Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-11-18
THE NEWS in IOWA

Albert Semper, Is years old, was ru
\ over by an engine on the Milwaukee
track at Dubuque. His right leg wa
cut OF above the knee anditis though
1 he will die.
Osborn Deignan, the Merrimac hero
u was rendered banquet at the Gran
Club rooms at Des MONIES a few even
ings since. Resolutions We're adopre
urging congress to pass a special &C
y permitting Deignan to enter the nava
\ academy at Annapolis.
Milt Stiteler, the soldier of tn
Fifty-second Iowa, who was ARRESTED
about month ago in Des Moines OF
the charge Of numbering his wife. t
whom he had been married but tw'
weeks, has been released. Stitele
had been held from week to week to
his preliminary hearing, pending thu
action of the grand jury, and it is sup
1 posed that the grand jury has signifiet
its intention of not further investigat
ing the case. a-
The government crop report, receiv
ed by Director Sage, of the croK
service, shows Iowa's corn product this
year to be 2Gs.67a, 900 bushels, or g.
bushels per acre. This is the greatest
corn producing state this year, show
inga gain of thirty million bushels
over 1897. 1t is the greatest yield per
acre of any western state. The state
crop service report. just made public
shows: Corn, go, 600, 900 bushels: oats.
141 .s75. 900; wheat, 1920, 900: barley.
IA 800, 600; rye, 3,545,O00.
Full semi-oficial returns show the
pluralities for congressman to be as
follows: First district-Hedge. 5000;
Secondhand. 1869; Third-IIender-
son, 7,4s4: Fourth-Haugen, s,227;
Fifth-Cousins. 5000; Sixth-Lacey,
/ ,3as: Seventh-Hull, 7,6lG; Eighth
Hepburn. 1905; Ninth-McPherson,
4,4s9: Tenth-Doliiver. s,491: Eleventh
Thomas, 7,211. The vote for secre-
tary of state gives Dobson 2l6,ols and
Porter l59. 1868, plurality Of Ga,3:e7 for
the republican ticket.
Washington Green, after whom
Green's Island in the Mississippi was
named, died in Mercy Hospital at
Dubuque a few days ago, a dcmented
and friendless old man. Fifteen years
ago he was a prosperous farmer and
had wife and two children. He sud
denly became demented and for sew
eral years past lie has been an inmate
of Mercy Hospital. What became of
his family or his property has never
been known. None were present at
his death bed. He was buried in the
potter's field at Key West Center.
Alfred Anderson, who escaped from
Anamosa penitentiary April II, 1894,
is supposed to be under arrest at Cairo,
Illinois, and Governor Shaw recently
granted the authorities at Anamosa a
requisition for the return OF the escap-
ed convict. Anderson was convicted
at Fl Madison of the crime of murder
in the first degree, and was given
life sentence on December ., 1893. He
is German who speaks several Ian
guages and especially good English,
was baker by trade, when he lived
at Fort Madison, and was about "a
years old at the time he escaped. He
was subject to fits and consequently
was kept in the insane ward from which
he escaped.
& The board of supervisors Of Polk
county ordered refunded the mulct tax
assessed against the property occupied
bv sixteen tobacco dealers who have
sold cigarettes. Their action is based
on the decision rendered by Judge
Bishop recently in the case of Tam VS..
the supervisors. brought at the instance
Of the American Tobacco Company,
and which resulted in a decree for the
plaintiff, enjoining the board from
levying the tax against Tam and the
". w. Moore building, occupied by
him, on the ground that the cigarettes
were sold in original packages. The
action of the board is regarded as the
end of the cigarette mulct tax in Des
Moines and Polk county, and proba bly,
as far as Iowa is concerned
Governor Shaw granted requisition
for Joe Wolverton, charged two years
ago with the murder of Mary Gilfillan.
and who was arrested at Plattsmouth,
Neb. and the accused has been returned
TO Osceola. Mary Gilfllan lived al
Osceola. Her body was found in the
pump house at Osceola Sunday even
ing, December 81, 1896, with a bullet
hole in the temple. She had resided
in Osceola only few months, having
come from Bradford, III. She had
separated from her husband, alleging
5inhuman treatment. She worked ir
the Howe hotel while in Osceo!a ant
was attentive to duties. When hel
death occurred suspicion was directed
toward Joe Wolverton, a young farmer
who had been one of Mrs. Gilfllan':
admirers. She was heard to say or
the afternoon preceding her death thai
she had an engage ment with him. liz
was seen coming away from the pump
house at an hour after the murder wa!
probably committed. He was indicted
for the crime, but all rewards for hi
apprehension had failed to bring hin
to light until the other day, when hi
was apprehended IN Portsmouth.
Judge Shiras, of the federal court il
the northern distr:,h of Iowa, ha!