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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1899 -
Alexandria Post
News
Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota
Thursday, January 26, 1899, page 8, col. 2
Mr. N. Shears returned on Monday from Des Moines, Ia., where he
was called by the illness of his mother who died while he was
there. Mr. Shears says half the people of that city have the grip
and that the unpaved streets are almost impassable for mud.
[transcribed by J.W. from microfilm at Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN; January 2005]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
January 28, 1899
Licensed to Wed.
William F. Herman, a native of Iowa, aged 24 years, and Bertha V.
James, a native of Iowa, aged 18 years; both residents of Los
Angeles.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2012]
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Arizona Republican
Phoenix, Arizona Territory
February 9, 1899
Fire and Frost
Webster City, Ia., Feb. 8 -- Belmont, a town of over 2,000
inhabitants, in Wright county, is burning, a fire having started
at 10:30 a.m. The thermometer is 21 below zero and a strong wind
is blowing. Nothing can be done by the firemen to check the
flames, as the fire-plugs are frozen up. Many residents are being
driven from their homes, some without sufficient clothing to keep
them warm.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2007]
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Alexandria Post
News
Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota
Thursday, February 9, 1899, page 8, col. 4.
Mr. W. K. Barnes left on Monday for McGregor, Iowa, where
yesterday he was married, his bride being Miss Frances Greathead,
former principal of the Alexandria high school. Mr. and Mrs.
Barnes will visit New Orleans and other southern cities before
returning to Alexandria, when they will occupy the N. W. Hicks
cottage.
[transcribed by J.W. from microfilm at Minnesota History Center, St. Paul, MN; February 2005]
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Arizona Republican
Phoenix, Arizona Territory
February 16, 1899
Capture of a Criminal -- A Requisitionn for an Iowa Forger
Honored Yesterday.
Frank C. Young, sheriff of Davis county, Iowa, arrived in town
yesterday morning with a requisition upon Governor Murphy for the
surrender of Joel G. Fenton, a fugitive from the state of Iowa,
now detained at Flagstaff, were he was arrested on a telegram
from Sheriff Young. Fenton is a young married man, the son of a
well-to- do farmer. He is wanted for the forgery of three notes
aggregating about $500. The crime was committed about two years
ago, but it was only recently discovered on the maturity of the
notes. Fenton's case was under consideration by the Grand Jury of
Davis county before which his father was the first witness. The
young man was still at large. His father returned home one night,
having procured a continuance of the case for two days. That
night young Fenton left the country. That was on January 27. When
the sheriff came to Fenton's home his wife told him that her
husband was out of reach. He had gone a long way off. Ther
sheriff surmising that wherever he went there would be an effort
at communication, sent word to all the postmasters within a
radius of several miles requesting them to take notice of the
postmarks on all letters that might come to the Fenton family.
The sheriff also procurred a group photograph of young Fenton and
his family. Within a very few days after the flight a letter was
received at a neighboring postoffice, postmarked Canyon Diablo,
Ariz. The fugitive had first touched ground and had improved the
opportunity to give his [illegible] a clue. Photographs were
hurridely forwarded to various places in northern Arizona and
Fenton was quickly identified at Flagstaff. The [illegible] of
the businness was transacted by telegraph and Sheriff Young
started after his man last Saturday, two weeks and a half after
the flight. Governor Murphy promptly honored the requisition and
Sheriff Young left for Flagstaff last night. Fenton has a mania
for forgery. Several years ago he forged notes for amounts
aggregating $1,500. His father settled the matter and there was
no prosecution. Sheriff Young believes that any criminal who
comes to Arizona might successfully make a plea of insanity. A
man with ordinarily good sense, he thinks, would flee in almost
any other direction. He might lose himself in a densely settled
community, but in Arizona he becomes a standing advertisement
next to pure reading matter of his presence on earth, the more so
if he is addicted to the fatal folly of letter writing.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2004]
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Rich Hill Mining
Review
Rich Hill, Bates Co, Missouri
Thursday, February 23, 1899
Mrs. Mattie Hudson, daughter of James Sheeley, will leave
to-night for Council Bluff's, Iowa, for the purpose of engaging
in a matrimonial venture with a Mr. Morris, a gentleman well
known to the family.
