Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-07-03
BREviTIEs.

While bathing at an island near
Clinton, Fred, the 16-year-old son of
Parker Dexter, a well-known and
highly respected resident of that city,
was drowned.
The Iowa College of Law, at Des
Moines, seems to be growing faster
than any other law school. and is TO
have new building this year. Neat
catalogues have been prepared by the
secretary, Prof P. S. McNutt.
S. L. Mash, convicted at Des
Moines of using the mails to defraud,
paid into the hands of the clerk of the
federal court 81. $50. the amount of his
fine and costs. and upon signing a
promise exacted by the court to leave
the state at once and permanently,
was released
Dubuque dispatch: The Douglas
Ryan packing house in this city was
destroyed by fire. Almost everything
was burned The plant was being
operated, but not very heavily. 1t is;
difficult to approximate the loss, but it
will probably reach $50, 900 to 10000.
on which there was an insurance of
about $500
Ottumwa dispatch: The Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul meat train,
while running at the rate of eighty
miles an hour down the Hayesville
hill, jumped the track. Ed Lindquist
was killed and VIII Kaufman fatally
injured. Both men lived in Ottumwa
None of the trainmen were hurt
Thirteen cars were destroyed.
A severe storm struck Creston few
nights ago and wrecked a number
of public buildings, business blocks
and private residences. Outbuildings
were leveled, trees blown down, and
fences wrecked The loss is variously
estimated at from S., 600 to SIC, 600 The
high school is the most badly damaged
The storm was from the northwest and
by far the most severe that ever pre-
vailed in that vicinity.
cradle hard luck.
Thomas McCabe, an electric lineman
of Maquoketa, was instantly killed re-
Gently by falling from a thirty-foot
pole. The pole on which McCabe was
working stood across the street from
the others and his two helpers were
stringing wire and the tension
caused by the stretching of the wire
broke the guy rod that sustained the
pole The breaking of this guy wire
threw the weight of about 30 electric
light wires directly at the top of the
pole and the strain became 50 great
that the pole broke off like pipe stem
about four feet from the top. McCabe
! was hurled to the ground with the
severed portion of the pole, which
struck him squarely on the head. frac-
turing his skull. Several rushed to his
assistance, but they were too late.
| Life was extinct Upon examination
| it was found that the bones of both
arms and legs were broken.
The directors of the Dubuque q
Sioux City Railway company, at
meeting at Dubuque, enlarged their
capital stock for the purpose Of bsorb-
ing the Cedar Falls & Minnesota
AT Lake City recently Frank Scott
and Frank Nipple engaged in d quarrel
in Arney Bros & Crawford's ware
house while no one else was present
! and Nipple was shot several times,
once directly through the stomach It
/ is hardly probable that he viii live.
1t is said the men quarreled over a
woman of shady character named
/ Bird.
| The Iowa Epworth League have ar
ranged to hold a summer assembly and
training school at Storm Lake, Iowa,
July 5 to %.
John McCammant, living some two
and a half miles southeast of Chaplin,
shot himself few days ago. 1t is
supposed to be case of suicide. The
shooting was done in grove not far
from his residence. He is the same
man who lost his barn and three horses
by fire few days ago. The cause OF
his rash act is not known, but is sur
missed to be dependency on account OF
! his recent loss, AZ he had had consid,