Iowa
Old Press
Correctionville News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
March 26, 1914
IOWA STATE NEWS
John O'Neil, foreman of a Rock Island section gang at Fairfield,
shot and killed a laborer named Ernesto Reyes. Reyes and a number
of other Mexicans had been discharged by the company, but for a
week or more had refused to leave the bunk cars. O'Neil went to
the car and told them to leave. Reyes and another Mexican are
claimed to have seized an ax and spade and started off for
O'Neil, who jumped from the car and fired at the men as they came
to the door, killing Reyes. O'Neil was acquitted by the coroner's
jury.
Lack of money and a position with which to support his wife and
baby was given by Archie Hayes of Fort Madison as a reason for
ending his life with a bullet through his brain in his home
there. His wife and child were in an adjacent room while he
penned the note and pulled the trigger of a small rifle.
Charles W. Lockard of Wadena was taken back to the Fort Madison
penitentiary after losing a habeas corpus case. Lockard had
served several months in the penitentiary. Lockard's contention
is that his attorneys persuaded him to consent to a plea of
guilty in order to get a light sentence.
A man supposed to be Albert Dalton of Creston, Ia., was murdered
on the "O" street viaduct in South Omaha. His body,
with the throat cut, was found by an officer, but there is no
trace of the murderer. Dalton was a railroad man about 40 years
old.
W.E. Young, managing editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette,
who has been connected with the paper for twenty-five years, lies
dangerously ill at his home in that city. At a consultation of
physicians it was declared he may not recover.
The body of John H. Janke was found floating in the river at
Burlington. It was identified by papers found in the clothing.
Janke disappeared Nov. 24, 1913. He was a member of the fraternal
order of Eagles.
Mrs. Katherine Korab, the mother of Paul A. Korab, cashier of the
Iowa City State bank, and one of the first Bohemians to come to
America, died recently at Western. She was 82 years old. She and
her husband came from Bohemia in 1854.
Peter Frye, a farm hand, aged 50, died at Burlington as the
result of a fractured skull. He was knocked down by John Hedge, a
negro, and his head struck the sidewalk with terrific force.
The infant child of Mrs. Herman Waller is dead at Allison and the
mother probably fatally burned as the result of an explosion when
a bottle containing alcohol fell on a hot stove.
One of the most bitterly contested legal battles that has come
before the bar of Henry county was ended when the jury in the
case of Hannah Obermier and Lizzie Philpot against the Anton
Totemeir estate returned a verdict awarding $8,967.88 to the two
plaintiffs, who claimed that they worked for the dead man for a
period of years between 1892 and 1902.
L.S. Coffin of Fort Dodge has filed an action in district court
to dissolve the guardianship appointed some time ago by Judge
Albrook. Mr. Coffin declares that he is now of sound mind. He
also charged that C.V. Findlay, his guardian, is not a proper
person for the position. Mr. Coffin fought the appointment of a
guardian when action was brought by Mrs. John Rutledge, his only
daughter, in 1913. The action followed the adoption by Mr. Coffin
of a woman as his daughter, who since has married.
Claude Henninger, who entered a plea of guilty to violating the
Mann white slave act in transporting Mamie Adams from Allentown,
Pa., to Missouri Valley, was sentenced to serve sixty days in the
county jail at Logan. The court was lenient with the young man
when it was shown that his wife had left him and he and the girl
came to Iowa to make their home and marry when Henninger had
secured a divorce.
If William Dobson, formerly of Tama county, happens to put in an
appearance within the next ten years he will find himself
possessed of $5,207 and its accumulated interest as a result of
the will of his father, the late Sumner Dobson. William Dobson
disappeared and his whereabouts are not known. Before his father
died he divided up the property among his eleven children, each
share being $5,207.
An unusual case is being tried in the district court at Boone in
which children are suing grandchildren. The will of the late
James Irving gave all of his property to his grandchildren and
omitted his children, who had had a guardian appointed for him.
The children, who number five, are suing all their children and
much interest is being aroused over the outcome.
There is a good deal of excitement in the southwestern part of
Humboldt county over the report that gold has been found on the
farm of Rolf Hanson, one mile west of Thor, by well drillers.
There were two layers of the metal, one about 150 feet below the
surface in a hard rock formation, and the other in black sand.
Dr. W.M. Scott of Centerville has a rival for honors as having
lived longest in Iowa, in the person of J.P. Alfrey of
Farmington. Mr. Alfrey was born at Farmington in January, 1836,
and has resided there continuously during the seventy-eight years
of his life.
Chester Davidson, 16 years old, accidentally was killed at a
dance at Percival. He sat down on a window sill on the second
floor, lost his balance and fell backward to the ground, breaking
his neck.
John D. Reed, 95 years old, for fifty years a resident of
Dubuque, is dead. He was born in England. In his early life he
followed the sea, later engaging in railroad work.
Hal Wheeler, the 21-year-old son of Mrs. James Lee, living near
Audubon, committed suicide at the home of Tom Newell, where he
had lived for two years. Wheeler shot himself in the forehead. In
searching for a motive for the suicide it was found that Wheeler
recently had been told that his frequent visits at the home of a
young girl near the Newell's must cease.
[transcribed by C.J.L., March 2007]