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Iowa News from across the
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- 1881 -
Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
January 6, 1881
- Miss Betsy Halvorsen, sister of Mrs. C. Christopherson, died
lately at St. Ansgar, Iowa. She was quite young and when she
lately lived in our village made many friends. Mrs. C.
Christopherson attended the
funeral and when she returned she was accompanied by her father,
who went back last week.
- It is said that Sanford Tanner, a well-known and eccentric
money-loaner who has frequently visited this county, died a few
days ago at Mona, Iowa.
- Mr. and Mrs. V. Gulbrandson went to Norman, Iowa, on Saturday
and staid until Wednesday visiting with Mrs. Gulbrandson's
relatives in that vicinity.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
January 13, 1881
ALDEN
Mrs. Lyon of Brooklyn, Iowa, has been visiting her parents, Mrs.
and Mrs. Crommett.- M. Booth of Cresco, Iowa, has been stopping
in town for some time.
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- Farmers who have patronized the creamery in Mitchell county,
Iowa, say it is better by 25 percent, to sell the cream than to
make butter at home.
- Frank McNear of Danbury, Iowa has skipped to avoid prosecution
for the seduction of Miss Sara E. Bowser, postmistress of
Danbury. Miss Bowser has resigned. She is spoken of as a young
lady of education and previous good character. McNear is supposed
to have gone to Jackson county, where his wife is visiting.
- William Spear of Algona, Iowa, was killed by the falling of a
tree.
- A telegram from Indianola, Iowa, says the wife of Rev. F.S.
Berry, late president of Simpson college, fell on the sidewalk,
striking on her back, her head projecting over the walk. The
force of the fall dislocated her neck, causing instant death. Two
little children are thus within a year orphans.
- The senate has confirmed the following nominations for
postmasters-
F.W. Palmer, Chicago; A.H. Vorsen, Pella, Iowa; R.B. Williamson,
Mount Ayr, Iowa; John D Hunter, Webster City, Iowa; T.A. Burr,
Lancaster, Wis.; E.B. Thompson, Waupaca, Wisconsin; A.W. Kimball,
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, of Clinton, Iowa, of the law firm of
Foster & Foster, her husband also being her business partner,
is defending Mrs. Mary Brown, on trial at Indianapolis, for the
murder of her husband in
February last. This is not her first murder trial, having
previously assisted in the prosecution of a man indicted for the
murder of his wife by poisoning her.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
January 27, 1881
A train of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific left the track at
Pond Creek, 129 miles from Chicago. The first passenger coach
left the track, went over a steep embankment, caught fire from
the stove, and was burned up. The second passenger coach went off
the track but did not go over the embankment. The sleeper also
left the rails and one end was displaced from the tracks. The
casualties were confined to the first and second coaches, no one
being injured in the smoker or sleeper. The list of killed and
wounded, as far as known, is as follows:
Killed, Mrs. Kirby, of Nevada, Ohio; injured, Matt Philips,
Grinnell, Iowa, shoulder dislocated; Mrs. Holden, Patterson,
Iowa, badly injured; Mrs. J.D. Orr, Winterset, Iowa, slightly
hurt; J.W. Hughett, Chicago, injured.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Daily Constitution
Atlanta, Georgia
March 12, 1881
Fatal Poisoning
Chicago, March 11 -- The Inter-Ocean's Dubuque, Iowa, special
says: A bad case of fatal poisoning occurred in Elkader, Clayton
county, where Mrs. A.B. Vines, in company with her sister, went
out to tea and ate some canned salmon. Mrs. Vines died from the
effects of poison which the salmon had produced by corroding the
can. The salmon was tainted and the can was turned green in
consequence.
[transcribed by S.F., Sept. 2004]
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Fort Wayne Daily
Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana
April 5, 1881
Alexander Peddie of Emmettsburg, Iowa, has purchased 20,000 acres
of land in Palo Alto and Emmett counties, Iowa, from the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railway company for the
Scottish-American land company. This company now owns 100,000
acres.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Jan. 2004]
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Amador Dispatch
Amador Co., CA
July 9, 1881
DIED.At Woodbridge, in San Joaquin County, July 2, 1881, Mrs.
Mary Medora Dougherty, a native of Iowa, aged 29 years, 4 months
and 26 days. The deceased was a daughter of Cornelius J. and
Diana Ruffner, who reside near Jackson, and was raised from
infancy to womanhood in this vicinity.
[transcribed by L.J., November 2004]
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Freeborn County
Standard
Albert Lea, Minnesota
August 4, 1881
Wm. Jackson who lives about six miles north of Emmettsburg, Iowa,
had just purchased a new reaper and started into a big harvest.
