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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1902 -
New York Times
New York, New York
January 24, 1902
Davenport, Iowa, Jan. 23. -- Daniel Gould Wing, a wealthy
Boston banker, and Miss Josephine Cable, daughter of G.W. Cable,
a prominent lumberman of Davenport, have been married in this
city. The bride is a niece of R.R. Cable, former President
of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway system.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2006]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
March 20, 1902
Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were issued at the County
Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons:
-Frank E. Shaw, aged 35, a native of Kansas, and Ella Danskin,
aged 26, a native of Iowa; both residents of Colo, Iowa.
-William Ayers, aged 26, a native of Iowa, and Elizabeth
Gallagher, aged 28, a native of Missouri; both residents of Los
Angeles.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2009]
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Fergus County Argus
Lewistown, Fergus County, Montana
April 09, 1902
John Wight is Dead - He was buried at Garneill last Saturday
As a result of a general breaking down of the system, John Wight,
who is well known in this section of Fergus County, died on
Wednesday last, at the home of his son-in-law, Charles Darnall,
on the old Shaw Ranch, in the vicinity of Ubet, Montana. The
deceased, who was 66 years of age at the time of his death, is a
native of Iowa and came to Fergus County about ten years ago,
accompanied by his family. He leaves a wife and two daughters who
reside in Lewistown, as well as several sons to mourn his loss,
among whom are Frank, Leola and Con Wight of this city. The
funeral took place at Garneill on Saturday and appropriate
services were conducted by the Rev. Young at which a large number
of friends and relatives were present. Mrs. Wight was unable to
be there owing to ill health, though the sons of the deceased
attended the last sad rites over the remains of their dead
parent. The body was escorted to its final resting place in the
Garneill Cemetery by a large number of residents of Garneill, to
whom the family of the deceased wish to return thanks for their
hearty sympathy and valuable assistance.
[transcribed by J.W.B. August 2003, the obit is of her g-grandfather]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
April 18, 1902
Boy and Girl Brutally Murdered.
While returning home from church, on the north outskirts of Des
Moines, Iowa, Mary Peterson, 15 years of age, and Thomas, aged
11, children of Peter J. Peterson, a well-to-do dairyman, were
murdered by some unknown person, believed to be a negro. The boy,
when found at midnight, was alive, but died in fifteen minutes,
not being able to give a description of his assailant. The bodies
were discovered by a farmer, who overheard the moans of the lad.
Preacher Soldier Kills Himself.
Samuel Krell, pastor of the Methodist church at Laconia, Iowa,
and who has served two years in the Philippines as a private
soldier in the Fifty-first Iowa volunteers, committed suicide
Tuesday. He was despondent over his inability to secure a large
attendance at his church meetings.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
April 19, 1902
Mrs. Davenport, of Waterloo, Iowa, mother of Mrs. Dr. Scott, and
now visiting in our city, has had a violent attack of grippe.
Glad to learn that she is recovering.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2006]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
May 8, 1902
Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses were issued at the County
Clerk's office yesterday to the following persons:
-Will E. Seely, aged 40, a native of Iowa and a resident of Santa
Barbara, and Ida C. Anderson, aged 38, a native of Indiana and
resident of Alhambra.
-Randolph L. Gallagher, aged 45, a native of Indiana, and Anna L.
Randolph, aged 35, a native of Iowa; both residents of Tama City,
Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., August 2009]
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New York Times
New York, New York
June 5, 1902
Special to The New York Times
Boston, June 4. -- The wedding of Miss Elizabeth Clarke, daughter
of Mrs. W.J. Clarke of Boston, and Col. Charles Bopp, a banker of
Des Moines, Iowa, took place at 4:30 this afternoon at the Hotel
Berkeley. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. P.R.
Frothingham. The maid of honor was Miss Susan
Risteen. The ushers were Messrs. Harry Robinson, Luther
Lee, Thomas Ashley, and Irving Moller. A reception and
wedding dinner in the banquet hall followed the ceremony.
Col. and Mrs. Bopp will sail from Boston June 10 on the Saxonia
for London to witness the coronation services. They will
later visit Norway, Sweden, and Russia.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2006]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
June 27, 1902
WAS RIDDLED WITH BULLETS.
Iowa Man Who Attempts to Stand off Officers is Shot to Pieces.
