Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1890 -
Demming Headlight
Demming, Grant co., New Mexico
February 8, 1890
Allison and Larrabee
The farmers of Iowa are sending petition after petition to the
Legislature of that State, demanding the election of Hon. William
Larrabee to succeed Mr. Allison in the United States Senate.
Govornor Larrabee's refusal to submit his policy to Wall street
for revision and his spirited resentment of the attempt of
Federal officials to interfere on behalf of corporations against
Iowa, have made him stronger than any other Republican in the
State; especially at this time when his sturdiness is in such
sharp contrast with Mr. Allison's weakness and vacillation. The
feeling that Mr. Allison does not represent the State has
intensified since the legislative session began, and the majority
of the people of the State undoubtedly approve the dead-lock
which prevents the corporations from carrying out their plans for
controlling the Senatorial election. The supporters of Allison
have been detected in supressing petitions for his retirement
from the Senate - a desperate measure they would not have adopted
unless they had felt themselves in an extremity. Such petitions
have been accumulating until, in their total, they show all
opposition to Mr. Allison too great to leave room for the claim
that he is the choice of the people of Iowa. The demand for
Larrabee in his stead has been emphatic and persistent. Mr.
Larrabee himself has thus far ignored it. He has not become a
candidate and he may not become one, at all, but it is certain
enough that if he is not the next United States Senator from
Iowa, it will be because he is unequal to his opportunities. -- St.
Louis Republic
-The supreme court of Iowa has decided in favor of the law
against the "pluck-me" stores.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Chillicothe Morning
Constitution
Chillicothe, Missouri
February 19, 1890
Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Orr returned yesterday from Ottumwa, Iowa,
where Mrs. Orr has been spending a week with friends.
C.A. McKibbin will depart for Bloomfield, Iowa, to-night, having
resigned his position at Benge's drug store. He has made many
friends here who will regret his leaving.
L.H. Young came down from Ottumwa yesterday on business.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2007]
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Demming Headlight
Demming, Grant co., New Mexico
March 1, 1890
Gov. Boies, of Iowa, was inaugurated on Thursday. An immense
concourse of people was present, and great enthusiasm manifested.
[transcribers note: Horace
Boies was from Black Hawk co. Iowa
transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Chicago Daily
Tribune
Chicago, Cook, Illinois
March 12, 1890
Missing Engineer at Dubuque - Engineer Douglass, who ran an
engine on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road, is missing.
He was last seen at Savanna, to which place he ran his train last
Thursday night. Since then nothing has been heard of him. He was
Treasurer of the local organization of Locomotive Firemen. Death
of Sister Mary Rose - Sister Mary Rose of the Mother House of the
Sisters of Charity died at St. Joseph's Convent [Dubuque, IA]
last evening. She was one of the original founders of the order
in America. She came to this country in 1833 from Dublin, Ireland
in company with four others, and located in Dubuque in 1813
[sic]. She was the last of the five sisters. Her family name was
O'Toole.
Double Tragedy at Council Bluffs.- At Council Bluffs, Ia., Andrew
Houk, a gambler and worthless character, shot and seriously
wounded Mrs. Kittie Bowers and then killed himself. Houk was in
love with Mrs. Bowers, but she did not reciprocate, hence the
shooting.
[transcribed by C.J.L. January 2005]
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Chicago Daily
Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
April 7, 1890
DEATHS
Riordan. Thomas D. Riordan, aged 28 years 7 months, at 1150
Hoyne-av., April 6. Remains to be taken to Elkader, Ia., Monday
evening 8 p.m. Member of West Division Street Railway
Association.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2007]
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New York Times
New York, New York
April 18, 1890
The Warning Not Heeded. Shot Dead in his Hotel by an Angry and
Jealous Husband.
Dubuque, Iowa, April 17 - A tragedy occurred at North McGregor
last night. About midnight George Cornell of this city, engineer
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad between Dubuque
and McGregor, and son of Roadmaster Cornell of the same road, was
shot by Jay G. Grinnell, official stenographer in Judge Granger's
court.
