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Progress Review
La Porte City, Black Hawk, Iowa
May 16, 1896
IOWA NEWS IN BRIEF
- S.R. Dawson, who killed Walter Scott, his son-in-law, at Des Moines, last
year, is now on trial for murder. The defense is insanity.
- Miss Maud Pitzer, a young school teacher of Hillsdale, resigned and
mysteriously disappeared. She was traced to Council Bluffs, where all clues
were lost. Her brother is making a search for her.
- Gus Anderson, an eight-year-old boy of Centerville, was drowned while
bathing in the Keokuk & Western railroad reservoir. He was unable to swim
and got in over his depth. The body was recovered immediately afterwards,
but life was extinct.
- In the district court at Cedar Rapids last week, Judge Thompson sentenced
Thomas Lally to twenty years for the murder of his mother last November and
Gus Trainor, under conviction for manslaughter for killing Dan Turner at
Prairiesburg to four years.
- Judge Hatch boarded a train at North McGregor, was carried by South
McGregor, and undertook to walk back in the darkness, fell and was killed.
His estate sued the C, M. & St. P. railway company for $15,000 and at
Dubuque last week the jury disagreed.
- As Mrs. Elmer Hooper with her two small children were returning to their
home at Wayne, after spending the day with her mother, Mrs. Henry Nicholaus,
the horse she was driving took fright and ran away. Mrs. Hooper and the
children were thrown out near the home of Mr. Swernson. Mrs. Swernson saw
them pass and about an hour after heard the children crying and on going to
them found Mrs. Hooper in an unconscious condition. A physician was summoned
at once, who found her skull fractured and serious internal injuries.
- Sylvester Hoover, charged with an attempt to murder Joseph Hekle, was
re-arrested at Sibley and taken to Independence, on the charge of arson
preferred against him. On the latter examination was waived and the bonds
fixed at $2,000. The first case was continued. The total bond is now $1,500.
The Hekle famly has engaged the best legal talent in addition to the state's
attorney and will push all the charges against Hoover. Hoover is charged
with having shot Hekle , who married a school teacher with whom Hoover was
infatuated.
- Miss Jennie Rogers was arrested at Sioux City, charged with the
embezzlement of $900. Miss Rogers was formerly a school teacher in that
city, and in the boom days went into the real estate business. She is
supposed to have made a great deal of money, but lost it in the Hedges
failure in 1893. She was a partner of J.P. Blood in the real estate
business, and he now charges that she obtained a loan of $900 for him, but
refused to turn it over to him. Her failure is said to have weakened her
mind, and she has not done any business since the failure.
- Guy Curtis of Atlantic and Miss Florence M. Worthington, of Lewis, eloped,
going to Omaha, where a license was procured and they were married. There
seemed to be some objection to the wedding by the parents of one or both of
the young people, so they took matters into their own hands. Maj. P.G.
Curtis, Guy Curtis' father, thought his son had started for Cripple Creek
and was surprised when the facts were made known to him. Both are prominent
young society people and well known both in Atlantic and Lewis.
Posted at this site with Cathy's permission
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com
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