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Rock Island County, IL |
Lewis Castor and Sampson Castor of Perryton, Mercer Co., along with Philip Scneder, John Scneder, Frank Bethurem, E. Burrows, John McLaughlin and the Rev. J.P. Young of Edgington, Rock Island Co., have gone to Kansas with the intention of purchasing homes there. (RI Evening Argus, Friday, 28 August 1868) H.J. Smalley shot and killed his brother Andrew at McPherson, Nebraska, on Saturday. The brothers were traveling over land from Moline, Illinois, to Colorado. [Burlington Hawk Eye, Des Moines Co, IA, July 12, 1877] A Pathetic Parting Nickolls County (Neb) Herald While on our way to Lincoln last week we witnessed a most pitiable sight, viz., that of a man with shackles on his feet, and a wife and five children, ranging from two to three months to ten years, clinging to him. The circumstances are as follows: A short time ago an emigrant wagon was wending (sic) its way with its load of living freight towards Colorado, and one night went into camp near North Platte. It appears that H.J. Smalley, the prisoner, and head of a family, and his brother, a beardless youth of perhaps nineteen years, had started together, taking with them the prisoner’s family. About the time they reached North Platte they had some trouble and the prisoner wanted his brother to leave and go by himself. But the boy did not intend to go without money, and took, during the night, from the prisoner’s pocketbook, which contained about sixty dollars, the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents, and left. In the morning, when the taking of the money was discovered, the prisoner went after the boy, and caught him about then miles from camp and brought him back. When they reached camp they had more trouble and the prisoner shot the boy with an old musket which had in it a heavy charge of buckshot, blowing the boy’s head to fragments. Smalley is a simple, in offensive looking man, and must have been in an awful passion to commit such a deed. The sheriff from North Platte, from whom we learned the facts, stated that if his wife and children had not staid him faithfully he would have been hung. It seems that on their account his counsel was able to work upon the sympathies of the jury to such an extent as to cause them to bring in murder in the second degree, which places a man in a living grave for the balance of his days. Although he had committed the most horrible deed in the catalogue of crimes, it was impossible to look unmoved on the scene. A man taking final leave of his family in such a case is indeed an effecting sight. As the train neared the station he took his children each in turn, from the oldest, a girl of ten, to the baby in his arms, and with tears streaming down his face, gave each a farewell caress, and held them to his bosom for the lat time. Then handing the baby to his little girl, he took his wife, who had been faithful till this worse than death, in his arms, as a fond lover might his lady. With her head pillowed on his shoulder, they neared the station, where they must part forever. Such is the faithfulness of a true woman, whose marriage vows are to her something more than a form of words that will give her a home. In the face of the facts, who dare say that a woman is false or fickle? [Burlington Hawk Eye , Des Moines County, Iowa, November 15, 1877 ] |
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-Mrs. Elizabeth Hanna, one of the proprietors of the Farnam House, was slightly tight the same night and made herself so much of a nuisance the Policemen Redding and Sarvey put her in jail. She was brought up Friday and fined $5. She had no money and was sent up for 5days.
Union, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1864 |
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