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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
MUSEUM FOR THE STATE.
The Landon Hamilton Collection VIII Go
to the Commonwealth.

| The Landon Hamilton Collection VIII Go
to the Commonwealth.
DIES MONIES, June 22.-The museum
of Landon Hamilton, VINO died at his
home in Des Moincs few days ago,
will probably become the property of
the state, according to the terms OF the
deceased mans will. The museum is
of considerable worth, being equal to
that of any private collection, it is
said, in the west. Mr.. Hamilton had
spent many years of his life in making
and caring for the collection, and it is
understood to be in good condition and
will go to the state on condition that
the state shall accept all the condi-
lions of the will within five days after
its approval by the court. If the state
should fail to accept the conditions OF
the will in time, or should not comply,
the museum will then be rendered to
the city of Des Moines. If they should
fail to accept then the executors shall
specify some school and the museum
shall become its property, in case
suitable bonds are given for it's preser-
walton. In any event the museum is
always to be known as the Hamilton
Museum.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
FlFTY-FiFTH CONGRESS-


Washington, June 17.-Davs, chairma,
OF the committee on foreign relations, re
ported favorably the resolution for tn,
annexation of Hawaii as passed by tn.
house and gave notice he would move t
consider 1T tomorrow. A resolution ex
tending thanks Of congress to Hobson and
his men was presented and referred to the
= naval affairs committee. The conference
report on the bankruptcy bill was pre-
sented and read but no action taken. Th,
bull to incorporate the International Amer
lean Bank in accordance with the recon
Mendation OF the pan-American congress
was passed by a vote Of 26 to %.
@ HOUSE.
DThe general deficiency bill occupied the
attention of the house to-day. The para
graph appropriating $685. to supply 8
deficiency in the free delivery service Of
the postoffice department was agreed to.
II $50 HOUSE.
Washington, June 1S.-To-day's session
OF the house was devoted chiefly to eulogies
upon the life and character of former
Senator Harris, of Tennessee
a.s# SENATE.
Washington, June 20.-The senate took
mp the resolutions annexing the Hawaiian
Islands. A test vote was taken on a mo-
ton to adjourn, made by the opponents Of
the resolution, which resulted in defeat
of the motion,by vote of Is to A. Speeches
were made by Morrill, and Bacon, both
OF whom opposed the resolutions.
HOUSE.
The house today passed the general de-
ficiency bill, carrying 1924 100000. The re-
mainder Of the day was given to District
OF Columbia business.
..l<.u4L. SENATE
WASHINGTON, June 2l-White, DEM, of
California, leader OF the opponents to the
Hawaiian resolutions, spoke for three
hours, and had not concluded when the
resolutions were laid aside.
HOUSE.
After passing several bills of minor i'm
portance today the house, in committee OF
the whole, considered without disposingof,
bill to refer to the court of claims certain
claims OF persons for property taken or
destroyed by the confederate invasions into
~! ths southern counties Of Pennsylvania.
<ixss.., ,.,.:-.s.'-~ SENATE. - - ~
Washington, June 2a.-After White had
spoken for two hours, without concluding
his address, he yielded to Pettigrew, who
look up the argument against the Hawaiian
resolutions.
i.jsIS. HOUSE.
Conference report on bill to ratify the
agreement between the Dawes commission
and the Seminole Indians was adopted.
House went into committee of the whole
to consider District of Columbia business.
SENATE.
Washington, June 23.-Discussion in the
senate of the Hawaiian annexation ques-
ton was interrupted TODAY by Rawlins. of
Utah, with speech in which he criticised
vigorously the provision embodied in the
conference report on the Indian appropria-
ton bill, which acknowledges the right of
Indians to lease mineral lands on their res
ervations. He declared that it was far
graver matter than the annexation of the
Hawaiian islands, as it would involve the
cession to the Indians of the mineral
rights in territory exceeding so. 100000
acres OF land, not including the territory Of
Alaska.
/. ra HOUSE.
A large number of bills of minor import
ance were passed.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

