Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-12-07
FIRE AT TlNcLEY.

FIRE AT TlNCLEY.
: Incendiarism Causes a Loss of Forty Thor
sand Dollars.
TINGLEY, Dec. 5.-Fire has destroye
the north side of Main street. the lara
7 er half of the business portion Har
work alone saved many residences. |
is thought to be incendiary A scor
of buildings We're burned at an est
mated loss of $4,000.
CONDENsED ITEMS
, Charles w. Adams, clothier o
Washington, has been closed b,
Bane, Clement & Co.. of Chicago, thei
claim being 5000 The stock is valued
at $4,000, but there are other claim.
beside the chattel mortgage held by
the Chicago firm. The failure is a
great surprise.
At the regular meeting of the Min.
lsterlal Association OF Dubuque few
days ago the question of the en-
| foreement of the present state mulct
law was discussed and after thorough
review it was determined that it can
be enforced in this city as elsewhere.
and the association will make an effort
to do so.
i Frank Leithold and August Kreiger
We're at the farm of Henry Leithold,
near Waukon, recently with steam
/ threshing outfit and crew of five
men, hulling clover, when without
moments warning the water head
blew out. A large fragment struck
George Leithold, taking off the top. of
his head, killing him instantly
Charley Lee, the partner of Barney
Hansen, who escaped from the Ana
mosa prison several months ago but
was at once recaptured, convicted for
the killing of a street car conductor at
Dubuque several years ago, was taken
to Dubuque by Sheriff Phillips, where
he will have a new trial in accordance
with supreme court decision He is
but mere boy and got eighteen years.
Hansen is also boy and had it not
been for his recent escape would un-
doubtedly have had new trial and
may anyway.
few days ago United States Dis
trict Attorney Cato Sells was asked
concerning the indictments reported to
have been found by the Howard county,
Iowa, grand jury against Pension
Examiner Waite, of Minneapolis, who
has been an active instrument in the
Van Leuven and Kessel pension fraud
Investigation. He said: Il am not |
inclined to believe the report that |
Waite is indicted but if it proves true
the government will see that no inius-
tee IS done to Waite, who has, by his
aggressive work, opened up what seems
to be very corrupt condition Waite
has the entire confidence of the pension
bureau and department of justice, and
has certainly done nothing to warrant
such procedure
Sioux City dispatch: The trial of
the suit instituted by the citizens com
mittee against Supervisor Strange, to
expel him from office for Illegal and
corrupt actions, is on in the dis
trict court The testimony in the case
has been gone over before, and there is
little new in it except the airing of de-
tails more positively than before. The
testimony for the prosecution indicates
OF the supervisors We're in the con-
spiracy to rob the county of large sums
of money by means of false bills which
they We're allowed for work never done
or made out in the names of fictitious
persons. The testimony is direct on
the point of one attorney bribing
Strange and two other supervisors to
defend the members individually in
these cases by hiring them in certain
county cases and paying exorbltant
fees. In this manner it was arranged
that the board was to make the county
pay for their defense in the cases
charging them with corruption
Hansen's Radical cough cure. Imme-
date relief and cures when others fail.
The fat mans JOY. Tiiden,s patent
shirt for fat men Tilden, Des Moines.
Jacob Vanslike, of Center Junction,
committed suicide few days ago.
lie took the rope route. He was a
wealthy farmer and pioneer III Health
md poor crops were the cause.
At Clinton recently thieves entered
Joseph Rust's tailor shop, Callahan
5ros, meat market and Mrs. p Tut
Nils residence, getting away with
bout $500 worth all told Efforts to
,urglarize three other houses were 7
tipped in the bud. Four of the thieves J
we're jailed and most of the stolen
,oods recovered.
NJ. Virgins, a venerable patriarch
i Rockford. was before the United
tates commissioner at Dubuque
or bootlegging. He was sent to jail l
n default of bonds. This is his second !
ffense. Two years ago he was let off &
n promise of good behavior. I
According to the report of the rail I
Dad commissioners the freight earn
lgs of Iowa roads for 1894 fell off
bout 81 100000, or about one-eighth,
lille the total falling off in earnings :, d
'r the year was $2O,G90, 533 49, The a
'tal earnings for the year were $155,- s.
80, 1860. il