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Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
The NE VS. in IOWA!
ENATOR GEAR is DEAD.
Succumbed to Heart Trouble ut His
Washington Home.

Washington, u. G., July 15.-In the
library Of the sumptuous Gear apart,
ments at the Portland, I'LL that re-
mains Of United States Senator John
Henry Gear of Burlington, Ia, lies In
final sleep. Friday evening Senator
Gear was apparently in his usual
health and spirits. AS Saturday s
dawn frightened the eastern skies the
senator sank back upon his pillows
and breathed his last. Although Sen
ator Gear has, been in rather poor
health for more than year, his
death was entirely unexpected.
The ultimate cause of his death was
ascribed by the attending physician
to complication of heart troubles.
Friday night Senator Gear received
a number of personal friends at ms
apartments and had maize some en-
gagements with political friends for
yesterday morning. Later, accom-
panied by Mrs. Gear, he went for
long drive with Secretary Wilson OF
the agricultural department They
returned to the Portland a few min
utes past 10 o'clock and TIC senator
retired an hour later IN his usual
health.
Just before 2 o'cloc-: Saturday
morning the senator summoned ms
confidential secretary, Colonel Rich"
ard Root. and told him that he was
ill and believed the trouble was con-
gestion of the chest. Mrs. Gear was
also called and she and Mr.. Root APP
piled some simple remedies which APP
parently relieved the senator. A half
hour later the sick man complained of
a difficulty in respiration. His con
dition rapidly became critical. and
DR.. Charles A. Davis was called.
rapid examination after his arrival
revealed the fact that the patient was
suffering from heart trouble and Mr..
Root was Informed by the physician
that life could scarcely continue an
hour longer.
Senator Gear was at one time
mayor of Burlington and had rep
resented the state in the house of
as speaker of the
house, as governor two terms, in con-
gress, and finally as United States
having been elected for d
second term last winter. He was IS
Years old.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
EDITORS Of IOWA.
Hold Their Twentieth Scnil- Annual
M nleetlug at Des MOlnes.

Des Moines, July 15-The Upper
Des Moines Editorial association held
a three days session at Des Moines
! last week, commencing Thursday. 1t
was the twentieth semi-annual meet.
| ing of the association, and the mem.
bers are unit in declaring that it
was one of the most successful meet
ings in the history of the organiza.
ton. A large number of the states
most prominent editors We're in at
tendance, most of them being accom-
panied by their wives. Des Moines
had made elaborate preparations to
entertain the editors, and all went
away praising the hospitality OF the
capital city.
The association quickly settled
down to business and several ques-
tons of Importance to the craft were
discussed. Several papers were read
and their contents discussed by var
ious members of the association. Mr..
P. C. Kenyon of Des Moines con-
Quoted IA question box, and the infor-
nation elected from this source will
be of great value to the editors.
An interesting feature of the meet
ing was the miniature newspaper
which was issued as the official pro-
gram. 1t was published as four
page paper with several columns OF
type on each page, and filled with all
sorts of matter pertaining to the
meeting as well as affording speci-
men paper for the benefit of the ed
itors.
The editors were royalty entertained
during their visit, being given free
tickets to the Chautauqua meetings
and base bali games and given free
street car rides. In fact, the meeting
was a pronounced success in every
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
MAKES WAR ON RUSSIA.
China Is Stated to have Taken a Decis-
i've Step.