He cut once around the field, and started on the second. On
looking up he beheld his babe of three years old about two feet
in front of the sickle. He stopped his team as quickly as
possible but too late. When the team was stopped the child was on
the sickle bar, with its legs cut off about two inches above the
ankles.
[transcribed by C.J.L. May 2004]
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McConnelsville
Herald
McConnelsville, Morgan co. Ohio
September 2, 1881
BRISTOL
We are pleased to note the return of Wm. Wilson and Mrs. Geo
Henderson from Western Iowa. Mrs. Henderson speaks
enthusiastically of Iowa as a home for the resolute and the
industrious.
Mr. Wilson who recently sold his farm on Meigs Creek has
purchased a farm of 200 acres in Guthrie Co., Iowa and will leave
us in October. We regret to loose so good a citizen.
Mr. Lewis Patterson, one of our best young men, has determined to
try his fortune in the west and will depart Monday for Guthrie
Center, Iowa.
[transcribed by C.A., April 2005]
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McConnelsville
Herald
McConnelsville, Morgan co. Ohio
September 9, 1881
Mrs. Mollie Sherlock, of Marshalltown, Iowa, is visiting
relatives and friends in this vicinity.
[Note: Name of Community omitted from photocopy]
[transcribed by C.A., April 2005]
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McConnelsville
Herald
McConnelsville, Morgan co. Ohio
September 16, 1881
Mr. Havener and lady, and Mr. Mehana and lady, of Iowa, are
visiting friends in Morgan county.
[transcribed by C.A., April 2005]
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Chester Daily Times
Chester, Pennsylvania
October 27, 1881
A Horse with a History
A war horse which died on a farm near Keokuk the other day had a
history which will be of interest in these days of soldiers'
reunions, says the Dubuque (Iowa) Times. The
horse referred to was owned by the late Gen.
Hugh T. Reid, of Keokuk. It was ridden by him at Shiloh. At that
battle General Reid fell wounded from the back of his steed. In
fact, the horse and rider went down together, the horse being
struck in the chest, the ball
lodging in the posterior of the right shoulder joint from which
place it was extracted by Surgeon Gibbon. He was also wounded in
several other places in the same battle, twice in the upper
portions of the neck and many times slightly about the fetlocks
and ears. In this battle every mounted officer of the regiment
which the General - then a colonel- commanded was dismounted.
Horse and rider both recovered and participated in many other
engagements. When the war was ended General Reid brought home
with him the steed that so gallantly carried him, and after age
had unfitted him for further service had him taken to his
brother's farm. General Reid died a few years ago from the result
of his wounds.
[transcribed by C.J.L., December 2005]
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Winona Daily
Republican
Winona, Minnesota
December 13, 1881
Pith and Point of the Latest Mail News.
-A damage of $10,000 was inflicted upon the First Congregational
church of Davenport by flames which broke out before the hour for
service on Sunday. There is insurance to the amount of $17,000.
-Mrs. Gaveny, who poisoned Mr. Johnson last Wednesday, at Waukon,
Iowa, and who was promptly arrested on a charge of murder,
escaped from the deputy sheriff and cannot be found. While
confined in a room in a hotel, she clambered out of the window to
the porch, and then reached the ground. It has been ascertained
that she purchased strychnine from a drug house in Waukon.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2005]
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Freeborn Standard
Albert Lea, Freeborn co. Minnesota
December 22, 1881
J.J. Reardon, who held a
position in Dwyer's store some time ago, but who went east about
two years since, was to be seen in this city for a short time on
Monday evening. Mr. Reardon has, during his absence
mastered the art of telegraphy and expects soon to have a station
on a branch of the B.C.R. & N. road near Emmetsburg, Iowa. He
is at present breaking between here and Cedar Rapids.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2003]
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Winona Daily
Republican
Winona, Minnesota
December 24, 1881
On Friday afternoon a young man by the name of Collins, living
near Waukon, Iowa, while trying to board a freight train on the
Chicago and Dubuque railway, near La Crescent, fell between the
cars and both legs were taken off just below the knees. He has
been employed laying tracks for the company. Fully three hours
elapsed before aid could be furnished him, and he is now in La
Crosse, with recovery doubtful.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2005]
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Winona Daily
Republican
Winona, Minnesota
December 29, 1881
Michael Collins, who lost both legs by a railway accident at La
Crescent on Friday last, died on Tuesday night. During his last
moments he was in great pain. His father and brother from Waukon
were with him when he died. The remains were sent to Waukon.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2005]