Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-01-11
CONDENSED ITEMS.

family Of w. Clark. The house is quar-
/ antined.
1 A decree has been entered in court
in suit for AUDITING damages against
| the elevated road at Sioux City
! which is in accordance with a
| supreme court decision to the effect
that an elevated road is not street
railroad and the builders are liable for
! abutting damages. 1t requires that
the damages assessed by the jury be
paid in twenty-five days, and, failing.
the sheriff is ordered to remove the
track. The road belongs to the King
Bridge company and the decision
requires that it pay abutting damages
for over a mile on Third street. The
assessment was at the rate of $500 for
every lot of sixty feet front on the
street
The Jasper county district court has
adjourned The grand jury brought
in two indictments against County At
torney E. j. Salmon. one for keeping
a gambling house and one for oppres-
sion in office. and also proceedings
court made an order suspending Mr..
salmon from office and ordered that
the board of supervisors appoint an
other county attorney, and that such
attorney proceed to remove Mr.. Salmon
from Office permanently. This was
quite q surprise to most OF the people
of the county: but it is said the cause
of Mr.. Salmon's trouble has been an
open secret for some time to those on
the inside.
1t is said that J. c. Hubinger, a
scheme which will reyolutionize the
affairs of Hancock county, III. He
says that if the city will grant him
contract to light Keokuk with cleo
tricity for twenty years he will agree
TO build high bridge to extend from
Fourth street in keolull to the Illinois
bluff at Hamilton, over a mile distant
the bridge to cost 100000. He will, II
properly encouraged, put a railroad
track on this bridge and run an electric
car line across on it, extending the
lines to Carthage, Warsaw. El Naston,
and Nauvoo. in Hamilton county. H.,
thus giving those towns splendid
freight. mail and passenger service and
also supply them with heat and light.
Ex-Congressnan Walt II. Butler
passed through Cedar Rapids on
his way from indianapolis, where
he was discovered in the employ
Of a book publishing house as can
vasscr, to Vinton, where his wife now
is. Mr.. Butler, speaking IN reference
TO his disappearance, said he was sur
prised when he found himself on
train entering Indianapolis on the
morning of November "a. Being
almost Pennies he concluded to seek
employment. and Immediately wrote
his wife a letter. informing her where
he was. what he intended doing, and
requesting her to say nothing about
his present whereabouts He was per-
fectly rational when he reached In
dianapolls, but did not know why he
went there. lie could not account for
his strange lapse of memory. His last
recollection was teaching the Normal
school at Oelwein, though from there
is void Mr.. Butler said he could
not appreciate that there had been
break in the continuity of his mind.
He does not feel that he has any enc
mics who would do him violence or
take his life. Previous to his disap-
pearance he had been overworked and
worried over financial matters, but he
did not feel that he was threatened
with nervous prostration and thought
he could have stood additional work if
necessary. Mr.. Butler appeared to be
in excellent health, both physically
and mentally. He has not decided on
consideration.
Address The News, Des Moines,
Iowa, enclosing this notice and fifty
cents and you will receive the Twice
a-Weel< News one year.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
J. 5. Clarkson has an interest in the
San Francisco Call, which has just
been sold TO syndicate representing
Claus Spreckels, the millionaire sugar
magnate.
The boiler room of the Fordville
Coal rorpoauy-s: rr1ina at Ford recent lv
caught FIRE and the boiler was blown
about 200 yards. All of the framework
and elevators burned Engineer Baily
was bruised, but not seriously injured.
The loss is estimated at about Sd 900.
It will throw about fifty men out of
employment.
Recently at Dubuque, Judge Hustled,
of the district court, filed his decision in
the case of the A. o. U. w. grand
lodge of Iowa. The suit was brought
to enioin defendant from using the
name A. o. L w. and from transact
ing insurance and other business. The
Judge holds that the defendant is not
secret fraternal society, but is life
insurance company. Defendants de-
murrer to plaintiffs petition is there
fore overruled and plaintiffs demurrer
to second and third counts of defend
ants answer is sustained. Defendant
will appeal.
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