Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-09

The coroner's jury investigating the
death of little Hazel Rogers, of Fort
Madison, who shot herself recently,
returned verdict of suicide. Grave
suspicious were entertained OF foul
play. According to the evidence. the
child deliberately fred bullet into
her heart.
The farmers of Marshall county pro-
pose to take measures to better pro-
tect themselves fry.n hunters. A mass
meeting of farmers and land owners
has been called to perfect an organi-
zatlon, the object of which will be to
better enforce the statutes relating to
trespass by hunters.
The Farmers Bank at Pennington
was robbed of about S., 900 q few nights
ago. It is said that the thieves left
several thousand dollars in gold and
silver, taking only paper money. Be
fore leaving the bank the officers set
the time lock on the safe to open in
the morning. The lock shows no ind'-
cations of having been forced, and the
single door of the bank was locked as
usual, so that the manner of the rob-
berry is mystery. Suspicious charac-
tiers, who left Pennington suddenly
after the robbery, are being pursued
but it is not thought they will be cap
tured. No suspicion rests upon the
cashier, as the money was in the bank
when he left.
There was another Jail break in
O'Brien county few days ago, being
the third one within year. William
B. Tate, who had been in Jail for a
couple of months on the charge OF
burglarizing freight car on the Mil
waukee tracks at Sanborn, sawed out
of Jail and made his escape in broad
daylight. Tate belonged to what is
known as the Daley gang, which has
operated in the vicinity of sanborn for
several months past. Their business
was robbing dry goods and clothing
stores, and selling the goods to the
railroad men and others at greatly re-
duced prices. Some time ago the gang
came to grief and the ringleader was
sent up, from Clay county, for three
years.
Word from Independence states that
DR.. George w. Appleby has been re-
leased from the insane asylum and
that he has returned to Bristow to re-
sune the practice of medicine. DR..
Appleby, while in temporary TT OF
insanity last January, took a little
babe from it's fathers arms and dashed
its brains out on furniture in the office
of DR.. Hobson, whom ne was visiting.
Shortly afterward he said he knew
what he had done, but was unable to
control himself. The authorities took
him to the hospital, where he remained
for q little more than q month. 1t is
probable that action will be taken
against him for murder. DR.. Appleby
practiced medicine in Belmond for
several years and bore a good repu-
tation.
Ina vault beside the remains of his
predecessors, Bishops Loras and Smith,
at Dubuque lie the remains of John
Hennessey, the first archbishop of Du-
bubue. The obsequies occurred on the
morning of the 9Th and were Of the
simplest character. There were no
| flowers and no ornaments whatever,
even the high altar being stripped OF
everything except what was necessary
in celebration of mass. The same or
; der was carried throughout the church,
nothing appearing except black and
purple drapery. There was also an
entire absence of music, only the
voices of hundreds of priests being
heard in the Gregorian chant. This
was in accord with the dead prelate 8
wishes. The ceremonies were con-
Quoted by Cardinal Gibbons.
Judge Fellows has rendered very
important decision in liquor injunc-
| ton case which closed all the saloons
in Winneshiek county except in the
city of DEBORAH. The case is NJ. l..
Hill VS.. Thomas Kane, a saloon keeper
of Ossian. The point decided is that
the board of supervisors in canvassing
the mulct consent petitions did not
properly perform their duty. The
supervisors record shows that in their
canvass they scrutinized and certified
to the findings in the several wards in
Decorarh, but made no certificates as
to findings in the several incorporated
towns of the county, which the court
holds they should have done. This
leaves the saloon keepers in West
DEBORAH, Ossian, Calmar, Spillville
Fort Atkinson and jackson Junction
subject to injunction as was Kane, the
defendant in this action. while those
in DEBORAH are safe. The time has
expired in which the board of super
visors may act in the premises, and
there appears to be no relief except IL
securing an entirely new consent
petition.
Twenty-three Des Moines saloor
keepers and owners of buildings occu