Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-11-30
The NEWS in IOWA

Joseph Cabelka. 8 years old, OF
Cedar Rapids, while playing with Q
rifle, accidentally discharged the
weapon. The bullet struck the boy
IN the stomach and lodged in the alb.
domen, inflicting q probably fatal
wound.
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AS result of a boiler explosion in
the plant of the Glucose Sugar Rein
ing company at Davenport two men
were killed and five seriously injur-
ed. The boiler house was .demol-
ished by the force of the explosion
and parts of the engine room
wrecked. The damage to the plant
will reach $4,000. The dead are
James Coleman, engineer, and D. d.
Cook, machinist.; The injured are
John Peters, Charles Peters. Victor
Kiefert, Joe Wohl and Charles Glib
bernstein.
w. H. Inter of Cedar Rapids, ac-
companied by his wife, on the way to
the depot at Burlington to leave for
home after spending Thanksgiving
with relatives at the latter place, was
held up by footpad and on resisting
Mr.. Inter was shot through the
heart, dying instantly. Mrs. Inter
ran but was shot in the back, and is
now dying at hospital. The as
sassin escaped. A man was captured
at Patterson, six miles south of Bur-
lington, who gave his name as
George Anderson, who had two revolt
vers on his person, one having two
exploded shells. He practically con-
fessed to shooting the Linters.
An ultimatum has been issued to
the saloons of Sioux City that after
December l next they must comply
with every provision of the Martin
mulct law. This proclamation went
forth from the Anti-Sa1oon league,
which has taken upon itself the en-
forcement of the law in Woodbury.
county. Its officers say that If De-
cember 1 finds any saloon violating
the law with reference to screens.
decorations, opening and closing or
in any other particular they will
close it up by injunction. They set
an example of what they expect to
do in the closing of the Kennedy sa-
loon-the largest in the city. They
brought injunction proceedings
against this place and won out. 1t is
the only one in town that closes at 10
o'clock and otherwise obeys the law.
Trouble may result from this at
tempted enforcement. Between the
harassing of matchmaking lawyers
and the league, the saloonkecpers
are getting desperate.
A skull and a few partially burned
bones are all that are left of Peter
Peters of ReinbecR, who started a
few days ago in an emigrant car con-
tanning three horses, six COWS and
his household furniture from Rein
beck for Salem, S. D. The car was
switched in on a siding at Gladbrook
thence to be taken by the c. & N. W.
to the destination. Early the next
morning a pile of ashes was found
where the previous evening there
had been a car. Some time during
the night, the car had caught fire and
it, together with it's contents, had
been entirely destroyed. Mr.. Peters
was an Industrious German farmer
and by careful management had ac-
cumulated sufficient to buy a farm
for himself in South Dakota to which
he was en- route at the time of the ac-
cident. He leaves a wife and seven
small children, the eldest II years OF
age. The farm he purchased recently
in Dakota was paid for and he also
had some money in the bank which is
left to the widow The loss of the
contents of the car will amount to
about $500.
DR.. II. A. Hamilton, one of the
leading citizens of Maryville, a VIII
lage in Marion county, was shot down
in cold blood a few days ago. Alfred
Ain, also a prominent resident of
the place, has been placed under ar
rest on suspicion of having commit
ted the crime. It is claimed by resi-
dents of the place that Ain believed
Hamilton to have been the cause of a
separation between Ain and his wife
and he is said to have made numer-
Gus threats that he would kill the
doctor. DR.. Hamilton had just eaten
breakfast and was on his way to the
barn where his horses were kept
preparatory to making drive in the
country and when he entered the
wood which surrounded the barn the
report of rife rang out on the
frosty air. Notwithstanding the bul.
let passed through the Doctors head
he managed to grope his way to the
house, where he fell dying when max
ing an effort to open the door. The
sound of his falling on the step at
tracted the attention of his wife and
children, who soon gathered about
him. Without word of explana'
ton the doctor passed away. The
members of the family gave hurried
alarm and the people of the village
turned out quickly to give assistance
and to look for the murderer, but nc
one was seen in the vicinity who was
supposed to have done the awful
work. Later in the day Ain was ar
rested, a number of persons testify
ing to the fact that they Lad hearc
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