Omaha daily bee., 1899-04-14
SMALLPOX VISITS FARMERS
Five Cases and One Death in Family in
Jones County, Iowa,
NO PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT ITS SPREAD
Victim Given Public Burial and Conn
munity is Excited-YounE Man
kills Himself on scene of
Bethrothal
NO PRECAUTIONS TO PREVENT ITS sPREAI

DES MONIES, April 1S.-(special Tele-
gram.)-Five cases, with one death, OF
smallpox have occurred in Jones county.
The death was that of a young lrUn named
Zimmerman, 20 years of age, living in
Greenfield township. a few miles from tn
town of Martelle. A public funeral was
held. There was no quarantine during his
sickness, but after his death AMI burial the
disease was pronounced smallpox. Mean
time four or five other cases of the same
Kind had broken out in the family of zin-
norman.
The people of Mschanicsville, Martelle
and Lisbon, which is in Linn county, about
seven miles southwest of the Zimmerman
home, are very much excited over the al
legged carelessness which resulted in the
exposure of so many persons in the vicinity
and are fearful that the malady will con-
tlnue to spread. DR.. Kennedy of the State
Board of Health has wired DR.. Schrader
OF low City, president of the State Board
OF Health, to investigate at once. South
western. Iowa is just recovering from an
epidemic OF smallpox during the fall and
winter which amounted to about sixty-iv
cases, all of which were traced back to Ne
braska City or Omaha.
Douglass Green met his death in the
Turkish bath rooms of the Slavery hotel this
morning. Green died of paralysis of tie
brain. He leaves his family in excellent
circumstances
McDowelrs Dramatic Suicide.
Early this morning It was learned that
Walter j. Mcdowell committed suicide in
the woods Wednesday afternoon by shoot-
ing himself through the head. He had gone
to the place evidently bent on ending his
life, as he left notes to his mother and 20
his sweetheart, in which he told Of his III
tention. When found the body was cold and
the right hand grasped a revolver. He had
previously mailed a letter to his intended
wife, telling her just where his body would
be found, which was the spot on the river
bank where they had been betrothed.
Final organization was effected today by
the Iowa Retail Grocers association. The
permanent officers for the year are: Presi-
dent, Eugene Buttles Of Burlington; vice
president, N. S. Johnson of Bloomfield; sec
rotary, Ira Thomas of Des Moines; treas
urer, w. H. Ray of Des Moines; executive
board, w. A. Scruby of Des Moines, w. l.
Peck of Ottumwa, S. A. Wolcott of Bel
mond, c. E. Curl of Bloomfield, L. S. Peck
ham of Marshalltown and H. Bremhurst of
Ottumwa. Resolutions were passed adverse
to the custom of wholesalers selling direct to
hotels and other consumers and holding that
this practice works a hardship on the local
dealers and ~pledging the association not to
buy of such wholesale or commission
houses. Resolutions were also adopted OPP
posing trading check and stamp schemes and
other devices, also the practice of giving
premiums by wholesale houses and pledging
the membership to encourage the sale of
goods with no schemes attached.
The republican state central committee to-
I Lac, ,,,,,,l 49, all o.. l.
to be held here August 2.
The big batch of Des Moines gamblers ar
rested a week ago and prosecuted under the
city ordinance against gambling today ap-
pealed to the supreme court to test the
validity of the ordinance.
The Trades Assembly passed resolutions
calling upon the governor to stop the i'm
portation of colored miners from Pana, Ill.
The big operators claim that none are being
imported and that only fifteen or twenty
have drifted in here of their own accord.
War on Saloons
Saturday will be an e%ventful day in the
history of saloons of this city. The SUI
perintendent of the Anti Saloon league, in
a statement published a few weeks ago,
warned the saloon keepers that unless they
secured new petitions under the existing
mulct law he, as the representative of the
Anti-Saloon league, would commence aC-
tions against them and declared that unless
the new petition is fled by April 10 every
saloon in Des Moines will be closed.
The sensation of the hour in the crusade
of the league against the saloons is the
open declaration of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union made today that they
will not support the league in its move
ment., Officials of the Woman's Christian
Temperance union state the position of the
league in the matter of the crusade against
the saloons is radically wrong. They con-
tend that the league has abandoned It's pri-
mary object in not combining its entire work
TO a demand for the repeal of the mulct law.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union
aver that the league has abandoned this
position.
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