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Iowa News Highlights Tragedies and Trials Across Counties
A spate of Iowa items reports a Burlington woman’s death from bichloride of mercury, murder charges against George Young, escapee George Simms captured near New Haven, and a suicide in Marshalltown. It notes Cerro Gordo births, Dickerson’s 90th birthday burial, and local legal actions. Also covered are church rebuilding in Dubuque, infantile life concerns, Hardin county mower accident, and prison-era misdeeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I Asane
John Misinger
Burlington
St. Francis Hospital
Malmberg
Newton
George Young
Frank Parker
Kellogg
Young
George Simms
New Haven
Wina
John Sherman
Protivin
Bert Lameroux
Crystal Lake
Mr. Lameroux
Lameroux
Webster City
W. R. Brown
Alva
Brown
Mississippi
Jimmy” Dickerson
Cerro Gordo County
Iowa
Clear Lake
Clayton County
James Dickerson
Indiana
Joseph Hewitt
Fort Dodge
Chickasaw County
Western Grocery Company
Marshalltown
John T. Hancock Sons
Dubuque
Charles Hyermeyer
Carroll
Wiliam Frentlin ‘Traffley
Des Moines
Sacred Heart Church of
Hardin County
Julius Batranz
Alfred Brenneman
Charlton
Leon
Prenneman
Lora Whalen
State Orphans’ Home
Davenport
Miss Whalen
Hbny
John F. Whitmore
Grinnell
Whitmore
Albia
Hocking
Mathilda Slezak
Iowa City
Joseph Holub
Miss Slezak
Ralph Aldrich
Farmers' Bank
Huxley
Huxley Institution
Springfield
Nicholas Hotel