One of the worst shooting affairs ever witnessed in the vicinity
of Jefferson, Iowa, took place early Saturday resulting from an
attempt to arrest Horace Simpson on a peace warrant. For some
breach of the peace the previous evening a warrant was sworn out
for Shipman and placed in the hands of Marshal John Swearingen
for service. Dr. C.H. Grimmel, Shipman's family physician, went
ahead of the marshal, to attempt to have Shipman surrender
peaceably. Shipman agreed to this, but when Swearingen and Deputy
Sheriff Fred Kendall appeared at the door he warned them not to
come in, under penalty of death. Swearingen, undaunted, started
to pull his revolver and Shipman fired a load of shot, striking
the marshal in the lower part of the face and killing him
instantly. Dr. Grimmel and the deputy beat a retreat, leaving the
body of the marshal upon the porch. Sheriff Anderson went to the
scene of the shooting, deputizing a dozen of the citizens to
assist him. Hundreds of persons gathered near the Shipman's home
and for three hours watched the battle. Five hundred shots were
poured into the large two-story house, Shipman replying from
windows, cellarway, and door. The fire company was called out,
and James May volunteered to stick a hose in the cellar and drown
Shipman out. A little later Shipman appeared at a window, and
fifty shots were fired at him. It then became quiet inside, and
Shipman's body was found on the floor, full of bullets.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
July 5, 1902
Mr. R. McKillip, of Bellevue, Iowa, is here on a visit to his
son, R.C. McKillip.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2006]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
July 11, 1902
A Great Piece of Railroad Work.
With the completion of work on the western division, the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railway Company will have practically a new
double track main line through the State of Iowa. For several
years an enormous work has been going on and millions of dollars
have been expended in reducing grades, taking out curves,
building double track and putting in new steel bridges.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
August 15, 1902
Inquiry Into Mysterious Death of Iowa Legislator.
Physicians hold that A.M. Potter, the state legislator of
Waverly, Iowa, who was found unconscious at a Des Moines hotel on
Friday night, died from morphine or chloral poisoning. At the
inquest it developed that Potter had purchased laudanum. Frank E.
Scott of Muscatine, who was with Potter on Friday night could not
remember what they did. The inquest was adjourned to await the
result of chemical examination of the stomach.
TRAIN ROBBERY IN IOWA.
Two Masked Men Secure About $20,000 to Reward Their Exertions.
Two masked men held up the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
limited, northbound, two miles north of Savannah, Ill., at 11:30
o'clock Tuesday night. They cut off the Adams express car, forced
the engineer to run up the track and then blew up the car. The
robbers had torpedoed the track, and when the torpedoes exploded
the engineer quickly brought the train to a stop. One man boarded
the engine and ordered the engineer to run ahead after the other
man had uncoupled the express car. Train men hurried to Savannah
and gave the alarm and a posse of officers and citizens armed
with shotguns and revolvers have hastened to the scene. The
limited is said to have carried about $20,000.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
August 22, 1902
CONFESSES TO MURDER.
Iowan Tells of Murder of Prominent Man by His Wife.
A special from Iowa City, Iowa, states that Charles Holaday has
made a confession in which he states that James Gaullagher was
murdered by Mrs. Gaullagher with his complicity, and that the
crime was committed because he and Mrs. Gaullagher were in love.
Gaullagher was a wealthy stockman. Four months ago he was
murdered at midnight, while sleeping by the side of his wife and
child, the assassin sending a bullet from a target rife through
Gaullagher's head. Holaday declares they planned to poison
Gaullagher and that while he was present at the house the night
of the murder he left hours before, and had no hand in the
shooting.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
September 12, 1902
BARTHOLIN'S BODY FOUND IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD.
Murderer of Mother and Sweetheart Cheats Hangman by Taking His
Own Life.
The body of a man thought to be William Bartholin, accused of the
murder of his mother and sweetheart in Chicago a month ago, was
found in a field near Lowther, Ia., 290 miles from Chicago. He
had been shot in the head and a pistol lay nearby. In the man's
pocket was a letter confessing to the murder of "two
women" in Chicago, and one signed "Minnie
Mitchell," the name of Bartholin's murderer fiancee. Nothing
was said of the death of his mother, Mrs. Anna Bartholin, whose
body was found in the basement of her residence in Chicago three
weeks after the son fled. The town authorities at once noted the
resemblance the body bore to the description of the Chicago
fugitive. It was then that a more careful examination was made
and the note confessing the murders was found. The town
authorities buried the body, but it will be exhumed to remove any
doubt as to the identity of the suicide. Bartholin's note
referred to the two murders and declared that no one except
himself was concerned in the commission of the crime. The note
filled one and a quarter pages of letter papers and was signed
"Wm Bartholin." Other letters found on the body were
written two years ago and were signed "M.M." The
initials are supposed to stand for Minnie Mitchell.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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New York Times
New York, New York
September 25, 1902
Married.
