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Iowa News from across the
Country
- 1907 -
Chillicothe
Constitution
Chillicothe, Missouri
March 2, 1907
Mrs. A.J. Wolfscale of Bedford made the CONSTITUTION an
appreciated visit, Saturday, renewing her subscription and
subscribing for her sister, Mrs. Thomas Prawl of Keosauqua, Ia.
All her votes were cast for Nora Gates.
[transcribed by C.J.L., Sept. 2003]
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Washington Post
Washington, D.C.
May 16, 1907
GIRLS IN SUICIDE PACT
Two are Dead and Two Others are Dying in Iowa -- Agreed to End
Their Lives at Same Time-
Six Other Girls Said to Belong to the Club
Special to the Washington Post.
Des Moines, Iowa, May 15 - What has proven to be a suicide club
was revealed to-day by attempts of four girls to commit suicide,
resulting in two deaths, with two dying. All took carbolic acid.
The victims are:
Dead:
Miss PHOEBE BROELL, aged twenty-two, Elkader.
Miss KATE FARRELL, aged thirty, Keosauqua.
Dying:
Miss Elizabeth Fletcher, aged eighteen, Bonaparte.
Miss Lilly Milburn, eighteen, Centerville.
The tragedies occurred early this morning, and the pact was
revealed in a note left by Miss Broell, in which she said she
attended State Normal Summer School last fall, where she met the
other girls. Since then they
corresponded with one another and an agreement was made that if
any became dissatisfied with life she must tell her trouble to
the others. It is said there are ten girls in the pact, all
daughters of prominent farmers.
Miss Broell had become despondent over the death of her youngest
sister some time ago. She was discovered dead in her room by her
father, who is wealthy. Miss Farrell had been stricken blind a
few months ago. How she secured the poison is a mystery, but it
is thought that some other girl sent it to her, as she received a
package a day or two ago. Mrs. Milburn swallowed acid because she
was forced to marry, it is said by her parents, Mr .and Mrs.
George Glass. She refused to live with her husband. Her little
brother saw her take poison and gave the alarm. Doctors have been
working ever since to save her life. Miss Fletcher, after she
revived, said she was sorry that the effort failed.
[transcribed by C.J.L., January 2006]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
July 6, 1907
Mrs. O'Rourk, sister of Mrs. Sanger, and children, who came out
here to spend the summer, have returned to Waterloo, Iowa.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2006]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
August 17, 1907
F.W. Medlar, of Spencer, Iowa has been elected president of the
National Photographers' association.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2006]
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Summit County
Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
September 14, 1907
Twelve Lives Crushed Out - Rock Island Passenger Train Jumps
Track and Carries Death With It.
Waterloo, Iowa. -- Twelve persons were killed and twelve others
injured when a northbound Rock Island passenger train left the
rails at Norris, Iowa, and crashed into a southbound freight
train standing on a siding. The known dead:
P.B. Oliver, Will Goodman and John Watson, all of Waterloo.
C.L. Lamphere, Shell Rock, Iowa
W.R. Johnson, Dike, Iowa.
B.R. Christy, Minneapolis.
Lepovan Toja, Hammond, Indiana.
Laborer, name unknown, Hammond, Ind.
W.H. Meyers, baggage-man, Thurlington [?Burlington], Iowa died on
the way to hospital.
Three Unknown men.
The injured:
J.H. Douglas, Waterloo.
Thomas Evanson.
E.H. Martin, mail clerk, West Liberty, Iowa
Edward Stepplere, Minneapolis
Troccinin Crisden, St. Paul.
Albert Mason, engineer, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
H. McMahon, fireman, Cedar Rapids.
A.L. Welliver, lineman, Cedar Rapids.
F. Kinch, engineer, Cedar Rapids.
J.A. Newell, Illinois Central conductor, Waterloo.
John Shaw, Waterloo.
Dr. C.J. O'Keefe, Marble Rock, Iowa.
The injured were brought to Waterloo and placed in the
Presbyterian hospital.
Deaths in Smoking Car.
All of the dead an dinjured were in the smoking car, which was
immediately behind the baggage and mail cars. The smoking car was
completely demolished. The dead and injured were strewn about
among the wreckage. The northbound express was ten minutes lae at
Norris Siding, a small station three miles north of Cedar Falls,
Iowa, and there the freight train was awaiting the express, which
came along at a terrific speed in an effort to make up time. Just
as the engine of the passenger was about to pass the freight
engine the trucks of the train jumped the track and the engine
crashed into the engine of the freight, wrecking both engines and
telescoping the baggage and mail cars and demolishing the smoking
car. The passengers in the two day coaches following the smoker
escaped with only a violent shaking up. Rescuers were immediately
at hand to care for the injured and to take the dead from among
the wrckage. Sitting in the midst of the wreckage was Dr. Charles
J. O'Keefe, who, although badly injured, little realized how
seriously he was hurt.
[transcribed by S.F., April 2006]
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Summit County Journal
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
September 21, 1907
Longevity in Iowa - Centenarians to Be Found in Many of the
Hamlets.
Eldora, Ia. -- It is becoming the fashion nowadays in Iowa to
live to be 100 years old. Every day new names are being added to
the list of centenarians in the Hawkeye state. Probably the
oldest man in Iowa is William Ox of De Witt, who is 103. At Des
Moines recently Mrs. Ruth McPherson Morris celebrated her one
hundred and first birthday. At Ottumwa, George M. Lentner
celebrated his one hundredth birthday, and at Wall Lake lives a
woman who remembers George Washington, and claims to be about
110. At Davenport is a negro who says he is 127 years old, and
there is scarcely a town in Iowa but can claim inhabitants who
are from 95 to 98 years.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2006]
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Breckenridge Bulletin
Breckenridge, Summit co. Colorado
October 12, 1907
Remarkable Escape.
G.W. Fair received bad news from his home at Red Oak, Iowa,
Wednesday, to the effect that his son, Drury, aged 25, was
seriously hurt the 4th inst. at Racine, Wisconsin. The young man
is a civil engineer and was at a Racine rock quarry making a
survey for the C.& N.W. Ry., when by some misstep he fell
forty feet from the ladder-way of a derick. He was at once sent
to Red Oak, where he lies helpless and bruised, awaiting
developments as to internal injuries. No bones were broken.
[transcribed by S.F., May 2006]
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Prospector Daily Bulletin
Valdez, Alaska
November 14, 1907
Waterloo, Iowa, Sept. 7 -- A Rock Island passenger train collided
with a freight train here last night, and as a result 12 of the
passengers were killed. Ghouls got in their fiendish work and
looted the dead and dying with the result that the express
company guards shot one.
*see also Butler co. Iowa - 9/11/1907 for a detailed accounting of this accident
[transcribed by S.F., Oct. 2003]