Iowa state bystander., 1895-10-25
CONDENSED ITEMS.

The odd Fellows decided to erect
their orphans home at jefferson.
Homer D. Cope, the gifted elocution-
ist and *. of P. worker, died at his
home in Des Mones on the Goth.
The coal miners at Lehigh went out
on strike a few days since.
They have been getting IS cents, and
they ask for 81. The strike throws
over 100 men out OF employment.
A. B. Taylor, an old and respect
ed citizen of New Sharon. recently
tell from wagon loaded with wood,
the wagon passing over his head in
such way as to sever one ear and
break the skull near the ear. He
never regained consciousness, and died
few hours later. Deceased was
man of considera BILE means and
influence.
AS the investigation of the recent
failure of the bank at Richland
progresses the darker grows the
triclSery in the deal. Starker has
turned over to his creditors his private
notes, amounting $4,000 or $4,000,
which pauperizes him. He kept his
private notes in the bank for safe
keeping. where his partner, Charlton,
mad access to them. Several thousand
dollars worth of them are missing, and
it is known that Charlton disposed of
them as collateral.
Rees smith, colored, 35 years old,
ran amuck at Lehigh a few nights
since He became Jealous of his
wife, took club and beat her TO
/ ielly and she died. Sheriff Woolsey. OF
| Fort Dodge. went to arrest the negro,
and Smith went into d side room,
/ ostensibly to get his coat before going
with the sheriff. When he returned
/ from the room he had a gun. and before
! his intentions were realized, he fired,
1 the bullet passing through Sheriff
1 Woolsey's ear and fatally injuring a
4 woman named Barber. Smith. the
j murderer. escaped and the last trace
OF him was at Jewell Junction.
Avoca dispatch: Another chap
ter of the Edgington pension fraud
case has been enacted here. This is
the home OF G. NJ. and w. P. Cuppy,
two men impli licated in the case, and
who pleaded guilty and were fined
$1,000 each in the United States Cour'
at Council Bluffs. e. c. Brown, q
special pension examiner who worked
up the case, was in Avoca on business
At the Rock Island depot he was as
saulted by G N. Cuppy. 1t is claimed
Cuppy struck him over the head with {
weapon of some kind, and that hi.
brother, W. P. Cuppy, after Brown wa
knocked down, struck him with cane
Brown was badly used up, sustaining
: a number of severe cuts on top of tht
head, and injuries that may result il
conclusion of the brain. He is at th
hotel in precarious coddition
At Burlington recently an electri
car got beyond the control of tn
motorman on Valley street hill, ea
most dangerous street in the city. TIL
!. car was gong at a rate of thirty mile
an hour when it struck the Contra
avenue curve and left the track, goire
: head first into ditch. E. 6. Segner
= a travelling salesman, was badly bfuis
ed and his wife received seriods in
: jury to her spine Everyone in the ca
! was injured more or less. That al
! were not killed in the crash is httl
t less than a miracle. The car is
wreck The track had been creased
Deputy Sheriff Woldenburg O clin
ton county, took August Swanson
who chopped off the head of his littl
J. son. with hatchet, in Clinton las
spring, to independence. The asylur
: authorities were instructed to motif
the sheriff Of Clinton couaty if at an
: time the prisoner recovered his sanity
= This step was taken by Judge Water
man in view of the fact that Swanse
showed strong signs of sanity afte
|. the jury had deela&d him insane. L
# the event of re6ogery of his senses
s Swanson will be brought back to Cir
ton and tried foi his horrible butchery