Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-05-25
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over thousand visitors attended
the Mothers Congress at Des Moines.
Boone has secured one Of the large
! twelve thousand pound rifle bore can
non used at the battle OF Santiago, and
will install it in the beautiful city
park on July 8. The citizens expect
General Joe Wheeler and Captain Bob
Evans to be on hand to assist in the
ceremony. They are having three
thousand bronze medals made for dis
tribution. having the battleship Iowa
on one side and the date of the cele-
bration on the other. They expect q
tery large crowd to witness the act.
George Lewis, aged II years, and
George Denison, aged 10 years, were
drowned in the Floyd river, at Sioux
City. They went in bathing in water
ten feet deep. and, not being able to
swim, were drowned. The father OF
young Lewis saw lot Of boys at the
spot, and going over heard that two
boys were drowned. He jumped into
the water, and after diving several
times brought up the Denison lad.
Then he got hold of another boy and
was Mortified to find it was his own
son. 3
Sam Richie, accused of being the
king bee of gang OF burglars
who robbed the Eldon bank In
1897 and who was recently captured
in Baltimo ore, has instituted habeas
corpus proceedings. Chief OF Police,
H. C. Williams and Dick Dodd, the
latter gambler of Ottumwa VIII 0 con-
fessed to completely in the robbery
but escaped by turning states evil
dence at former trials of other mem
beers of the gang, have gone to Baltl-
more for the purpose OF positively iden-
tifying the captive.
Two young men of Ackley, Henry G.
Hackrott, a druggist, of the firm OF
Pfander & Hackrott, and Samuel
Schrader, clerk in the dry goods
store of J. Martin & Son, were
drowned in the Iowa river above Eagle
City few days ago. Their bodies
were recovered. No one was near
them when the casualty occurred.
The young men went to the river to-
gether to put in the day fishing, and in
the afternoon their team was found
tied near the river and their clothing
on the banks Of the stream. On fur
Their search their hats were found
floating in the water over mile below
where their clothing was found. The
neighborhood was then aroused and a
search was instituted for the young
men or their bodies, with the result
that their bodies were found in about
seven feet of water near the place
where their clothing was found.
They were among the towns best
known and best young people; were
both single and aged 20 years. Both
Hackrott and Schrader were to have
been married soon.
Small pox has broken out second
time IN the railroad camps along the
line Of the double tracking between
Creston and Murray. A few days ago
tramp applied for work at one OF the
camps just west of Alton. He was
given employment, cleaned up and
after eating a hearty supper went to
bed. In the night he became very
sick. Fearing that he had small pox
or some other disease, he was fred out
of the camp. He walked to Alton and
made his bed in a box car with three
other tramps. The next day he was
examined by Alton physicians, who
pronounced his case small pox of the
most violent form. The fellow was
broken out badly and is now in dan
gerous condition. Creston is greatly
alarmed. It was learned that the
tramp was in the yards there long
time prior to his visit to the camp and
large number We're exposed. A pest
house was Immediately estab lished at
Alton and the tramp taken there.
Every member of the railway camp
was exposed and it is feared progress
in the work will be greatly impeded.
This is the second time SIN all pox has
broken out in these camps.
A decision in an injunction suit has
been entered by Judge Fellows which
entirely upsets all mulct dealers of
Wjnneshiek county except those OF
DEBORAH. 1t grew out of petition for
Injunction, sued for in the case of NJ.
l.. Hill VS.. Thos. Kane, saloon keep
err in Ossian. The attorney for the
plaintiff raised the point that the
board Of supervisors in canvassing the
mulct petition OF consent did not cover
one particular requirement of the law,
to-wit, that in canvassing such petit
tions the supervisors shall make a
finding of the results in four respects
viz: First, in cities of over 5000 per-
sons; second, in the county as whole;
third, in the various towns; fourth, in
the various townships. There is moth
ing in the record to show how many
voters and signers there were to said
petition in the town of Ossian. This
point raised new question. Incor-
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