Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1896-06-12
BREvITiEs.

The Farmers Mutual Hail Insurance
Association of Iowa, which insures
growing crops against damage by hail
storms, received over 900 applications
during the week ending June 8, Over 20
600 Iowa farmers are in this association.
Mrs. Chas. Gregory, the young wife
of a prominent citizen OF Council
Bluffs, died from the effects of
poison taken with suicidal intent. She
took teaspoonful of arsenic. She
was married last September. Ill
health is the cause attributed.
An accident occurred near Spauld-
ing few days ago which may
result fatally to Mrs. Swan Danielson.
Her son-in-law had conveyed party
to the cemetery and was returning
home when the horses ran away,
throwing Mrs. Danielson to the ground.
She sustained internal injuries which
are considered serious. A little child
was also badly bruised about the head.
Des Moines dispatch: Lincoln Lage-
schultz, young man born and reared
in Des Moines, committed suicide by
firing ball from a 32-caliber pistol
into his right temple; and eight or ten
hours after the commission of the deed
of self-destruction the body, cold and
rigid, was found lying on the bed IN
his apartments, by his little son
Harry, aged TO- Lageschultc had
been leading life of dissipation and
his wife had left him.
A daring burglary was committed
at Tama few nights ago, The
thieves made a good haul, securing no
less than 81 800 worth of goods and the
amount may reach 81, 600 when com.
pleJe invoice is taken. The tool house
of the section men on the Northwest
ern road was broken into and the sec
ton mems coats, with some tools, were
taken. The thieves then proceeded to
the rear entrance of Thomas Brice
general store and with the aid of the
tools succeeded in gaining an entrance.
They took numerous pieces OF costly
silk, mostly goods in bolt 1t is esti-
mated the thieves got no less than
l.5Oo yards of fine goods that sell at
high prices. Certain parties have been
placed under arrest and it is believed
they are the guilty parties. The af-
fair has caused considerable excite
ment in this city
Atlantic dispatch: Rain amounting
to almost water-spout struck Allan
tic. 1t was accompanied by hail, many
of the stones being ten and twelve
inches in circumference. The hail
came down almost straight, doing the
worst damage TO slsy-lights. In the
Odd Fellows hall the damage was
$500. In SCOTS greenhouse not a
glass was left whole; damage, $500.
The plants were almost a total ruin.
In Egbert's photograph gallery the
damage to the glass and by water
amounts s. 500. There is hardly
store or residence, except those close
1y surrounded by trees, but what has
window glass broken out. In the
country corn is beaten into the ground
and garden truck ruined. Strawber-
ries are almost total loss. Bull
Creek, running through the heart of
the city, was not able to carry the
water from the up country, and was so
high as to carry several occupied dwell
ling houses for blocks down stream un-
til they lodged against distractions.
Many were lifted from their founda-
tions and turned over. The aggregate
damage in Atlantic viii probably
reach $4,000. The Atlantic Canning
company was about to start canning
peas. They fear their crop is almost
all lost by water and hail. Two hun
dred acres were ready to pick. The
loss cannot be estimated
At Des Moines recently Sam Mash, a
colored attorney, was found guilty in
| the federal court by jury on two
counts. The jury was out over six
hours. He was charged with using
the mails to defraud in connection
with the opening of the o. Brien county
lands. The maximum penalty is two
years in the penitentiary and $1,000
fine. But in addition to the sentence
may come disbarment. The conviction
in the federal court opens the way to
conviction for the same crime in the
district court, and Mash's troubles are
probably only begun.
Valentine Kondora was instantly
killed in Scott township, Johnson
county, by B., c. R. 81 N. train.
Kondora's son was driving a team
in close proximity to the track,
when the old IAan noticed the o.
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