Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-06-26
eREvlTIEs.
County Auditor Jas. Green, of At
iantic: is dead;

recently surprised two men en-
deavoring to gain an entrance TO the
vault of a bank They opened fire on
him with revolvers. He returned fire,
seriously wounding one and intlicting
u bad wound on the other, who
escaped to the woods. He says he will
not be taken alive. Evidence found
on the person of the man seriousl,
wounded proves him to be a noted
criminal.
Jno. Logan, the haclSman of Colon,
got into a fight few days ago
with his stepson Ed, which came near
resulting in tragedy. Becoming en-
ragged the old man grabbed the boy by
the head and with his pocket knife
slashed his left face from ear to chin,
laying wide the jaw bone. An Oska-
loosa physician was called and found
it necessary to take twenty stitches to
sew up the wound. Though an ugly
wound, the doctor says the fellow will
recover.
At Walnut recently fire, supposed to
be of incendiary origin, destroyed if-
teen business houses, the entire east
side of the main street being con-
sumed. The loss on buildings alone is
estimated at about $15, 900, while the
loss on merchandise swells the total to
about $50, 900 The buildings destroyed
con-ist of the postoffice, Bluhm & He'll,
man saloon, Mick's restaurant and
bakery, Mrs. Griffith's millinery store,
Flesens meat market, Voss' shoe shop,
Moritzs butcher shop, Howard's bill
lizard hall, Peters billiard hail. Enl1e's
saloon, Enlze's tailor shop, Grant, &
Gloe's agricultural implement ware
house and office, Seiffert s. Wise's lum
Der office, and two ice houses contain
ing about 200 tons of ice belonging to
the local butcher shops.
Two convicts, Dunn and Ryan, who
escaped from Anamosa penitentiary,
have been captured. When their
escape was discovered large force of
guards, under the personal supervision
of Warden Madden, were set watching
the cross roads for miles around where
they were supposed to be in hiding.
About 10 o. clock at night a guard who
was watching one of the cross roads
saw in the darkness two men approach
ing and called to them to throw up
their hands and halt, at the same time
giving signal for the other guards
that were in hailing distance. Ryan
gave himself up. but before the other
guards could get there Dunn had
in the rain and darkness. The
next morning, however, Dunn was
overhaule6 and captured, although he
had been to a farm house and
demanded and received some citizens
clothes.
Atlantic dispatcn: After most
desperate legal fight of nearly two
years, from the time sentence was
upon j. G. Yetzer, presi-
dent of the defunct Cass county bank,
he has been taken to Fort Madison to
serve sentence of five years, upon the
charge of fraudulent banking. The
appeal to the supreme court delayed
his being taken until April, when they
affirmed the decision of the lower
court. His attorney asked that re-
hearing be given, on the ground that
one of the states lawyers was seen
taking drinks with juryman: also
that owing to his extreme age and
physical condition they reconsider
their decision and let him spend his
few remaining days with his family.
This gave him nearly three months
more outside, the penitentiary walls;
but finally word came that a rehearing
would not be granted At the time,
he was in bed with acute intlammatory
The district Judge, upon
certificate of the attending physician,
the sheriff to take him and
deliver him at Fort Madison in two
weeks; but his bondsmen gave him up,
md he was taken away, much to the
surprise of many of his friends. 1t
vas pitiful sight, as he had to be
carried to the train, and a physician
accompanied him.
Joseph Kasper was arrested at &C.
lar Rapids recently on a charge of
lttering a forged note in the sum of
s105. He has been held in bonds of
81 900 for preliminary hearing.
At Abel recently VIM. Barroll, one
If the oidestresidents of the place, was
found dead in his bed. He lived alone
md the neighbors failing to see him
III day became suspicious that some
hing was wrong, The doors were
ocked and the deputy sheriff was
;alled on to force them open Quite
sum of money was found sewed in the
ming of the dead man vest.
Davenport dispatch; Chief of Pc
ice Kessler, of Davenport, is in receipt
If a letter from w. a Pinkerton, of
}hicago, announcing tie fact that
nan named Chapman, alias f. Farley,
'harles Z. Ash and JOS T. Neimeck,
lad been arrested at Eau Claire, Wis,
n the charge of forgery Accompa-
ying this letter was a photograph Ok
he man under arrest. Stveral
ess men called during thA
olice station and identif
S tina likeness of
ad "a cks on VI ~