Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-10-12
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accident while moving u family from
Everly to Estherville.
At the Sioux City Interstate Fair
races, Robert j. defeated Joe Fatchen
| in three straight heats, the time being
! a:O6, 200, and 2:031s.
While eN-County Treasurer Charles
Meyer was ont driving at Dubuque
recently with his niece, Miss Mabel
Ref, the horse became unmanageables
and ran away Miss Ref was thrown
about fifteen feet, striking on her
head. She was taken to her room at
! the Lorimer House and three physi
clans summoned, who declare her
1 injuries are very serious, as her skull
! is fractured and She remains uncon-
scious. She was later taken to Finley
Hospital.
Sioux City dispatch Another sensa-
| ton has been sprung in the county
| Doodle eases by the fling of informa-
/ ton against two of the members of the
! board of supervisors, chargi them
( with obtaining money under false pre-
+
| Strange are thus made defendants in
t criminal cases, the specified charge be-
ing that they presented and aided in
| passing various bills against the county
! which were fraudulent 1t is under
1 stood that similar charges will be filed
! against at least one other member of
J the board, and in time others impli-
4 Gated in obtaining money from the
| county on false bills or through over
| charges will be prosecuted in the court.
/ Strange was arrested and placed under
! SO, 900 onds.
At Abel recently fire of a mysterious
/ origin started in the livery stable of
! A. d. Morse. and before it was extin-
1 guished property valued at about 500
! 600 was destroyed. The insurance is
not more than one-third. Eight horses
persisted in the stable, the loss there
amounting to about $4,000. The fire
jumped to c. d. Bailey's dry goods
I store which is a total loss amounting
/ to S25, 900: insurance $1,000. Row &
| Books grocery store went next, the
| loss being $4,000. j. Tees restaurant
was total loss, including household
effects. worth $1,000; no insurance re-
/ ported. g. w. Campbell's merchant
Tailoring establishment sustained a
severe loss. Including one brick and
one frame valued at $500; no insur-
Iance. At this point the fire jumped
across the street to the Masonic Temple,
| which is Il three-story structure, oc-
| cupied below by G. Rolands general
! store. The damage to the Masonic
! Temple and Roland's amounts prob
/ ably to $4,000, with no insurance re-
! ported. The opera house was entirely
destroyed. It was two-story double 1
brick building valued at $4,000 and
| there was only $4,000 insurance. J. 4
G. Roland's loss on his. two story
brick building is put at $1,000.
! a clever forgery has been recently
unearthed at Eldora. Mrs F. H.
Willis, of Hubbard. owns eighty acres
| of land Her husband was in need of
$500. She refused to mortgage her
land. Willis, determined to raise the
/ money went to Eldora and arranged
/ with a loan agent for the money Re-
I turning to Hubbard. he made out the
! papers, forged his wife's signature to
| the mortgage and the notes, forg, ID
I the name of w. f. Keenman as notary
i and walked into keenman's office, stole
! his seal and made the impression be-
| side the forged signature. Returning
1 the papers to Eldora. the same We're
accented by the loan agent. who i'm
mediately sent him draft for the
notes, payable to Mrs Willis. Willis
/ a fourth time forged his wife's name to
the draft and afterward it cashed it at
the Hubbard bank This occurred in.
i June In August, being hard up for,
! mo9s.z Willis again went to Eldora.
arranged for a loan Of $500 by second
mortgage on the same land and by a
repetition Of the same forgeries sue
ceeded as before The affair was not
discovered until now. Willis was ut
! once arrested at Hubbard and is now
! in Jail awaiting trial. He is a very
sharp man, but has been in a number
4 of scrapes before. Six years ago he
was arrested at Ackley on the charge
| of having set fire to his store building
1 for the purpose of getting the insur-
ance. 1t now looks possible for him
| To serve Il term in Anamosa.
Burglars cracked the vault of the
First National bank, at BROOKLYN,
but were unable to get into the safe.
! Their plumber consisted OF some
stamps and small change, worth in all
less than Sl00
A dispatch says: Please arrest said
boy, Elmer T. Eddy, IA years old, light
hair. blue eyes, full. round face, black
clothes bound with braid prince AL
| BERT. white shirt coarse muslin. with
| old linen 'front.', jeans pants under
meath, bire cap, coarse shoes dark
socks. Please arrest and wire at once
to Leander Eddy. Oskaloosa, Iowa
2 One George johnson and two on
three other men were brought up
TO Abba from Hitenan under arrest
by United States Marshal Wray
charged with violations of the United
States revenue laws. The marshal and
his squad came into the city from the
direction of the Chicago, Burlington
Il Quincy depot and when about $50
yards south Of the depota lot of fellows !
in ambush in an alley rose and fred al /
the marshal. and George johnson and
his chuLns ran away and made their
escape. Several small shot struck the
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