Grinnell has been for years a member of Dubuque's fashionable
society, and, although known by many to be a man of evil habits,
managed to conceal his character from the knowledge of the
general public. Several years ago he was married to Miss Glenn of
Clayton County. The resided in McGregor and have a boy about
seven years of age.
Grinnell, after his marriage, apparently abandoned many of his
former habits, and was not only greatly devoted to his wife, but
insanely jealous of her. About two months ago he first became
aware that his wife was receiving attention from Cornell. He
called on Cornell's father several times and received from him
positive assurances that the son should cease his attentions to
Mrs. Grinnell, and at last, hoping to break up the relations
between his wife and Cornell, he removed to this city and engaged
rooms at a boarding house on Maine-street.
Cornell's run on the road kept him in McGregor over night, and by
bringing his wife to this city Grinnell believed he could bring
about a separation between his wife and her lover. He sent word
to Cornell that unless he discontinued his attentions to Mrs.
Grinnell he would shoot him on sight, but Cornell paid no
attention to the threat.
About two weeks ago Grinnell was called by his official duties to
McGregor. His wife accompanied him to the station, and as she
kissed him good-bye Cornell, who was standing at a second-story
window in the building, remarked to a companion as he pointed to
Grinnell: "There is a man who swears he will shoot me on
sight."
A few days later Mrs. Grinnell drove to the station to meet her
husband on his return. Cornell was standing by the buggy
conversing with her, when his father came along and warned him to
go out of the way, as Grinnell was coming on the approaching
train.
The next day Grinnell left for McGregor, taking his boy with him,
and it was reported he and his wife had separated and that she
was going to relatives in California, but she still remains at
her boarding house in this city and was driving about the city
this morning in company with a stranger, wholly unconscious of
what had occurred last night in McGregor.
Cornell left Dubuque last night on his engine and arrived at
McGregor shortly after 11 o'clock. He went to the hotel of his
uncle, and while washing he looked into the mirror and saw
Grinnell approaching him. He turned, and as he did Grinnell
fired, the ball passing through Cornell's head. Cornell fell to
the floor, and Grinnell was walking cooly away when he was seized
by the spectatiors. He made no resistance, and was kept in the
hotel until this morning, when he was handed over to the
authorities.
Roadmaster Cornell left for McGregor on the early train this
morning and brought his son's remains to Dubuque to-night.
Cornell lived until to-day about noon, when he expired.
The dead man was twenty-nine years of age. He was married in
Belleview about three years ago to the daughter of George G.
Banghart. It was a runaway match, and a few months ago they
separated. Mrs. Cornell retuning to her mother's home, in
Cascade, where her two children reside. For the past two weeks
she has been visiting her brothers in Chicago, where she is at
present.
Grinnell's friends are already setting up the plea of insanity.
They claim that his plan was to avoid publicity of the scandal by
sending his wife to California, but that she declined to go, and
that brooding over his troubles he resolved to take the life of
the man who he believed to be the destroyer of his happiness.
Grinnell, in his younger days, led a wild and reckless life.
[transcribed by S.F., October 2007]
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Lafayette
Advertiser
Lafayette, Louisiana
May 17, 1890
Peter O. Matthews, a full-blooded Digger Indian, recently
officiated as chaplain for the Iowa Legislature. He served in the
Iowa infantry during the late war, and afterward as Indian scout
in the regular army. Later he went through an Iowa college,
became a minister and now teaches an Indian school.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Union Advertiser
Rochester, Monroe co., N.Y.
June 21, 1890
WESTERN NEW YORK NEWS- Gathered By Union And Advertiser Special
Correspondents
SODUS
Mrs. Dr. M. J. BELDEN of Canton, Iowa, has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. TWADELL.
[tanscribed by G.S. August 2003]
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Olean Democrat
Olean, New York
June 26, 1890
A WESTERN MAN'S RECORD
The Active Career of Sergeant-at-Arms Valentine.
