Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-07-12
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The federal court grand jury at
KeoSuk found an indictment against
/ 70. r. Cassatt, the Pella bank wrecker.
| At Des Moines recently Editor Clark
son a nd Mayor Hills raided a drug
store land caught the proprietor in the
act OF dispensing beer illegally.
A 1irst-class law school has been Or
gani1ed at Des Moines. Itgivesa thor
ough course, leading to the degree of
LIB. Write P. s. SlcNutt for catalogue
A.t(rney General Remley. during his
arr int in HE college case in the
supSiA couft at Keokul1 recently ex-
pressed i opinion Of immense interest
to almosN every physician in the state.
He said that the state board of medical
examiners. under mistaken idea OF
the law, has for years past signed
certificates to practice, in blank, and
let the secretary afterwards issue them
to applicants, and he had not the least
doubt this action was contrary to
the law Hundreds ofcertifcates have
been issued in this way by the secre-
tarv OF the board.
A wind storm approaching cyclone
and thunderstorm bordering on q
cloudburst travelled through Warren
county a few evenings since, doing
considerable damage. The storm
seems to have traversed a strip OF
country several miles wide and from
twenty to thirty miles in length. The
heaviest individual loss known is that
of R. B. Wadsworth of Summerset.
Fifteen head of prime fat steers.
averaging / 400 pounds weight, were
punched near barbed wire fence.
/ Fourteen of these We're killed. The
| loss is estimated at 5000. Hail fell in
! great quantities over the section and
considerable damage was done to crops
/ and buildings Lightning struck in
! several places.
1 then suicided at Calamus. Brown
| did the shooting with 3s-calibre re-
volver in fit of jealousy. Brown and
! his wife came TO Calamus from Clinton
/ short time ago and he opened up a
barber shop. He was colored. but his
wife was a beautiful white woman,
/ whom he had married about six
! months ago. He comes from a
/ respectable family and was well
thought of. But it was known that he
j was very jealous of his wife and that
! they frequently quarreled as result.
I Last week she threatened to leave him
and this aroused all the ire of his
nature They finally had a quarrel
which eliminated in his drawing a
revolver from his pocket and firing
1 three shots at her Two of them took
effect. one striking her in the jaw, the
other penetrating her thigh Think
ing he had killed ner, he turned the
weapon.on himself and blew out his
brains. Sire rs dead.
An iowa City colored boy was fatally
injured 10y a kick from horse.
Willie Smith has been sent to Ana
Fuosa from West Union on an eight
years sentence, imposed by Judge
4 Faiows. Smith in drunken fight on
thelnight| of December II last, killed
u Andrew Nelson, and "a few days since
1 afteRa t4n days trial. the jury found
him suiltIy Of manslaughter. His co
defendant, Frank Dorland, was also
found lfiity of the same crime. but
the juoge granted him a stay until the
October term. when q motion for {
new trial will be argued.
According to recent Telegram
from Clinton, the police have
arrested William Stewart, a gambler
at Fulton, H.. for firing the Milwau
kee1 & Northwestern depots recently
The case is strong againat him. A few
months ago the depot at Fultor
burned. and Stewarty claimed to have
lost trunk containing 5000 worth o,
goods. He put in similar claim al
this fire. The ashes,of his trunk dis
proved his story of the country. He
crossed the bridge coming to Clinton
three hours before the fire2and did moi
return.