Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-12-09
IOWA CONDENsED.

The state executive council elected
A. II. Davidson, of Rock Rapids, sec
rotary.
At Abel recently H. E. Mountford,
conductor on the Des Moines Northern
& Western, while setting a car out of
his train, was thrown under the train.
His head was cut off and the body
ragged two blocks and deposited
before the depot
"A. c. Stentz, a, brakeman on the
Burlington road, was killed in the
yards at Ottumwa while coupling
cars. He slipped on the ice and fell
under the wheels He was 81 years of
age and prominent among the employees
Of the road. He leaves a wife. -,
A double wreck occurred on the
Burlington west of Ottumwa few
days ago. A west-bound freight ran into
derailing switch at the bridge. The
engine and seven cars were piled up.
An east-bound freight came immedi-
ately afterward, running into the
wreck Arthur Hickey and Frank
Conner, brakemen, were badly hurt.
Hickey may die.
The exact statistics relative to the
shipment of Iowa butter by cream
cries and railroads during the past
year, says dispatch, are in the hands
Of the state dairy commissioner. They
show a total number of creameries of
954, an increase of g.. The shipments
of butter fell off, however, materially,
being as follows: In 1897, 99,547, Gs4
pounds; in 1898, 90, 800, s11 pounds; de-
crease. 7,24s,473 pounds.
A. L. Dlckerson, cashier of the de-
funct Cass County Bank, sof Atlantic,
sentenced September 4, 1894, to six
years IN the state penitentiary at Fort
Madison, was released few days ago,
having gained twenty.one months for
GOOD behavior. His troubles are not
over, as Sheriff Hill went to Fort
Madison and arrested him upon an
Indictment found by the grand jury
on one of the several other counts
against the prisoner.
Des Moines dispatch: Adjutant GEN
eral Byers has purchased the follow
ing army supplies for the reorganized
National Guard: From the Henderson
Ames Company, of Kalamazoo, 500
army blouses and 1000 pairs Of leg
gins; from Lille, of Columbus, 500
blouses, 1000 trousers and 1000 cam
paign hats. The total amount of the
contracts was about $4,000 The
National Guard of Iowa will be reor-
eanized shortly after January I. Cen
eral Byers says he has applications
from most of the companies in the old
Fourth regiment for reinstatement.
Many OF the officers and men may
drop out, but the old companies will
probably form the nucleus about
which the new regiments will be
formed. The clothing just bought is
for the guardsmen to be rcorganized.
Des Moines dispatch: Regarding the
small pox scare at Tacoma. DR.. Starr
writes as follows: "Fhere are two
cases in town and one one and a miles
north of town. and each Of them care
fully guarded by the proper officers.
There has been no new cases developed
recently, and the town is not quaran-
tined. as was reported, but people go
about their business as usual. The
citizens, as well as the officers, are ex-
ercising every effort to keep it from
spreading, and there is but little prob
ability there will be any new cases,
unless they should appear in the
homes Of those who are now sick with
it. The report that trains are not
allowed to, stop only long enough to
change the mail, that the town is
quarantined and people prevented
from coming and going at will, and
that there are twenty or thirty cases
Of small, pox. in town, il entirely false
and unfonnded in every respect. s