Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-16
IOWA CONDENSED.

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reported from Smithland, Woodbury.
county. The infant daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Harris was burned
to a crisp during the absence of the
mother from the house. Its older. sis
ter threw hot Goals on the bed on
which it was sleeping, and when the
mother came back it was burned be-
You'd recognition. % ri Il ~ 1s'"'
At Keosauqua recently F.. "A. Conner
was acquitted for the shooting OF
William Nichol, near Hillsboro, last
summer. It took the jury only short
time to find the verdict. Conner was
sent out by Sheriff Putnam to arrest
Nichol, who had broken out Of jail,
where he was held on the charge of
stealing bicycle. Nichol died some
weeks after the shooting.
Julius X. Graves, of Dubuque, once
prominent figure in Iowa his
tory, is dead. He was one Of the
originators and builders of the river
roads which are now part Of the Mil
waukee system. He built the Dubuque
street railway, and was for years
prominent in financial and political
circles Reverses from which he never
recovered overlook him in 1881. -
At Marshalltown recently, in the
trial of the Adams murder case, the
Jury returned a verdict finding Will
Adams guilty Of murder in the first
degree aud sentencing him to life i'm
prisonmentin the penitentiary. When
the clerk read the verdict the defend
ant never moved muscle. but took
the matter with apparent GOODNESS.
The. verdict meets general approval.
The sentiment has been all along that
Adams was guilty of the deed he was
charged with perpetrating.
The extensive rendering plant Of
E. d. Clagg, located at Fort Dodge,
| has been shut down. Under the pre-
sent Iowa law, it is misaemeanor to
sell or buy hogs which have died from
any disease. The law has been in
force for some time, but its provisions
were not generally understood. Its
intent is to prevent the spread of
cholera and other contagious diseases.
AS the buying Of dead hogs is the sole
business of rendering works. all SINH
lar plants in Iowa must go out Of
business.
| "A head-end collision which occurred
near Rutledge, on the Milwau-
4 kee, between the Kansas City east
bound passenger and an extra west
bound freight, caused the telescoping
4 Of two engines, the destruction Of a
mail car and the smashing up of three
or four freight cars. The trainmen
all escaped by jumping. A dozen pas.
sengers were more or less hurt, al
l though it is believed no injuries. are
serious, Both trains were going at .
4 slow rate OF speed at the time OF the
accident. It is claimed that the pas.
senger ran by Rutledge, although ii
3 had orders to meet the freight there.
The John Morrell Packing Com.
pany, Of Ottumwa, broke another
/ weeks record in the number Of hogs
killed, for the six days Of last week,
rs. 500 porkers being slaughtered and
packed. This Is an average Of 4, $3.50
hogs per day, and 900 more than
i were killed last week. Twelve hun.
dred men nre on the pay rolls The
i hog market was very steady lastweek.
! Twenty-fonr thousand head were the
receipts Ut the yards mp to Friday
might, averaging IS head to = carload.
j II will be seen that II took 354 cars "a
transport this amoant OF hogs TO the
packing house, or On average Of 81
j carr 81 stock per day.