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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1898
Page
4
Robert Kellogg, reportedly intoxicated, collapses after leaving a street encounter with Lawrence Terry the cashier of the Great Western Bank. Terry dies from a wound, a revolver and a dirk found on Kellogg as police amass details at the scene and prepare to notify Kellogg’s banker father.
Inspector Hunt informs Kellogg of a grave incident. Lawrence Terry the cashier was found in an alley with a dirk in his chest and Robert Kellogg, the banker’s son, is jailed as the prime suspect while Terry clings to life and the widow worries over a wider conspiracy.
A farmer's son who had never seen a loom created a working device with a penknife. His father destroyed it, but the blacksmith fostered the boy, funded manufacturing, and the youth earned half the profits. The father later learned the loom matched his own discarded model. Also, a Berlin streetcar averages seventeen miles daily.
A Des Moines petition filed by Mrs. Mary Ward seeks divorce from I. S. Ward. They married March 15, 1878, and Ward disappeared after a June 4, 1888, desertion. The case details that Ward was her brother by adoption, raised apart from their sister, with a long-hidden truth uncovered after years of secrecy and hardship.
The eighteenth annual Saengerfest at the Northwestern Saengerbund opened in Davenport with a reception and concert. About 1,400 active singers and 8,000 auditors attended as Fest President A Kador and Mayor Anderson gave welcomes. President Serring of Milwaukee responded, and the Dubuque singers turned prize singing into the care of the Davenport United Singers for next year.
A Northwestern fast freight wrecked near Clinton and Low Moor when train No. 128 derailed nineteen loaded cars. Cars overturned, meat exposed to the air, and the damage described as extensive though no injuries reported. A broken wheel caused the derailment.
Simon McBride a prominent farmer living near Fremont died in a buggy runaway near Ogkaloona. The horse bolted, lines broke, McBride and Harvey Eastburn were aboard. Eastburn escaped, McBride attempted to exit and was fatally injured when the buggy struck a post.
L. I. Murphy of Council Bluffs receives a letter from his son Lieut Murphy of the Twenty fourth United States Infantry. He was reported killed before Santiago but the letter dated July 8 from trenches near San Juan confirms he survived.
A series of lightning strikes Tuesday night and Wednesday damaged multiple buildings. A barn near Grand Dune burned with hay and gear inside while horses were saved. The Carrol residence suffered damage, no fatalities. Other structures at Joy Wedemoer, Ebden, and Chariton were struck. a child died and a family was stunned in Chariton. Rock Rapids depot caught fire but contents survived. Butter production year totals and creameries are cited. Ames reports widespread chinch bug damage moving into corn.
A collage of local items notes new Rock Island depot development at Atlantis, bond authorizations in Fort Madison and Davenport readings, a Centerville balloon company formation, and renominations for congress. Also reported are a tornado near Hawthorne, drownings near Rock Valley, a Fremont clothing theft in Shenandoah, bank openings, a railroad receiver, and notable deaths in Des Moines and Mahaska County.
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