Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-07-27
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In the Polk county district court
| John Hammil, the second of the Rid
4 path murderers, was found guilty of
! murder in the first degree and the pen
atty fixed at hanging.
| Two distressing accidents happened at
Rockwell City while efforts We're being
I made to bring rain by firing off cannon
aud anvils. John ODonnell was badly
| burned by the powder in a key ignit-
/ ing from spark. Luckily there was
not much in the key or his life would
have been lost A boy by the name of
Win Squires lost several fingers by the
| premature explosion OF a cannon while
he was ramming down the charge. He
may lose the hand.
| The prospects for a large attendance
at Highland Park Normal College, Des
Moines, Iowa, next year are very fiat
! tering. President Longwell says that
| the college has never been in better
shape for good solid, substantial work
| than it will be at the opening of the
4 fall term. September 4. We are glad
\ w give Wills HCNS W oui iSuoSAfS, ps'
Highland Park Normal College is un-
! doubtedly one of the greatest institu-
4 tions of learning in the west.
A disastrous fire occurred in New
1 ton a few days ago. The fire started
4 in the basement OF the grain elevator
owned by Chas. Counselman, near the
Rock Island depot; from thence it com
municated to the large elevator owned
/ by the Newton Elevator Company. A
/ barn belonging to Robert Burns burn
ed, also one belonging to David Scholes.
Four freight ears belonging to the
Rock Island road We're burned, and
1.-the stock yards and sheds were con-
sulned The loss is estimated at SEQ,
4 00O.
5 Ray Elliott, the boy stolen from
Marengo fourteen months ago. has
been brought home by his father from
Waterloo, where he had been aban-
1 doned by an unknown woman July 6.
/ His return was greeted by ringing OF
bells blowing of whistles and general
rejoicing of our citizens. Ray disap-
| peared May %, 1898 and since that
! time q careful search has been kept up
for him. The boy says he was taken
! to Canada in a covered wagon by some
I people who had lots Of horses. They
| are supposed to have been gypsies
| The woman left him with a family and
4 said She would return in a week. but
| has not been seen since
| Fire broke out at Traer recently in a
/ barn in the rear of A. f. Tildens
| meat market, spreading through the
1 following buildings: A. I. Mldens
| meat market and adjoining store room
| used as dwelling; Daniel & Pravau's
hardware building, together with two
large agricultural store rooms: Claus
VOLTS harness shop; f. L. Shortess'
4 jewelry store; two rooms occupied by
/ Gelves MeGinnis. groceries: the Snow
! fake restaurant: Mrs. A. Peterson. dly
! goods and millinery: j. II. Carrick,
harness shop;William Rails, restaurant;
! j. II. Nauerth, drug store. Here the
I FIRE was confined Some damage was
| done to the State bank. Not nauch if
any OF the goods of any kind We're
saved The fire was furious, but on
| account of no wind the fremen were
able to fight it. The damage is esti-
mated at from $50. 600 to $4,000.
1t is announced that the coal
miners Of Polk county have nearly all
gone to work. They have accepted
the terms of the operators, or their
places are filed by outsiders. All
| the miners except in the railway mines
have been at work for some time The
latter includes the Christy, Carbondale,
! Great Western and Poor arm mines.
! The Great Western miners have gone
| bondale returned at 80 cents per ton
| for mine run and so cents for screened
! coal They have made several efforts
! to get back to work. and have done SO
on the terms at first proposed by the
| operators. The Christy miners have
steadily refused toworll at the contract
! price Of 50 cents and have been having
| very hard time to get along. Mr..
| Christy has secured a number of colored
miners, who have gone to work at SO
| cents
1t is asserted that there IS a pros
! pect of trouble ahead of some of the
| saloon men who are operating in the
country towns Of Woodbury. county.
| Parties It Sloan are making an effort
to close up the saloons, and claim that
! the petition of consent under which
| they claim exemption from the prohib-
tory law is not good. They have in
vestigated the matter and find that in
/ Sloan township alone thirty OF the
names signed to the petition are either
forged or ineligible persons The man
| who circulated the petition there was
| shown the petition and says that TWEEN
| ty-two of the names have been placed
there since it left his hands There is
/ strong suspicion that the whole petit
/ ton in the county was thus doctored
| after it came into the hands of the pc
tition managers at Sioux City and there
is talk not only of prosecuting the
/ saloon keepers, but of bringing charges
| of forgery against the petition circu
| lators.
The republicans of the Seventh dis
trict. in session at Des Moines, renom-
Auated Congressman j. a. f. Hull.
Waterloo dispatch: A man has ar
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