Irrigation, Farming and Stock Raising
Is demonstrated success in the fertile
valleys traversed by the Denver & Cult
railway. The colonization work start.
ed by Horace Greeley is spreading
through the entire state of Colorado
and especially down the South Platte
valley. Hundreds of new farms and
stock ranches are being opened up
towns growing rapidly and new ones
being started.
TO enable eastern farmers and BUSH
ness men to visit this prosperous val
ley, weekly excursions will be run from
OEaha and Denver at greatly reduced
rates. These excursions will be in
charge of the Colorado Colony Com
pany, who have Offices at 300 New
York Life Bldg, Omaha, and 1920 18th
street, Denver. They will furnish il
Illustrated advertising matter and full
information upon application.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
THE WoMEN's CLUB STORY.
Success of an Iowa Literary Ventur

Success of an Iowa Literary Venture.
Dies MONIES, June 22.-The composite
story written for the Des Moines Daily
News by representatives of fifteen
women's literary clubs of the
capital city, has been issued in
handsome book form, and anyone
can secure copy by sending 25 cents
to the News. The story was great
hit and caused big furore in literary
circles. The price charged for the
book is barely its cost. The News
seems to have wonderful ability to
sell printed matter for less than any
body else and make a success of it.
Its daily edition is still sold for 81 a
year, IS cents for six months, so cents
for three months, 25 cents month,
Notwithstanding war prices of printing
paper; and it is first-class condensed
newspaper, with the full Associated
Press dispatches, the same as in the
high-priced blanket sheets.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
THE NEWS IN IOWA
TRAGEDY At oELWElN.
Bert Brownell Attempts His Wife's Lift
and Kills Himself.

Bert Brownen Attempts His Wife's Life
and Kills Himself.
OELwEIN, June 24.-What came near
being double tragedy was enacted
here late at night. Bert Brownell, a
popular young railroad man, attempt
ed to murder his wife and then ended
his own life by firing bullet into his
brain. Brownell's act, which can be
accounted for only on the theory that
he had become suddenly and violently
insane, occurred after he and his wife
had finished the discussion of the
plans for their new home, which is
now building. AS Mrs. Brownell start
ed to prepare things for the night, her
husband drew a revolver and shot her
in the head, the bullet fattening on
the skull and producing but a slight
wound AS the woman started to es-
cape from the room, Brownell fred a
second shot, this time sending bullet
into his own brain and producing a
wound from which he never recovered
consciousness, dying within a few
hOurS
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Flour is now being pressed I'M.
bricks for use on the march and ~
camp "A' IN
Cooking utensils made of aluminium
instead OF tin, are coming into yorus
in the French army. eUe
Stockings were first used in tho
eleventh century. Before that c)oth
| bandages were used on the feet.
Fifty years ago the population ~
Europe was about ESQ, 100000. Its To-.
day considerably over 36o, 100000.
The British empire last year spent
S315, $1,000 for defense. France ex'
pended $lsl,9oo,Ooo, Germany Slsl..
100000.
The best houses in the city of Manila
are of stone, and are handsome resi-.
dences. Glass is not used for the win
dows, which are glazed with translu.
cent oyster shells.
A regiment of 900 men could read.
lily find shelter under a single banvan
tree. In India there is one of these
trees which has 400 main trunks and
over 5000 smaller ones.
An officer in the Austrian army in
Vienna has invented balloons which
will float both men and horses across
a river. They are to be fastened to
belts around the men, and to the har-
| ness of the horses.
Several sailors of the Russian navy
were given shore leave at Hong Kong
and enjoyed themselves by buying
Chinese tallow candles and eating
them in the public streets. Every man
devoured at least pound.
Signora Rosa Zurlo, of Foggia, Italy,
presented her husband with four sons,
all born on the same day. A week
later, when they were christened. the
mayor of the town decreed that the
day should be holiday.
Forty-four gushing love letters, all
addressed to his Town dear darling"
are the basis of a $50, 900 lawsuit which
a giddy New York gentleman will
have to defend. He little thought his
dear darling" would prove to be so
dear.
A mounting patriot of Frostburg,
Nd, who was very heroic before the
war began, was eager tor chance to
Stay score or more of Spaniards, now
refuses TO go to the front, saying, "it's
no honor to be killed by a burned
Spaniard."
The Green Mountain boys are on deck.
Admiral Dewey, who splintered the
Spanish fleet at Manila; Captain Clark,
of the Oregon; Captain Converse, of
the Montgomery, and Lieutenant-Com-
mander Coloocoresses, of the Concord,
all hail from Vermont.
A sword that has seen considerable
service is carried by Captain Charles
Weaver, of an Arkansas company. 1t
was carried by his great-great-grand
father in the Revolutionary war, by
his grandfather in the war of 1912, and
by his uncle in.the civil war.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
WHEN MEN FORGET GOLD,
Tho Fear OF Death and the Exaltatio
of SteD8 In Human ProrreSs.

