Sioux Valley News Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa January 21, 1897 Iowa State News Captain Isaac W. Griffiths, one of the oldest residents of Des Moines, is dead, aged 78 years. He was a member of the second Iowa legislature in 1848 and a lieutenant in the Mexican war. After the civil war he was deputy United States marshal of the western district of Tennessee for four years returning to Iowa when his term expired. He has been sheriff of Polk county twice and has held other offices. Fred Floyd, while hunting in the woods about fifteen miles northeast of Atlantic, accidentally wounded a wild sow. The cries of the animal brought two others and the three rushed upon Floyd. A fierce struggle ensued, in which he broke his gun barrel and was then overpowered by the brutes. The beasts then literally chewed Floyd to pieces. His body was found in a terrible mutilated condition. Five members of the family of R.S. Paris, who live in Wayne county, not far from Confidence, were poisoned from eating buckwheat cakes. It seems that a small portion of rough on rats had become mixed with the buckwheat flour. Benjamin Woodrow, one of the oldest settlers of Jasper county, died of old age. He was 92 years old, a leading owner of the Jasper county bank, and lived in Iowa for over fifty years. John Griffin, a horseman of Albia, was struck by a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train at Ottumwa, while walking along the track, and instantly killed. In 1896 there were 342 marriages in Clinton county, as against 325 in 1895. The oldest groom was 84 and the youngest 19; the oldest bride was 72 and the youngest 16. The city overseer of the poor at Fairfield has made his annual report. He has aided 659 persons during the past year at a cost of $1,892.58. The Campbell Power company, a concern proposing to manufacture a new smokeless gun powder, is a new corporation at Adel. Paul Correl of Vinton, owned $5,000 worth of stock in the Atlas National bank of Chicago, which recently failed. Samuel H. Kinney, a well to do farmer at Humboldt, hung himself because he had signed too many notes as surety. Hundreds of thousands of bushels of corn are heaped on the ground in Woodbury county for lack of crib room. R.R. Fenner, engineer of the waterworks at LeMars, dropped dead from heart failure while taking a bath. The draw bridge at Dubuque reports the passage through it during the past season of 1,947 steamboats. Cline brothers, grocers, of Des Moines and Bondurant, have assigned for the benefit of creditors. One hundred and seventy-six marriage licenses were issued in Henry county during 1896. Corning will have a 200-pound fire bell which will be placed on a forty foot tower. An Iowa Falls Couple Celebrate Their Sixty-First Anniversary. Iowa Falls, Jan. 18 - Today Mr. and Mrs. William Jones of this city are celebrating the 61st anniversary of their marriage. Over three score years ago they were wedded at their home in Centerville, O., and spent several years in that state and in the east. In 1855 they came to this place which then consisted of but two human habitations, one being a dwelling near the river bank and the other a tavern situated in a clearing in a dense forest that then covered the present site of this city. This couple was closely identified with the early history of this section, and have lived here continuously with the exception of a few years spent with their children in Dubuque. Mr. and Mrs. Jones are both in good health and apparently destined to spend several more such anniversaries as this before obeying the behests of death. The children of the couple reside in Waterloo, Marshalltown and in this city. Charged with Wife Murder. Creston, Ia., Jan. 18 - Willard Friend was arrested at Bradford with poisoning his wife. Friend is a farmer residing in the vicinity of Bradford. His wife died very suddenly and mysteriously Jan. 2, but it was thought at that time to be a case of suicide and the coroner's jury brought in a verdict to that effect. But there were people who were not satisfied, and detectives were put to work on the case. It develops that a few days previous to the death of his wife Friend purchased some strychnine at Hopkins, Mo., claiming he wanted to kill mice, and a day or two later purchased some headache capsules from a physician of the same place saying his wife was subject to attacks of headache. On the day of her death Friend claims he took one of the capsules when he started for work and advised his wife to do the same. She took one and almost immediately was thrown into convulsions. She was alone with a 6-year-old child, whom she sent to the nearest neighbor for aid, and to whom on their arrival, she told she had been poisoned. She was past aid and died within half an hour. Friend was brought to Bradford and turned over to the sheriff to await further developments. Young Man Missing. Ackley, Jan. 18 - "Is Frank Kessler of Macey alive?" is a question that no one seems to be able to answer with any certainty. Young Kessler resided at Macey, the first station west of this city, and several weeks ago started for Minnesota on a visit to relatives. Reports have been received that he has been killed by the cars, one report claiming that the accident occurred near Webster City, while another located the scene of the accident at some point in Minnesota. No one, not even his relatives and friends seem to be able to locate the young man and thus ascertain whether or not he is alive or dead. Did She Want to Die? Alden, Jan. 1? - The past week Mrs. N.B. Newton of this place has been hovering between life and death, suffering from laudanum poisoning but whether taken with suicidal intent or not cannot be ascertained. She called on a relative a few nights ago remained while the neighbor and his wife were at church. A short time after the woman was found near her own home in an insensible condition. A laudanum bottle at the neighbor's had been disturbed and part of the contents taken which shows where the woman obtained the poison. No reason is known for the act and many are inclined to thing that the medicine was taken and she received an overdose. Ex-Sheriff Wilson Stabbed. Rock Rapids, Jan. 18 - Ex-Sheriff J. O. Wilson was seriously stabbed by Jessie Whipkey at a dance in Mr. Wilson's hall. The wound is pronounced a dangerous one, being near the heart. Chas. Wellington, deputy marshal, in attempting to arrest Whipkey, was seriously cut on the arm. Whipkey escaped and is still at large. He was arrested a short time ago for raising a row at a dance, and was allowed to go on promise of good behavior. Cathy Joynt Labath Iowa Old Press http://www.IowaOldPress.com/