i've Step.
London, July 1s.-The Daily Mail
publishes sensational dispatch from
st. Petersburg. dated Monday, which
asserts that there is no doubt that
China has declared war against Rus
STA. ''The Russian press" says the
correspondent, sis restricted to the
publication of many dispatches from
the front. and the publication of Of
fetal dispatches has been prohibited.
! hear. however, from a reliab BILE source
that the Chinese troops and the Box
ers seized Russian transport vessel
laden with munitions near Aigun ION
the Amur river, about eighteen miles
from the Russian frontier), killing al
most the entire Russian escort. They
next suddenly attacked and bonn
barded the town of Blagovechensk
Capital of the Amur government on
the Amur river). The garrison held
cut bravely, but was finally overwhelm-
ed. Nearly all persisted, and the town
was finally burned"
If the news of the Chinese invasion
of Siberia proves true it will i'm
mensely complicate the situation
from an international point of view.
AS SJdlCu Ill <ASSOCIuCCu Ivy
st. Petersburg dispatch of. the 18th,
the Chinese had already peremptorily
ordered all Russians to quit Manchu-
ria, but no one imagined they would
be audacious enough to break out of
their own country to attack Russian
territory. Such AL attack, if it has
been made. constitutes in itself dec
laration of war, rendering formal no.
LITIGATION needless. A separate attack
by Chinese on the Russians means Civ
ing Russia. according to views ex-
pressed in Europe, additional excuse
for an isolated descent on Peking, and
an additional claim to assert greater
influence than the other powers; and
to obtain greater compensation when
the day of settlement arrives. Hence
extreme uneasiness has been created
in the chancelories by the latest de-
yelopment.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Suicide At Rockwell.

Mason City, Juy 19.-S. Amandt, a
wealthy farmer living three miles
southeast of Rockwell, blew off his
head with shotgun in fit of in
sanity. lie had been acting strangely
and warrant was issued on the
charge of insanity by his family and
Deputy Sheriff Clark was on his way
IT, take the man into custody and
await the decision of the commission
or insanity. He drove his wife and
three children out of the house this
morning and then procuring a gun
placed the muZzle in his mouth and
blew off the top of his head.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
TWO DEN1ALs FOR RUSSIA.

Neither Delaying Japan's Advance, Nor
Showing Cruelty to Noncombatants.
Washington, July 16.-The Russian
government, through it's officials here,
has within the last few days OK
pressed to the state department it's
complete approval of the dispatch OF
japanese troops to China, there to
cooperate with the allied forces in
the interest of humanity At the same
time the Russian officials have taken
occasion to emphatically contradict
the constantly reiterated report that
Russia was standing in the way of
Japan's forwarding troops, and was
in this way rendering more hazardous
the conditions in and about Picking.
In this connection it can be stated
that recent reports of Russian cruelty
toward Chinese noncombatants arc
emphatically repudiated by the Rus
sian authorities, who feel that this
is another effort to prejudice Russia
in the eyes of America.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
MASSACRE LONG PLANNED.
The Empress .Dowager Proposed 1t Last
Year.


London, July 19.--The Shanghai COR
respondent of the Daily Express as
serts that he has ascertained from an
unimpeached source that when the
question of an alliance between China
and Japan was under consideration
last autumn the empress dowager
sent a commissioner to Toxic with
secret proposals to the mikado.
"These proposals." says the CORE
spondent, Contemplated the conclu-
sion of secret treaty having the OBJ
icct of destroying all European and
American influence in both China and
Japan, wholesale massacre of foreign
ers and the division of the whole of
eastern Asia from Burmah to Siberia
between China and Japan. The spc-
cial commissioner took code. pre-
pared by Ii Hung Chang and Sheng,
for secret communications between
the empress dowager and the mi.
kado.
The Japanese minister utterly de-
clined to entertain the proposals.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
----------------
France Insists On News.

Paris, July 14.-The Chinese minis
ter here has communicated to NJ.
Delcasse, the minister of foreign af-
fairs. an imperial edict, dated June
20. To this NJ. Delcasse has replied
that since the Chinese government
had the means to communicate to it's
representatives abroad. it ought to
guarantee communications between
the foreign powers and their repre-
sentatives at Picking, and he has
therefore charged the Chinese min
lister to transmit a telegram to NJ.
Pichon, the French minister to China.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Missionaries Saved.

