The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-02-11

MS, hand, The bows, hand soon began
to swell and later O. band Of red, nearly
an. inch in width. appeared. on the boys
arm up to the shoulder. Doctors were
called and the, boy treated for poison.
He suffered intense pain for several
days but is now on the road to recov.
cry. John Simpson, of Black Hawk
county. caught rat in a steel trap. He
lifted the trap by the chain and instant
ly the rat ran up the chain, dragging
the trap with it, and seized the man by
the hand. 1t took him three months to
get all OF the poison out of his system.
Considerable money was nut IN nv
friends at Walnut in support of the
claim Of Earl Caddock to the worlds
championship a few days before the
wrestling bout was pulled of in New
YORK, in which Caddock lost the title
after a. game fight. Caddock,s friends
are just as enthusiastic now, as, before
IT happened and they declare. a. chal.
lenge will be issued to Stecher for an.
other contest to be held either in Des
Mo1nes or Omaha. Caddock has made
considerable money out of his wrestling
victories. He owns some good farms in
Cass county and a big ranch out in Wy
oming. He received $4,000 for his last
contest and besides gets a royalty on
the moving pictures taken of the event.
Mrs. G. w. Collins, of Marion county
the daughter of an Iowa pioneer, Jacob
Alfrey,.in a, recent visit to the home of
her mother at Pennington, Van Buren
county, related to a party of friends
some OF the incidents in the life of her
father who died some years ago. Jacob
Alfrey was born in log cabin on the
banks of the Des Moines river in Van
Buren county in 1888. At that time the
celebrated Indian chief, Black Hawk
and his band were living on DEVILS
creek in Lee county. but about year
later removed to a camp in the vicinity
| of Iowaville, in Van Buren, county,
where the old chief died on Oct. 3, 1898
While at the Van Buren, county camp
! the Alfreys visited the noted chieftain
Mrs. Alfrey carrying little Jacob, the
father of Mrs. Collins, in her arms. The
chief. then old, frail and badly broken
| in, health and spirits, treated the white
visitors very kindly. He took consider
! able interest in little Jacob, even to the
extent of taking the little white pa
poose" in his arms and fondling it in
real grandfatherly style. The Alfreys
always remembered the incident and re-
| lated it so frequently that the story is
well known to all the members of the
family. .n3o -s3r.. ,u'IN .-.
| Several Iowa people who We're on
board the Inflated train on the Chicago
Great Western which was wrecked at
Wyeth. Mo-, in December, have settled
with the company on a satisfactory
| basis. Others have taken the matter
into the courts. The largest suit for
| damages has been instituted by the
Dwyer family, formerly of Rochester,
Mimi. enroute to California, where they
were to make their future home. Law.
| renee Dwyer and two sons were riding
in the smoking car and were uninjured.
The mother and seven daughters were
| in. the chair car. which turned over
| twice. The mother filed suit for $780,.
900 alleging permanent injuries. The
father brought suit for each OF the sew.
en- daughters, all minors, asking $10,.
900 damages in each case.