Tho Fear OF Death and the Exaltation
of Steps In Human Progress.
cts curious" said Mr.. Biff1eton,
"how we've lost sight Of the Klondike,
or lost interest in it, in the face of the
vastly more interesting war news. Al
ter all there's one thing we like more
than we do gold, and that's life, and
that makes one think and say that the
poorest man alive has, in mere exist
ence, the greatest OF all treasures.
Make no mistake about that, and let us
be correspondingly grateful for it. But
what had in mind to say was that this
war news fascinates us, aside from the
final meaning of it all, because it has
to do with life and death. It brings
that VITAL subject close to view and
thrills you as it does to stand in the
presence Of an epidemic when you
know that death, terrible always, has
gone blind and reckless. Dear me! that
makes US forget gold! And then as to
the meaning of it. 1t seems as though
about once in so often we forget our
selfishness and greed and are swaycd
by other feelings. Our good impulses
and right motives, that we have drawn
on but lightly, perhaps, in all these
years, and that so have accumulated
and gained great strength, touched fin
ally by the right spark, come rushing
forth and insist on being heard. They
sway us and dominate US and exalt us
and make us for time forget gold
and make us instruments of good in the
world, and for this we should be CRATE
full, too.'-Ex.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Prominent Man Suicides.

CHARLTON. June ED. j. Thayer,
son-in-law of Hon. S. II. Mallory, of
Charlton, shot himself in sleeper
between St. Louis and Burlington.
He was taken to Mercy hospital,
Burlington, where he died shortly
afterward. Some seven months ago
Thayer was placed in the hospital for
the insane at Mt. Pleasant for treat
ment for mental alteration. About a
month ago he returned to Charlton.
his mental condition considerably i'm
proved, and Immediately went to
Eureka, Springs, Ark, in the hope of
improving his general health. He was
on his way home when he killed him
self. Thayer was about AZ years Of
age, was man Of good natural ability,
we'll educated and an expert civil engi-
neer. Years ago he had charge of
important railroad building in South
America. In later years he has aided
Mr.. Mallory in railway construction.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
OF Interest to HOlneseekcrs.

To those DESTROYS of owning a farm
home, and seeking by industry and
thrift to attain an Independent condi-
ton in life, no better chance is af-
forded than the fertile farming lands,
at low prices and reasonable terms, sit
uated along the line Of the Chicago &
Northwestern Ry, in western Mime
sofa and South Dakota. This locality
is forging to the front and yearly gain
ing immense wealth from it's fine
crops, dairy interests and stock raising.
For further information regarding
Homeseekers' rates, etc., please apply
to w. B. Kniskern, G. P. and T. A., &c
Fifth Ave-, Chicago.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
SANTA CRUZ.

would be bombarded in this event
would be Santa Cruz, on Teneriffe;
Palma, on Majorica; Barcelona, Car
thagen, Valencia and Cadiz.
The only other territory that is like
ly to be embraced in the operations is
Hawaii, which will serve as a coaling
station and supply depot for the Ameri-
can fleet in the Pacific.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
It Has Been Done.

'Well, there was bit of a knack in
mounting the old Ordinary but with
these safeties there's nothing to learn.
The hardest part is getting off, and
that's not the easiest thing when one is
going at a good rate" mot the east
est? Surely you don't mean that it's
difficult? Why, my dear fellow, I could
do that on my head!'-Monshine.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
BAD ACCIDENT AT slGoURNE>
Review Office Boiler Blows Up ant
Wrecks the Building.

