Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-10-12

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Samuel j. Richie of Baltimore, Md,
who has been on trial at Ottumwa
Il on d charge of completely in the celc-
brated Eldon bank robbery case, was
found not guilty.
George Taylor, q brakeman on the
4 milwaukee road, was instantly killed
at Specht's Ferry, above Dubuque. he
was going over the train and STUMBLED
and fell between the cars. The wheels
of several cars passed over his chest,
completely severing his neck and head
! from the body.
The jury in the case OF w. 4. Smith
vs.. the city of Sioux City returned 8;
verdict for Smith, giving him $4,000,
] Only one larger verdict was ever re-
| turned against the city in a damage
| suit. Smith tripped on defective
/ sidewalk. His legs nre Il paralyzed
| One doctor testified he would recover
the use of his legs, and two doctors
expressed the opinion that he would
be able to walk in the course Of time.
Smith asked for $4,000.
Tom O'Hara and Peter Coync, two
| prominent young men Of Fort Dodge
4 we're arrested few nights ago for
| the holding up of the night agent OF
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway
two weeks ago. 1t is alleged that
! they attacked the agent and, after
| robbing the safe, locked him in
| box car. At the preliminary hearing
! they were bound over to the grand
| Jury in $1,000 bail. The arrest has
/ crea ted q sensation.
Sioux City dispatch: The Sand Hill
Lake litigation is not to end because
Judge Wakefield declared against
both parties in the district conrt and
awarded the ! 900 acres in question,
valued at $4,000, to the state of Iowa.
w. 4. Ogden of Sioux City, who claims
the land under swamp title, de-
clares that he will take the fight up
with the state of Iowa and do battle
for the land in the supreme court.
The decision in favor of the state,
which was not Il party to the litiga-
ton, was a great surprise here. The
land is located near Salix, in Wood
bury county. r
Three men were robbed of $11, and,
at the point of q revolver, were fore
ed to jump from freight train run
ming at full speed just west of Abba.
The ho1dup was the work of tramps.
and their victims were men who were
cumming their way over the road N
an empty box car with the despera-
does. Two of the men are VIII Boyer
and :, man by the name of Burke of
Ottumwa. The third man, who es-
capped injury, is unknown. Boyer and
Burke were seriously injured, as the
train at the time they were forced Off
it was running at the rate of thirty
miles an hour. The man who was
uninjured notified a farmer who
went to the rescue of the formers
companions, taking them to Abba.
where medical attendance was pro-
cured. The two men who committed
the robbery boarded the train at
Charlton. They got into the same
car with the Ottumwa men, whom
they had never seen before. Boyers
chances for recovery are doubtful
Recent advlces from Des Moines
says: ''The unusual number of young
hogs forwarded to market from Iowa
during the past ten days has led
to an Investigation of the cause by
the railroad companies and has de-
veloped the existence of hog cholera
in many portions of the state. For
nearly three weeks the disease, has
been prevalent in the vicinities of
Grimes, Storm Lake and a score of
other points on the Milwaukee, as
also in the country about Van Meter
and Stuart on the line of the Rock
Island When it first appeared the
cholera did not assume malignant
-orm, but during the past week the
mortality among the hogs attacked
has been very great. Some herds
! numbering one hundred hogs have
been depleted to twenty, and the dis
| ease continuing to spread, farmers
became alarmed and began shipping
to market. The presence of hundreds
of shoats among the shipments at
| tracted the attention of the railroad
companies and eliminated in an or
| der to division freight agents to in
struct station agents to maze inquiry
of farmers in the vicinity of each OF
! the stations on the lines in Iowa.
The disease is said to be spreading
alarmingly among herds in western
and northwestern Iowa." ...,
The Knoxville Express in a recent
issue said: "Austin Christ, well
known young Knoxville business man
got a team ana buggy at Shive's liv-
cry barn Thursday morning and
nothing has been. seen of him. HI
has. in fact, absconded, - leaving hi:
business and his creditors behind
Suspicion had been aroused the day
before by some transactions with the
Pella bank. aud when Christ left towI
the storm soon broke. 1t was sool
n found that he had been doing big
business on no capital except conf
dence, and that he had forged note!
right and left and had for a long
time eluded suspicion. Christ had OF
) implement aud carriage house OF
West Main street, and did big bust
: ness in vehicles of all kinds. He als,
!, had a large stable on East Robin
!, son street, which was continuousl,
; filed with driving horses and othe
( stock in which he dealt. He FIRE
. qucntly shipped carload of horse
: and had good many irons in tn