Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-21
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J. C. Yetzer, of Atlantic, is again il
jail, having been surrendered by hi.
! bondsmen.
S. M. Smith, n nurseryman, was
killed by f. Kirby, farmer, at Mount
Sterling, the result of quarrel over
money matters.
f. Nj. Hubbell has submitted 9
proposition to the city council OF
Dies Moines offering to build q
fine union depot if the city will vacate
Sixth and Seventh streets and the
alleys between from Cherry street to
the alley south. If this is done he will
commence work early in the spring.
Henry Rohr and Constable Claus
sen returned to Manning recently from
trip to the Wiese farm, where young
Wiese, the man in jail at Carroll for
the murder of Ben Levich, lives. They
found $1,000 in a hay stack about ten
rods from the house. A Russian coin
was one of the pieces. The mother of
Wiese now believes that her son is
guilty and has sent him letter asking
him to confess.
A Waterloo dispatch says: Fidol. the
great racing stallion, owned at Cedar
Falls, is dead, from an attack of
gastritis, from which he has been
suffering for several weeks. The
owners of the horse, Rivenberg & Son,
had an offer of $14, 900 for him last
summer Fidol had reduced his record
yearly until in 1895 the mark of 2:044
was reached. He began racing in 1892
and got mark of 2:26I.
Des Moines dispatch: Represen
tative Temple, of Clarke, has introduced
constitutional amendment in the
house to give every county in the state
representative in the general
assembly The measure is the result
of demand from the unrepresented
counties in the state, and was for1nu-
lated after thorough canvass of the
situation. The changing from the
present principles of representation
based upon population to one based
upon county boundary lines has never
come up in the legislature before.
Nine counties now have two represen-
tatives. They are Polk, Lee, Linn,
Clinton, Pottawattamie, Woodbury.,
Scott, Des Moines and Dubuque.
Fifteen counties are represented by
seven members. OF those Dickinson,
Emmett and Osceola have but one
member. 1t is these alleged irreg-
ularties the amendment proposes to
equalize. Seventy-fve counties have
one representative each. Temples
bill provides that each county shall
have one representative, but that Polk
shall have two.
At Centerville a days ago Jesse
Jones. a young man about 90 years of
age, went to the home of WI. Martin,
the county coroner, at about p. M,
and asked to see Miss Lea Martin, the
daughter of the family. He had been
keeping company with her for some
time, but recently they had had some
misunderstanding between them. The
girl stepped into the parlor, and almost
Immediately the family heard two
shots and the scream of the young
lady. Mrs. Martin, the girls mother,
at once rushed into the room and was
at once shot down. Jones then fled
from the house, but had gone scarcely
block when he turned his revolver on
himself, sending bullet into his
brain, which stretched him lifeless in
the street. The two women are not
dead but it is hardly possible that they
can live. Jones had been rather wild
and dissipated for several years. Both
Miss Martin and her mother are
dead. Miss Lea was shot in the fore
head and bosom and her mother in the
neck. Jones left note saying that
Lea had gone back on him. and he
did not care to live any longer. He
was a cigarette smoker.
In the trial of Ray Van Tassell, going
on at New Hampton, for poisoning
his wife, the judge decided his con-
fession could not be introduced, as he
was under duress when it was made.
al Bull and a man named Morello
have been taken in charge at Sheldon
for the murder of Maud Strawn. They
were seen at the Winters home on the
day she is supposed to have died. 1t
is believed that Bull, who had been
seen with the girl several times, got
her confde ncc and that the two men
attempted her ruin by administering
drug.
A well-dressed stranger, giving his
name as A. S. Cutter, had been in
Burlington for several days. In time
he ingratiated himself at the Office of
the Burlington Candy Company, whom
he induced to endorse a check for $50,
signed by Leroy & Son, On the New
York Chemical Bank He also per-
suaded the landlord at his hotel to
cash another of the same firms checks
for S2s. Sc, which the clerk had refused
to receive, and of whom he made com
plant in such a gentlemanly manner
as to completely deceive the host. He
has since skipped and there are no
traces.