Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-09-21
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Shirts to order Agt. calls twice each
The 19-months-old baby of Hugh
Brady of this city died from the acci-
dental drinking of some poisonous dye
stuff.
The large new telescope Mt Drake
University will soon be ready for use.
We hope to furnish our readers re-
port of some interesting observations.
No better goods are made than the
Des Moines Shoe Mfg. Co.'S Ladies',
Misses and Children's shoes. Why
send east? Ask your dealer for them.
Des Moines residence, z rooms large
grounds, 3 blocks from electric cars,
near Greenwood Park, to exchange for
clear Iowa farm. Address, full partic-
ulars owner, box 81, Des Moines, Ia.
Drake University opened last week
with the largest enrolment in her his
tory, being thirty per cent larger than
last year. Evidently the drouth will
not keep Iowa's young people from
securing an educatlOn.
The State Insurance Company of Des
Moines escaped the Iowa CONGREGATIONS
| with small loss. The estate" is a
staunch Iowa institution and deserving
| of the liberal patronage it receives at
the hands of Iowa people.
One day last week FL. r. Richard
son. a prominent horseman of Chur-
| dan, was found hanging on nail in
his barn. He was in the act of coming
down from his hay NOW, when he ac-
| cidentally fell. and his nose came in
contact with nail. The nail entered
his nose upward and lodged against a
| bone, where the unfortunate man was
obliged to remain until help could
1 reach him The wound has been skill
| fully treated, and Mr.. Richardson's is
recovering.
| Chas. Eckert, residing at Sioux City,
| had been drinking during the evening
| and left home about 10 o'clock, saying
/ he was going to get another drink.
In the morning his body was found
| under the tracks of the elevated road
| with nearly the entire right side of the
| skull crushed in. So far as learned,
| the man was not knocked off the ele-
waited road by train, and it is believed
/ that he was SO drunk that he could not
possibly have walked out on the ele-
waited track to9that point. His rela-
/ tives believe he was killed in drunken
/ row, but there is no clue to the crimi-
! nails The man was laborer and
| leaves wife and four children.
! J. McKane, moulder who had been
{. at work in foundry at Fort Dodge,
was on his way to Chicago to ac-
cept position there, and stopped off
at Iowa Falls to visit NJ. j. Dempsey
an old acquaintance of McKane's. In
cidentally McKane told his friend that
he had saved up over 5000 and was go
ing to take it to Chicago with him.
The family retired for the night, and
4 in the morning Dempsey and Mckane's
money were gone. A warrant was
sworn out for Dempsey's arrest, and he
was located in Chicago, and the Off
Gals there We're telegraphed to arrest
| him. McKane has returned to Fort
4 Dodge and will appear against his old
friend when arraigned.
The Clinton county board of supervis-
ors have taken action on the saloon tax
question by deciding that the Martin
law became operative April 4, 1894
The tax to January next was figured
ont to be $43s, which amount was
assessed against every saloon which
had been listed by the assessor. II
was also decided that those who have
closed their doors since the assessor
has made his returns will have to make
oath to that effect, when the tax vii
be abated for such length of time as II
is shown they were not selling liquor
J County Attorney Mccoy interprets thu
| law to mean that the tax will be du'
: January next and delinquent Apri
1, the same as other taxes.
The Woodbury. county grand jury ad
: journed after long session, having
returned eighteen indictments on or
binary cases, but none on the cases o
alleged fraud, against the county ant
cityofficials which have been aired in tn
newspapers and petty courts for som
time. 1t was confidently expected b,
| the citizens committee that some in
, dictments would be returned agains
= the county officials charged with crook
e edness, and there is much disappoint
S ment The injunction suit in whic
Y most of the facts concerning the fraud
+ in county affairs was brought out ha
n not yet been decided. and the impeach
e ment suits have had no hearing yet
e The investigation of the Sioux Cit
s officials is also in the hands of th
civil authorities.
BY a fall of slate in Marshall mine
No. /, near Boone, Harry Gibson
J., a miner, was pinned to the earth. HI
i skull was fractured, head badly CT
k and both legs broken. He will hardl
+ recover.
h In the Polk county court Judge Spu
:. Ter, in the case of D. +. Witter VS..
/ T. Forkner and W. W. Moore, brougl
S to test the validity of the Martin mul
5 law, has rendered the first opinion v
# rendered on that law He holds tn;
o the law is constitutional The ca
= win go at once to the supreme cou
and probably came up before the Oct