Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-05

I was eola nsa4 s3ns os Is she stee
gang at ear there were side
tracked u bass A man BY III,
natne Of Dan Spped in front Of tn,
engine to piciSsssSp some bolts, and wa.
horribly mangled. No. 81 took til,
injured man TO Ames, but he can not
live.
| Frank Irwin. Ed Perry. Ed. Ledger
wood, Bert Debord and Harry Fellows
/ all Creston young men, who conducted
a stand at the Corning fair, came to
| grief for working short change on a
number of Corning people. When n
| five-dollar bill was presented one OF
the party would take the bill but re.
| turn it, remarking they Were out q
change The purchaser would put the
bill in his pocket, but when he would
have occasion to look Mt his money
again the Ave had disappeared and q
one dollar bill had taken its place.
About twenty five people were worked.
irwin was arrested. He charges Eel
lows and tDebord with being the
4 perpetrators, but they skipped.
Ledgerwood and Perry were not
arrested.
At the recent session of the Society
| OF the Army OF the Tennessee, which
! was held at Council Bluffs, officers
for the ensuing year were elected as
1 follows: President, Gen. Granville NJ.
Dodge, of Iowa: vice presidents, Gen,
James A. Williamson, of Iowa; Gen.
Robert N. Pearson, of Illinois; Gen.
Charles Wolcott, of Illinois: Maj. E.TC.''
Dawes, of Ohio; Col. j.: D. Mcclure. of
Illinois; Maj. Henry L. Morrell, of
Missouri; Maj. Joseph w. Paddock, of
Nebraska; Maj. George f. French, of
Minnesota; Maj. +. T. Muhlenberg, of
Michigan; Capt. George w. Richmond,
of Wisconsin, and Maj. Hoyt Sherman,
of Iowa; corresponding secretary, Gen.
Andrew Hickenlocker; recording sec
rotary. Col. Cornelius Cadle; treasurer,
| Gen. NJ. f. Force. Cincinnati was Sc
lected as the next place of meeting.
The body of NJ L. Donnelly, of In.
oOPCboCASSs mas, was 1OOlItl LUZ
under about a foot of ground near the
bank of the Nishnabotna river, near
Hamburg. He had been shot and his
head crushed with an AK. i. n. Da-
wilson, of La Sale, Col, is suspected
of being the murderer. A man answer
ing his description is in Jail at Forest
City. Mo. A few nights ago the two
men camped near the farm house of L.
q. Reid. Donnelly visited the house
and said he had been farming in Platte
out, and all he had left was the wagon
he was travelling in and several horses
which he was leading. Davidson was
travelling with him. Shots and cries
of murder We're heard (. during the
night, and the next morning the aban-
doned wagon and straying horses led
to search. resulting in the discovery
of the body.
The expert employed by the Wood
bury county board of supervisors to
investigate the printing bills. has fled
a number of new affidavits in special
cases, showing overcharges of the
Sioux City Tribune in bills rendered to
the county. This brings the total
amount of the overcharges to the pres
ent time to over $4,000. He is still
making Investigations. The Citizens
Association has also fled an amended
petition in one of the suits to Gust
members Of the board for alleged
bribery and corrupt practices. In this
petition Supervisor Epps is accused of
Illegal action in allowing certain bills,
and is directly accused of receiving a
brlbc for the passage of a certain bill.
The discovery has also been made that 4
the attorneys which the board have !,
retained to defend them in the inn !.
parchment proceedings, are also all
employed by the board to defend the
county in the bond and injunction eases,
fees in. these county cases have been
made so high that they will cover their
services in defending the members in
their individual cases. The citizens
committee may look into this matter.
Robbers entered the State bank at
Mediapolis and blew open the vault
and safe. They underestimate the
power Of the explosive used and every
thing in the Interior of the bank was
wrecked The safe contained SIS, 600 in
gold coin, $500 in paper currency, 800
in silver specie and sa,G00in Mediapolis
school district bonds payable to bearer
The paper money was, blown to minute
fragments and ground into the mortar
that fell from the walls: the gold and
silver coin was battered and bent, and
twisted and torn, the robbers got
probably $4,000 of it. $500 in gold
and some silver was recovered from the
debris on the floor and from the creviees
of the shattered safe into which it had
been blown. OF the twenty-six bonds
nineteen were recovered only slightly
damaged; the remainder We're carried
off or blown TO pieces. probably the
latter. On the shelves in the vault
were mortgage notes and deeds to the
value Of S13o, 900: many of these We're
torn to shreds. The directors of the
bank assembled at once and, after u
careful consideration of the status of
affairs, they adopted a resolution to
the effect that the loss the bank had