Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-03-01
CONDENSED ITEMS.

| The first annual convention of the
Iowa Liberal League was held in Dav-
/ export on the 2Sth, with an attendance
1 of about thirty. Its object is the re-
| peal of the present prohibitory and
mulct laws, and the enactment of
| well regulated license law.
/ AT Fort Dodge recently, the plaster
mill operated by the Duncombe stucco
company and owned by ]. f. Duncombe
1 was burned to Ike. ground. The origin
| of the fire is unknown. The loss Is
| over $50, 600; insurance. $4,000. The
mill will be rebuilt Immediately.
The Anheuser Brewing Association, of
| st. Louis, has 4 large beer distributing
ware house in Cedar Rapids for Central
Iowa. An action has been filed in the
superior court asking that it be abated
as nuisance and the beer seized and
destroyed. 1t is alleged that-shipments
| in ear lots or less are in contravention
of the prohibitory law.
! Burglars forced an entrance into the
! First National bank of Griswold. They
! opened the vault door with explosives,
| drilled inside to the time lock safe,
| placing in it charge, lit the fuse and
closed the vault door. The charge
| proved SO heavy that it wrecked the
vault, safe and building to the extent
of nearly S4, 600 The report from the
explosion of the safe was so great that
| the robbers made a hasty departure,
| but not before securing nearly $500 in
| stamps belonging to the postmaster
and $50 in small change inside the
| vault door for safekeeping. The small
inner safe contained $4,000, but it
cannot be learned if this was stolen
| until the great mass of wreckage is re-
moved. a large posse is in pursuit of
| the robbers, who are supposed to be
professionals Later, the inner safe
was found to be intact and the contents
safe.
Emmettsburg dispatch: Marks Muir
| ray. aged "a, was run over by stock
train on the Milwaukee road. After
| the conductor had reached Algona he
wired the station agent here that he
thought he had run over something
| just as he was leaving this station.
!! The agent started east, and just out
| side the yard found the lifeless body of
Murray nearly severed in twain and
with both hips crushed. Coroner
Henry was sent for, who impanneled
| jury consisting OF c. e. Coborn, James
Burns and Fred Scott, who held an in
quest and returned verdict that Muir
ray came to his death by attempting
to board train while in motion, and
falling was run over by the trucks of
the caboose and instantly killed. An
| other young man from this place
| named Dan Galliger, was on the same
train, and fell off near Cylinder, the
first station east, and had one leg
| broken and received other serious IN
juries. Galliger will recover.
| The stock OF the Lyons Cooperative
| Association at Clinton has been
levied upon to satisfy the claims
| of the T. NJ. Gobble Co., wholesale
grocers By this failure nearly 500
| people lose all their savings, which
they had been induced to put into the
| concern. The association was organ,
lied by the local knights of Labor, in
! July, 1887. with an authorized capital
of 81 ZOO, ooo, of which S35, 900 was paid
up in cash. Thomas Agell was made
manager of the company. For the
] first three years generous dividends
1 were paid, which had the effect of
/ selling much additional stock. The
movers worked principally among the
less informed class of people, and poor
| washer-women, farmers and day labor
/ ers, gave up their hard-earned money
| for shares Four stores were opened
in Lyons and two in Clinton. The
/ company had been buying land for the
/ erection of mammoth warehouses.
/ built big brick blocks and did business
on a grand scale generally. 1t was
/ hera1ded throughout the country as
| shining example of the success of the.
| cooperative plan of buying goods
| Poor investments and bad manage
/ lnent wrecked it and the assets now
| will hardly reach $4,000.
| &c. MOUNT. a prominent Mason and
| Odd Fellow of Guthrie Center, living
on ranch near Barela. y. NJ. for his
health, was fatally beaten and robbed
/ by four Meyicans. The robbers were
/ arrested.
sigourney dispatch: Joe Harmed,
/ agent of the c., NJ. & St. P. railway at
| Hayesyille, was held up by masked
| robber just as he was stepping out of
1 the Office for the night and relieved of
1 s42. The thief secured farmers sad
/ die horse that was tied near the station,
rode out half mile, left the horse go
and made good his escape on foot.
Stuart dispatch: The case of George
| Laird against the c., r. 1. & P. r. r.
| Co. which has attracted so much at
| tention in these parts of late, came to
| an end in the Guthrie county district
court, by the jury returning a verdict
for the plaintiff, fixing his damages at
1 $40. 600. Mr. Laird was an engineer
! on the Rock Island. pulling the way
] freight from Des Moines to Stuart, and
in February last, was injured in col
/ lision between Des MONIES and Valley
! Junction, his train colliding with an
/ engine running east on the north
| track. Mr. Laird's injuries are said to
be total and permanent.