The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-02-15

a head-end collision between a pas
senger train and a freight train occur.
red on the Calmar division of the Chi.
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul at Donnau
Station, twenty miles north of Gel
vein. Fireman Humble of the pas
senger train was killed. Engineer
Schaefer of the passenger was badly
scalded. S. c. Wyman, of Waucoma,
had a leg crushed. Several others suf.
fered injuries, but none seriously.
Both engines and several cars were
wrecked. The mishap was due to a
dense fog.
Des Moines' request for one of the
guns of the Spanish cruiser Marie
Teresa has been granted, and one OF
the .two-inch guns from that vessel is
ready for shipment west. The gun,
which is of Spanish make, will be
mounted in one of the public squares
in Des Moines. 1t is of modern con-
struction and behind it six Spanish
sailors were killed by shell fired from
one of the American ships, when the
Teresa attempted to escape from San
tiago harbor. The Teresa was raised
by Hobson, but met disaster near Ber-
muda while being towed to the states.
The gun that Des Moines will receive
was one saved from the wreck by the
American ship Vulcan.
Fire broke out in the elegant new
office building of the First National
bank at Marshalltown few days ago
and it was got under control after a
hard fight. The building is one of the
finest i'll town, only completed about q
month ago. 1t is three stories in
height, occupied by the bank and the
clothing store of w. II. Burroughs &
Co., by offices on the second floor and
lodge rooms on the third. The fire
started in the basement under the
clothing store. That floor fell in,
destroying the stock and the banks
fixtures. Mr.. Burroughs estimates his
loss at 100000. j. G. Lane, hardware,
in the same block, lost about $4,000,
with S 500 insurance. Other losses
will make the total exceed $4,000.
Another murder has been added to
Sioux Citys already long list in the
death of Tom Haas from knife wounds
he received at the hands of Elsie Card
ner, his former mistress. Haas and
the Gardner woman became involved
in a quarrel in a Third street resort
while getting ready for spaghetti
supper. The woman was under the
influence of liquor, which SO added to
her madness that she cut Haas vicious
ly in the abdomen several times with a
sharp butcher knife. Haas rushed
from the house upon the street, where
he called for help. He was discovered
by a hackman and taken to a hospital,
where he kept growing weaker until
his death. The Gardner woman was
arrested several hours later. She says
she will kill herself If she gets a
chance.
Judge A. R. Dewey, of the Jasper
county district court has just given an
important decision on section 1874 of
the code, being the new section relating
to back taxes Suit was begun against
several parties at Newton by the Iowa
Tax Investigating Company. The de-
PENDANTS filed demurrers, claiming
that the law was unconstitutional and
not retroactive. Counsel on both sides
submitted exhaustive arguments and
the demurrers were overruled by
Judge Dewey, who declares the
law to be both constitutional and
retroactive. Under this decision,
which is the first to be made on the
points involved, taxes may be collected
for five years prior to the demand by
the county treasurer. Many thousands
of dollars will thus be saved to the
state, as the system has been adopted
by many counties throughout the state,
the Iowa Tax Investigating Company
counties.
A dispatch from Des Nroines says: A
body blow was aimed at the building
and loan associations of Iowa in the
introduction by Senator Healy of a
measure proposing to regulate the bus
mess of these corporations. The bill
is the outgrowth of the existing senti-
ment that the building and loan bust
ness has much in its methods savoring
of injustice and bordering on robbery,
and is aimed primarily at the alleged
root of the whole evil, the method OF
making fixed charges to defray the
expenses of these corporations. Itpro.
vides that the expenses of the building
and loan associations must be paid out
of the earnings of the association. strils.
ing out the provision that fixed charges
may be made. The second object OF
the bill is to remove the temptation
for keeping a large number of high
salaried men on the pay rolls of these
associ ations, by providing that no asso
ciation shall have more than two sal
aried Ulcers. neither Of which shall
dra W more than $500 annually.
ottunwa physicians trephined TIL.
skull of an infant twenty-five hour:
old. 1t is said to be the only case OF
record.
A young man by the name of N. Nei'
kirk, living six miles north of Glidden
was severely injured by being kicked
by u vicious horse. NeilSirll jumped
out Of the wagon and just as he alight
ed a few feet from the horse it kicked
striking squarely with both feet on thu