Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-03-13
BREvITIES.

|
Dawson, the murderer of Walter
| Scott, will be tried at Des Moines on
| the 23d.
70 w. Fl. Bailey, Dubuque painter,
Tgs thrown from wagon and fatally
| inSared.
The Dubuque city officials who were
charged with voting themselves salaries
contrary to law, have been found not
guilty.
The county attorney of Woodbury.
county has begun injunction pro-
! ceedings against five saloons in differ
ent parts of Sioux City, the defendants
Marks, E. J. Ressegi, William Conlin
and William Healey. Several weeks
ago the supervisors decided some action
must be taken to force the saloon
I keepers to pay the saloon tax, as pro-
vided by the law, amounting to 5000
per annum. AT that time about $4,000
of unpaid saloon taxes appeared on the
! tax books. The matter was turned
over to the county attorney, who, on
| February 81, notified the delinquents
that payment would have to be made
at once or their places would be closed.
| AS a result injunction proceedings
have been begun against the persons
and an effort will be made to close up
their places of business. Nearly all
the others will pay and avoid prose-
cution.
Muscatine dispatch: The trial of
Mart Woods for alleged completely in
the blowing up of the houses of John
Mahin and two others in 1893 is before
the district court. The colored man
who has turned states evidence was
subjected to a searching and trying
REORGANIZATION, but stuck well to
his story and was in no way broken
down. He told how he was hired by
Woods to do little job, 7 the nature
of which he did not suspect IN advance.
| He was told to carry can of powder
to E. NJ. Kessinger's house, one of the
three blown up in 1898, and place it in
the cellar window where, a fuse was
attached by defendant, who then
ordered him to turn the can around a
little. While he was thus engaged,
the fuse, which was only three or four
inches long, was lighted, causing an
explosion before he could get many feet
away The evident intention was to
kill the colored man as well as the
occupants of the house, aud thus seal
| his lips forever He has ever since
been deferred from telling what he
knew by the direst threats, and it was
only when secure in the penitentiary,
| where he is now serving a term for
assault upon his father-in-law. that he
felt safe enough to tell the horrible
| story. This witness being an accom-
| plice, the law requires that he be cor
| roborated by evidence tending to con.
meet the defendant with the crime, and
| it remains to be. seen whether the state
will be able to furnish the proper
testimony.
Sioux City dispatch: When Arch
| bishop Hennessy returns from Rome he
will announce the division of the
| diocese of Dubuque and the creation of
the diocese of Sioux City, with Dean
Tracy, of this city, as bishop. The
| new diocese will comprise twenty -four
| of the counties in northwest Iowa, and
reaching as far east as Humboldt and
Boone counties At the same time,
Rev. Father Lenihan, of Fort Dodge,
| will be created bishop and will be
assigned the diocese of Cheyenne,
while Bishop Burke, of that diocese,
will go to ST. Joseph.
Sibley Dispatch: Sioux Center, a
small town central in Sioux county,
has served notice that it will go into a
| county seat contest to get the county
seat from Orange City, town in the
southeast part of the county. The
county has nearly $4,000 people.
| Orange City is the center of the flour
ishing Holland coldasy and has been
the county seat for nearly a quarter of
n century. The largest town in the
| county is Hawarden, with about 2,2oc
people,
The story of the existence Of a case
of leprosy in HENRY county seems to
have been a canard