New York, July IA dispatch 10
the Journal and Advertiser from Che
Foo July Q, says: Great joy reigns in
Che Foo, inspired by the safe arr
val of every white missionary and
every native preacher in the Tien Tsin
district hitherto unaccounted for.
The steamer Shin Fling of Chinese
registry but Differed by American and
English brought in the refugees.
They report that more than 5000
refugees to Tien Tsin and Taku have
been rescued from certain death by
the allied forces OF. the powers.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
HIS REMAINS ARE AT REST.
Funeral OF Senator Gear Was Largely
Attended and Impressive.

Burlington, July 19.-With all the
honors due his high station, and at
the same time with the simplicity and
unostentation which characterized his
life, the last sad rites of earth were
Senator John Henry Gear, whose sud.
den and untimely death last Saturday
morning in Washington so sorrowed
this community, with the state and
nation.
In the spacious auditorium of the
NJ. f. church, where palms and ever
greens spread their funeral heads and
sweet smelling flowers gave color t."
the somber background, the body lay
in state all day, while hundreds OF
old and young, all friends of the dead
senator, passed along and viewed
with fearful eyes the face still strong
and life-like in death.
Burlington was the chief mourner in
the solemn exercises. Flags f1oated
at half mast and in many of the
down town windows portraits of the
dead senator were exhibited, draped
in black. During the hour of the
funeral the business life of the city
seemed to cease, to pay respectful
homage to the dead.
All day the sky had been overcast,
but no rain fell. and, as if to cheer
the hearts of the Borrowing ones as
the silent cortege wound its way
among the glades of Aspen Grove,
the sun burst forth and turned the
surroundings from a dreary death
abode into !: lively resting place, ne
fitting the busy and honorable life
that had Just passed out.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20

While laughing at joke, George
McCabe was seized with coughing fit
and choked to death in New York.
McCabe went into a restaurant at No.
ia Park Row one evening last week
and ordered beef stew. He found a
collar button in the dish and showed
1t to the cashier. well, do you want
4 shirt, with collar and cuffs attached,
with ten-cent stew" was the CASH
ier's rejoinder. McCabe began to laugh,
then suddenly coughed, choked and
fell to the door unconscious. He was
dead in a few minutes. DR.. Smith, Of
the Hudson street hospital, said Nc
Cabe probably died of heart disease.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
NEWS lin GEN AL
ARE PORTED ALIVE.
minister WI Has Cable That FOr-
elpners Were Safe July 9.

"a a5st O1guSIS w OTC S0lC July ~ sS%&4&
Washington, July 1s.--The Chinese
minister has just received a cable
Igram announcing the safety of the
foreign ministers on July 9. The dis
patch is from the minister at London
land authenticated by Sheng, the i'm
'perial inspector of posts and tele-
graphs at Shanghai, and the two vice
,roys, declaring the foreigners in Pc
king were safe on the 9th and receiv-
ing the protection of the government.
This was two days after the reported
massacre. Minister WI laid the mes
sage before Secretary Hay. The text
of the dispatch received by Minister
iWu is as follows:
"The utmost efforts have been made
to protect the foreign ministers, who
were well on the 18th Chinese calen-
;dar, corresponding to our July 81
If Tien Tsin city should be destroyed
lit will be difficult to restore the same
lin hundred years. Request the
ipowers to preserve it, as the conse-
|quences would affect Chinese and for
|eign commerce. Earl Ii Hung Chang
has been transferred to North China
as viceroy of Chilli. Please transmit
this dispatch to the ministers at other
capitals" -...... f,
! In accordance with the request con-
tanned in the cablegram Minister WI
asked Secretary Hay to agree with
the other powers to preserve Tien
Tsin from destruction. The secre-
tary's answer has not been made pub
lie, but WI fears the destruction has
already occurred. He regards the ca
telegram as perfectly authentic.
, London, July 1s.-William Pritchard
Morgan, member of parliament, yes
'terday received by cable positive as
,surances from an authentic source
that the British legation at Peking
was standing on July 9, and that Ii
Hung Chang had left Canton to take
supreme command at Picking.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20


What is the duration of wink!
The time occupied by the several
phases OF the movement has been
measured, and it is found that the
mean duration of the descent OF the lid
IS from seventy-ave to ninety-one
thousandths of second. The interval
while the eye is shut was in one case
only fifteen hundredths Of a second.
The rising OF the lid occupied seven
teen-hundredths of second. A spe-
cially arranged Photographic appar-
atus was used. The colloquial phrase
that something is done quicker than
a wink" is therefore expressive to
degree that may be stated in fractions
OF a second.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Arsenic In the Bread.

