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Sioux Valley News
Correctionville, Woodbury, Iowa
Thursday, May 28, 1896
IOWA STATE NEWS
- A very peculiar death occurred at Anamosa. James Northrup, who has
suffered with asthma, got up and dressed himself, put on a white shirt,
clean underwear, combed his hair and laid down on the bed. Calling his wife
to him he told her he was going to die, and wanted to be buried just as he
was, not to disturb him in the least. He went to sleep and in less than
thirty minutes was a corpse. The doctors said there was no violent cause
whatever for the death and it was a case of wonder to the medical
fraternity. Less than a year ago Mr. Northrup's father died equally as
suddenly, although under different circumstances. The old gentleman went
into his garden to pick a mess of peas and was taken with heart failure and
died before reaching the house.
- W.H. Tidball has been taken to Des Moines by officers from Houston, Tex.,
in answer to a charge of forgery. Tidball worked for Tone Bros., wholesale
grocers there, and gave the firm a note for $800 signed by H.L. Chase of
Cedar Falls to run eighteen months. It was given in settlement of a debt he
owed the house. It was not learned it was a forgery for a year, and in the
meantime Tidball had disappeared. He has been away a year and a half, and
was recently located in Houston, where he was representing a St. Louis house
and stood well, going under the name of W.H. Taylor.
- George Greasby, proprietor of the Novelty Iron works at Oskaloosa, left
town ostensibly on a collecting tour and has not since been heard from. The
foundry is heavily encumbered and it is claimed that he has fled to avoid
embarrassment.
- Frank Smith, a young man living at Swan, was thrown from a freight train
on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railway, while attempting to get on
and fell breaking his back and fracturing his skull, from which he died.
- Mr. and Mrs. E. Timons of Foster are the parents of a perfectly developed
boy baby which weighs two pounds and is just ten inches long. It is
perfectly sound and healthy. The family are having hundreds of visitors.
Posted at this site with Cathy's permission
Iowa Old Press
http://www.IowaOldPress.com
1900 census in Mahaska County, there are (2) George's both born in England. One was 47 and the other 23, both occupations-iron work foundry.
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