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

Webster City is to be favored with
free postal delivery.
Maj. A. r. Anderson died at Hot
Springs, S. D.. recently as a result OF
blood poisoning contracted while at
the Grand Army encampment at Gin
cinnati. Major Anderson lived for
many years at Sidney, Iowa, and was
prominent in politics, defeating Col.
Hepburn for one term OF congress in
contest that was memorable.
A petition has recently been filed
in tn: clerks office at LeMars by J. U.
Sammis, attorney for John Zurawski,
asking for Judgment against Alex
Reichman for $4,000 as 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 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 verdict
was rendered accordingly. The SYM
pathy of the entire community is with
the wife and children because of the
causes which led to the premeditated
murder.
The first case of small pox in Iowa
in three years was few days age
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 il
state whether the casewould probably
| prove fatal or not. 1t simply stated
| that the disease had broken out IN the
case of one person, but that a 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. 4 .,.- ...... q, 3
Wilton dispatch: Twenty-Five mer
were more or less injured in two rail
road wrecks near here in a heavy fog
In head-end freight collision on the
Rock Island at Moscow, Brakeman
John Donohue was fatally hurt, Brake
man Marshall Miller had leg broken
and three other trainmenwere serious
~ injured Donohue did not long sur
viye. His injured comrades are being
cared for at the hotel. Just after the
| Moscow accident construction train
which left Wilton to clear the wreck
was struck by the fast mail train
The crew OF the mail train failed to
see the signal displayed at Wilton to
stop. The construction train had on
board about twenty men, including sec
ton men and citizens of Wilton going
to the scene Of the Moscow wreck. o.
this number seventeen were more OF
less seriously injured, but none killed
1 Conductor Roberts, of Rock Island, wa.
badly crushed. The fireman Of thu
fast mail, John Neiswanger, Of Dayen
port, was badly injured by jumping
from his engine. The others include
William Mcintyre, leg broken, ant
Frank Anken, leg and arm broken.