Hon. Edward K. Valentine, of West Point, Neb., who has been
elected by the Republican senatorial caucus sergeant-at-arms of
the United States senate, to succeed Mr. William P. Canaday,
whose resignation will take effect at the close of the fiscal
year, is a pleasant, genial man. He was born at Keosauqua, Van
Buren county, Ia., forty-seven years ago. He is a printer by
trade, and worked on The Burlington Hawkeye before Frank Hatton
took hold of it. While sticking type he employed his spare
moments in studying law, and when he left the case to go to the
war he took his composing rule with him. He still carries this
implement of his trade, and proposes never to part with it,
saying jocularly that he will always be able to fall back upon it
to earn a living in case of necessity. At the breaking out of the
war he enlisted in the Sixty-seventh Illinois
infantry and was promoted to be a second lieutenant. Being
honorably discharged he re-enlisted in 1863 as a private in the
Seventh Iowa cavalry, and was promoted to be the adjutant of the
regiment. He served until June, 1886, having been twice breveted
for "efficient and meritorious services." He went to
Nebraska in 1866 and was appointed three years later register of
the United States land office at Omaha. While in this position,
he finished the study of law and was admitted to the bar and
engaged actively in practice until the fall of 1875, when he was
elected judge of the sixth judicial district. Three years later
he came to congress and served through the Forty-sixth and
Forty-seventh congresses.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Sept. 2003]
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Demming Headlight
Demming, Grant co., New Mexico
June 28, 1890
Hon. Geo. W. McCrary, ex-Congressman from Iowa, ex-Secretary of
War, and ex-U.S. Circuit Judge, died at St. Joseph, Wis., last
Monday, aged 55 years. Mr. McCrary several years ago resigned the
Circuit Judgeship to take the solicitor generalship of the Santa
Fe road, which he held for some years.
[transcribers note: George W. McCrary of Keokuk, Lee co. Iowa, served Iowa in the Forty-First through Forty-Fourth Congresses (1869-1877); transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Demming Headlight
Demming, Grant co., New Mexico
August 29, 1890
Mr. A.F. Coates, an attorney from Creston, Iowa, was in town
several days this week, and on Thursday left for Phoenix,
Arizona. Mr. Coates is in search of a milder climate, and may
locate with us after looking around awhile.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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Chicago Daily
Tribune
Chicago, Illinois
September 4, 1890
Marriage Licenses. The County Clerk issued permits to wed to the
following couples yesterday:
J.H. Johnson, Waukon, Ia., age 25 & A.C. Volden, age 26,
Chicago
[transcribed by S.F., November 2006]
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New York Times
New York, New York
September 5, 1890
Dubuque, Iowa, Sept 4 - Arthur L. Flint of Ryan, Delaware County,
shot himself through the heart and was found dead Tuesday. Though
only twenty-four years old, he was Postmaster and a leading
business man in Ryan, and conducted a bank, a general store, a
livery, a wagon shop, and bought grain and stock. He left a note
saying that he was tired of business cares, but it is thought he
was disappointed in love.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2007]
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Lafayette
Advertiser
Lafayette, Louisiana
September 6, 1890
Too Nebulous
The Times-Democrat has the following: The editor of the Hammond
Leader has just returned from a visit to Iowa. He says that
at Independence, in that State, there has just been built one of
the largest race tracks in the United States; where thousands of
dollars will be squandered in betting on favorite horses, and yet
the high moralists have not risen up to put it down by law, nor
does the sport pay any considerable revenue into the public
treasury. The Leader wants to know what is the moral
difference between betting on horse races and buying tickets in a
lottery, and pauses for a reply. The answer will probably never
be given. And why not? it is very simple. There is no moral
difference. But the practical difference is vast. Betting on
horse races does not create a centralization of money power, it
generally equalizes itself. One wins and another loses, and vice
versa, and the money is kept in circulation there. The State of
Iowa does not charter a few men to take exclusive control of the
Independence race track, and all the other race tracks in the
State, furnish all the horses and jockeys, let you do the betting
(and put their name in the pot on the quiet), they hold all the
stakes, take the time and announce the result, and then give the
winners (?) 40 per cent of the stakes, keeping 60 per cent for
themselves, until they become rich and powerful enough to control
and use the State of Iowa for the perpetuity of their nefarous
traffic. And yet, this is equivalent to what the Lottery Company
is doing in Louisiana. To compare a little country race track in
Iowa to the La. State Lottery is like comparing the squeaking of
a wheelbarrow to the overwhelming roar of Niagara Falls.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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New York Times
New York, New York
October 18, 1890
The funeral of the Hon. John Van Valkenburg, Past Supreme
Chancellor of Knights of Pythias of the world, will take place at
Fort Madison, Iowa, tomorrow afternoon under the auspices of the
Order of the Knights of Pythias, assisted by the fraternity of
Odd Fellows.