Remsen. July 14.-At a gathering at
Mrs. D. Franks. five miles south of
town. fifteen persons were suddenly
taken i'll. Upon the arrival of ply
sicians it was found their symptoms
resembled those of strychnine poison
ing. Doubts were entertained for
the recovery of number of the vic
tins at first, but at the present writ
ing it is thought there will be no ia
talities. Upon chemical diagnosis of
the water and food partaken of. it
was found that the bread contained
a great quantity of arsenic. Whether
the poison was put into the bread ac-
cidentally or Intentionally, is not
known,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Nesr the Korean Frontier.

Washington, July 19.-United States
Minister Allen at Seoul, Korea, tele-
graphs the state department that
Boxers and Chinese are in force
within a few miles of the Korean
frontier. The natives of Pingyan (the
most northern province of Korea) are
much alarmed and are fleeing. The
foreigners remain in safety. The gov
eminent is very anxious.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20

Youth and age seem to Be on even
terms in politics. Mr.. Morgan Of Ala
bama and Mr.. Gear Of Iowa have just
been reelected to the Senate, although
both OF them have passed their three
score years and ten by half a decade.
Mr.. Beveridge of Indiana, on the other
hand, Is hardly more than half the
age Of either OF them. and vet he is
not the youngest man in the upper
house.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
ser,ou.lv Injured From a Fall.

Fort Dodge, July 15.-Chas. Han
mill. fell from one of the company's
trestle works upon pile of stones
twenty feet below. Several ribs wer
broken and the spinal column in inred
in such manner as to paralyze the
entire lower part of his body. lie
will probably die,
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20

The iron-handed suppression Of the
bread riots in Milan, just two years
ago, together with the severe punish
ment melted out to the deputies and
others convicted Of participation in
them, has borne its inevitable fruit in
the increased return of Socialists to
the Italian chamber at the recent cleo
tons. The Socialist party has In
creased from seventy to ninety, and
in Q chamber of sos members ninety
is a very formidable proportions.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Detroit mycolosists are elated over

Detroit mycologists are elated over
the discovery near Pontiac Of the So
called dy mushroom, which IL very
rare in, that part Of the country. This
mushroom gets It's name by killing
lies which light upon it. 1t is about
three inches in diameter, has white
rills and. when fslly expanded, some
what resembles an umbrella blown In
side out. Most mycologists are Of the
opinion that this mushroom Is deadly
noison. It is said that Russian pea
xant. use It very much as Chinese use
opium
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20

Mrs. Mary Bryan Cobb. w. J. Bry-
ans great-grandmother, is alive, and
has Just celebrated her ninety-seventh
birthday. She is the eldest of the
surviving daughters of the revolution,
her father having been Major Daniel
Gano, a colonial artillery commander,
and her grandfather was the famous
lighting chaplain" the Rev. John
0ano, who was brigade chaplain of the
revolutionary struggle. Her husband
was a hero of the war of 1872.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
ALLIES ARE NOT AGREED.
Deplorable Feature of the Situation In
China. KS

ACPAo1"OA0 = S's0"'o ~ OsAo -
London, July 19.-While evidence
accumnlates daily that China has
long been preparing q formida BILE
military organization in anticipation
of the present conflict and that the
area of rebellion is continually ex-
tending, harmony among the allies,
which is necessary to meet such a
grave situation, is still deploranIy
lacking. The Russians have refused
Admiral Seymour's request to hand
over the restored Taku Tien Tsin
railway to the English company, and
it is rumored that Germany purposes
taking serious independent step,
namely, to patrol the Yang Use
Nang with German men-of-war.
Such a step would be greatly resent
ed by England.
Still more alarming news has been
conveyed to the Daily Express from
Toxic to the effect that the apparent
reluctance of Germany and Russia 10
consent to 81 Japanese commander Tor
the army corpsshas led the Japanese
government to delay the forwarding
p CT the division already modified.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
EXPECTS PEKING NEWS.
Washington Has Machinery at Work
and Awaits Information.

