Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-01-27
IOWA Condensed.

Ottumwa d;spatch: Rev. j. 1Iollister
Lynch, chairman of the standing COM
mittee of the Iowa diocese of the Epls-
copal church, has received consent from
what becomes a majority Of the stand
ing committees of the church in the
United States to the conservation Of
Rev, Theodore N. Morrison rs bishop
of the church of Iowa. This settles
the long controversy. Only one stand
ing committee, that of Nebraska, has
thus far refused it's consent. The con-
sent of the bishops is yet to be secured.
This, it is believed, will be given
unanimously.
The board of control has taken action
which will undoubtedly precipitate a
con fIict over the authority Of counties
to take their insane patients from
state asylums to county institutions.
The board has issued general order
to superintendent of asylums direct
ing them hereafter not to discharge
patients unless they be cured, except
on order of the board; and, further,
not to transfer any inmate to any
county asylum without the order of
the board. The object of the order is
TO stop the depopulation of state insti-
buttons by transferring the inmates to
county asylums.
Ottumwa dispatch: A number Of
people in this part of the state are
anxious to know the whereabouts of
Gid B. McFall. of Oskaloosa, for
whom they cashed checks which have
been returned by the bank upon
which they were issued because of no
funds Robert Scott, Of Hedrick, was
caught for SITS, by indorsing check.
In Oskaloosa justice courts $3.50 in
protested notes have been found.
Most of the checks were drawn on the
Oskaloosa Savings Bank. McFall was
candidate for secretary of the State
Agricultural Society at the recent ses-
sion, and has long been prominent in
political affairs.
At Clarkson recently the family of
B. Banford, 4 blacksmith, and Andrew
Nealy. who made his home with them,
had a narrow escape from being roasted
alive The house was fired in some
unknown manner while all were
asleep. The heat and smoke aroused
Nealy from his slumbers, and in a
half-dazed condition he rushed from
his room and aroused the Banford
family. There being no exit which
was untouched by the flames. he broke
the glass in a window with his fist and
pulled the members of the family out
through it. All of the family were
! attired only in their night clothes and
Mr.. Banford ran to neighbo at
whose door he fell unconscious. The
family lost everything in the fire.
! 1t is learned that the bills for
| the damage done by the soldiers to the
! state fair grounds which were sent to
| Washington some time, ago for pay
ment, have been returned to the State
Agricultural society with the explana
ton from the war department that
there is no provision made for the
| payment of such bills and that the
society can only get relief by a specia
enactment Of congress. The bills have
now been placed in the hands o
| Adjutant General Byers and will b.
taken by that gentleman, with Other
bills, to Washington, and then a bill
/ will he prepared that will furnish thu
| proper relief. There are other pr
vate bills also which were incurred by
the soldiers amounting to some 81, 200
| which will also be added to the list
I and the whole lot will be looked after
by General Byers when he is in Wash
| ington. As the matter now stand.
with the agricultural society the state
has promised to pay the fair manager.
their bill OF $3.50 in time for theil
Iuse at the fall meeting, and Governo,
Shaw, at the recent meeting Of the
fair directors, guaranteed this amount
payable q such time g the board
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