Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-08-14
BREvITIES.

Osborn Bros, Iyerymen and stock
dealers living at Anamosa, have
failed for S3l 900, An attachment has
been issued against them and their
father, David Osborn, in favor of L..
Schoonover.
In an alteration at the Dubuque
race track recently, Harry Sayre
shot jockey named Hugh Penny
The latter is seriously wounded but it
is thought he will recover. Sayre is
from Middleport. Ohio. with several
horses.
At Waterloo recently Judge Toler-
ton filed the order of the court sus-
pending the petition of habeas corpus
in the Scott case and remanding the
prisoner to the insane asylum. Scott,
accom- panied by Sheriff Law and Mrs.
Scott. was taken to Independence.
Virgil Woody, a young man living
FIVE miles east of Monroe, recently
waylaid his brother Charley in
the barn. and when the latter arrived
home between II and IL o'clock at
night he shot him, the bail taking
effect in his hand. Charley then ran
for the corn field, his brother giving
CHASE and firing three more shots at
! him. none taking effect. He then
placed the revolver to his head and
sent shot through his brain. He
died few hours later without regain
'rlora i'll
feeling between the brothers over a
girl in Monroe The girl had given
Virgil the cold shoulder. and had been
out riding with the successful brother
which led to the above result.
Oskaloosa dispatch: A fatal wreck
occurred on the Rock Island railroad a,
! Leighton ten miles west of here Six
men were killed, 200 sheep and hogs
slaughtered and five cars completely
demolished The track was tore ul
! for distance of 200 feet. There were
/ eight men who boarded the train al
| Des Moines. Two Of them are coloreC
and these two escaped uninjured
They withhold their names and say
they positively do not know the deaC
/ men. Five of the men were killed in
| stantly, the sixth surviving in an un
| conscious state for about three hours
| The dead men were Thomas Leyton
| Edward Carey. Robert Carey, William
| kremer, William Shea and an un
known man They were stealing !:
ride to Chicago The train was made
/ up of four cars of live stock, nine o.
| dressed beef and one of furniture
Nine cars were ditched, the engine
| FIVE cars and the caboose remaining OF
| the track The train was running a
/ the rate of fifty miles an hour and Thu
shock was terrific. The wheel tina
| caused the trouble was thrown ovel
! 200 feet from where it came off
Though the axle had been in bat
shape for long time, it had escaped
| the Inspector notice, as it had wori
smooth and did not show up.
! The democrats of the Ninth low;
| congressional district nominated Loui
| 7. Genung, of Hastings, for congress
and reaffirmed the Chicago platform.
At Cedar Rapids recently, whit
drunk, an old soldier named Goldsmith
started out TO make trouble. He me
John Cain, druggist at Palo, ant
offered to shake hands. They hat
had difficulty lately and Cain refused
him his hand, whereupon lie strucl
Cain over the head with club
fracturing his skull and inficting
dangerous wound. Goldsmith as
saulted another man, who resisted
thre wGoldsmith down and broke tw'
of his ribs.
Grinnell dispatch: Aa extra freigh
train, east bound, broke in two in tn,
dip between Grinnell and Malcolm. OF
the Rock Island, and twelve cars wer,
piled up in the ditch. The acciden
was caused by the detached rear sec
ton running into the head end with
force that sent the cars tumblin
around over the right of way in tn
most promiscuous fashion. The onl
casualty was that which happened {
Brakeman Willy. who emerged fror
the mix-up with sprained ankle an
a ruffied temper The wreck blocke,
the main line during the night