Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-11-25
IOWA CONDENSED.

Webster city is 10 DC 1aEorcd Win
free postal delivery.
Mai. A.. R. Anderson died at Hot
Springs, S. d., recently as aresult OF
blood poisoning contracted while at
the Grand Army encampment at Gin
cinnati. Major Anderson lived for
many years at Sidney, Iowa, and was was
prominent in politics, defeating Col.
Hepburn for one term of congress in
contest that was memorable.
A petition has recently been filed
in the clerks office at LeMars by J. U.
Sammis. attorney for John Zurawslzi,
asking for judgment against Alex
Reichman for $4,000 rs damages for
alleged SANDER and defamation of char
acter. Mr.. Zurawski is cashier of the
German State bank and Mr.. Reichman
is a retired merchant.
Mrs. George Blood, living five miles
northwest of Hull, few days ago
shot and killed her husband at the
breakfast table. For years the hus-
band has been making life uncomfortable
to the wife and children, and in an
hour Of desperation the wife and
mother seemed to have resolved to
put an end to the source OF all their
domestic troubles. The coroner
inquest revealed this phase OF the
terrible affair. Two shots from a 49,
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 verdict
was rendered accordingly. The sym
patty of the entire community is with
the wife and children because of the
causes which led to the premeditated
murder. ..l...
The first case Of small pox in Iowa
in three years was few days ago
reported to the state board of
health from Hamburg, Fremont county.
DR.. Kennedy at once began the work
of notifying every secretary of every
local board Of health throughout Can
ada and the United States, under the
rules governing the American Public
Health Association. The report from
Hamburg was very meager. The re-
port did not state whether the victim
was man, woman or child, nor did it
state whether the case would probably
! prove fatal or not. 1t simply stated
that the disease had broken out IN the
case of one person, but that strict
quarantine had been established: the
house was watched by two guards by
night and two by day, and there was
no possible chance Of the disease
| spreading.
Wilton dispatch: Twenty-Five men
were more or less injured in two'rail-
road wrecks near here in heavy fog.
In a head-end freight collision on the
Rock Island at Moscow, Brakeman
| John Donobue was fatally hurt, Brake
man Marshall Miller had a leg broken,
| and three other trainmen were serious
! " injured Donohue did not long sur.
/ rive. His injured comrades are being
cared for at the hotel. just after tho
/ Moscow accident construction train
which left Wilton to clear the wreck
was struck by the fast mail train.
Z! The crew of the mail train failed to
see the signal displayed at Wilton to
stop. The construction train had on
board abouttwenty men, including sec.
ton men and citizens of Wilton going
to the scene of the Moscow wreck. OF
this number seventeen were more or
less seriously injured, but none killed.
Conductor Roberts, Of Rock Island. was
badly crushed. The fireman OF the
fast mail, John Neiswanger, Of Dayen-
port, wss badly injured by jumping
from his engine. The others include
William Mcintyre, leg broken, and
Frank Anken, leg and arm broken.