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

=
while breaking at Charlton. He fell
under the wheels while making coup
ling and his foot was crushed. Ampu'
tation was necessary.
B Sheriff Mitterer, of Hardin county,
recently brought from Union to Eldora
h three men giving their names rs Thos'
Madden, Charles Harper and Joseph
Franklin, charged with the robbery OF
. man in box car 1t appears that
fourth man was in a box car with the
above parties on his way south from
Minnesota, where he had been work
4 ing, and that lie had $40 in his possess
ion. The parties are charged with
taking it. s..
1 A mass meeting of the citizens Of
Ottumwa was held u few days ago to
take action with regard to inducing
the Iowa Central to come to thatp'ace
1 A committee was appointed to look
after the scheme and see what could
be done with regard to the proposition.
1t is stated that the Iowa Central is
favorable to the idea of building into
Ottumwa if the proper inducements
are made in the form of a bonus and
right Of way.
Mrs. George Blood, living five miles
| northwest of Hull. shot and killed her
husband at the breakfast table. For
years the husband has been making
life uncomfortable to the wife and chill
dren, and in an hour of desperation the
| wife and mother seemed to have re.
solved to put an end to the source OF
all their domestic troubles. The cor.
oner's inquest revealed this phase Of
the terrible affair. Two shots from a
| 3s-caliber revolver near the base of the
brain did the fatal work At the in
quest Mrs. Blood admitted that the
deed was premeditated, and the YER
dict was rendered accordingly. The
sympathy of the entire community is
with the wife and children because of
the causes which led to the premcdita-
ted murder.
Osborne Deignan. one of the sailors
who accompanied Hobson into Santi-
ago harbor on the Merrimac, returned
to his home at Stuart on the 12th, to
visit for few days with his mother
The citizens learned of his coming and
arranged splendid welcome for the
hero. He was met at the depot by
of f;1opS and oc.cvtDI IN
his home with bands playing and ban
ners waving. At night reception
was rendered to Deignau, at which adj
dresses were made by Gov. Shaw, State
Treasurer Herriott. Judge Granger, of
the supreme court, Attorney General
Remley, and Hon. LATE Young, and
Miss Moulton. in few well chosen
words, presented to the hero hand
some sword, a gift from the people Of
Stuart. Deignan is now chief boat
swain's mate on the Resolute. of the
auxiliary fleet.
Reports to the state dairy, commits
sioner on butter shipments show
there has been a considerable falling
off in the production of butter during
the last year. Reports for the year
ending October I show that the total
amount of butter shipped from all the i
railway stations in the state was So
947, 173 pounds There is an apparent
discrepancy in the report from one
station that will increase this about
LOCO, 900 pounds, but still it will be
far below the amount shipped last
year, when o9,547 1884 pounds We're sent
out. Last year the dairy commissioner
received reports from sos out Of 773
creameries in the state, showing pro.
duction OF 50, 49, G3 pounos Of export
butter. This year 5S5 out of 49,
creameres report 6o.524,544 pounds of
export butter. The statistics Of ship
ments include dairy butter.
At Charlton a few days ago, while
all the county officers of Lucas county
were gone to dinner and the court
house was left alone, save for the
tailor. who was in the basement tend
ing the furnace, some party or parties
entered the building and went to the
county treasurer's Office. where they
carried off ST., 800 in money and about
81 200 in negotiable paper. 1t is sup
posed that they entered through the
transom over the door of the Office, rs
Treasurer Culbertson is positive he
locked the door before he left, as is
his custom. The safe also, he says,
was locked. as he made a remark about
it being so hard to turn the combina-
ton before he left for dinner. When
he returned from dinner he found the
door to the office and also the safe in
exactly the same condition as when
he left. but on entering the vault he
found the shortage. The board was
called in and the books checked up,
when the amount was ascertained.
The whole thing was one OF the most
| daring robberies ever committed in
| that part of the country, as it was
done in less than an hour and just at
noon day. when there is alwaysa great
many people passing through there on
their way to dinner, as people use the
halls to save walking clear around the
SQUARE. There were two suspicious
characters lying around the city fora
few days prior to the robbery and they
were seen around the court house that
forenoon. They left town in the
| afternoon and got off the train at
| Whitebreast. three miles west, and
struck across the country on foot.
| The Ministerial Association of Des