Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-02-28
BREvlTIES.

ed on the burlington Todu, near
Woodburn, few days ago. A
freight train parted and ran together,
derailing and demolishing about twenty
coal cars
At Avoca recently the jury in
the case Of Tip Cuppy, charged vita
assault upon United States Special Pen
sion Examiner E. C. Brown, found the
defendant guilty of assault with intent
to infict great bodily injury.
Judge C. f. Couch, of Waterloo, died
on the y25th after an illness of seven
weeks. There had been an affection OF
the heart and stomach for two years
and this resulted in his death. He was
about 81 years old. He was elected
district Judge in 1882 and served eight
years. He was member of the firm
of Boies, Couch & Boies, one member
of the firm being Ex-Governor Boies.
When Paderewslsi, the great pianist,
was in Chicago a few weeks ago he
limited his engagement to two per-
formances. So great was the jam that
no where near the number waiting to
hear him could secure admission. For
the two performances he received a
little over S13, 900, said to be the largest
amount ever paid for two performances.
The people of Iowa are to be given an
opportunity of hearing this great
pianist, as he will appear at the
Tabernacle in Des Moines on the 10th
of March. Seats are now on sale at
Stream & MacCammon' s, Des Moines.
A terrible crime was committed at
Spragueville, small village near
Maquoketa, a few days ago. Jack Pier,
who three weeks ago was released
from the penitentiary in Anamosa, at
the expiration of a fifteen months
sentence for rape, called at house in
Spragueville and asked for something
to eat. The woman was alone in the
house and complied with his request
and prepared him meal. After he
had satisfied his appetite he demanded
some money, which the woman refused.
Thereupon he, it is charged, grabbed
her by the throat, and, choking her into
insensibility, outraged her, leaving her
in an unconscious condition, after
taking all the money she had. When
the woman husband came home she
had recovered consciousness and told
him all the facts. He Immediately
notified the sheriff at Preston, and he,
with deputy, started in pursuit of the
accused fend, whom they found in
saloon in Bellevue, and took him back
to Preston. The young woman is
respectable Danish woman, who has
been married less than a year and is in
a delicate condition. The nervous
shock she sustained SO seriously
affected her that her recovery is
doubtful. The fiend is now in Jail at
Andrews, awaiting the action of the
grand jury. This is the third time
this brute in human form has committed
a similar deed The first time he
outraged an old German lady about
two miles from Maquoketa, and served
a term in the penitentiary for it.
Again about two years ago he com,
mitted the same crime, his victim being
a woman in Clinton, and he was given
only fifteen months in the penitentiary
for that.
A dispatch announces that A. E,
Thompson, cashier of the Maurice State
Bank, which went into the hands Of y
receiver recently, has been arrested on
a charge Of forgery, and the grand
jury is investigating the case. 1t is
said that when State Bank Examiner
Bennett made his examination of the
bank in December last, notes to the
amount of nearly SIS, 600 We're shown as
part of the assets of the bank. These
notes are now missing, and Thompson's
individual note for nearly the same
amoNnt is among the papers turned
over to the receiver.
Boone dispatch: A wreck took
place on the Nc, western road west
of Moingona. A c3ubie-header freight
train of about sixty cars was coming
down the NH Wnen brake Dedm
came down, derailing four cars and
breaking the tram in two. A large
number of the cars remained on the
track and proceeded on down the hill
at a terrible rate, crashing into the
front end about mile nearer Moin-
gona. AT this point seven cars were
derailed and smashed into fragments
Brakeman Grim was crushed in the
wreck and viii probably not live.