[transcribed by S.Y., September 2009]
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Mitchell Daily
Republican
Mitchell, South Dakota
October 27, 1890
Miss Hattie Black of Emmettsburg, Iowa, is visiting her sister,
Mrs. D.E. Collins.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; May 2004]
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Steven's Point
Journal
Stevens Point, Wisconsin
November 1, 1890
AN IOWA BRIDGE FALLS.
DUBUQUE, Ia., Oct. 25- A serious accident occurred Friday evening
on the Illinois Central at Cascade crossing, six miles from this
city, where a new iron bridge is being constructed. A
freight-train started to cross the bridge, but after most of the
train had passed safely the bridge went down. There were
twenty-five men working on the bridge, and as it went down they
jumped for their lives. The distance was sixteen feet. Most of
them escaped, but several were badly hurt. The water-boy for the
gang, Robert Keatty, of Center Grove, was caught by a falling oar
and killed. Dan Doherty, of Chicago, was thrown to the bottom and
pinned down with his head above water. He was badly hurt. Four
others were seriously injured, how badly is not known.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Sept. 2003]
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Watertown Herald
Watertown, Jefferson Co. N.Y.
Saturday, November 15, 1890
Edwin Hurd Conger, who has been appointed to succeed Mr. Adams,
of Pennsylvania, as United States Minister to the new Republic of
Brazil, was born in Knox County, Ill., March 7, 1843. He received
his education at Lombard University, graduating in the class of
'62. He immediately thereafter enlisted as a private in Co. I,
102d Illinois infantry, in which he served until the close of the
war, attaining the rank of captain. He studied law, in 1866, and
was admitted to the bar, and practiced at Galesburgh, Ill., until
1868; in that year he moved to Dexter, Dallas county, Iowa, and
ever since has been engaged in farming, stock raising and
banking. In 1877 he was elected Treasurer of Dallas County and
re-elected in 1879. In 1880 he was elected State Treasurer and
re-elected in 1882. Entering the race for Congressional honors he
was elected from the Seventh District, Iowa, to the forty-ninth
Congress, and re-elected to the Fiftieth and Fifty-first
Congresses, as a Republican. Mr. Conger will sail for his post of
duty on or about the 20th inst.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2008]
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The Weekly Gazette
Colorado Springs, Colorado
November 29, 1890
District Court - Prisoners Convicted During the Term Given Their
Sentences
Clarles McKee, who plead guilty to grand larceny and is the young
man who was a porter at the Alamo Hotel and robbed the guests'
rooms. He is 22 years of age and was born in Albany, Iowa. He had
no excuse to offer, but Mr. Cochran stated that at the request of
the young man's mother he would state that this was, he believed,
the first offense. His sentence was fixed at two years and six
months.
[transcribed by S.F., March 2015]
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Lafayette
Advertiser
Lafayette, Louisiana
December 6, 1890
The largest Pythian in the world is Knight John Hanson Craig, a
member of Adherent Lodge No. 124, in Philadelphia, Penn. He was
born in Iowa City, Iowa, in 1827.* At his birth he weighed 11
pounds, at eleven months 77 pounds, at 13 years 40 1/2 pounds, at
25 years, 762 pounds; present weight 907 pounds. Is six feet five
inches high, and takes 41 yards for a suit of clothes. His father
weighed 115 pounds, his mother 122 pounds.
[*transcribers note: this predates the establishment of Iowa City by 12 years; transcribed by S.F., February 2005]
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San Francisco
Examiner
San Francisco, California
December 7, 1890
p.7
Married.
FLAKER/DEVINE -- In this city, November 26, by the Rev. Father
Smith, J. H. FLAKER of San Francisco and K. E. DEVINE of Des
Moines, Iowa.
[transcribed by R.F., August 2005]