Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-11-09
Condensed ITEMS.

! of Wankou, aged II, and an only son,
was accidentally shot through the
throat and died Instantly. He was
| out hunting with two other boys and
while STOPPING to roll up his pants, the
hammer of the gun caught in his
clothes and discharged the weapon.
The will of Mrs. Anna McCreery,
a wealthy widow who has just died at
Creston, has been made public. To
several local churches she bequeathes
| valuable Creston property. and to the
Indian University, located at Musko-
gee, /. T., she gives about $4,000 The
amount to be used in educating the
Indians is to be known as the Anna Nc
Creery text book and education fund.
a brother is cut off with SIS.
What will possibly develop into a big
strike in the Des Moines district was
inaugurated when sixty coal miners at
the Clifton Heights mine laid down
their tools and refused to work until
the operators conceded an advance of
10 cents per ton. News comes from
Evans, near OslSaloosa, that negro
miners are going to Des Moines
to take the vacant places. The white
miners declare that the negroes will
not be permitted to work.
The dry goods store Of w. E.
Keenman, of Hubbard, twelve miles
from Eldora, was recently robbed
of goods to the value of $500. The
stolen goods consisted mostly of ladies'
cloaks and shoes. The sheriff got
track and was in pursuit in a few
hours. A thieving gang has been at
work in the county for several weeks.
Three of them were caught while sell
ing stolen goods to farmers at Ledyard,
and an effective trap is laid for the
rest.
Judge Van Wagenen of Wood
bury county in handing down his de-
cision on the application of members
of the board of supervisors for change
of forum in the cases before him,
declined to send them toanother judge
and insisted that there should be no
delays in the trial. He declared that
he was without prejudice, and offered
to give the cases over to another judge
if one could be produced at once, SO
there would be no delay in the trials.
This. however, was impossible.
At Keokuk, Mr.. D. NJ. Casholm, of
the firm of Casholm & Evans, coal
mine operators and dealers, was run
over and killed by a Toledo, Peoria &
Western freight train. He had with
him his little child, aged 3, and it was
also struck and received injuries that
may prove fatal No one knows just
how the accident happened. Some
minutes after the train passed parties
heard the child's cries and found it
lying on the track. Later the horribly
mangled remains of the father were
found,
A few mornings since the body of Ben
Merritt. a wealthy and prominent mer-
chant of Fillmore county, Neb.. with
bullet hole in his skull and another in
his lung, was found suspended from a
buggy near Atlantic Merritt took a
pair of spirited horses and buggy
and said he was going to his sister-in-
laws place about fifteen miles south
of Atlantic He was seen pass
ing through Lewis with two men late
at night and when outside the town
limits several shots were fred. That
he was murdered outright and accom-
panied nearly to Atlantic seems to be
the general impression. He always
| carried considerabl BILE money and as only
a small amount of silver was found,
robbery seems to have been the object.
He was candidate for the state legis-
Iature in Nebraska.
Hansen's Radical cough cure. Imme-
date relief and cures when others fail.
Shirts to order. Don't fail to see our
new inportations. T'ilden, Des Moines.
| A dispatch says: The assets of the
| Union Stock Yards company at Sioux
| City, estimated by Receiver Chesley at
(! So, 500, 000 are to be sold for that sum
to the Sioux City Stock Yards company,
Judge Shiras having accepted the
I receivers 1iG spJ-o,-
/ 600 of unsecured notes held by the
Credits Communication company will be
converted into preferred stock of the
| new company, and those interested in
! the old concern will take the common
| stock. The mortgage Indebtedness,
I 1926, 900, will be reduced by cash
| assessment to 100000.
/ One night recently the postoffice at
/ yinton was burglarized and 1925 worth
of stamps secured. The safe con-
! tanned large number of stamps, but
the burglars were unable to get it
open.
| Atlantic dispatch: After deliber-
alton of but two hours. Joseph c..
Yetzer, president of the defunct Cass
| County National bank, has been found
guilty of fraudulent banking by a jury.
This concludes the trial of the wreck
ers, Cashier Dickerson receiving six
| year sentence at the conclusion of his
trial Yetzer has not been sentenced.