The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-08-30
THE NEWS In IOWA

hope of his recovery.
Myron B. Spencer, who skipped out
of Sioux City with $1,000 of the Barber
Asphalt company's funds, eluded cap
ture for two years and finally was
discovered in Chicago furniture
store, where he had been working as
bookkeeper, brought back to Sioux
City and sentenced to four years in
the penitentiary on the charge of
embezzlement, has been freed by Gov
ernor Shaw, after having served but
a few months of his sentence.
o. F. Wickersham, an employe of
the Oskaloosa Manufacturing COM
pany, was seriously hurt at the power
house factory. He was engaged in
putting heavy rubber belt on a
pulley when it caught, flew around,
hit him in the face and rendered him
insensible He fell in such position
that the belt struck him heavy blow
in the face with each revolution of
the pulley, and it must have struck
him twenty times before the machin-
cry could be stopped.
Near Kanawha, on the old Mowry
farm near Humboldt, Mr.. Mowry and
son Edward were pitching grain from
wagons to a threshing machine. The
main belt was slipping off the pulley,
and Ed put his foot on the edge of it
to slip it on, and in some way he was
caught and in the twinkling of an
eye his leg was twisted off at the knee,
the thigh bone broken and he was
thrown several feet to the ground
He never rallied from the shock and
died within few hours.
Frank Siegler Drained William
Schultz with club at Shenandoah.
1t appears that an alteration occur
red over the separation of a lot of cat
tie, during which Seigler struck
Schultz over the head with club,
fracturing the skull and causing the
rupture of a blood vessel in the brain.
Schultz died the. next day. The par
ties We're good friends, and it is
thought that Siegler was crazy at the
time he struck Schultz. Seigler has
acted strangely for two years.
One of the most sensational indict-
ments in the history of Webster
county was found by the grand jury
few days ago. The jury returned a
true bill against Matt Faiferlick,
charged with adultery with the littl
12-year-old sister of his wife. Faifer-
lick is one of the most prominent
farmers in the county, living in Elk
horn township. The crime was alleg-
ed to have been committed last winter
when the child was staying with Faif-
erlick's wife, who was i'll. Mrs. Faifer-
lick has also sued for divorce on the
same grounds, asking for custody Of
child and alimony. The affair on ac-
count of the prominence of the people
is attracting great attention.
Clarence Rich, rs years of age,
passenger on the midnight north
bound train on the c. G. W., COM
mitted suicide on the train just before
reaching Oelwein, by drinking car
bolic acid. He drank the liquid Just
after the train left Stanley and as
the train was pulling into the yards
he asked the conductor for glass of
milk, telling him what he had done
AS soon as the train stopped the
young man was removed to Patter-
sons hospital, but he was too far
gone to receive any help, and died in
three-quarters of an hour. From a
long letter found on his person, writ
On to his father at Red Wing, Mimi,
vt appears that he was on his way
home from trip to Paris, and hav-
ing been in poor health for "a number,
of years, with no hope of improve
ment, he had become respondent and
determined to end it all.
George w. Kieruiff, the expert ac-
countant engaged by the board of
supervisors of johnson county to
check the county treasurer's books,
has finished his work and it is ascer-
tanned from a reliable source that his
report will show shortage of over
$4,000, and the only thing to cut
down the shortage will be, the find
ing of records of disbursements which
have as yet not appeared, and matters
appear to become more complicated
than when the report was filed in
July by Expert Waldron of Des
Moines. Mr.. Waldron was engaged by
Mr.. Cherry at his own expense to
check the accounts, and after his
work the county supervisors ordered
an official investigation. Mr.. Cherry
has always been considered man of
strictest integrity and his many
friends hope that the matter may be
cleared up, releasing him from any
semblance of dishonesty.
Jacob launches, Bohemian, who
has figured more or less in spectacu-
lar way in the community around Ply
mouth in the last four years, went
out to the cemetery few days ago
and at the grave of his wife commit
ed suicide by shooting himself. The
victim arrived on the train from Ma
son City but had been visiting at New
Prague, Mimi, and after leaving the
train went to the cemetery and stand
ing by the side of the grave shot him.
self three times in the breast. Mr..
Friyouf was the only witness of the
tragic affair and did not know what
was going to happen until the deed
was done. Upon Mr.. launches re-
quest he accompanied him to the GEM
etery, thinking that he wanted to
visit the grave. He left a letter in his
valise. but his only request was for his
son Jim to have the revolver with
which he shot himself, bulldog of
3S calibre. No reason is given for the
horrible deed except that the victim
was Respondent over the death of his
wife, which occurred last spring. and
he decided thus to end his troubles.
A disastrous head end collision oc-
CURED at Eldora Junction, by which
William McFadden. brakeman, sin
gle man "a years old, living at Eagle
Grove, had one foot mashed and was
otherwise badly bruised. and two en-
gines were badly demolished and