Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-17
BREVlTIES.

BREVlTlES.
c. A. Walsh, of Ottumwa, has beer
made temporary secretary of the
democratic national committee.
William Gray, horse buyer of East
Buffalo. n. y, was sandbagged at
Williamsburg and robbed of $500 in
cash and a gold watch.
James E. Blythe has written a let
ter Withdrawing from the race for the
congressional nomination on the re-
publican ticket of the Fourth district,
and Tpdegraff is now sure to be renom-
mated
The Iowa College of Law, at Des
MONIES, seems to be growing faster
have new building this year. Neat
catalogues have been prepared by the
secretary, Prof. 7. S. McNutt.
At Boone recently Caleb Townsend,
an aid soldier, fatally shot Charles Mel
son. a young Swedish clerk, at the
home of the former, at midnight.
Nelson will die. The men had trouble
over Townsend's wife. who is "a young
woman of bad reputation. She mar
ried Townsend, who is 30 years old,
but few months ago.
Dubuque dispatch: The examina ton
of Christian EclSerlebe, charged with
the murder of Minnie Keil, was con-
tinued in Justice Campbell's court. BY
request of Eckerlebe's attorney, the
examination was continued to July 16.
Defendant was refused bail and he
was conveyed to the Jackson county
jail at Andrew. Spots on his coat
sleeve and shirt. supposed to be blood,
viii be examined by Dubuque chemists.
Nobody had been found who saw
EclSerlebe on the fatal day from a. IN.
till after4 p m., two hours before the
murder. Eckerlebe was one Of the
party which started out to search for
the missing girl, and he piloted the
party to the place where she was
found.
A Bristow dispatch says: A desperate
hand to- hand conflict occurred between
two hired men on the farm of Burnett
Neal two and half miles east of
Bristow. One of the men is terribly
cut up, and his assailant is in custody,
and will have his preliminary trial as
soon as his victim is able TO appear
in court. if that time ever comes. The
| two men, whose names are Fred
/ tE,aa1a,. nd Cinoy-n WalIan
involved in a quarrel over the right to
use certain pitchfork. They came
to blows, and during the fight that
followed Wheeler knocked Walden
| down and threw him out of the barn.
where the men were working. Shortly
| after. Walden returned to renew the
attack, this time carrying an open
knife. He made two vicious lunges at
1 Wheeler. both times cutting through
| the clothing and just grazing the flesh
| over the heart. Wheeler. being un
| armed, ran for the house, followed by
! the now furious Walden, who kept
| lunging at his victim. He succeeded
in cutting cash about eight inches
/ long just below the shoulder blade,
which fortunately did not enter very
| deeply into the flesh. When Wheeler
succeeded in getting out of reach of
/ the knife, Walden picked up rock
| and struck the fleeing man a terrific
/ blow in the right temple, cutting a
terrible cash and it was feared frac-
tured the skull Wheeler bled pro-
fusely. but by the HsAe of cobwebs was
enabled to check the flow of blood
until doctor could be summoned,
who sewed up the wounds. Walden
gave himself up to the authorities.
/ Ray Watson, the l3-year-old son of
| Conductor Frank Watson, of Clinton,
fell from log and was swept under a
raft in the Mississippi river. He was
/ drowned.
Col. D. B. Henderson was renomi--
mated for congress from the Third
congressional district by the repub1i-
cau convention held at Waterloo. He
! had no opposition.
A few nights ago three men, named
! Pierce, Lane and Cavenaugh, confined
I IN jail du AiDla LOT burglary III MARION
! county, worked their way through the
! north wall with brace and bit, and
are now az large.
Milwaukee dispatch' Phantom
Gilbert, of Spirit Lake, Iowa, is again
sse champion wing shot of the world.
He won the honor from George j..
Delter, of Milwaukee, in match at
National park. The score was 96 to IS
in Gilbert's favor. The targets were
100 live birds to a man The betting
was triHe against DETER. as he had
won the trophy from Gilbert at Wat.
sons park, Chicago, August 6, of last
year, by only one bird, and as Gilbert
work of late has been of the very
steady, reliable order. The Iowa man
/ demonstrated that he is totally void
of nerve-shaking