Davenport Daily Leader Davenport, Scott, Iowa January 18, 1899 STATE NEWS - L.S. Abraham met a horrible death at Ottumwa in the Burlington yards Tuesday morning. He had fallen asleep on the track in a drunken stupor and a train passed over him. - Nora Valentine of Eldora was awarded $2,000 damages by the jury on Tuesday in the breach of promise of marriage suit against David Hauser for $10,000. - Capt. H.H. Canfield of Boone, who was with the Iowa Signal Corps in Porto Rico, in an interview corroborated every statement that has been made by Gen. Miles, in the beef controversy. - John Moran of Clinton was attacked by three thugs on Monday evening while on his way home. - Mrs. Emma Wickers, aged 80 years, died at her home in Clinton, on Monday evening. She has been a resident of the city for the past 40 years. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/

I'm always amazed at the number of people who were run over by trains. One of the headlines here was "MAN GROUND TO DEATH" Papers would never get away with that today. Other headlines I smile at are: "So and So Dropped Dead" Keep up the great work. At 06:32 PM 1/18/2007, Cathy Joynt Labath wrote: >Davenport Daily Leader > >Davenport, Scott, Iowa > >January 18, 1899 > > > >STATE NEWS > >- L.S. Abraham met a horrible death at Ottumwa in the Burlington yards >Tuesday morning. He had fallen asleep on the track in a drunken stupor and a >train passed over him. > >- Nora Valentine of Eldora was awarded $2,000 damages by the jury on Tuesday >in the breach of promise of marriage suit against David Hauser for $10,000. > >- Capt. H.H. Canfield of Boone, who was with the Iowa Signal Corps in Porto >Rico, in an interview corroborated every statement that has been made by >Gen. Miles, in the beef controversy. > >- John Moran of Clinton was attacked by three thugs on Monday evening while >on his way home. > >- Mrs. Emma Wickers, aged 80 years, died at her home in Clinton, on Monday >evening. She has been a resident of the city for the past 40 years. > > > >Cathy Joynt Labath >Iowa Old Press >http://www.IowaOldPress.com/ > > > > >_____________________________________________ > >For additional information concerning how the list >works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >_____________________________________________ > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message Barbara Lane Hug, Coordinator of the Jasper Co. IAGenWeb site at http://iagenweb.org/jasper State Coordinator of IAGenWeb at http://iagenweb.org/ [email protected]