Ewing-Sinclair. At Clinton, Iowa, on Sept. 10, Miss Sarah Ewing,
youngest daughter of the late Amos Grier Ewing, to Archer Coit
Sinclair of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, formerly of New York.
[transcribed by S.F., December 2006]
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Decatur Herald
Decatur, Illinois
September 26, 1902
HUSBAND FELL ASLEEP
And Wife, Who Had Been Watched Committed Suicide. Keosauqua, Ia.,
Sept. 24- Mrs. Geo. Claflin, a prominent woman, committed suicide
by hanging, while her husband, who had been watching her to
prevent the deed, fell asleep.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Sept. 2003]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
October 5, 1902
Marriage Licenses.
-Edmun Oliver Brooks, aged 32, a native of Kansas and a resident
of San Francisco, and Talitha E. Zeilinger [or Zellinger], aged
25, a native of Iowa; both residents of La Porte, Iowa.
-Ramond S. Carrothurs, aged 26, a native of Iowa and Ida M.
Cunningham, aged 23, a native of Michigan; both residents of Los
Angeles.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2009]
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California
October 10, 1902
Marriage Licenses.
-Albert W. Phelps, aged 24, a native of Illinois, and Emma M.
Lawler, aged 25, a native of Iowa; residents of Los Angeles.
-Henry A. Herring, aged 49, a native of Germany, and Mary A.J.
Edmonds, aged 43, a native of Iowa; residents of Los Angeles.
-Fred C. Epperson, aged 23, and Ethel L. Moore, aged 23, a native
of Iowa; residents of Los Angeles.
-Elmer E. Brown, aged 40, a native of Iowa, and Sarah F. Leve [or
Love], aged 18, a native of California; residents of Los Angeles.
[transcribed by S.F., June 2009]
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Davis County
Clipper
Bountiful, Davis, Utah
October 17, 1902
Went Gunning For Entire Family.
Only the non-appearance of his wife, daughter and her husband,
prevented Thomas Doherty, a blacksmith of Ottumwa, Iowa, from
exterminating his entire family while in a drunken rage. He
waited at the head of the stairs at his residence to pick them
off with a gun as they came up. They fled to a neighbor's and
later when they reappeared Doherty opened fire. The shots went
wild, and having but one bullet left, he shot himself through the
mouth. He will die.
[transcribed by C.J.L.; Oct. 2004]
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Waukesha Freeman
Waukesha, Wisconsin
Thursday, November 20, 1902
Eagle Notes - from the Quill
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shortell have returned from a visit with
relatives at North McGregor, Iowa.
Waterford.
Post - A telegram was received Sunday announcing the death of
John Klinvehn at Western Union, Minn. No other particulars were
given save that the funeral would take place at his former home
in New Hampton, Iowa. His nephew accompanied by John Katerhagen
left the next day to attend the funeral. Mr. Klienvehn was born
and reared in the town of Norway, but removed to Iowa when yet it
was a territory. He prospered and was well to do. About a year
ago his father went to make his home with him.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2005]
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Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn, New York
December 31, 1902
New Treasury Official --
R.B. Armstrong, Assistant Secretary, is a Young Man Who Won Spurs
on Newspapers
Robert Barns Armstrong, who was appointed Assistant Sectetary of
the Treasury at Secretary Shaw's wish, after having served as
private secretary to Mr. Shaw, was born near Des Moines, Iowa, on
August 19, 1873. He is descended from Scotch-Irish stock who
settled originally in Pennsylvania and migrated to Ohio. His
father early in life located in Des Moines, in 1856. Mr.
Armstrong received his early education in his native city, but
was graduated from the Iowa State College of Agriculture. Leaving
college he found a position in the printing office of a leading
newspaper of his locality, where he so soon mastered the business
that he was made the city editor of the Daily News of
Chicago, and in 1896 became political writer on the Chicago
Record. In 1898 he ws placed in charge of the Eastern office
of that paper in New York City. In 1901 Mr. Armstrong made a
European tour returning from which he became the Western
representative of the New York Herald, with headquarters
in Chicago. Mr. Armstrong is said to be responsible for a novel
use of the telephone. Not long ago he went to Kansas City on
business. Having completed his work he boarded a train for
Chicago, but suddenly found it was important to communicate with
a man uptown. He in vain searched the station for a telephone,
but none was near enough to be available and he had to give up
the attempt. As he was being whirled back to Chicago in an
observation car, surrounded by every comfort of a club, he
wondered why a telephone had never been installed on trains. On
his arrival in Chicago he suggested it to a traffic official of
one of the great Western roads. The railroad man immediately put
the sugestion into effect. Mr. Armstrong married Miss Blanche
Arline Hogan in Des Moines, on December 30, 1896.
[transcribed by S.F., February 2005]