Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1894-09-14
CONDENSED IrEals.

i A 4-yearold son of Henry Baker, who
resides xorth of Brooklyn was
drowned in slough well. The boy
/ went with his grandfather to water
cattle and accidentally fell into the
we'll, from which the old gentleman
was unable to rescue him. When as
sistance came and the body was taken
out, life had departed
4 1t is said that there are serious
discrepancies in the management of
the Iowa Soldiers Home, located in
4 Marshalltown. There is shortage of
funds and the books are in bad shape
The adjutant and commandment of the
home are both suspended pending
! further Investigation. The COM
mandant is Frustrated.
team ran away one day last
week during the county fair at West
Union and plunged into carriage
occupied by IT. H. Beach, fracturing
his skull and breaking every rib in his
body. He died in less than an hour.
Deceased was 70 years old and one of
| the pioneers of that section. In 1851,
when the gold fever was at it's height,
| he journeyed to California with Phil
Armour, of Chicago, in prairie
/ schooner.
Des Moines dispatch: The rain on
! the 9th threatened to spoil the exercises
of laying the. corner stone of the Sol
| diers' and Sailors Monument, but the
| rain having ceased about / o'clock the
| procession formed and started at 1:40.
| In line were Col. ID. b. Henderson, ex-
Senator Harlan, Senator Gear. Gov
ernor jackson and other prominent
persons. Arriving at the site, Gov
ernor jackson, as president of the day,
| called the assemblage to order and Rev.
B. f. w. Golfer offered prayer. After
| music by the Iowa State Band the GER
emonies of the Masonic orderfor laying
the corner stone were proceeded with.
Senator Harlan then delivered an adj
dress being followed by Gen. Geo. A.
Newman, commander of the G. A. R., 4
and Hon. Thomas Hedge of Burlington
When seeking a school to train your
children for business or rather to give
them foundation on which to build
their business career, the best will not
be any too good To our patrons we
would unhesitatingly say that we are
familiar with the methods used in the
the Davenport Business College, and
also with the records of many of it's
former students, who are to be found
in our legislative halls-in the supreme
court-in the lower courts. Thirty-six
of the cashiers, and sixteen of the as !
sistant cashiers of banks in this state
of Iowa are former students of this |
school-in fact we find them successful
in every vocation in life. This is a
record of which the school may well
be proud, and one which, in choosing
a school. should have its due weight in |
determining where you and your
friends should patronize.
People over the country have been
wondering ever since the Sioux City |
Athletic Club made the bid for the Jack |!
son-Corbett fight how the club could |
pull it off and what was its financial |!
backing. Twenty-Five moneyed bust |
ness men make up the membership and |
the $4,000 offered is already up and |
100000 more could easily be raised |
The club, for reason of its own, has
never incorporated, but the leading
man in the affair is E. L. Webster,
manager of the Peavy Grand Opera
House James Twehig, capitalist Of /
Dakota City, Nebraska, and w. H. |
Farnsworth, prominent lawyer of
Sioux City. are also leading lights in
the movement. The three gentlemen
now in Chicago are trying to secure
Jackson's signature to articles of agree
ment The place where it is proposed
to pull off the fight is on an island
in the Missouri river above the city,
over which neither the states of Iowa.
Nebraska nor South Dakota, which
come together there, it is said, have
any jurisdiction, 1t being sort of no
man STAND.
A brutal assault was perpetrated
at Grafton by three men upon John
Barrack, a thresher. His assailants
were also threshers, and in that section
the past month great rivalry has ex-
listed between the threshing crews en-
gagged there. Barrack recently had his
threshing engine blown up with dyna-
mite. Barrack accused Otto Letzrig. /
Lars Kettleton and Emil Hefner of /
stealing the fuse and powder from him
with which the work was done. He
was in a saloon at Grafton when the
three men entered. They followed him
when he departed and coming on him
unawares pounded him numerically, /
leaving him unconscious on the street
and battered almost to jelly. The t
weapons they used make it evident
that their purpose was murder, and
they doubtless believed they left him
dead when they ran off. One of them
used a coupling pin, another a large
club. and the third was armed with
wagon wrench. They are all under
arrest and awaiting developments.
The latest from Rarrack is that he
cannot live.
State Senator Silas w. Gardner. who
resides at Clinton, has been compelled
to submit to the operation of having
the ends of both his legs reamputated.
Sixteen years ago he had both feet
taken off by falling under a train, and