Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-11-02
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Ar Audubon, William Mclaughlin,
convicted of the murder of Frank Leib,
was sentenced to twenty-five years
imprisonment at the Fort Madison
penitentiary.
Snow fell all day and all night on
the Goth over a large portion of
South Dakota and northwestern Iowa.
At Vermillion the snow storm re-
sembled an old fashioned blizzard.
Several inches of snow fell at Sioux
City.
Judge Thornell, of the Audubon
county district court, called William
Mclaughlin, convicted of the murder
of Frank Leib, into court and SEN
fenced him to twenty-five years inn
prisonment in the Fort Madison
penitentiary.
Professor Floyd Davis, who made an
examination OF the stomach and brain
of Mrs. Ella Mckee Mason, who re-
Gently died at Creston, under suspicious
circumstances, reports that he has
| found arsenic. The feeling against
her husband is said to be very intense.
The city council of Sioux City
has developed a plan to furnish
| work for all who become dependent on
charity this winter by putting them to
work on the Strengthening of the Floyd
! river. The stream overhowed two
years ago and a score of lives and an
| ilnm nse amount of property were lost.
The danger can be averted if the stream
is Strengthened, which has not been
done because of the expense. The new
| plan would secure an Improvement
that would otherwise cost 100000.
Fire was discovered at Manson in the
| livery barns of Jones & Wright, on
Lag street. and A. Hauntzman's livery
barn on Second street. The rear of
these barns were only sixteen feet
apart. The fire, as nearly as can be
| ascertained, originated in the barn of
Jones & Wright. Nothing was saved
in the stables, and eighteen head of
horses were cremated. All the har-
ness and carriages in the Hauntzman
barn were gotten out. The buildings
of Sullivan e. Tove, A. E. Richards
blacksmith shop, and Peter Turner's
shoe shop We're totally destroyed,
while most of the goods were either
destroyed or badly damaged.
The burglars who blew open the
! vault and wrecked the building
occupied by the Farmers and
Mechanics bank at Malvern were seen
by dozen different people the next
| morning. When a freight train pulled
! into Council Bluffs from Malvern at 9
o'clock and stopped at a crossing near
! the city limits, two fellows jumped out
of box car and started across the
fields, carrying cheap black satchel,
apparently very heavy. They passed
| through the eastern outskirts of the
city, where they attracted the. atten-
ton of number of people by the
evident heavy weight of the grip
which they carried between them. At
10 o'clock they boarded an Omaha
| motor. Officers Were not notified of
| the burglary until after 10, and it was
nearly noon before they got onto their
| trail. The motor conductor was found
and gives the following description of
| the men: One short man, heavy set,
| black mustache: other tall, nearly six
feet. smooth shaven: both wore large
SLOUGH hats pulled down in front and
| turned up behind. They carried, said
| the conductor, big black grip which
seemed to be heavy, as both lifted it
onto the platform. The short man
stayed on the platform with the
satchel, while the tall fellow went
inside It was the tall man who paid
| the fare for both At Thirteenth
street. Omaha, both men got off.
Several hackmen saw the pair alight
and asked for a job, bnt the fellows
picked up their grip and walked to
Thirteenth and Dodge streets, where
they boarded South Omaha car going
south. They are evidently very crude
craftsmen, and their capture and the
recovery of the booty is only question
of a short time.
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Will Detective Wizard of Omaha
was in Kearney, Neb., recently
he showed Officer Overmier the photo
graph Of the fellow who murdered the
chief of police of Missouri Valley about
year ago. The officer at once recog-
nized the picture as being that of a
fellow who has been around Kearney
for some time, and in a few minutes
had him locked up. He agreed to come
to Iowa without requisition papers,
and the sheriff brought him to Iowa.
There has been standing reward of
$500 by the governor of Iowa for the
capture of the murderer, and Officer
Overmier will claimit.
The Farmers National bank of Nal
vern was wrecked and looted by rob-
bers few nights ago. The vault and
safes inside of the vault were blown to
pieces, the conclusion completely
wrecking the inside fixtures of the
building. Some of the money was
found in the street and some bills and
| certificates were found in the debris by
the bank officials. Not until the wreck
is cleared up will the exact loss be
| known. but is estimated that the rob
bers got away with Between ten and
| twenty Thousand dollars. The depos-