Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-09-07
Condensed ITEMS.

al dCbIOi1 OCCA III ullS
district court in Dubuque county by the
Leisure Lumber company against the
Mutual Fire Insurance company of
New York, the amount of insurance in
said company for property destroyed
in the great lumber fire last June,
which the company refuses to pay
Bankers viii be glad to hear that
Conrad Reister, the slippery forger, has
peen arrested at Browning, Mo-, and
taken to Keosauqua for trial. He sue
cessfully passed check for $500 on the
Keosauqua state bank and they caused
the arrest. He is the same man who
recently caught an Ottumwa bank for
So, 500 and Fairfield bank for $1,000.
He will also be tried at Ottumwa and
at Fairfield.
Dubuque dispatch: About the mid.
die of last month Postoffice Inspector
Christian appeared in the office of W.
III. Berman, late postmaster at Du-
mont, Butler county, and found the
postmaster short about $1,000 Ber-
man was brought before United States
Commissioner Hobbs and bound over
in the sum Of 81 900 on charge of en-
bezzlement of money orders and postal
funds. His brother furnished the bail
bond.
A dispatch1 says Anamosa has in
deed great curiosity and one which
is going to be exhibited atseveral lead
ing fairs. Mr.. William Ristine, living
a little east of Anamosa, has slut that
had litter of pups, which he killed.
AT about the same time his cat gave
birth to two kittens, and soon there
after the old cat died. The slut at once
took charge of the kittens, and for
eight weeks has sucked them, slept
with them and taken good care of
them, and they apparently think as
much of each other as though they
were related. The kittens are as fatas
seals 1t is the wonder of the city and
neighborhood. They will prove a
great attraction when placed on exhi-
bition. Mr.. Ristine wouldn't take
big price for them.
Recently a man going by the name
of George Wright went to Waverly and
opened bus and dray line and pro-
duce ware house in connection. Aweel1
ago he mortgaged everything to the
State Bank of Waverly, and later bor-
rowcd $500 of S. A. Morse, for which
he gave a second mortgage. He told
his foreman that he was going to be
gone few days, but would be back
soon. Nothing wrong was suspected
until Mrs. Wright appeared upon the
scene and informed Wrights creditors
that he had deserted her and eloped
with woman from Nashua. 1t now
appears that Wright borrowed money
wherever he could, and it is estimated
that he took out of town s., 500. His
wife says they lived at Charles City
and owned a home; that recently they
sold their home and that Wright took
with him the money received from its
sale. Creditors by the score are con-
sulting each other and loud threats are
made. There is no clue to his where
abouts.
One day last week an old man
named MCGEE, living northwest Of
Churdan, was thrown from cart His
foot caught in the lines, and he was
unable to control the horse, which,
after dragging the old man about
three miles, was stopped and the man
picked up, a corpse.
The 12-year-old son of Albert Bloom,
living mile south of Laurel, lost his
life. He, in company with brother
about two wears his senior, was en-
gagged in binding corn fodder, and
while cutting corn into proper lengths
for use, accidentally stuck the knife
into his left arm, severing an artery,
and he bled to death before assistance
could reach him
Ottumwa dispatch: Near Cleve-
land on the Burlington heavy regu-
lar freight collided with pusher
engine on the Whitebreast hill. Engin-
Ger Gus Starkman was killed, Fire
man Ed Walker fatally injured, and
others bad1y hnat,-- The entire train
was demolished.
County Attorney Davis of Polk co
has applied for permanent injunctidN
against forty-iive Des Moines saloons,N
alleging that the petition recently
filed lacks 800 names of the $500 re-
CURED by law.