The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-11-29

shortly to be welded was the cause.
Pottawattamie county supervisors will
offer a bounty to induce citizens to go for
the gopher.
The report of the soldiers home for the
m onth of October shows an average of 3O1
inmates. The auditor has issued warrant
for $3. 1875 for the support OF same.
Francis Marion Wagner, q teacher in
public school at Meriden, is under arrest for
striking boy named White with an iron
poker.
Emanuel Nelson is on trial at Newton,
charged with the murder OF Thomas Archer,
The murder occurred at a picnic given last
Fourth of July near that place.
Brooks, the murderer, 70 rmerly Of Coun-
eli Bluffs, now OF Fort Madison. is confident
that the supreme court will grant him new
trial.
R. &. Snyder, an employe of the LIE Grand
Touring mill at Marsnaltown, has been ar
rested for systematically Robin the COM
pany.
A legal controversy over calf in Cou n.
Gil Bluffs justice court has so far cost enough
to buy respectable herd of cattle, while the
final outcome is still in tae dim distance.
There are over 500 G. A. R. posts in the
stSte with membership of about $4,000,
and 200 relief corps with a membership Of
something like 5000.
An unfeelng storekeeper in Des Moines is
tantalizing the life out of the colored popula-
ton by exhibiting big fat 'possum in his
show window with IL card "Not for sale" tied
around it's neck.
Two mad dogs were killed in Douglas town.
ship, Adams county, recently. ]. M. Higgins
little girl was terribly bitten by one of them.
A large number Of cattle and other stock were
also bitten.
Milton Mcconnell, of Meriden became en-
tangled in the harness of runaway horse
and was dragged half mile at the horses
heels. He suffered broken collar bone,
couple Of ribs and serious internal injuries.
A jeweler in Shellrock whipped boy for
marking his window with his dirty fingers,
the boys father whipped the jeweler and a
justice of the peace raked in a jack pot 1910
and costs contributed by the belligerents.
L. B. Willett, who was "s,nt up from
Marshallstown two years ago for burglary
was arrested on his release at Anamosa by
Sheriff Clark, Of Butler Mo-, on charge of
forgery committed three years ago and taken
to that place for trial.
The state board of health has chan ged the
rule governing contagious dise asses among
school children. Formerly the certificate of
the attending physician was all tn at was re-
qnired for readmission after being quaran-
tined. Now the approval of the local board
of health, or the health o fflcer of the local
beard of health, in necessary to remove the
quar- antine.
Des Moines, Marshall town and Webster
City are all figuring on securing the location
Of the contempla ted college of the Seventh
Cay Adventists, viii CHI is to be built some
where in the west after the pattern of the
one at Battle Creek, Mich Des Moines has
offered $1,000 cash and twenty acres of
land and Webster City offers site, while
Marshalltown is still "fgerin'.''
VIM. Carl, in jail at Jefferson for trying o
hold up two merchants at Grand Junction,
is liable to loose one of his hands. During the
fro Gus at Grand junction Mr.. Covell, in pro-
tecting himself from CARTS attack, cut the
robber in the wrist with pocket knife, sew
ering the tendons. Carl was too chicken
hearted to have his hand attended to pro-
perly at the time, which will probably result
in his loosing it altogether.
The faculty OF Des Moines college are
worked up to the highest pitch Of indigna-
ton. The other day little love affair be-
tween two of the students reached the des-
peration point. and they HE'D themselves
away to the residence of the young lady's
parents at Knoxville and became one stu
dent as it were. In the meantime the fac.
ulty became aware of the fact and held
star chamber session, in which it was re-
solved that the college could not be used as
q matrimonial incubator, and that the new
~ married couple would have to hustle for
education somewhere else.
William Maxwell, a., engineer in the Chi
| cago, Burlington and Quincy yards at Bur-
ington, was found wandering around in a
dazed condition An investigation showed a
large red lump on the back of his neck, evil
IDENTIFY caused from being struck with sand
bag He was taken home and cared for,
when II, was discovered that his tongue was
paralyzed. He recovered his mental facul-
ties, and, aside from being unable to speak,
appears to be all right. He writes his con-
vereation and explains the affair by saying
someone stepped up behind him and struck
him with club and then fed. The doctors
fear he has been stricken speeches. for life.