MULTIPLE SURNAMES

SUED FOR ALLEGED SLANDER. A.F. Nash, ex-postmaster of Sioux City, has been sued by Dr. J.C. Clark of Sioux City for $5,000 for an alleged slander. Clark avers that Nash charged him in a Knights of Pythias lodge of embezzling funds belonging to the lodge.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

E.F. Spinney of Knoxville will succeed Charles Robinson as pension agent for the district of Iowa and Nebraska, the agency of which is in Des Moines.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 7, 1898]

Mrs. Mary Pritchard was found dead in bed at Charles City of heart disease. She was an aged lady and lived alone. She leaves $2,000 to her physician, C.W. Knickerbocker, $1,500 to the local cemetery association and $500 to Harry Freeboro, who did her chores. The money is left to send him to college.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

INDIVIDUAL SURNAMES

ARMSTRONG
NEW FLOURING MILL. H.E. Armstrong has arrived at Grand Junction with a complete outfit of machinery for his flouring mill. He purchased last winter the mill known as the Andrews grist mill and has commenced tearing it down, and will rebuild and add to till it is complete for manufacturing flour and feed of all kinds.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

DURLAM
Frank Durlam went into a well that he was digging six miles north of Coon Rapids to fix the machinery. He was overcome by gas and fell to the bottom, sixty-three feet, where his body lies, all attempts to rescue him having failed.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

GARFIELD
Dr. L.K. Garfield, one of the pioneer settlers of Kossuth County, died at Algona Wednesday from an attack of paralysis. He had been prominent in politics and in his profession.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 7, 1898]

HOOD
AN IOWA EDITOR KILLED. W.N. Hood, one of the proprietors of the Washington Democrat was run over by a Burlington and Northwestern freight last week and instantly killed. He was postmaster at Washington during Cleveland's second term. He had been connected with the Democrat almost since its first issue.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

HUBBARD
KILLED BY A TRAIN. L.S. Hubbard of Sioux City, a brakeman for the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, was run over and killed by a freight train at Charter Oak. The man walked off the end of a moving car in the dark. He leaves a young wife and two children in Sioux City.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

KEEN
Mrs. K.S. Keen of Bears Grove dropped a pocketbook containing $800 on the train. The following day a traveler who noticed the book fall from her pocket restored it to her with every dollar it contained.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

LEUTER
The grand jury at Storm Lake failed to bring in an indictment against John W. Leuter of Lincoln township, who, it will be remembered, shot and killed his brother in self defense on May 24.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 7, 1898]

MCGRAW
A peculiar well was struck on the farm of Dan McGraw, five miles southwest of Rock Rapids at a depth of 252 feet. A vein of air which nearly threw the drill out of the well was opened and has continued to blow pure air with a tremendous force. A three and a half inch tube was forced into the hole and a heavy steam whistle was attached, which blew a blast that could be heard for miles. The people for miles around flock to the place to see this wonderful spitter.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

ROWELL
COUSINS' OPPONENT. Capt. L.J. Rowell of Company F, Fifty-ninth Iowa of Tipton, was nominated on the first ballot by the Democrats of the Fifth congressional district at Cedar Rapids last week.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

STUART
A supposed incendiary fire at Audubon destroyed Captain Stuart's grain elevator and over 25,000 bushels of wheat and corn. Most of the grain was to have been moved soon to make room for the new crop. There was 2,000 insurance on the elevator and grain.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 21, 1898]

TREDWAY
O.C. Tredway, one of Sioux City's oldest lawyers, has been indicted by the grand jury for assaulting a constable who attempted to replevin cattle belonging to Tredway.
[Sioux County Herald, Orange City, IA, September 7, 1898]