Washington, July 19.-The admins
t,ation, it can be definitely stated, has
set in motion some machinery by
which it is confidently predicted alb.
solutely authentic news as to the fate
of our minister and the other for
cigners 1T Peking will be ascertained.
Through what channel the admins
tration expects to receive this all-
important news is not known, but
that definite statement of the situa-
ton in Picking is daily, if not hourly,
expected, can be stated with the ut
most positiveness. The advices receiv-
ed from Peking probably will be the
determining factor in blazing the
future course of this government. If
Minister Conger has been murdered
az extra session of congress seems in
evitable. .r-
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Accident at Barn Raising.

Swea City. July 19.-While the barn
of Fred Smith was being raised an
other story it collapsed and Bert
Packman and Joseph Hess We're
caught by the falling building and
seriously hurt. 1t had just been rails
ed and was supposed to be properly
stayed and braced, when suddenly it
gave way in the center without the
least preliminary warning.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Fatally Injured by Fall from Train.

Ottumwa, July aO.-Walter Cook, OF
Charlton. fell from a swiftly moving
Rock Island train and sustained in
juries which his physician says will
result in his death. Cook was found
living beside the track, about two
miles west of Ottumwa, by section
men and brought to the city, where it
was found that his skull had been
fractured and one rib broken, which
had penetrated his lnng.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
CUT HIS NAILS TOO CLOSE.
Land Owner Of LeMars Loses a Leg on
This Account.

Sioux City, July so,-Willam Fisher,
a wealthy land owner of LeMars. SUI
fered an amputation OF the leg at st.
Josephs hospital in this city because
he pared his toe nails too close. Sew
eral weeks ago he cut the nails on his
toes with pair OF shears. trimming
one of his toes SO closely that he hurt
the flesh. He passed over the injury
at the time as trivial. but soon gam
creme set in and when he consulted a
doctor lie was advised to go to the
hospital for treatment. Here it was
found that the blood poisoning had
gone so far that it would be impos-
sible to save the leg, and to save his
life it was amputated. Fisher is a
man about 65 years of age and worth
about $4,000.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Wholesale Injuuctinns.

Sioux City, July 14.-Sioux City's
branch of the Iowa Anti-Saloon
league has instituted a wholesale
batch of seventeen injunction suits
against liquor dealers in different
towns of the county. The league rep
resents that the petition of consent
recently secured is insufficient.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Accident at Cedar Rapids.

Cedar Rapids. July 1s.-Bert Ed
wards attempted TO board North
western freight freight running forty
miles an hour. fell under the wheels
and had both legs taken Oft. He can
not live. fi&-st
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Cuban Annexation Probable.

Washington, July 15.-Secretary
Root in discussing the coming con-
stitutional convention in Cuba ex-
pressed himself quite positively on the
question of annexation. He said that
the subject of annexation or any
other subject for that matter, might
be brought up before the convention,
but that in his opinion Cuban annexa-
ton if it came at all was not immi-
nent just now. He said: ''Under the
congressional declaration we are in
honor bound to give them independ-
ence first. If, subsequently, they
wish annexation. that is Il matter for
them to determine
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20
Hov brow nea 1T keinbeck.

Reinbeck. July 19.-Ralph Bryan,
the eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. X.
Bryan of this place, was drowned in
the creek just north of town while in
swimming.
Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-20

Fred L. Barnett, chairman, and +.
=. Rehms, secretary, of the commit
tee of arrangements of the B. of l..
T.. convention, have gone to Peoria to
endeavor to secure for Des Moines the
headquarters of the official magazine
of the brotherhood, the Firemen's
Magazine. "a
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