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Davenport Daily Republican
Davenport, Scott, Iowa
January 8, 1903
GENERAL NEWS OF IOWA
Iowa Woman's Strange Power
Waterloo, Jan. 7 - Mrs. M.L. Southwick, living at the corner of Lincoln
and Center streets, is gradually finding herself beseiged by sick persons
who desire that she cure them by the laying on of hands. She possesses some
peculiar power over disease which she attributes to magnetism and which she
discovered by accident and has by constant study developed to good use. She
is a lady of more than ordinary intelligence, and freely confesses that the
power comes from some source which she is unwilling to call divine
inspiration, although she says she is guided entirely by instinct in
effecting her cures. She formerly lived in Waverly, and it was there five
years ago that she discovered her power when she cured Mrs. Herman Miller of
that place of a serious throat affliction by the laying on of hands to the
affected part. She has lived here about a year and during this period has
cured many people of different diseases. She says when she is in the
presence of a sick person she experiences a peculiar sensation in her hands
and fingers and can not resist the inclination to place her hands upon the
afflicted person, which invariably brings relief to the sufferer. So
successful has she been that her friends and those whom she has cured have
urged her to rent an office and enter the profession as a magnetic healer.
For her services she has so far made no charge, as she says the gift was
freely given to her and she feels that she dare not accept money from its
distribution to comfort others. She has more success treating children than
old person, and several remarkable cures in her immediate neighborhood are
attributed to her skill. In once case she treated a patient under who she
had failed to conquer the disease. He acknowledged the improved condition of
the patient after several treatments and there has been no return of the
trouble.
Oldest Convict Dead
Anamosa, Jan. 7 - Wm. Dilley, Iowa's oldest convict in point of time
served, is dead. He passed away at the Anamosa penitentiary. The machinery
of the old frame simply refused to longer carry the load of affliction.
Dilley looked much older than he really was. He was gray and stooped like an
octogenarian. In reality he has spent just half of his life behind prison
bars. Dilley's crime was wife murder and committed at a time before capital
punishment had become a recognized method of atonement in Iowa. He was doing a life sentence from Johnson county, where he was convicted in January, 1877. He had served 26 years. Dilley's number was 239. The highest register number today is 4.967, and thus has he witnessed the admission and departure by death, parole and completed sentence of 4,000 men. Dilley has assisted in the construction of every building that has been erected in the pentitentiary in the last quarter of a century and this means that he has a
hand in practically every piece of architecture that now adorns the state property, for the walls and all the handsome buildings that now grace the property have supplanted the former wooden stockade and the temporary
structures in use at the time of his incarceration.
Iowa in Brief.
- Mrs. Henry Hudson of Algona is dead because of a ruptured blood vessel of
the brain.
- A.R. Kuller, postmaster of Dysart, was married Christmas night to Miss
Flora Powellson, a milliner of that town. The wedding was kept a secret
until this week.
- Louis Zalzovcky, a well known character of Marshalltown, died this week.
He had been a resident of the city 20 years and was a carpenter and joiner
by trade.
- Rev. G.A. Bryant, the Jesup pastor who created such a furor last summer is
back in Waterloo. It is believed that he wishes to effect a reconciliation
with his wife, who has remained true to him in spite of his absence.
- Waterloo police are after Mr. and Mrs. "Dr." Lawrence, clairvoyants, who
have been making that town, on a charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses. Nick Ternes, a farmer, is alleged to have been swindled out of
$150 which he left with the Lawrences so that they might have a dream and
secure Ternes a wife.
Posted at this site with Cathy's permission
Cathy Joynt Labath
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com/
June 2, 1900
Fairview Township, Anamosa, Jones County, Iowa
Iowa State Penitentiary
Sheet No. 1B line 63
William Dilley,prisoner, May 1852, 48, single, born in Missouri, father born in Indiana, mother born in Pennsylvania
July 9, 1860
Washington Township, Grundy County, Missouri
Page 161 and 162 line 37
Wm. Dilley, 48, day laborer, Ohio
Mary Dilley, 31 or 32, Indiana
John Dilley, 13, Missouri
Sylvester Dilley, 10, Missouri
Wm. Dilley, 8, Missouri
Hiram Dilley, 6, Missouri
Sarah G. or J. Dilley, 4, Missouri
Isaac Dilley, 2, Missouri
see:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iajones/cemetery/river/d.htm
I do not know for a fact that the census information is the same family as the man in the newspaper article, possibilty...yes
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