Iowa Old Press
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City, Woodbury co., Iowa
Tuesday, October 19, 1886, Page 2
Le Mars News
Accidental Death of Little Boy-Sunday in the Churches-Runaway
Girls-Personal Notes-
LeMars, Oct. 18: Special to the Journal:
- On Saturday last, the little son of August Furchner, who
resides in Preston township, was killed. This summer he has been
engaged in herding cattle, and on Saturday, before starting out,
he decided to tie himself to the saddle, which he did by buckling
a strap around his waist and then attaching it to the saddle. He
left the yard fastened to the saddle in the manner described and
rode into the field with the cattle. The horse returning in the
afternoon without the boy alarmed those at the house and search
was instituted. After searching for some time Mr. Furchner found
the body some distance from the house lying on the ground. The
boys back had been broken and the strap which had been around his
waist had cut into the flesh. It is not known how the accident
occurred, though it is supposed that the horse succeeded in
unsealing the boy and ran until the strap which fastened the boy
to the saddle became detached.
-Yesterday Father Spring visited the German Evangelical Sunday
school, and after talking to the children for some time,
presented the Sunday school with a library of 85 books.
- Sheriff Fuller received a telephone message from Kingsley this
morning stating that two girls by the name of Robinson had run
away from home, and he was requested to take them in charge
should they come here. It is stated that the father of the girls
lives fifteen or twenty miles southeast of Kingsley.
- Yesterday morning, owing to the illness of Rev. Mr. Patch, Mrs.
Palmer, the W.C.T.U. evangelist, filled the pulpit at the
Congregational church. In the evening, Mrs. Palmer and Mrs.
Perkins addressed the temperance mass meeting at the opera house.
The meeting was well attended.
- This morning Sheriff Fuller took the eastbound train with Mrs.
Anderson, a Swedish woman, from Akron. She commenced showing
signs of insanity some time ago, when her husband deserted her.
This increased the malady, and those interested in the case
decided to send her to Independence, Iowa, for treatment.
- Rev. I. P. Patch is quite ill with malarial fever.
- Mrs. F. D. Fuller and little daughter took the east-bound train
for a visit to Delaware county.
- Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Perkins left for St. Paul this morning.
- D. Chapman, secretary of the Y.M.C..A., has returned from
Corning, where he has been visiting his father’s family.
- Uncle Pete Garrison left for Maryland on the morning train,
where he expects to pass the winter.
- C.W. Cole left this morning for Madison, D.T. [Dakota
Territory]
- Geo. Haddin took the north-bound train this morning for St.
Paul, where he will complete his medical studies.
[transcribed by L.Z., March 2019]