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Newspaper
Lime Springs Sun
Location
Lime Springs, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1897
Page
3
A lullaby style verse extols a baby’s charms and motherly affection. It praises dimples toes rosy cheeks and blue eyes while a mother sings to soothe her child. The poem ends with a wish for peaceful sleep in the cradle.
A long veterans tale recounts Brevet Captain J. P. Close facing a general court martial over alleged misdeeds including neglect of officers' estates and regimental property during the 1870 to 71 period. Testimony reveals widows, wardens, and fellow officers, with Close defending himself by detailing his wartime burdens and family obligations. The trial ends with his acquittal and leave, while regimental life and postwar loyalties shift among officers, including Lambert’s rise with the artillery.
The officers mainly responsible for building the case against Close, including a telegram from Newton Lambert sent on his own responsibility, brought relief to a wary household. The message, though not disclosed by the court, carried full weight of authority and reached Mrs. Walton Scrogrs in Pasa Christian after several days.
A quick exchange shows Mrs Browne rushing to the office desperate for her razor while Browne Jr jokes about a kerfuffle with a sharp tool to cut boards, hinting at a playful domestic moment and a deadline.
Mrs Christini Behrens arrested in Davenport for murdering her husband to secure life insurance and free to marry Henry Bendit of Rock Island Ir. with whom she had lived for months she confesses Bendit incited act and supplied poison Dendi jailed for murder prosecution. Also Mrs T J Rick of Alden held on attempted murder charge then released on 500 bail. J W Parks accuses shooting through leg artery, she admits shooting. Highwaymen captured three men after robbing a Teaver Hebrew peddler. Suspects Saunders Fay and Childs from Grand Junction jailed in Boone and Greevy counties. Wounded man may die.
At the sixteenth annual Keokuk gathering of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows of Iowa jurisdiction officers were chosen. W A S Mills of Keokuk was named district crane master Maj Barber of Evans district deputy grand master P Mr Pruitt of Os Kaloosa district grand secretary Frank Fields of Keokuk district grand treasurer J M Thomas of Fort Madison district grand director.
The Grain Shippers Association of Northwestern Iowa held its annual session in Sioux City and elected E. J. Edmunds Marcus president, M Parsong Carrall vice president, F. D. Babcock Ida Grove secretary and treasurer, F. D. Butler Schaller assistant secretary, H. A. Abbott Charter Oak executive committee member.
Carl Ott, 57, a farmer four miles north of Raodcliffe, died by hanging in what investigators term death by own action. He had recently lived with his third wife amid family troubles. This marks the second self-inflicted death in Hardin County within a week.
Marshal Healy jailed two men who gave aliases Harry East and Robert Mason after finding a stash of counterfeit money at a fampa. Edward Doughty of Sibley, former Emmet county treasurer, died at home leaving a wife and son. Mrs. Kreuger, missing from Creston since April, reappears in New York and plans to return. Dubuque’s 95 year old Mary Loodergin noted as county’s oldest resident. Austin Wright lost a leg in a Chariton freight train incident. Joe McBride found dead near Ogden. Morhain in Wright county gets post office with Michael Morbain postmaster. Polk savings bank merged into Des Moines National Bank. Alonzo Robbins shot his wife at Keokuk after a period of separation. Cedar Rapids accident injures four year old George Rogers. O. L. Binford, Marshalltown lawyer, dies at 55 of Bright’s disease. C. A. Brownell dies suddenly in Mason City. Threshers form a union in Pottawattamie. Burglaries at Burlington streetcar company office yield $100. Reunion for Jasper and nearby counties set for Prairie City on August 11 with John Knoke postmaster. Gov. Drake moved from Savery hotel in Des Moines to Centerville home per doctors. A. R. Loomis of Manchester National Bank noted as prominent landowner, aged 73 in Dubuque.
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