Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-06
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J. w. Benson, Of Eldon, were killed
by Burlington & Western passenger
train at Hedrick They were in farm
wagon and were returning to Mr.. Nc
Kinney's home after having transacted
some business at Hedrick. @l.
N. ]. Leytem. mayor of Cascade, died
suddenly few days ago. He had
taken prominent part in the celebra'
ton of the Fourth, and, returning
home, became i'll and died while the
doctor was writing a prescription. He
was sixty-five years old and had resid'
ed in Cascade fifty years.
Chas. Hartford of Boone, has been
brought home on stretcher, the re"
iult of a serious accident at Mason
CITY. Hartford has been working as
q brakeman on the northern division
of the C. & N. w. While riding on
pilot near Mason City he fell off and
was dragged about fifty feet. One
foot was badly crushed, especially the
heel.
A Jail breaking was prevented at
the county Jail at Sioux City by the
discovery of a set of burglars tools
under the tin ceiling of the "bum
cell" by Jailer Anderson. It's thought
the tools were struggled into the jail
by woman, and that they were in
tended for w. E. Bush and Thomas
Beck, who are being held to await the
action of the grand jury on the charge
of robbery.
The shocking death of the little
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. L. J. Stoner
occurred by drowning in lard can. at
Fort Dodge few days ago. The lit
tie one was playing about the kitchen
and somehow fell over backwards into
a lard can containing water. The
mother heard the struggles OF the
child and rushed to the rescue, but too
late to save the child's life. Although
its head remained under water for but
a few seconds, the time was sufficient
to produce strangulation.
At Denison few days ago
Mrs J. B. Romans, wife of promi-
nent democratic politician, was very
seriously burned by gasoline. Her
clothing was entirely burned off of
her and from her knees to her eye
brows she is badly scorched. 1t is
feared that the accident will prove IA
tai. The accident was caused by the
careless handling of gasoline by
child. An open dish filed with gaso-
line caught fire in the child's hand.
Mrs. Romans told her to throw it
away, and in her fright the child
threw the burning fluid all over Mrs.
Romans, who in an instant was mass
of flames.
r A fight on Smoky Row. at Ottumwa
may yet result in murder. Jim Todd,
alias Jim Burton, colored, who did the
shooting, is under arrest and will be
held to await the outcome of his VIC
TINS injuries. The man who was shot
Is known as William Riley. He is
white and is stranger in Ottumwa.
He became engaged in quarrel with
his assallant over quarter. Without
any provocation other than few hot
words, the colored man pulled his re-
vclver and fired at close range. The
ball entered Riley's left side, passing
into the lung. The physicians have
been unable to locate the bullet, and
are inclined to believe that Rileys
statement that he spit it upis true. 1t
is thought that Riley will recover.
A skin grating operation has just
been done at the Samaritan hospital
at Sioux City, which is remarkable in
that as result the sores of forty
wears on woman's leg have been
cured and constant pain of that long
standing relieved. The operation was
performed by DR.. Van Buren, Knott on
Mrs Mary J. Holbrook. a woman OF
little means. When Mrs. Holbrook
was a baby of less than one year OF
age, she was the victim of an accident,
in which her left leg was horribly
burned. Since that day the leg has
been covered with sores, which many
doctors had pronounced incurable.
She has not known what it is to be
without pain for day. The skin
which was used on her sore leg was
taken off her right leg.
Homer Robb, alias Homer Chase, is
locked up at Sioux City on the charge
of conspiracy to rob and murder. His
arrest is the result of an investigation
which the police have been conducting
since the Sunday of the big excursion
into Sioux City, June TO- On that day
Chris Schroeder, tailor in the employ
of Barrett Bros, at Dunlap. was taken
by two strangers onto a sand bar in
the Missouri river at a point north of
of the city. Schroeder was intoxi-
Gated. There the strangers stripped
him of his clothes and robbed him of
$40. They carried away his clothing
and left the unconscious man to the
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