Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1899-12-15
BREVlTIES.

lington, was poisoned. by eating
stale cheese Five children were made
deathly sick. The youngest one is in a
dangerous condition, but the others
will recover.
Patrick Boyle. a brakeman on the
Iowa Central railway, while uncoupl-
ing freight cars just below the freight
depot at Grinnell, fell under the wheels
of the slowly moving train and both
legs were cut off above the knees, re-
sulting in his death.
The farm house of John Tansy,
five miles south of Clarion, was burned
and he was burned with it. What was
left of the body was. recovered. 1t is
not known how the fire started, as he
lived alone. 1t is said he took homo a
gallon of whisky the previous day.
A sad case of accidental shooting
occurred at Stratford recently. ! Ed
ward Stoner was probably fatally
wounded by a revolver in the hands OF
his father. The elder Stoner did not
know the weapon was loaded, and
Soeer nHsS .as F aaa the f Ssa
entered the soils side. He is still
alive, and there may be chance for
his recovery.
At Shenandoah recently the defend
ants in the cases growing out of the
recent raid on the railroad depots
where 125 packages of liquor were
seized, waived examination and the
case will go at once to the district
court. The case in which the Burling-
ton road is defendant will be tried
December II. 1t is contended that
the state law in this particular antag-
onizes the interstate commerce law.
Myron b. Spencer. the defaulting
cashier of the Barber Asphalt Com
pany, Of Sioux City, will have to 60
to the penitentiary, the district court
having refused to grant him q new
trial. Spencer has been in Jail since
last August, but before that time he
had been fugitive from justice for
over two wears. All of the time after
he stole 1000 he had been in Chicago,
but the authorities had been unable to
locate him.
William and Daniel Davies have
sold their fine 36O-acre farm near Hol-
stein and will 60 to South Africa
Their father, Daniel Davies, ST., is q
large farmer at West Barkley, Cape
Colony, and has sent for them to join
the Boer forces. Eight weeks ago
they received letter from him saying
all the farmers in that section were
planning an uprising in Boer interests,
and asking them to come. They left
Immediately on the sale of their
property.
Rev. Father Straven of Des Moines
went to Mitchellville few days ago
with a pardon for one Of the
girls in the institution whom he de-
sired to place in Roman Catholic
school. Superintendent Miller re-
fused to turn over the girl to him.
Father Straven refused to deliver the
papers to Miller, who then had the
priest arrested by deputy sheriff
acting as guard. Father Straven COM
planned to the governor and board of
control. and Miller explains that he
had NO authority to turn the girl over
to the priest; that when once pardoned
she was free, and she refused to 60 to
. Roman Catholic institution, saying
abe would rather commit suicide, The
whole proceeding will be investigated
by the board of control.
Des Moines dispatch: In an interview
DR.. Kennedy, of tho board Of public
health, said: "Unquestionably tho
smallpox epidemic in northern Iowa Is
spreading rapidly. I am in receipt OF
a telegram from DR.. &. e. Conitf. who
has charge Of the epidemic. stating
that there has been one death from tho
disease At Alvord, Lyon county, and
several exposures. Besides this, l
have reason to believe that tho disease
exists in Worth, and perhaps other
counties in the state, where it has not
been reported. A letter from DR.. H.
M. Brscken, of the Minnesota board of
health, intimates that there have been
several cases in Silver Lake township,
Worth county, which correspond with
similar cases diagnosed as smallpox ~
'reeborn county, just over the Mime
alta line, but where the 1stients are
- = ! .PoiuR no lestraipt
mes, ! n.ss m1.i.
BY ciihofn Agent q