Iowa Recorder Greene, Butler, Iowa March 14, 1917 State News In Brief Ottumwa - Dr. J.W. McNiely, a well known physician of Sewal, Iowa, was fatally injured Friday when his automobile overturned on a level stretch of road between Sewal and Powersville Missouri. Internal injuries caused his death six hours later. He is supposed to have lost control of the machine. Colfax - Five persons were injured two seriously, Friday when the automobile in which they were riding collided with an interurban car, near here. The auto was entirely demolished. Clarence Clark and Miss Violet Stewart were seriously injured and were taken to a local hospital where physicians said they had a fair chance for recovery. The three others escaped with minor bruises. Missouri Valley - James Atherton, a farmer, who was bitten by a strange dog which he found in his hen house several days ago, went to Iowa City to take treatment for rabies. The dog was examined and found to have been mad. The animal is said to have traveled over a wide territory before reaching the Atherton farm. Wolcot - Muscatine, Davenport and Wolcot buyers have taken the entire 15,000 bushels of potatoes held by John Strohbeen of this place for a total of $40,000. The price ranged from $2.60 to $3.00 a bushel. Early in the fall Strohbeen felt sure there would be a potato famine and not only stored all he raised but bought from his neighbors. He also bought Minnesota potatoes and stored them here until this week when he considered the time ripe for a general sale. It is understood that he cleaned up better than $20,000 on the deal. Many of the potatoes will go to farmers for seed. Traer - Alden Antrim, one of the less than 500 Mexican war veterans in the United States, is dead at his home in Traer, in his eighty-eighth year, after more than a year's illness caused by a broken hip received from a fall on an icy walk. Mount Ayr - The Mount Ayr Electric company is contemplating furnishing power and light to the towns of Maloy and Benton. There are very few towns in Ringgold county now without electricity. DeWit - Mrs. Mary Harkins Tuesday celebrated her 101st birthday anniversary. Mrs. Harkins was born in Westport, Ireland, and grew to womanhood on the Emerald Isle and was wedded there on Dec. 29, 1839. There are four living children out of a family of ten. She has been a resident of DeWit for sixty-seven years. Iowa City - William Schuetler, aged 14, the victim of a twenty-foot fall from a windmill, is dead in an Iowa City hospital, whither he was brought in a futile effort to avert the fatal end. He was injured on the farm of his father, Harry Schuetler, near Swisher. The boy's skull was fractured, and when there seemed hope, he was suddenly rendered unconscious, and death followed in a few hours. Traer - The grand jury refused to indict Bob Hercules for the killing of his brother. Fifteen or twenty witnesses were called and they generally agreed that the dead man was to a certain extent insane and that Bob acted in self defense. Mr. Hercules therefore goes free and nothing further will be done. A Demented Mother Hangs Child and Self The home of Emil Hendricksen, four miles northwest of Dike was the scene of an awful tragedy Tuesday afternoon, when Mrs. Julie Nielson hung her little three-year-old daughter and then herself. To accomplish her purpose she tore a bed blanket into strips which she tied to a stick placed over a stove pipe in the ceiling. After hanging the child she placed the improvised rope about her own neck and stepped off a chair, causing her death. Mrs. Nielson's husband died about the first of February, and recently Mrs. Nielson and little girl went to live with Mr. Hendricksen, her brother. They had been residents of the Voorhies neighborhood. It is thought the awful deed was committed between one and two o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Hendricksen came home about five o'clock and found a note written by his sister, saying he would find her body in another room and upon entering it the sight of the mother and child hanging side by side met his gaze. She also stated that since the death of her husband she had nothing to live for. We understand another note was found in which Mrs. Nielson said she wanted to be buried in a grey casket and have her baby buried with her. She was a woman about twenty-eight years of age. It is presumed she became despondent over the death of her husband, which caused her to commit the rash act. The manner in which the tragedy was enacted was conclusive that it was not deemed necessary to hold a coroner's inquest. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/