S1GoURNEy, June 24.-The Sigourney
Review Office boiler exploded. 1t was
located in Editor Barlow's brick resi-
dence and passed from the cellar
through two floors and the roof, up
100 feet and somersaulted to the
ground. It was fve-horse power
boiler and weighed 1.60o pounds 1t
tore hole 10 feet in diameter and one
side of the house, Is feet square, was
knocked out. The residence is virtually
total wreck. The press was unin-
iured. Local Editor Davis was knocked
senseless, but will probably be all
right after he rallies from the shock.
Luckily, the family was absent. The
property was uninsured. Editor Bar
lows Review was once burned out ana
two boilers have exploded within
eleven months
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Lost AZ KiSRes.

1.-THE other day." says the Denver
News, "a Denver girl kissed soldier
goodby at the depot with the remark:
God bless you! Stand up for Colo
RADIO! Between his sobe he replied, 4
am from Nebraska, but I'll try to stand
up for both states now Thereupon
she kissed him again for Nebraska u
Why didn't he tell her that he would
try to stand up for all the states and
territories?
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
ACUINALDO PRESIDENT.
Provisional Government Omcially Pro-
c10irnah Of

Provisional Government Officially Pro-
claimed at Cavite.
CHICAGO June pa dispatch from
Hong Kong to the Record says: Gen
eral Filipino officially proclaimed a
provisional government in old Cavite
June'12. There were great ceremonies
and declaration of independence was
read renouncing Spanish authority
Aguinaldo was elected president and
Daniel Pirondo vice president. The
insurgent government will not oppose
an American protectorate or American
occupation,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Struck by a Railway Train,

HUMBOLDT, June 22.-Richard Kirk
hoff, of Manson, sat down on the end
of tie on the Chicago & Northwestern
railway track, east of Humboldt, and
was hit by an engine soon after and so
badly injured that he will die. He is
temperate young man, and he thinks
he lost consciousness. as he remembers
nothing after he sat down till he was
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
HALF FARE.
Washington, ID. c., and Return.

washington, ID. c., and Return.
On July Sd to 9Th tickets will be sold
from all points to Washington, D. c.,
and return via the Chesapeake and
Ohio Ry. at one fare, Plus $500, on
account Of the meeting of the National
Educational Association. Tickets will
be good until July Is returning, and
may be extended to August 51st. This
is the best opportunity you will have
to visit the famous Mountain and Sea
Shore resorts Of the East, also Old
Point Comfort and Hampton Roads,
the rendezvous of the North Atlantic
Squadron.
For particulars and sleeping car
reservations apply to U. L. Truitt,
Northwest Passenger Agent, 234 Clark
street, Chicago, Ill.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
REFUGE OF HEN-PECkED.
Tho Army Is Swallowing Many WIN
Find Home Unbearable.

TnC Army ID SWALLOWING MANY WIN
Find Home Unbearable.
War serves many ends besides kill
ing men and sinking ships; it provides
a refuge for hen-peckea husbands. The
officers of the Vermont have lately lis
tened to many tales Of woe from wom-
en- who were looking for their hus-
bands. Men who for any reason have
wearied of their wives and seek re-
lease from the CALLING bonds of matri-
mony without appealing to the divorce
courts, with its expense and notoriety,
have adopted the convenient device OF
enlisting to fight the Spaniards. Thus
far the navy is the arm of the service
most in favor, for the reason, probably
that pretended enlistment in a local
regiment would lead to an almost i'm
mediate exposure of the fraud. The
dissatisfied, often worthless, husband
tells his spouse that he is going to en-
list on the Vermont and departs for
New York to be seen no more. Hear
ing nothing of her absent husband
who is often beloved in an inverse ra-
ito to his real worth-the deserted wife
also departs for the Brooklyn Wy
yard, where she expects to find him
on board the receiving ship Vermont
Almost invariably she is doomed to
disappointment; sometimes the pros
pective tar has reported there, but as
a rule he is altogether unknown, and
the deserted wife departs in tears. This
trick has become so common through
out the east that a proposal to en- :;
in the navy is received with a look OF
suspicion, when made in a household
where the family relations have not
been of the most congenial character
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

Discovered New Island oil the Horn
From the Philadelphia Record: II
does not often fall to the lot of navi-
gator nowadays to discover a new is
land, but such a distinction is claimed
by Capt. Pande of the Norwegian ship
Prince Edward, which is now discharg.
ing at Girard Point piers a cargo of man.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Austria Aiding Soaip

LONDON, June 21.-A Paris special
says: An Austrian agent has returned
from Madrid, where he delivered to the
Spanish authorities 100000 empty
cartridges and 100 tons of explosives
derived from French, Austrian and
Belgian sources.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Fatal Fire at Vail.

