Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-01-25
CoNpESsED ITEMS.

of the city of TT. Madison, recently
Myrtle Townsend, aged Is; Elsi,
Hughes, 10, and George Crossley, 10
broke the ice and We're drowned. TIL,
bodies We're recovered.
Chief of Police Van Devere arrived
in 0ttumwa recently from Moberly will
| Bateman, one of the alleged train rob
bers. He will be kept IN the county
| Jail until his trial. So positive are the
| officers that Ely is his associate that
the Burlington road has offered an adj.
ditional $500 reward for his capture.
4 a few days ago man named Bate.
man was arrested at Moberiy, Mo-, for
the recent train robbery az Ottumwa.
The officers are in hot pursuit of a man
named Ely. The evidence is strong.
| The men were ex-brakemen on the
| Wabash railway running into Ottum-
wa, They had been ont of jobs for
some time.
Cottage, a hamlet IN Hardin county.
| northwest of Eldora, has organized a
vigilance committee for mutual protec-
ton. The farmers in that vicinity
have been troubled for some time past
by raids on their graneries and bee
barns resulting in considerable loss in
the way of grain and poultry The
committee will cpdeavor to stop the
depredations and. il possible, appre-
bend and capture the raiders. Local
talent may receive rough treatment
by this band of determined men,
Agnes Cummings, a typewriter of
Denver, has sprung into notoriety at one
bound in Hamilton county by bringing
suit IN the district court for $4,000
damages against j. c. Billings. one of
the wealthy men in Webster City, for
breach of promise. Mr.. Billings was
in Denver in April, 1892 At that time
he was smitten with the charms of
Agnes, SO the papers in the case read,
and promised to marry her. She
thinks She has waited reasonable
length of time, and with true Colorado
grit she is going to get a wealthy hus-
band now or know the reason why.
At Independence recently Samuel
Anderson. OF the grocery firm of An
derson & Sawyer, beat his wife, aged
about 40, with a hatiron until She was
lnsensible, breaking her nose and
cheek bone and fracturing her skull, 1
finally cutting her throat from ear to
ear, but not seyering the wind pipe
he then cut his own throat with
razor, dying soon after. The awful
deed was committed in their bed room,
and. the bedding and room were covered
with blood The couple stayed all
night at the home of his partner and |
Mr.. Sawyer, but went home
early in the morning. Anderson had |
been acting strangely for some time.
He was man OF about 60. His wife
was formerly a dressmaker. They had
been married but six weeks.
Sioux City dispatch: The sensational
move of the Rev. j. ". Mahood, of
Sioux City, who appeared in police
court recently to testify against dis
women, has been followed
BY another on his part He has pre-
erred with the mayor charges against
he Bijou variety theater, on which the
,lace has been ordered closed. Now
ne is after the saloon men, and says he
las enough evidence to close half the
saloons in the city and secure iniunc-
ions to prevent them reopening. He
proposes to enforce the Martin liquor
aw in all its details; and is backed by
he Ministerial associa ton. The police
rave declared they cannot enforce the
aw nor the orders of the mayor about
Keeping disreputables out of town.
'lr. Mahood says it can be done and
las set about it IN a way that indicates
hat he knows what he is talking
bout. He will demand that every
aloon be compelled to remove card
ables, cards. screens and to use onlv
me room, with only one entrance.
In case against 0. r. Miller and
theirs, charged with maintaining a
quor nuisance at Angus, in Boone
ounty, the jury in the district
ourt brought in a verdict which prac-
ically makes illegal all the saloons in !
he county. Miller was running
aloon under the mulct law bar, petit
ion containing the names of two-thirds
the voters of the county outside OF ;
'oone having been filed with the audi
Or as required by law. Judge Bird
Ill in his charge to the jury. said the
etition was insufficient if it did not
i've the date when each signature was
lade and the voting precinct of each
gner. As many of the names on this
etition did not contain these points,
lie jury found these defendants guilty
5 charged. Ii the ruling is correct,
not only makes illegal all the saloons
Boone county outside of the city Of
Done, but those inside as well, for the ;,
Done county petition is open to the
me objections. There is consterna-
on among the thirteen saloon keepers Y
Boone: who have been paying a h
cense of 81, 800 per year, as well as {,
nong those in Madrid, Ogden and a
ngus. An effort will be made by g,
ZEN at once to secure new petitions s.
it'll these objections overcome ei
i. w. LAWN. arrested at Indian
a few days ago for larceny
I'd placed in Jail, escaped, having had y
cess to large poker, with which he
'nched hole in the br;c2a vail large
ough to crawl through. He had ci
eaded not guilty to the Indictment X