Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-26
coNDESsEp ITEMS.

Peter Mychil, aged pa, was killed by
lightning near Morse, johnson county.
While George Obrecht, farmer,
was cleaning out well near Irwin he
was overcome by damps and expired
before he could be rescued. He was
81 and unmarried, and was highly
esteemed.
At Shenandoah recently carpenter
by the name of Snead was killed while
working on a new business block
which is being built on Sheridan ave-
nue.. He was at work only few feet
high and fell only four feet, his back
striking n ioist.' The deceased leaves
"A wife and several children.
Some weeks ago insurance companies
represented at KeolSuk threatened to
make one per cent advance in the
rate on hazards where electric power
from trolly wires is used, unless the
system of wiring was changed by
October Is, the date on which the
Electric Power Company promised to
have the changes made. The power
company has failed to do SO, and all
agents gave notice the advance would
go into effect November LIST.
The times will never be so HARD
but energetic. young men and women
will find time and means to educate
themselves. 1t may be postponed for a
time, but it should not be too long.
Some of our young friends will start
to school in a short time To those
who wish to secure a good, practical
business education, we recommend
Duncan's Davenport Business College.
1t has the reputation of furnishing the
best class of instruction for all kinds
of commercial life. Its graduates
rarely have difficulty in securing good
situations. Its reputation is highest
among those who know it best. We
can cordially recommend it to our
young friends. Write for catalogue
and information to j. G. Duncan,
Davenport, Iowa
A dispatch says there have been
some startling developments made by
the United States officers who have
been searching for Deputy Marshal
Wray's assailants at Abba. They are
certain that they have an explanation
for the mysterious crimes committed
in this vicinity for the past two years
and have also corralled gang of
and perhaps counterfeit
ers ana that they make their rendez-
vous in the abandoned coal shafts in
Wapello and Monroe counties in the
land along the Des Moines river Bill
Cramer, a noted desperate, one of the
leaders, who has escaped twice from
custody, has been indicted by the Mon
roe county grand jury and the federal
grand jury is Investigating the cases
of alleged moonshiners and attempted
two of whom they have in
custody at Council Bluffs. Revenue
officers are going to organize a man
hunt for the gang
James o. Dooley, who murdered his
aunt, Mrs. W. H. Coons, and his
cousin, Nellie Coons, aged 10 years,
on the night of May II. 1892. near
Prescott, was hanged at Fort Madison
shortly after noon on the 10Th. The
drop fell at 1915 and the body was cut
down after hanging twenty minutes
Death was from strangulation. He
died game, walked to the scafold
unassisted and when placed in position
made a speech without tremor, in
which he characterized the law as
being defective and hoped that those
present and the executioner would be
forgiven by God as he had been. The
execution took place in the corridor of
the cell room. The scaffold is fac
smile of that of Prendergast and
tested by the same mechanic, Charles
Cordie, of Chicago. The execution
was witnessed by forty people.
Sheriff Eldridge of Adams county
sprung the trap, which fell five feet.
No relatives were present.
Des Moines dispatch: The federal
grand jury has found bills against
three doctors, returning indictments
in three counts. The doctors are A. L.
Wright and S. c. Dunllle. of Carroll,
and S. G. Dunllle, of Glidden Con-
spiracy to defraud the government in
that but one of them made examina-
ton Of old soldiers who came before
the board of pension examiners of
which the accused are members, vet
all three sent in their bills and vouch-
ers to secure the money from the pen
sion office, which vouchers the special
pension examiner declares are illegal.
a specific act is charged to have been
on April 5, 1893, when the
board sent in vouchers claiming they
had examined a number of cases, when,
according to the charges made by the
pension examiner, only one or two
members of the board were present.
The men We're arrested and brought
here and arraigned before Judge
Woolson and bound over for trial. y
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Hansen's Radical cough cure. Imme-
date relief and cures when others fail.
For farm loans write to the Security
Loan & Trust Co, Des Moines, la.
Thomas d. Burke of Marion, Ohio,
arrested recently on the charge
Of Kidnapping Ray Elliott. tried before
Justice Richardson at Marengo and
bound over to the grand jury of Iowa