Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-31
BREviTIEs.

Congressman Curtis of the Second
district has been rel nominated
Tenth district republicans renomi-
mated Congre ssman Deliver.
A mass convention of silver voters
met at LeMars and nominated Judge
Van Wagenen for congress to contest
with Congressman Perkins.
The Iowa College of Law. at Des
Moines, seems to be growing faster
than any other law school, and is to
have a new building this year. Neat
catalogues have been prepared by the
secretary, Prof. P. S. McNutt. Get one.
Ii. l.. Grimes, of the firm of
Grimes & Grimes. of Derby, doing a
general store business, was struck
by lightning recently and instantly
killed while on his way home to supper.
His life was insured for $1,000, part of
it taken ont but two or three days
since.
The North and South American
Transportation Company has re-
Gently filed articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state and Polk
county recorder J. H. Penning-
ton, of Maine, and H. s. Wickes, of
Chicago, are the incorporators. The
capital stock is $4,000, 900, and its
issuance is conditioned upon the
transfer of certain valuable contracts
and concessions from South American
republics now held or to be secured by
Col. Pennington. The company is
incorporated for twenty years. 1t is
understood to be the first step toward
north and south railway to connect
with some gulf harbor, but the incor-
porators are reticent.
Dubuque dispatch: j. c. Longueville,
attorney for Eckerlebe, waived further
examination of the accused, and the
prisoner will now remain in custody
until the September term of court. A
posse Of forty men had planned to go
out to Andrew and lynch the prisoner.
BY some Misunderstanding the leaders
and others did not meet the party at
the spot designated and the plan
failed. This aroused the authorities
and Eckerlebe was at once removed to
the Anamosa penitentiary. Public
opinion at Bellevue and vicinity is now
almost unanimously against the pris-
oner, and is daily increasing. There
is also feeling against one of the
girls brothers, who at the time acted
strangely, and while the sheriff and
Mr.. Longueville do not place much
confidence in this rumor, still it may
create enough feeling to warrant an
investigation before the trial takes
place. The man Murphy, to whom
Eckerlebe confessed, is not detective,
but tramp charged with assault
with intent to commit great bodily
injury.
Upon learning Of the death of Gen.
Geo. W. Jones, Gov. Drake directed
that flags upon all public buildings be
placed at half mast.
Cherokee dispatch: James Mahoney,
who made such desperate attempt on
the life of Mary Kane at Aurelia, has
| been bound over to the grand jury in
the sum of S., 600 AS he cannot give
he bond he will lie in Jail at this
place until court convenes in Septem
Der. 1t is thought that Mahoney will
plead guilty to the charge and accept
sentence as the best way of getting
| out of the affair. The girl has entire
~ recovered from the wounds.
The superior court of Cedar Rapids
holds that the cigarette law is consti-
tutional thus joining issues with the
| federal court at st Paul.
Daisy Dorian, who eloped with Rev.
Scott, of Waterloo, says Scott did not
! ask her to run away with him, but
that she proposed it herself
Deputy United States Marshal Rich
ards arrested three men Winterset and
took them to Des Moines. They are
Claud L. Chase, Cliff Clanton and John
Clark, and they are charged with blow
ing open the safe in the Winterset
postotfice May %. 1895, and stealing
$500 worth OF money and stamps