[transcribed by S.B., August 2005]
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Mountain Democrat
Placerville, California
May 20, 1899
H. G. Fairchilds, a very prominent resident of Strawberry Point,
Iowa, has been in this section the past week or so looking after
his landed interest near the Six Mile House. While here he is the
guest of Ephriam Richards.
[transcribed by S.F., January 2009]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
June 11, 1899
Licensed to Wed.
-Charles L. Berry, aged 31, a native of Wisconsin and a resident
of Pasadena, and Sarah F. Hartsell, aged 36, a native of Indiana,
and a resident of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
-Elmer E. Foster, aged 38, a native of Illinois, and Louverne
Nichols, aged 31, a native of Iowa; both residents of Los
Angeles.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2007]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
June 27, 1899
Licensed to Wed. Marriage licenses were issued at the County
Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons:
Francis M. Bruner, aged 33, a native of Illinois and a resident
of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mary L. Page, aged 30, a native of
Vermont and a resident of Preston, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2007]
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New Era
Parker, Turner co., S.D.
July 21, 1899
C.L. Wattles, of Carroll, Iowa, has come to Parker to engage in
the real estate business. He comes well recommended, and is ready
to sell and buy lands in this and adjoining counties.
Notice the adv. in this issue of the Parker Land Company. the
company has recently located in Parker. Its managers are Geo. B.
Kay, late of Charles City, Iowa, and Mr. Kipple, late of Floyd,
Iowa. They come well recommended.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2007]
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Hawaiian Gazette
Honolulu, Hawaii Territory
August 4, 1899
Married
Carter-Turner -- At the residence of Mrs. Oran Kitelay, Port
Ludlow, Washington, July 13, by the Rev. J.P. Llwyd, rector of
St. Mark's, John H. Carter of Seattle, to Thea, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. G.R. Turner, of McGregor, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2009]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
August 5, 1899
Fearful Wreck on the Chicago & NorthWestern -- Fast Train
Jumps a Bridge.
Omaha, Aug. 2. - The fast mail train on the Chicago &
Northwestern road, leaving Chicago last night, plunged into the
river near Boone, Iowa, shortly after 5 o'clock this morning. The
wreck occurred on the Des Moines river bridge, where a new track
was being put in. The train came down the track at the rate of a
mile an minute, which is the schedule time here. The train
consisted of three mail and two express cars and while coming
around a curve the entire train left the track and plunged partly
into the river. The locomotive landed in the stream, taking the
crew with it and killing the engineer and fireman. Two postal
clerks were crushed to death in the wrecked cars. The train
carried no passengers. The entire train was wrecked, the engine
resembling a scrap pile, while the cars are in splinters. Of the
thirteen men on the train, but two escaped death or injury, the
lucky men being Conductor Rose and Brakeman Dorman.
The dead:
D.D. Stone, chief postal clerk, Austin, Illinois
John Masterson, engineer, Boone, Iowa
George Schmidt, fireman, Boone, Iowa
J.J. O'Brien, express messenger, Chicago.
Injured: J.E. Ackert, postal clerk, Dixon, severely; A.W. Hoyt,
postal clerk, Cedar RApids, severely; E.H. Shirk, postal clerk,
McCausland, Illinois, severely; C.C. Roorick, postal clerk,
Dixon, severely; F.L. Figafoor, express messenger's assistant,
Missouri Valley, severely; Thomas Flannery, brakeman, slight;
G.T. Lindell, postal clerk, Chicago, slight.
