Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-03-27
BREVlTIES.


Indictments have been found against
the Cohens, of La Porte and Waterloo.
They are charged with incendiarism
and an attempt to defraud the insur-
ance companies.
The grand jury Of Poweshiek county
has returned an indictment charg-
ing Richard Rowe with being an
accessory to the embezzlenent of the
county funds. and fixing the bond at
$40, 200.
Muscatine dispatch: Adam Won
dresky. saloonkeeper at Durant, was
arrested in connection with the dyna-
mite outrages in 1898. He was placed
in Jail here and later was discovered
just as he was about to hang himself.
The State University, of Iowa City,
has recently received another collec-
ton of types of species of hydroids
from Harvard. Curator Nutt1ng says
Iowa has now the largest collection of
hydroids in the world and bewails the
lack of a fre-proof building to contain
these valuable specimens.
At Des Moines recently Charles and
Henry Wilcox went to the photograph
gallery of 0. E. Pearson and got into a
dispute with the proprietor about bill
they owed him. In an alteration
which ensued Pearson was pushed
down a fight of stairs, when his
skull was crushed, resulting in death
few hours later.
Waterloo dispatch: The Equitable
Produce and Stock Exchange, OF
Chicago, wired their manager in
Waterloo, j. P. Albert, informing him
that their local agent at Cedar Falls,
p Kirkpatrick, was short in his ac-
counts about $4,000, and to have him
arrested at once kirkpatrick had
been in Waterloo, but has since dis,
appeared.
At Jefferson recently Judge Elwood
sentenced John Flecll, the father, and
George, the son, attacking parties in
| the terrific attack on the Brown family
at Patton, January %, to five years
and two and one-half years respec-
lively in the penitentiary. Evidence
! developed thar young Fleck. after the
melee and after he had been shot in
/ the back and pounded with a stick of
cord wood. passed through the pasture
and knocked over Browns daughter
with her milking stool.
A young boy applied to Marshal
| Rhodes at Creston recently and asked
protection, claiming that he had been
forcibly detained by a gang of tramps
who had forced him to beg for them
or be beaten. He said his name wa
Leo Coyne, and that his parents resided
in Omaha, his father being Waterman
at the Union Pacific shops. The mar
shall gave him the requested protection
| and arrested several members of the
! gang Leo was sent to his parents
and he seemed glad to go.
The bruised and mangled body of
Loren Berg, a Swede laborer, was found
under "a railway trestle near Alton
! Junction, by Dan Boyer, a track man.
Berg had fallen sixty-eight feet from a
! Chicago Great Western trestle and was
instantly killed, his neck being broken
and his face badly disfgured. Nothing
4 is known about the dead mans rela-
tives or friends. In his pocket was a
| broken bottle which had contained
alcohol and it is thought the man was
under the influence of liquor when he
fell. 1t is supposed his death resulted
| at once.
! At Ladora a few nights ago Robbers
with dynamite blew INTO fragments the
| time lock on the safe in the banking
house of Whit1ock q Fields, and got
away with about $1,000, divided as
/ follows: 500 IN FIVE cent pieces, 500
in quarters, 500 in fifty cent pieces,
$500 in silver Of larger Reorganization,
taken a nd car Of the s excent s here s
mia !. from The. Il