Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-01-17
BREviTIEs.

BREViTIES.
Linsecd Cake Toll neal does not only
keep your stock in good order, but is a
great flesh producer and is now as
cheap as corn. Write Oes Moines Lin
seed Oil Works for pamphlets and
prices.
Des Moincs dispatch: Detectives
arrested nineteen students and the
janitor of the Drake medical school, on
warrants charging them with robbing
graves at Saylorville cemetery and the
county poor farm. The warrant was
sworn out by Don Brendel, steward of
the farm, and the students were
marched in body to the central
station. They were released on $500
bonds each to appear at 2 p. N. January
20, for preliminary hearing.
Sioux City dispatch: Anna Me-
Graw, a waitress at hotel in this
place, is in a fair way to lose her life,
or at least her eyesight, as a result of
a rat bite on the eyelid. The girl was
sleeping in her room at the time the
injury was inflicted. She was suddenly
aroused by a sharp pain over her eye,
and sprang up just in time to see
large rat leap to the floor and vanish
in a corner of the room. The sufferer
was nearly Frustrated by the shock.
Inflammation has set and physicians
fear that blood poisoning will follow.
Wallie j. Mcfarland was shot in
Mike Seery's saloon at Boone few
days ago by Sam Royster. Royster
accused Mcfarland of Illicit relations
with his daughter, and taking out a
3a-calibre revolver shot him five times
before he could be interfered with, one
shot taking effect in the head, one in
the body, and three in the shoulder.
Royster was disarmed and placed in
Jail Mcfarland has been notorious
character here for some years, and
little sympathy is expressed for him.
Mcfarland has since died.
Galesburg, H., dispatch: Three
weeks ago l. W. Pruitt and Emma
Ranney, aged II, from near blooming
ton, were married by justice and
settled here. New Years day Prl,itt
disappeared, taking with him his wifess
trunk and watch and the marriage
license. He was traced to What
Cheer, Iowa, where it is learned he has
a wife and two children. He was, at
the instigation of the Illinois author
tiles. arrested, and will be brought to
Galesburg. 1t is likely that he will be
tried for both larceny and bigamy.
His young wife is in destitute cir
cumStances.
Ghouls have been operating in Des
Moines again. The police found two
bodies in the Drake Medical school, at
513 Mulberry street, that had been
stolen from the Saylorville cemetery,
eight miles north of the city, and
brought to Des Moines to be disposed
of. One body was that of Rachael
Townsend, who lived at COG South
Ninth street, with her son, George
Townsend. She was 20 years old, and
died December 800 lung trouble. She
was buried in Saylorville cemetery,
January i. The other body was that
of Alexander Bell, better known as
Sandy Bell. He was a coal miner
employed by the Oak Park Coal com
pany, and was killed in the mine by a
fall of slate, January 3, and buried in
Saylorvi1le cemetery. A burial slipper
found beside the grave of Mrs. Town
send caused an investigation. Five
cadavers were found at the college.
The faculty claims to know nothing of
the affair.
The Des Moines Bank of Commerce
has made an assignment.
At the session of the State Agricul-
tural Society at Des Moines recently.
John A. Evans, of West Liberty,
was reelected president, and p. T..
Fowler, of Osceola, was again chosen
for secretary. Other officers follow:
Vice president, w. w. Field, Odebolt;
treasurer, G.. D. Ellyson, Des Moines;
directors, j. c. Frasier, of Bloomfield:
IL -. u iShdIu VI Jldi1dn. W. a. w TdfgR,
of Waulee: w. I. Hartman, of
Hampton, and r. j. johnson, of
Humboldt
The remains of the late Judge Geo.
G. Wright were laid to rest at Des
Moines on the 18th. Prominent men
were in attendance from all over the
state.
: Edward Hays, charged with murder
ing his wife, was acquitted at Keolsulz
recently. The court stated that in
view of the fact that the physicians
testified that the death of Mrs. Hays
was caused by carbuncle on the back
of her neck and that in their opinion
the fatal carbuncle was not caused by
the defendant, he would sustain the
i.iotioz TO dismiss.