VAIL, June 24.-Dr. Glynn's livery
barn was struck by lightning and en-
tirely destroyed, together with it's con-
tents. Eight horses were smothered
to death by the flames. Lutte Kim
merling, who sleptin the barn, perish
ed in the fire. The loss is about 81, 900;
insured for $500.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Tragedy In Henry County.

MT. PLEASANT, June 23.--Perry
Elliott, in fit of temporary insanity,
shot and instantly killed his niece,
Efie Kelly, at Trenton, nine miles
northwest of Mt. Pleasant. and then
shot and killed himself. Jealousy is
supposed to be at the bottom of the
trouble.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
At Least Thirty Persons Drowned at the
Launching of Battleship.

s
4 LONDON, June 22.-During the
Launching of the new British frst-class
battleship Albion, 1880 tons, at
Blackwell, by the Duchess of York, a
ceremony at which United States Am
bassador Hay and Lieutenant Colonel
Kell, United States Attache, assisted,
the displacement of water caused an
immense mass of water to rise on all
sides, completely submerging one of
the lower stages of the yard, MINERS
ing hundreds of people. At the last
report thirty bodies had been recover.
ed. The victims were mostly working
people on holiday who had trespassed
on the shipbuilding yard where the
launching took place.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Legislation Relative to Patents for
Inventions.

Iowa PATENT OFFICE, DEs MONIES,
June 20.-Bills are pending in congress
as follows: To appoint commissioners
to revise the statutes relating to
patents; to regulate the registration Of
attorneys; to relieve medical and dental
practitioners from unjust burdens i'm
posed by owners of patents; to amend
the law relating to patents, trade
marks and copyrights; to increase the
penalty for using a patented invention
without license; for the relief of the
Berdan Fire Arms Co. and the widow
of General Rerdan; for revising and
perfecting the classification of letters
patent; for the relief of the heirs of D.
d. Campbell, inventor of a machine for
sewing leather with a waxed thread: to
create state trademarks for the pro.
lection of foreign and interstate
commerce.
Valuable information about Sc
curing, valuing and selling patents
sent free to any address.
THOMAS G. ORw1G & Co.,
Proprietors.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

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Address Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or
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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
Fire at Keokuk.

KEoKUK, June 22.-The wholesale
department of the Keokuk Poultry
Company's mammoth plant was des-
troyed by FIRE. The loss is estimated
ut sec, 900.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

Over hundred persons disappear in
London every year without leaving
he slightest trace behind.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

Acanal connecting the Mediterranean
with the Red Sea existed as early as
800 years before the Christian era. Its
length was 81 miles.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

A bath with COSMO BUTTERMILK
SOAP, exquisitely scented, is soothing and
beneficial. Sold everywhere.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

Among the Phoenicians the wearing
If earrings was a badge of servitude,
The same custom prevailing with the
Hebrews
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

No-To- Bac for Fifty Cents.
Guaranteed tobacco habit cure, makes weak men
strong. blood pure 50c. II. AL druggists.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

The wages of genius are usually
monuments.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
JUDGE FOR CONGRESS
Nominated by Perkins Votes on the
9lsth BALLOT.

n OmlHateu Dy PERKINS votes Oh lhe
21Sth Ballot.
LIE MARS. June 24.-The Eleventh
district republican convention n" min
ated Judge Lot E, Thomas, of Storm
Lake, for congress. The nomination
of Judge Thomas was effected, and the
deadlock was broken on the 217th bal
lot. after one of the most stubborn and
hard fought contests in the history OF
Iowa politics. The result of the de-
Gliding ballot was as follows: Thomas
0S, Struble 1G. Brown 5. Perkins 4.
Sparkling Colfax Water.
No summer drink equals Colfax
Mineral Water. Send for sample to
Colfax Mineral Water Co.. ColfaX, la.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24

The less hair woman has the more
time it takes her to arrange it.