Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1898-06-24
IOWA CONDENSED.

In court at Dubuque, the jury, after
thirty-six hours deliberation, returned
verdict of guilty of murder in the
second degree against John McGawy,
fixing the penalty at twenty years in
the penitcntiary. McGarry was ac-
cuscd of assassinating William o.
Lavalle, an attorney, March Is, last.
The bank at Yarmouth, a small
town few miles from Burlington.
was recently entered by burglars
and an almost successful attempt made
to force the vault. The two heavy
outer doors of the vault were blown off
with dynamite and the lock on the
inner door shattered. The men were
evidently frightened away before they
reached the inside safe. Later what is
believed to be the same gang made an
unsuccessful attempt to enter the bank
at Mt. Union.
Washington dispatch: Adjutant
General Corbin has made public the
number of addition al regiments, batal.
lions, companies or batteries required
from each state under the second call
of the president for volunteers. The
organizations from each state will be
in addition to the number of men
which will be enlisted from the several
states to fill to the maximum of LOG
men to the company the organizations
now in the field. According to this
statement of the adjutant, Iowa is cal
led upon to furnish two batteries Of
light artillery.
1t is announced that the batteries
already organized IN Burlington and
Cedar Rapids will form the basis for
the two light batteries which Iowa is
to furnish under the presidents second
call. The towns mentioned will not
be permitted to fill the batteries, but
the organizations will be taken as they
stand and places left in them for a
limited number of skilled artillerymen
and capable men from other towns.
Physical examinations will be con-
Quoted at Burlington and Cedar Rapids,
and the men accepted will be brought
to Des Moines and the organizations
will be completed at Camp Mckinley.
The men from outside the towns
mentioned have practically all been
selected.
1t is announced that the contro
vcrsy over the Des Moines water works
has been brought to an end by an
agreement between the bondholders
and the city for the sale of the works
to the city for Ss5o.000 The bond
holders were represented by Judge
Underwood. of New York, John A..
Cole, of Chicago, and Thomas Bird, of
Portland, Me. BY the terms of the
sale the city will acquire legal posses
sion of the works December 81. 1890,
and takes actual possession July l.,
1900. Concessions are made by the
city to the bondholders for the sake of
securing an agreement. Judge Bishop
has decided against the city in the
matter of the municipal electric light
ing plant. which the city voted to
build, and the legality of the election
will have to be determined by the
supreme court
At Des Moines recently after being
out eighteen and one-half hours, the
jury filed into Judge Conrad's court
room and delivered their verdict, that
they had found Betsy Smith guilty OF
murder in the first degree for killing
her husband, Michael Smith, and fixed
her punishment at life Imprisonment.
The verdict was not a surprise to the
many people who had watched the
progress OF the case. TWAS the second
trial, Betsy having been convicted OF
the same offense before and given the
same sentence. She helped her daugh.
ter, Cora, poison her blind husband,
Mike Smith, in 1894. She was tried
and convicted, but secured a new trial.
When the verdict was read to the
court, Betsy Smith gave few means
and cries and fell over in her daugh.
ter's arms in faint.