Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-06-28
BREvITIEs.

Pugilist Fitzsimmons is on trial a
Syracuse, N. Y, for the murder of Con
Riordan, his sparring partner.
In the boat race between the crews
of Harvard, Yale and Columbia at New
London, Conn. the Yale crew won.
The democrats of Kentucky nomina-
ted P. Watkins Hardin for governor
and endorsed the financial policy of
President Cleveland.
The national convention of repub-
ican league clubs, which was held at
Cleveland, Ohio, was a successful
affair. Over 1000 delegates were
present.
w J. Zighurt, who was arrest
ed at Baltimore, Nd, a few days ago,
charged with forgery, embezzlement,
obtaining money under false pretenses
and with violating the banking law
while cashier of the Milligan state
bank, at Milligan, Neb., will go back
to Nebraska without any fuss upon the
arrival of extradition papers.
Rico, Colo, dispatch: Bad blood has
prevailed for some time between the
miners of Rico, Aspen and Enterprise,
three adjoining properties in the San
Juan country A few nights ago the
forces met underground by breaking
away wall that separated the claims
of the rivals. A duel ensued, the
weapons being giant powder cartridges.
Two men were seriously wounded, one
of them having his shoulder torn off
and the other is said to be suffering
from blindness caused by the explosion
Of a missile at close quarters. The
noise of the conflict reached the sur
face, where the superintendent hastily
armed guards and by display of rifles
compelled the cessation of hostilities.
A dispatch states that Kentucky is
soon to enjoy the novelty OF a woman
jury trying the suit of man for
breach of promise against woman.
A few weeks ago w. c. Stivers, a
widower and prosperous farmer of
Garrard county, Instituted proceedings
for damages for breach of promise and
named as defendant Miss Catharine
West, a school teacher of 25 years. He
averred that he had proposed and been
accepted and that even the day of the
wedding had been set when she re-
fused to fulfill her contract. Plaintiff
Stivers promises to introduce love let
tiers to support his case. The judge
before whom the case will be tried is
M. c. Sanfey, of the Garrard circuit
bench. Judge Sanfley says he will try
the case before a woman jury, which
he can do under the new constitution.
Judge Sanfley says if he is unable to
obtain a jury in Garrard county he
will send to Mercer county for one.
He believes the plaintiff will secure as
fair treatment as woman would be-
fore man jury.
Chicago dispatch: Receiving Teller
Birch, for the West Chicago street-rail-
way at Armitage avenue car barns,
| Der early in the morning, dying few
accounts at the time. The man
| GSCdpCo W i0li oliO LJS dlAiouhb
is not known as yet.
Barboursville, KY, dispatch: G. Loeb
and his wife, Julia, Hebrew peddlers,
were murdered in Harlem county
| between Harlem Court House and
Harrogate, Tenn, by six masked men.
Robbery was the only cause. The
| murderers have not yet been captured.
At Rochester, N. Y, recently Fore
| man Frank e. Grover, of the Rochester
! Gas and Electric Company, leaned
against dynamo at the power-house
and nearly lost his life, almost 5000
volts passing through his body. Grover
was seen to fall writing to the floor,
| the current was turned off and doctor
was summoned. Grover was apparently
dead, but three of his co-laborers, who
knew the peculiarities of electricity,
set to work to resusticate him under
the direction of the doctor. They
worked for forty-fve minutes before
there was any sign of returning life.