Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-12-27
HISTORY OF A WEEK.
THE NEWS OF SEVEN DAYS UP
TO DATE.
Political, Religious, Social and Criminal
Doings OF the Whole World Carefully
Condensed for Our Rcaders--The Ac-
cident Record.

James COOK shot and Killed Marsha
Jones in South Chester, Pa. Cook &C
cused Jones of invading his home.
Tramps looted the Rock Island Rail
way depot at La Sale, H., securing {
small amount of money.
BY a rise in the river at PittSburs
it is expected that boats with 10,000,00t
bushels of coal will get away for south
ern ports.
The Pendleton, Ind, window glass
factory was sold by the receiver fol
$500. 1t was worth $4,000 when erected
and the receiver valued it at $4,000.
William Donovan was acquitted al
Peoria of the murder of Perry Glover
proving self-defense He was immedi-
ately arrested on a charge of burglary
The City of Mount Pulaski, Ill.,, filled
a well in the street. the water being
claimed by the proprietor of the electric
light plant A lawsuit will be the re-
suit
Edward Duran, Jr, and Miss Emma
Mox were killed by the cars at Carlisle,
Mimi, Saturday evening.
The structure known as the temper
airy bridge connecting the town of East
Hartford with Hartford, Conn. was car
ried away by the ice. Travel on the
bridge had been stopped for seven hours
before it was swept down the stream.
The Southern Baseball League APP
pointed Henry Powers, of New Orleans
and George Stallings, of Nashville, a
committee with power to act to fill the
three vacancies now existing in the
league. This committee will select
Chattanooga, Knoxville and Birming-
ham if they come UP to the require
ments. The salary limit was fixed at
$1,000.
While skating on Lathrop lake, seven
miles west of Denver. Col, Charley
Jones, aged s. fell through an air-hole
in the ice. His brother Robert and sis
ter Maggie, aged u and 20 respectively,
and Ida Ball, aged 16, attempted to
rescue him and all four were drowned.
1t is reported at Vienna that Mustafa
Pasha, commanding a Turkish force,
has captured the town of Zeitoun, which
was some time ago taken by insurgent
Armenians. The report adds that he
massacred all the Armenians in the
Place who did not make their escape to
the mountains.
Funeral services over the remains OF
the late Captain Isaac Bassett, the
veteran doorkeeper of the United States
senate, were held in the First Presby-
terrain church at Washington Sunday
DR.. E. P. Austin, aged IS years, died
at Noblesvlle, Ind. of paralysis.
Henry Meyer died at WATERFOWL.
Wis. of heart trouble. He was II years
of age and had been a resident of that
city forty years.
Alvin Thomas of Thompson, Ala,
dropped dead upon being Informed of
the death of young Wade Edison, who
was shot TO death by SUIT Baldwin at
Fitzpatrick, Ala. Thomas had been a
life-long friend and army comrade of
EGison's f1ther and loved the young
man as a son.
News has heca received at Hot
Springs, Ark, Of the drowning of three
persons in Forchee creek on Thursday.
The dead: Hardage, Ada, sister OF Mrs.
Willard; Willard, Mrs. Tennie, of Bis
march, Mo-. Infant child of Mrs. Whit
ard. The party was attempting to ford
the stream The infants body has been
recovered.
Hester Curtis, an aged widow living
alone in her residence on Oakland Hill.
in Lafayette, Ind, was found dead in
her home, sitting upright in chair with
her skull crushed in and a blood be-
spattered bank book in her lifeless
hand. The motive of the murder was
robbery, no doubt as appearances in
dictate that she had been trying to con-
vince her assailants that all her money
was on deposit in bank.
DR. Hearne, on trial at Bowling
Green, Mo-, for the murder of Amos
Stillwell, was acquitted
Arrangements have been perfected
at Omaha, Neb. for the consolidation
of the Union National Bank and the
American National Bank
Near Georgetown, Ind, ten miles west
of Logansport. Mrs. Mcdowell a widow, 4
GA years old, was probably fatally beat
en- by her 30-year-old son. The son, it
is asserted, asked his mother for S., and
upon her refusal to give it to him he
beat her numerically. She will die.
Residents Of Ashland, KY, Ports
mouth, Ironton and Chambersburg, O.,
viii join in an endeavor to recover
fortune of 100000 due the Pegge
heirs at Philadelphia The claim arises
through the expiration of ninety mine
year lease upon valuable property
granted the city and the claim has been
in litigation since 1892
News has been received from Santa |
Marta, Spain, to the effect that a tidal |
wave has destroyed great part of the
town Many lives were lost Santa
Marta is in the department of Magda-
lena and is the capital of the province.
A tidal wave inundated the same re
gion last December.
Fire in hotel at Bluefield. w. Va.
resulted in monetary loss of $50, 900, |
one mans life. and the severe injury /
Of several others.
Brown & Frost, dry goods dealers of
Sheboygau, Wis, were closed by New
York creditors. Assets, SIS, 900; liza
bilities, $4,000.
John E. Kitzmiller, insurance and
real estate, at Canton, Ohio assigned