with James Malloy, was carelessly handling a revolver,
it was discharged, the contents entering the latter's head. He is
now in a dying condition.
- Fears of mob violence are entertained in the case of Peter Ryan
in the county jail at Audubon for the murder of Claus H. Kleeber,
Thursday night, but the sheriff has taken extra precautions to
protect his prisoner. Ryan asserts his entire innocence.
- A fire occurred at Calliope, which destroyed the livery stable
and household effects of Chas. Miles. Seven head of horses, a lot
of hogs, harness and a large quantity of hay and grain was
destroyed. About $3,000 was the amount of the loss, upon which
there was $1,800 insurance.
- A raid was made on the saloon of John Larkin, at Akron, last
Monday night, and quite a quantity of liquor found and destroyed.
This made John mad, and as he did not like to take all the blame,
he filed a complaint against Mr. Farnham, an old and highly
respectable citizen, who keeps a drug store. The raid which
followed the information, however, disclosed the fact that he had
quite a large stock of the ardent on hand, contrary to law.
- In the state Teachers' association at Des Moines, Wednesday,
officers for the next year were chosen as follows: President,
W.F. King, of Cornell; vice-presidents, A.C. Ross, of Hampton,
L.F. Delong, of Pella, A.F. Pitcher [or Pilcher], of Keosauqua;
secretary, W.N. Hull, Cedar Falls; treasurer, D.W. Lewis, of
Washington; educational council, B.C. Mathews, of Indianola,
T.J.R. Perry, of Freemont county; delegates to the national
association, H.H. Seerley, of Oskaloosa.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2007]
Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury co., Iowa
January 15, 1885
IOWA
- W.H. Buchanan, formerly sheriff of Clinton county, died at
DeWitt on Tuesday of paralysis of the heart.
- Isaac Gron, of Algona fell the length of a flight of stairs a
few days ago and received serious injuries.
- Robert Kennedy's little girl, at Barnum, fell into a tub of hot
water and was so badly scalded that she died on Wednesday.
- Thomas Hedge, one of the wealthiest and most influential
citizens of Burlington, and an early and widely-known settler of
Iowa, died on the 8th.
- Dr. McClury, of Keosauqua, administered chloroform to Mrs. Abe
Wilkins last Saturday, in order to extract her teeth, and she
died from the effects of it.
- Edward Martin was crushed by falling slate at the Eureka mine,
near Des Moines, Wednesday morning. Both legs were broken. He
will probably die.
- George B. Hamilton, one of the oldest residents of Dubuque, and
one of the most prominent and extensive grain dealers in the
west, died. He recently lost one speculation of $150,000, which
has principally been the cause of his rapidly failing health and
sudden demise. He was sixty-four years of age and was a native of
New York. He leaves a wife and family.
- A disastrous fire visited Iowa Falls on the evening of January
3. At about 6:30 the coal warehouse of Hoag & Steere and the
Granger elevator were entirely destroyed. The Franger elevator
was empty. The coal shed contained thirty tons of coal. Two cars
on the sidetrack were badly scorched. The loss is about $10,000
covered by insurance and is the supposed work of an incendiary.
- The verdict of the coroner's jury in the case of the lynching
of Pleasant Anderson, near Blakesburg a few days ago, was to the
effect that said
Pleasant Anderson came to his death by means of strangulation
caused by a rope placed around his neck, by which rope his body
was suspended from the limb of a tree - and said rope was so
placed and his body so suspended, feloniously by parties unknown
to the jury.
- A dastardly attempt was made in Monona county at a late hour on
the night of the 2d on the life of Dr. W.W. Ordway, a wealthy
farmer living on the Mapleton and Onawa stage road, near Castana.
The robbery was made about 12 o'clock by two men, who came and
woke the doctor up, saying they wanted some medicine. One man was
admitted to the house, and while the doctor was striking a light
the other fired a gun through the window, hitting him in the left
cheek, circling around and taking off his lip and top of his
nose. The doctor grappled with the man within, and during the
melee the other man carried off the trunk. Saturday afternoon
Sheriff Walker, of Onawa, placed under arrest a young man by the
name of G.F. Struble, who lives on one of Ordway's farms, just
across the Maple river, and about half a mile distant from
Ordway's. A gun and mitten found at Ordway's were identified as
belonging to Struble. Burnt paper was found around Struble's
premises, and much evidence has been gathered against him. There
has been much trouble between the two, Struble claiming that some
mortgages he had given Ordway had been paid but not satisfied on
the records. The trunk, containing a little money and valuable
papers which were taken when the house was robbed, is believed to
have contained other notes and mortgages given by Struble to
Ordway. The getting of these papers and destroying them, rather
than the money supposed to be in the trunk, is thought to be the
motive for the robbery. Monday afternoon Thos. Struble, a brother
of G.F.'s, who was living with him, Will Bell, and the hired man,
McBride, were also arrested as participants in the crime. Dr.
Ordway was frightfully wounded, but it is thought he will
recover.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2007]