The dead and injured have been taken to Boone. Some of the
injured men are in a very serious condition. Messenger O'Brien
was pinned under an iron safe, where he lay almost an hour
moaning. He lived until conveyed to the hospital.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2006]
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New York Times
New York, New York
August 19, 1899
Keokuk, Iowa, August 18- John N. Irwin, who was the most popular
Mayor Keokuk ever had, will accept the appointment of Minister to
Portugal tendered him by President McKinley and is preparing to
leave on his mission. He will be accompanied by his family. He
was Mayor for several terms, is an ex-member of the Iowa
Legislature and was twice Territorial Governor by Presidential
appointment, one of Idaho and another time of Arizona.
[transcribed by S.Y., June 2009]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis County, Utah
September 8, 1899
MYSTERY CLEARED UP
Woman Found Dead in Hastings, Neb. Hotel was Murdered.
Hastings, Neb., Sept. 5 - The unknown woman who registered at the
Lindell hotel as Mrs. W.L. Lee, and who died of poison in the
hotel at this place on August 9, has been identified as Miss
Laura Lee French, of Burlington, Iowa, and it is almost an
assured fact that the girl did not commit suicide, but was
murdered. At the time the woman was thought to be a resident of
Salt Lake City. It is now claimed that her death was caused by an
attempt at abortion performed by a prominent business man of
Burlington, Iowa.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Oct. 2004]
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Naugtack Daily News
Naugtack, Connecticut
October 7, 1899
Mr. and Mrs. James Houlihan of Waukon, Ia., are visiting Thomas
Neary of Church street. Mr. Houlihan is a former resident of
Naugatuck, but has not been here before in 17 years. When he went
west he went into the manufacturing business. The company with
which he was connected manufactured farming implements. Mr.
Houlihan became quite wealthy. He is now in the real estate
business.
[transcribed by S.F., November 2008]
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Morning Times
Cripple Creek, El Paso co. Colorado
October 27, 1899
Denver News: Sergeant Leonard Russell of Company L, Colorado
regiment, is a distinguished volunteer. He is probably the only
soldier who received a wound during the war with the Fillpinos
from the hands of a woman. The scar is still livid. He was struck
May 14, and came near his death by it. But the fact that the
sergeant suffered from a woman's hands does not belie his
bravery. The woman took advantage of him and made an attempt at
assassination. Sergeant Russell enlisted as a member of the
Fifty-first Iowa and was transferred while at San Francisco four
weeks ago. He tells the story thus: "It was the night after
the Iowa boys had captured a little town and routed the
insurgents. I was sergeant of the guard, and it was reported that
one of the houses in the village was filled with insurgent
stores. It was my duty, therefore, to confiscate them. Calling a
detail, I started for the place. We did not know what there was
to find, but we were on the lookout for ammunition. Naturally, we
supposed that the natives would run when we came up. The night
was fearfully dark, and I carried a lantern for the search. The
first thing I found inside the hut was a butt of native tobacco.
I lifted the lantern, but could see little, and, as the boys
followed me, struck for the rear of the building. We heard some
scuffling, and thought that some natives in hiding had goneout
the back way. I remember seeing another butt of tobacco in a
corner, and was in the act of turning the lantern upward when
something struck me. Just as the blow fell I could dimly see a
little native woman perched on the butt and handling a machete.
that was all I knew. Well, the woman had struck me square on the
top of the head, and, as you see" -- showing a scar
beginning above one eye and ending in the ear -- "partly on
the forehead. she did not get a full blow, for her arms were
short and she wasn't strong. If she had been -- ugh! Well, I
would not have returned to Colorado and my home in Des Moines. It
took me a month to get well, though my skull was only a little
dented. The woman was taken into camp by the boys and afterward
released."
[transcribed by S.F., April 2005]
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New York Times
New York, New York
November 24, 1899
Sioux City, Iowa, Nov. 23. -- General Manager F.C. Hills of the
Sioux City, O'Neill and Western Railroad died this afternoon from
arsenical poisoning, he having eaten by mistake food in which the
drug had been mixed for the purpose of killing rats. Mr. Hills
had been connected with Western railroads for forty years. He was
an old soldier and a thirty-third degree Freemason.
[transcribed by S.F. November 2006]