Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-05
low A AERON SFATAL DROP
Faulty Parachute Kills Nara Townsend of
Decorah at Des MOines Carnival.
TUBERCULoUS CATTLE FUND TOO SMALL
supreme Court Decides Number of
Characterization to BE Pro-
posed by women's Christian
Temperance Union.

DEs MONIES, Ia. oct. 4-(special Tele-
gramD-Marza Townsend OF Decorah, Ia,
aeronaut. 20 years old, was killed here this
afternoon while making parachute drop at
the carnival. He was to go up in big
wooden cannon attached to a balloon and be
shot out. When this was done the parachute
did not open and he fell 1000 feet to in
stant death.
State Librarian Johnson Brigham in his
biennial report to the governor, says there
are now a total OF 65,O93 volumes in the
library, including SLAB in the library
proper, and 1850 in the travelling library.
Besides this the periodical department has
been greatly strengthened. Librarian Brig
ham advocates library commission prop
ostion which has been brought to the at
tention of the general assembly before, but
never pushed.
DR.. Gibson Needs More Money.
Dr. J. |. Gibson, state veterinarian OF Iowa,
in his biennial report records progress in his
work of suppressug tuberculosis among AMI
mails and asks for an increased appropriation,
to meet demands The appropriation of this
department was increased two years ago
from SO, 900 to $4,000, but Gibson says to
thoroughly do the work prescribed there
should be at least $4,000 appropriated. He
draws attention to the fact that the result or
! Governor Tanners proclamation regarding
/ the importation of diseased cattle into
/ Illinois will eventually throw much of this
/ cast off stock into Iowa and greater care
/ than ever will have to be taken to guard
| against disease.
Supreme Court Budget.
| Todays decisions of the supreme court
were: Iowa Central Building and Loan as
sociaton against Jacob B. Brendel and
! Christine f. Brendel, appellants, Polk dis
| trict, affirmed; State OF Iowa. appellant
against George W. Wilson, Linn district, re-
versed; Frederick B. Townsend, conservator
| for Daniel Pierce, person of unsound
mind, appellant against Frank Snyder ct al
| Kossuth district, affirmed; State OF low,
against j. V. Schuler appellant and State
! OF Iowa against Frank Mikota, appellant
Howard district reversed State OF Iowa
appellant, against Charles o. Dale, Butler
district, reversed; State OF Iowa agains,
John S. Frahm ct al, appellants, Crawford
district, reversed; Incorporated Town Of
| Scranton, Ia, against Gustave Denenbaum
| appellant, from Greene district, affirmed; N
| E. McHenry, appellant, against F. M. Hub.
bell, Polk district, affirmed.
Temperance Union Legislation.
Only three petitions will be submitted tc
the legislature at its session this winter by
the Women's Christian Temperance Union o
Iowa. This decision was reached this morn.
ing when the report of the executive com
mittee was submitted to the general conven.
tion for approval. The committee recon-
mended four petitions be presented but tht
convention decided that would be having tot
many irons in the fire and after a short dis
cusson reduced the number to three
namely, petitions for legislation for the
| Women's reformatory, compulsory education
and equal suffrage The other matter to b,
presented for consideration of the Law
makers is that nothing less than a one-yea
sentence to the penitentiary should be legal