Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-01-15
IOWA CONDENSED.

scious condition. wilson sank oelore
he could be rescued.
Frank Hickman and Cy Miller were
arrested at Oskaloosa few days
ago on suspicion of completely
in the Sully bank robbery. The
parties were Offering goods for sale IN
Oskaloosa that were taken from the
store of Boat Bros, of Sully, the night
of the bank robbery.
Scott Lindlcy, county treasurer OF
Humboldt county, has (efaultcd for
from SIC, 900 to $4,000. The amount
is uncertain. Mr.. Lindlcy was elected
two years ago last fall and was re-
elected last year. He was without
means and had difficulty in getting
bonds, but his bond is believed to be
good. Extravagant living is supposed
to have been the cause of his downfall.
His defalcation was not unexpected.
At Dcs Moines recently Judge Spur
rier decided the Prime-Gucst case in
favor of John K. Prime. He has
ordered |. NJ. Earle, attorney for
Prime. to prepare the order in man
damus, comma nding the governor to
issue Il commission to Prime, as brig
adler general of the First brigade /.
n. G. The decision means clash
between the courts and the executive
department of the state. There may
be lively times, if the governor deems
it prudent to take issue with the
courts, and carries out the threat made
by Attorney General Remley. that the
governor would refuse to obey the
order of court, in case the decision
was against him. 1t is possible
trouble will he averted by an immc-
date appeal to the supreme court.
Des Moines dispatch: Harry Oliver,
the ll-year.old child of Mr.. and Mrs.,
Charles n. Oliver, died in the school
room at Grant Park. near the state
fair grounds. Miss Florence Mills,
the teacher, had just chastised the
boy for some offensc, and when he
dropped dead by her side it caused 4
sensation among teachers and pupils.
In the past the boy has tainted when
angry ana excited and at first it was
thought he was in faintat the time
but when Dir. Curry arrived he made
an examination and found that life
was extinct. 1t is said that Miss Mills
only whipped the child about the legs
and that no marks of violence were
found on the body. Mr.. Oliver says
he attaches no blame to the teacher.
He says the boy was head-strong and
hard to manage; that he was affected
will, heart disease and that he ran
away to school in the morning without
his breakfast because he was angry at
his mother.
Mason City dispatch: There is no
longer any question but that a remedy
has been found for hog cholera. The
farmers institute Of Rockwell was
visited by Frank Baumgartncr, OF
Peotone. H.. Division Freight Agent
Cleamons of Dubuque, and District
Agent Calkins, the two latter repre-
scntativcs Of tho Chicago, Milwaukee
4 St. Paul Road. Mr.. Baumgartner
addressed the convention and said that
the disease was neither infective nor
contagious. and was produced by in
iudicious feeding. He does not call the
disease cholera. but malaria. typhoid
fever or appendicitis. lie is backed
by the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Company, and a commission from the
agricultural depa rtment will visit him
in few days. He has made public
exhibitions at Dubuque, West Union
and McGregor. He went into sick
herds and absolutely cured them. He
has gone into healthy herds and pro.
duced the cholera, allowing on" hog
to die and curing the others. Under
the direction of the Chicago. Miiwau-
kcc & st. Paul Road he will make ex-
hibitions at Mason City, Emmetsburg
and Algona. The farmers attending
the institute were SO thoroughly con-
WINGED Of his ability to cure that had
he had his medicine on sale hundreds
of dollars would have been expended
for the drug, as hogs arc dying in
this locality by the hundreds. The
state lost $l5.OOO,O0O in hogs during
the past year. The Milwaukee Road
alone lost in this freight over 1900
600. --
Hansen's radical headache cure cures
nervous diseases etc. caused by excuses
The widow of the late DR.. G. T..
Magoun died at Grinnell few days
ago after a long and painful illness.
Dcs Moincs has IL new hospital
which is to be devoted exclusively to
surgery. 1t was recently organized
and incorporated by the Midland Hos
pital Company and the company
expresses great satisfaction with the
success with which it is meeting. 1t
lisa cooperative. non-sectarian, strictly
professional institution, the staff in
Gliding seven regular. four homeo-
pathic and one eclectic physicians A..
j. Martin is general manager of the
institution.
The two Taylor boys OF Wiota.
aged IL and IA, broke into the post
Office at that place recently and
took some money found in the drawer.
L hey broke open several letters and
appropriated the contents. Their con-
sciences smotc them and they returned
ever ything to the postmaster, who in
tended letting the matter drop, until
he looked up the law and found he
would be held liable for not informing
the postal authorities Of the burglary.
w w Eller, deputy United States
marshal, took them to Council Bluffs
where they appeared before Commits
sioner Steadman and were bound
oyer. y "a, a.