Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-04-05
CONDENSED ITEMS.

Des Moines is studying whether or
not to go ahead with public improve
ments this year.
A malignant form of scarlet fever
has broken out in Angus and many
families are afflicted with the dis
ease. The schools have been closed
and the families having the fever
have been subjected to rigid quaran-
tine regulations.
Ten indictments have been returned
by the grand jury against young men
for illegal voting at the last mu-
nicipal election at Ottumwa. The
republicans claim that the Fourth
ward was colonized against them, and
have procured what they allege to be
certain proof which will convict those
indicted About twenty more are
expected to follow.
At Waterloo recently the trial of
Charles Adams, of Lester township,
Black Hawk county, for murder of his
uncle. Stephen Howard, on the 18th of
last November, ended with verdict of
manslaughter. Howard was 20 years
old and Adams is 40. They had quar-
relied over some calves and Howard
went to Adams barn and in the quarrel
Towards head and face were pounded
to jelly. Adams claimed self-defense
and said Howard assaulted him first.
A most atrocious butchery occurred
at Clinton. Sometime during the night
August Swanson had taken an old
Ratchet and chopped off the head Of
his 7-year-old son Albert. The murder
er showed great deliberation in his
crime, he having taken the boy up
stairs and barred the door. A board
had been showed obliquely across the
bed under the bedding; it was on this
that he lay his sons head while he
hacked it off, there We're evidences of a
struggle, although the little fellow
could not make much of struggle
against his powerful father After
committing the deed the murderer left
the house from an upstairs window
and escaped The family consisted of
the father and three children, the wife
having died a short time ago. The
crime was not discovered until the two
children went to a neighbours for
something to eat. They told that
their father had not yet got up. An
investigation was then started and the
horrible discovery made. Absorption
of ha 1r-Ia cant in
direction, and later Swanson was
AZ pretended at Clarence. in Cedar
county, about sixty miles west of
Clinton. Swanson is fifty years of age
and was a widower of but few
months Fifteen years ago he attempted
suicide by cutting his throat, but was
saved. He was then put in an asylum,
from which ne was discharged short
time later as cured.
Ottumwa dispatch: Twenty-Five
hundred miners in Appanoose county,
employed by the operators not sign
ing the Ottumwa agreement, have quit
work as was expected because of failure
of the operators toagree to the miners
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expected. The operators, it is believed,
will shut down and quit business.
Nearly every mine in Boone district is
closed down, with the possible ex-
ception of the miners at Incline and
Frazer, owned by the Lower Vein Coal
and Railway Company and the Boone
Valley Coal and Railway Company
The goth is said to have been the
hottest March day the Mississippi
Valley has ever known. In Iowa,
Illinois, Ohio and Nebraska the
thermometer indicated 81 and So de-
grees
At Cedar Rapids recently f. Scoler,
an italian fruit dealer, fred three
bullets into the clothing of Bern Mills,
a brakeman, but miraculously none
took effect. Mills approached the
fruit stand and asked for q match,
when the Italian, who claims he was
abusive, began firing Eye witnesses
deny there was any provocation.