The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-06-28

The Office of the Joyce Lumbe,
Compan at Audubon was entered one
night last week and the safe broken
open. The burglars got nothing but a
life insurance policy belonging to the
manager, ]. A. Jansen. No clue was
left to tell who the badly disappointed
parties were.
The Seventh district republican con-
vention, held at Des Moines, nominated
John A. L. Hull for congress, to sue
coed himself. This is the sixth nomi-.
nation accorded Captain Hull No
other candidates name was placed be-
fore the convention, and the nomina-
ton was unanimous on the first BALLOT
TREASURER CHERRY of johnson coun1
sty' -dfd not make his semi am fa
to the board of SUPERVISORS at the June
session for the reason that there is an
apparent discrepancy between the
amount that should be on hand as
shown by the treasurer's books and
the amount of cash on hand. Itappears
that there is shortage of about Sc, 900.
Mr.. Cherry says that the fact that there
is a shortage came to him as clap of
thunder out of a clear sky, and he is
unable to account for it. He has
shown his willingness to be investi-
gated, however, and has secured w. O.
Waldron, an expert accountant Of Des
,Moines, to go over the books since the
beginning of his administration, nearly
six years ago, and Mr.. Waldron
has been working steadily for the
past ten days. Mr.. Cherry has
turned over the treasurer's office and
has offered every facility within his
power to help Mr.. Waldron, but is
otherwise keeping out of the inves-
tigation.
PETER SINNER, prominent resi-.
dent of Calhoun county, living near
Pomeroy, met with horrible death
by drowning in an open and unused
well. The theory of suicide is enter
tanned. Shinlxer left the house with
the intention of going out to the pas
ture for the purpose of looking after
some stock. He did not return, and
his family becoming anxious, one of
boy went to the pasture and upon APP
preaching the we'll was Mortified to
see the body of his father in the we'll
The head was beneath the water and
the feet above. Help was summoned,
but when the body was removed life
was extinct. Mr.. Shlnker was a well
known man and prominent in local
affairs. He was conscientious to an
extreme degree, and it is thought that
worry over some business affairs which
he was carrying on at the time de-
ranged his mind. His hat, boots and
pocket book were found on the outside
of the well.
REPORTS are coming from trust.
worthy sources of great damage done
by hail, not only to crops, which have
been injured in the vicinity of Sioux
City to the extent of rs per cent in
strips, but to live stock and human
DelnSS. Dill Us OF nd1lStOneS d1OOU anQ
half deep were piled up. Chunks OF
ice fell in places. They bruised girl
near Neville so badly that she may
die, and hogs and sheep were struck
down and killed by the score. The
storm seems to have wreaked its great
est fury near Neville, crops in that
vicinity being damaged to the extent
of $4,000
SIXTEEN of the Sioux City saloon
keepers who were arrested for keeping
open on the day of the big Sunday ex-
cursion, June 10, were fined $50 and
costs in police court. The remaining
three ask for continuance; but they
will also be assessed the same fine OF
else be closed up by injunctions.
RAY, the s-year-old son of James
Locke, farmer residing near Kent,
was killed by lightning. He was go
| ing to the house at the call of his
mother to get shelter out of Bse, storm
when struck. The mother nd
the death of her son. !
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