Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1897-11-05
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Ben jamin Hartman, of Muscatjne.
wa: killed by the cars at Abingdon,
III. He is thought to have committed
suicide as his actions and talk have
been queer lately.
Fire destroyed two barns at Wa
terloo and burned six horses, pro-
perty of the Woods Ice and Coal COM
pany. The loss is estimated at 81 200;
no insurance. The origin is unknown.
A few days ago train number six
of the St. Louis, Keokuk & North.
western railway struck and killed
John Roberts at Gallapd. Roberts
was an old man and a bachelor hermit.
He was walking on the track near the
station and his body was thrown
twenty feet. The train was going
fifty miles an hour, AS no stop is made
at Galland.
w. o. Patton, of Des Moines, was
sentenced by Judge Conrad to six
mon tbs in the county Jail for the
crime of assault with intent to do
great bodily injury. Patton is negro
who was arrested for sticking q knife
into the arm of an Italian fruit vender
at Sixth and Mulberry streets, while
Patton was apparently trying to steal
some fruit from the stand.
Al Burlington recently two electric.
motor cars collidcd on South Main
street, badly demolishing both cars
and seriously injuring Motorman
Henry Lunscott, Bert Mccune and
Frank Lowry. Lunscott had both
legs broken and one had to be am
.putated and he is in critical condi-
ton. Fortunately there were no
passengers aboard, the injured being
employees. The cause of the accident
was the refusal OF the brakes to work.
Dubuque dispatch: The bones OF
julien Dubuque, the first white settler
west of the Mississippi, with those of
two Indian chiefs, were unearthed q
few weeks ago by the builders of a
monument upon his grave, occupying
a picturesque bluff below town. They
were deposited ina stone sarcophagus
within the monument, IN the presence
Of over 1900 people. The ceremonies
were under the auspices of the Early
Settlers Association, and J. H. Shields
delivered the Grafton.
The c., NJ. & St. P. depot at Charles
City was robbed few nights since,
the burglars using a drill and
breaking the safe. They secured $40
in cash, FIVE 1000 and FIVE / 900 mileage
books and escaped before the agent
returned from his supper, the Office
being left alone but twenty minutes,
The work was evidently done by the
same gang that robbed the Nora
Springs postoffice the night before,
when they escaped with $40 in cash
and SIS in stamps, which were in reg.
istered letter envelopes. III
The jury in the case OF Mrs. Chris.
tian Behrens, Of Davenport, recently
jointly indicted with Henry Bendt for
the murder OF Claus Behrens, the
woman's husband. by administering
poison in the shape Of paris green,
was discharged by Judge Waterman,
after being out fifty-two hours. 1t is
stated the jury stood eight for con.
viction and four foI acquittal. The
case has received great public atten.
tion in this section. The claim of the
defense was that Behrens committed
suicide.
At Sioux City recently two masked
robbers held up Frank Wilson'S
gambling house at 2 a, m. The rooms
were crowded. and at the desperadoes'
command thirty pairs of hands were
raised simultaneously. The faro
dealer. ikey Smith, took time, however.
to transfer . wad of several hundred
dollars from the table to his pocket.
One OF the thieves, however, lost his
nerve and ran for the door The
crowd then made dash for his com.
.panion, and it was only by an extra
ordinary display of agility that he
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