Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-06-05
BREVITiES.

Geo. Lewis, who killed Sam Porter
field at MuchakinociS, has been held to
the grand jury without bonds.
Frank I. Campbell, ex-railroad com
missioner, has been announced as a
candidate before the republican state
convention fer a second term.
At Marshalltown recently suffer
ing life was ended when Thomas c..
McMillen, aged about as, committed
suicide by hanging himself with a
clothes line from a grape arbor, south
Of his home. Mcmillan was blind
man: with wife and little daughter.
The little boy who had led him in his
travels about town had recently left
him.
At Oskaloosa recently Master Ernest
Motif, years old and Charlie Thomas,
70 years old, were playing with a re-
volver, when it was accidentally dis
charged. The bali struck Motif in
the eye and lodged in the brain or
skull, the location being uncertain.
The attending physician thought it
best not to probe for the bali and they
believe the boy will live.
Des Moines dispatch: The total
damage of the recent cyclone which
passed across Polk county and into
Jasper county. as near as can be
figured from complete reports, is
$50, coo. This does not include the
crops and many other matters Of minor
Importance now, which will eventually
bring the money loss up to 500, 600.
There We're cighty-two homes damaged
by the storm, some of them completely
swept away while others suffered
from loss in the barn and other out
buildings. The latest news shows
that the storm began four miles in
Dallas county, SO that its path was
forty miles long, extending from four
and one-haif miles northwest of
Granger, in Dallas county, to tine little
town OF Ira, in Jasper county. A cor
rected list of the killed is as follows:
Near Bondurant, Mrs Robert Bailie,
Joseph Baltic, Lizzie Bailie, John
Battle; near Ilkhart, James Maxwell;
a Santiago, Peter Boilenhaugh. Mrs.
Bollen baugh, Theopulus Milburn: at
Yaleria, Chas. Phelan, Mrs. Chas,
Phelan, Cllas Phelan. Jr,; Susie Phe-
Ian, Daniel Phelan, Michael Phelan,
Nellie Phelan; near Mingo. Lucretia
Whitney. Martha Dicllcy, Mrs. Shell,
baby of D. Atkins. The list of injured
numbers about thirty.
In the supreme court few days age
the cases of John Hammil and
| George Weems We're decided on the
application for rehearing. 1t was
ruled by the court that the rehearing
| will not be granted, and it now re.
mains for the governor to fix the day
for their execution or to commute
their sentences to life imprisonment
The governor will probably do the
latter, as he is Of the opinion that the
murder was not premeditated and
should be punishable only by the
degree of the intention to kill that the
accused had in the act IN contemplation
Des Moines dispatch: Suit has beer
| commenced in the district court by
John Il. Prime, ex-adjutaut general
backed by the officers of the Third
| regiment. + n. g., against Gov. Drake
and Adjutant General II. II. Wright
TO force them to issue a commission t
Prime as brigadier general command
ing the first brigade, Second and Thirc
regiments. Prime was elected Marcel
- by eleven votes, bat General Wrigh
has refused TO canvass The votes. *
force action. the snir is commenced
not SO much by General Prime as b,
| the Third regiment officers