The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-17

Dyersvllles was struck by lightning.
He was narrowing in his field. His
team was killed, but he may recover.
WNt. kLEEMAN, farm hand, was
killed by lightning in Richland town
ship, Hampton county. He was in the
barn, and his employer, A. Ingebret-
son, was stunned, but revived.
AT Ottumwa Con Stafford was sem
fenced to five years in the penitentiary
on the charge of robbery. Stafford is
the man who broke Jail at Ottumwa
two weeks ago and was recaptured in
Sc. Louis.
In the district court at Clarion the
jury returned verdict awarding Mrs.
Anna Hadelford the sum of $4,000
damages sustained by a fall upon de-
fective sidewalk in Eagle Grove. She
had sued the city for $500.
HARRY WILLIAMS, IA years old, was
run over and instantly killed "a few
days ago by n Rock Island freight
train near Given Station. He was
stealing ride on the trucks and fell
off. The body was horribly mangled-
DAVID BECK, a farmer aged 81 years,
was instantly killed a few days ago
while attempting to run across the
track in front of a swiftly moving
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul pas
senger train. The accident occurred
at Hutchins.
STEVE Policy, a laborer, engaged
in taking down a bake oven at the rear
of a new store building being erected
by j. II. Smith at Eldora, met with a
severe and what may prove fatal, ae-
cident. The structure when partly
down suddenly collapsed and fell upon
Policy, crushing him to the ground.
He received two severe cuts on the
head and was badly bruised on one
side. He is now in precarious con-
dition.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire ragged in the bus
mess district of Villisca a few days
ago. Assistance was asked of Corning
and Red Oak. which met with prompt
response. The wind blew high and
for time the whole town was threat
ened, but finally the fire was got under
control The Oxford hotel and con-
tents were completely destroyed, as
was the lumber yard and livery
stable wherein the fire originated,
probably from an incendiary's torch.
The disappearance of letter con-
tanning drafts amounting to more than
SIS, 900, which has been a mystery for
nearly two months, has been cleared
away by the receipt at the CONNER
cial National Bank, of Waterloo, of
the letter and drafts. They were sent
to the purchaser of the drafts by
junk dealer at Burlington, who found
the letter with the contents intact
while sorting carload of rags and
old paper. He opened the letter to
see if it was of any consequence and
was surprised to find that it contained
unpaid drafts for small fortune. He
Immediately forwarded it to the pur-
chaser in Waterloo
Two important suits have been
fled in the district court of Wood
bury county against the city of Sioux
City, Treasurer John Hittle and his
bondsmen during the last four years,
by Farson, Leach & Co., of Chicago,
bond dealers. who hold about 100000
of Sioux City's special improvement
bonds. In the first suit the plaintiffs
ask the court to enjoin the city treas
urer from paying out in any way
about $4,000 just turned over to him
by the county treasurer pending the
adjudication of the other suit. In the
second suit the plaintiffs demand judg-
ment against the city and the treas
urer on their bond holdings, charging
that money collected in the past few
years for the payment of their $50, 900
of bonds has instead regularly been
misapplied and turned into other
channels of payment.
In instructing the Polk county grand
jury when it was called in the district
court at Des Moines last week, Judge
Prouty laid particular stress upon the
statutes in regard to trusts or combi-
nations of any kind which unlawfully
raise the price of ordinary necessities
on the market. There is a law among
the Iowa statutes to the effect that
such action is criminal and Judge
Prouty directed the members of the
jury to pay particular attention to
any instances of violation of it found
in Polk county and if any We're dis
covered, directed them to return in
dictments. In speaking to the jury,
he said that the public press contained
instances of such trusts and combina-
tions unlawfully operating in the
county and throughout the country
generally, and gave the jurors special
instructions to investigate any such
practices within the borders of their
jurisdiction
The intercollegiate athletic games
committee has closed a contract with
the State Agricultural Society for the
use of the fair grounds for the state
field meet on May 25
ANDREW FEELY was struck and
almost instantly killed by the Burling-
ton fast mail just west of Batavia one
day last week. Feely had just been
released by the authorities at Fair
field, where he had been before the
commissioners of insanity. He was