Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-07-13
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trict court. Krout has turned states
evidence and testified strongly against
Wecms and Hammill.
Appropriate exercises took place at
Pomeloy on the anniversary day
in memory of the disastrous cyclone of
a year ago Ex-Gov. Boies was chair
man and r. NJ. Wright, of Fort Dodge,
speaker of the day. A large crowd
was there from surrounding towns.
1t is announced that the Fort Wayne
Electric Company has sued the city OF
KeollulS for $4,000 damages for wrong
full suing out of an attachment in the
suit brought by the city three years
ago against the company to enforce y
contract for lighting the city, which
the supreme court decided against tho
city.
About midnight recently at Creston
the drug store Of l.. II, Biddinger wan
discovered to be on fire. The proprie-
tor himself gave the alarm. He says
that he was passing the store and no.
men assaulted him. He fred three or
four shots at them without effect. The
fire was undoubtedly of incendiary
origin. but who the party was that set
fire to the building is matter of spec
ulation.
Detective 10 Cuddy few days ago
arrested Frank Peterson. prominent
and wealthy young farmer OF Leeds
Grove, for the murder of G. II. Vessels
on New Years night, 1891. No arrests
have heretofore been made, although
suspicion pointed to Peterson. The
murder was particularly brutal one,
the old man having been shot from the
rear while on his way home from a cell
ebration, and no motive could be learn
ed for the deed.
Samuel Gates and his daughter Sarah
one day last week We're instantly
killed while attempting to cross the c.,
B. g. Q. railway at Maynard's crossing,
two miles west of New London, by a
west bound way freight The engine
smashing the wagon into splinters and
killing one horse. The occupants were
thrown fifty feet and instantly killed,
being fearfully lnangled and smashed
about the head and shoulders Gates
was 10 years of age and leaves wife;
daughter unmarried aged about So.
The victims attempted to cross ahead
of the train, became confused and
stopped to turn. No blame can be at
tached to the railroad.
Des Moines dispatch: sProf. Charles
Wardell Stiles, Medical Zoologist, Blu
reau of Animal Industry, United States
Department of Agriculture, was
printed upon card handed to Assist
ant Secretary Andrews of the state
board of health by a dapper young man
with creaseS in his trousers but with
an intellectual head. He announced
that in response to a letter from the
board of health calling attention to the
prevalence of trichina in hogs in this
state, especially in certain portions OF
the western part. he had been sent by
the department to make a thorough ex-
animation and suggest such remedies
as are deemed proper. The professor
will make his headquarters a, the State
Agricultural college at Ames, and will
spend several weeks in the prosecution
of the work assigned him. He has al
ready been at Ottumwa several days.
As is pretty well known Pacific juno
ton and Platville township, Mills coun-
ty. have been the victims of small
pox epidemic for the past two months.
The disease is supposed to have been
brought to the community from Chi
cago, and was spread over the cityand
township by an alleged physician, who
pronounced it chicken pox. The state
board of health has received d state
ment from the township clerk, showing
the total number of cases to have been
thilty-siy, of which eleven were vario-
loid OF this number nine have died,
twenty-five recovered. and five are yet
confined but are believed to be con-
valescent. Four of these are children
in one family. The report shows the
value of vaccination in its announce
ment that fourteen cases were modified
by it, though twenty-five of those
having the disease We're vaccinated
after exposure.
Atlantic dispatch: From the latest
reports obtainable it appears that the
holders of preferred claims against the
Cass county bank will not receive over
% to 80 per cent OF their claims, while
the ordinary creditor will not receive
cent. Indeed it is claimed by some
that after the expenses of winding up
the affairs of the bank. there will
not be anything left even for preferred
claims. This state Of affairs is UNI
equalled in the history of the state, or
even of the United States. 1t is claim
ed by some that this complete cutting
of the assets of the bank was only made
possible by the action of some banks in
advancing money to them on every
scrap of paper they We're able to scrapc
up, making the banks who thus cashed
the collaterals generally at big dis
count secure in a financial sense but
not in a moral sense. The action of
other banks in thus furnishing money
to them made it possible to squeeze the
last cent out of their customers before
k,he inevitable crash came.
The republican state convention
Iel was called to meet on Ncdr'e-
July II, has been postponed till