The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-01-11
BREvIr1Es.

Gu tne now governor with his commits
sion.
BREvITIES.
Fire at Clinton destroyed thousands
of dollars worth of goods in Mccullough
Bros large dry goods store. The
amount of damages will exceed $40, 600,
In decision handed down by
Judge Eichelberger, of the Wapello
county district court, in the case of the
state against the owners of the dam at
Bonaparte, asking for the abatement
of nuisance which it is alleged the
defendants are maintaining, by OBJ
structing with dam the Des Moines
river at Bonaparte, not provided with
a fshway to afford free passage for
fish up and down said river, the petit
ton of the attorney generals refused.
The case may be carried to the supreme
court.
At Iowa City recently Captain W. w.
Marshall, of Des Moines, who was for
te'lsss-sF ears deputy postmaster OF les
Moines, and had previously been con-
nected with the passenger department
Of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad. suicided by shooting. The
bullet took effect just over the heart.
Captain Marshall had grown morose
over his business prospects,, and it is
supposed this caused him to attempt
his life. He is widely known through
out the state. During the Spanish
American war he served in Cuba in the
commissary department. with the rank
of captain, and returned home i'll with
malarial fever. He was one of Gov
ernor Boies' staff officers.
1t is announced that the retail
liquor dealers of Cedar Rapids, who
organized some months ago, have been
discussing measure which they pro-
pose to. have introduced before the
general assembly at its coming session.
1t will ask that the law relative to
closing on legal holidays be amended,
giving the dealers several days more
of business each year. The local Ii
quor men are a unit in favor of Sunday
closing and the proposed measure will
provide for strict enforcement Of
this law. 1t will also provide that all
saloons shall be closed on Decoration
Day and Thanksgiving, but will give
the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Christ
mas and New Years as open days.
The bill will also provide that all sa-
looms shall be closed until o'clock p.
m. on election days.
Des Moines dispatch: DIR. Hurd, of
NORWOOD, Worth county, has report
ed two fatalities out of half dozen
new cases of small pox in family liv-
ing in Kensett township, Worth coun-
ty. He also reports one new case of
the disease at Silver Lake township,
the same county, where there have
been previous cases. In Danville
township, the same county, there have
been two deaths, those of woman
and baby. IN Svea City, Worth
county, there are eight cases. which
were announced in the papers few
days ago, and in Abba, the county
seat of Monroe county, there is one
case of varioloid, presumably con-
tracted from the epidemic abroad in
the town of Coalfield, northeast of
Abba. From the above reports it may
be taken that the disease is not only
farfrom being subdued, but that it is
spreading rapidly.
DR.. Edwards, Of Iowa City, deputy
state veterinarian, went to Lone
Tree, where he has been making in
designations in cases of blood poison
ing. 1t seems that short time ago
Kirkpatrick & Riggs, stock dealers of
Lone Tree, bought Of the Union Stock
Yards Company, Of Chicago, a con-
signment of cattle which they intend
cd to sell to buyers in their vicinity.
Shortly after tho cattle were
unloaded they showed signs Of
some ailment, and the state vetinerian
was notified. Gov. Shaw finally sent
notification to the deputy, who upon
his arrival at Lone Tree found five
Of cattle dead and seven others afflict-
ed. It's claimed that the Lone Tree
firm will bring suit for damages, their
claim being that the animals con-
tracted the disease standing about in
neglected and i1ithy yards, and If the
matter should get into court It will
prove OF interest, not only to the
feeders Of johnson c}unty, but to
those Of the state as WEI