Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-08-24
THE NEWS IN IOWA.

ballot in the convention at nlarle.
i City. Ny S
i Samuel Waller Of Burlington ha.
4 been arrested at Nevada City on the
i charge of embezzlement. He will bt
held in San Francisco until an officer
arrives from Burlington to take hin
4 back to that place. y.
i While trying to save his team, join
Denell, who was driving scrapel
near Peosta, where the Illinois Cen.
trail is widening it's roadbed, lost his
j life. He was struck by a passing
train and instantly killed. -'-
i Walter Hedges, aged 20 years, sor
of Mrs. Amelia Hedges, residing north
Of Hedrick, was drowned in Skunk
river. With three other boys he was
swimming and was taken with a
cramp while in swift current.
Geo. Ashworth, mate on the VERNE
Swain, running on the Mississippi,
was shot in the leg by Engineer
| Wheeler of the same boat, while quar-
,reling. Ashworth is in the hospital
| at Clinton and Wheeler left with the
boat. 81
In the Tenth district democratic
/
| Dale was nominated on the first bal
lot. Other candidates We're Horace
Mann and S. f. McMahan. w. /.
Brannigan of Emmetsburg presided
over the convention.
Little Dorothy Haight of Winfield
got hazel nut lodged in her wind
pipe, which finally got to her lung,
forming an abscess. In a violent fit of
| coughing she choked to death.
| Mason City on the fourth ballot in
| the convention at Charles City.
The general deep feeling of rejoic-
| ing that has been caused in Des
Moines, in Iowa and elsewhere, by the
news of the fall of Picking and the
saving of the beleaguered foreigners,
was expressed by Governor Shaw in a
cablegram to Minister Conger. Gov
ernor Shaw sent the dispatch early
in the evening. 1t was as follows:
"All Iowa congratulates. After pro-
longed anxiety, great rejoicing by
state, nation and all Christendom.
Shaw
Frank Siegler Drained William
Schultz with club at Shenandoah.
It appears that an alteration occur
red over the separation of 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 were good friends, and it is
thought that Siegler was crazy at the
time he struck Schultz. Seigler has
acted strangely for two years.
C. J. Poole, cashier of the Losier
bank in Nashua, who disappeared
mysteriously July Is, has been found
in northern Montana. He has been
wandering since that time, and is in
bad condition. 1t is presumed he
was mentally unbalanced at the time
of his departure from Nashua, as he
gave no notice of his intention. and,
aside from one letter sent to his wife
who was visiting in Floyd. nothing
has been heard from him since that
time. Mr.. Poole left his accounts in
good condition and all money ac-
counted for.
At recent meeting, B. F. Stevens
appeared before the town council of
Spirit Lake and modestly asked it to
receive on the part of the town the
complete power plant and light and
heating system, which he has built at
a cost of about 100000. There are
no strings to the gift. There is no
debt to pay, no service to promise,
no obligation to assume. The property
is practically new. 1t has all been
put in of the best material and work
manship. There is at the power
house vast surplus of capacity that
may be used to promote public inter-
est. Under intelligent and progress
sive direction. this gift may be large
ly beneficial to the town.
Clarence Rich, 25 years Of age, a
passenger on the midnight north
bound train on the G. G. w., COM
mitted suicide on the train just before
reaching Oelwein, by drinking car
bolic acid. He drank the liquid just
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 nOuf. FROM
long letter found on his person, writ
| ten to his father at Red Wing, Mimi.
| it appears that he was on his way
home from a 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.
! A fatal railroad accident occurred
at Storm Lake, resulting in the death
! of boy about twelve or thirteen
years old, apparently unknown, who
was run over by an Illinois Central
gravel train just east of the Milwau
| kee crossing. Both legs were cut Off
| an arm crushed and his head badly
crushed. He was insensible wher
| picked up. but was brought to towr
immediately. He was already dying
and expired in about half an hour
without regaining consciousness. He
had been put off the train in the yart
and was next seen as he was in thu
act of jumping from a gravel car to ;
pile of crushed rock near the crossing
He rebounded from the rock pile ant
fell between the cars. A letter from
his mother was found upon him. L
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