The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-07-05
THE NEWS in IOWA

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candidate for denomination.
A FEW days ago passenger train on
the Omaha s. st. Louis railroad struck
a handcar near Mineola, throwing the
occupants clear of the right-of-way,
and probably fatally injuring A. d.
Fengler. E. II. Miller was badly
bruised about the body and had sew
eral ribs broken, but is expected to
recover. j. A. Sumner was also on the
car and received serious injuries.
DURING recent storm at Manches-
ter lightning struck the livery barn of
Trousse & Hetherington, setting it on
fire and completely destroying 1T.
Eight horses were burned to death, to-
gether with the buggies and other
contents. The loss is several thousand
dollars. Considerable excitement was
caused by one of the horses breaking
from the barn after he was a mass of
flames and running up the main street.
: RICHARD BELL, colored man of
Abba, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide at the home of
his wife's father. Domestic troubles
which have been brewing for some
time were the cause of the tragedy.
The woman had fled a suit for divorce,
which was to have been heard at the
coming term of court. 1t is supposed
that Bell was trying to fix matters up
with her. Mrs. Bell spent the night
at the home of her father, Oliver Mar
shall. Bell went there and, calling
her out of the house, shot her, death
resulting instantly. The murderer
then turned the revolver on himself
and sent bullet through his heart.
THERE came very nearly being
murder in a house of i'll fame at Cedar
Rapids last week. Fred Daniels, who
was with the pool men at the races,
and "Kid" Sandridge, gambler, had
had trouble. cambridge was badly in
toxicated and was thrown out of the
house. He afterward returned and
finding Daniels asleep, struck him
vicious blow over the top of the head
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cash in the scalp and almost crushing
the skull. Daniels saved his life by
his own prompt work, pounding Sand
ridge into insensibility. May Hanna,
one of the women in the house, tried
to part the men and was struck
vicious blow under the eye. The
whole outfit was arrested.
ONE day last week William and Ross
Busby, sons of John Busby, residing
in the northwestern part of Mahaska
county, were killed by lightning and
the bodies partly cremated. The
young men were aroused by the
approach of the heavy wind and rain
storm and went from the house to close
the doors of the loft of large hay
barn. The barn was struck by light
ming while the young men were in the
building. They were either instantly
killed or rendered unconscious and
Eas fred HE'D 6y the thundErbalt and the
half cremated bodies OF the y6Hng men
were taken from the debris and ashes
The young men were 90 and 10 years
of age.\
SIX children were injured, one
fatally, and house wrecked by most
peculiar and destructive freak of
storm two miles south of Whiting
few days ago. The scene of destruc-
ton was on the Ed Billiard farm at
the home Of Harvey Queen. Light
ming struck the house, but no fire YVES.
started, and the building collapsed as
if blown up with dynamite. Every
window light and door was blown out
and joists were torn away and scat
tered over the field. The six children,
who were in the lower rooms, were
stunned and some were buried in the
debris. VERNE Queen, Is years old,
was buried deep in the mass of ruins,
and when her body was recovered she
was still alive but cannot survive. One
shoe was burned from her foot and the
waistband of her skirt was burned
when she was found. One of her legs
was fractured. Ada Queen received a
cash in the head and the others were
more or less injured.
]. w. CROWLEY, who was arrested at
Des Moines recently for alleged COM
plicity in the Sheldahl bank robbery,
has brought suit through his attor-
neys for damages in the sum of $15,-
600 on account of alleged injuries by
false arrest, against Deputy United
States Marshal w. A. Richards, A. U.
Quint and the Bankers Mutual Cas-
ualty company. Crowley was formerly
employed by local business college
and has lost his position in consequence
of his arrest and finds it impossible to
get place with insurance companies
with which he could formerly have be-
come connected In consequence of
the expense attached to his arrest and
his efforts to secure speedy release,
he claims expense in the sum of 5000
and in addition, he asks that damages
to the amount of $4,000 be granted
him for wrongful and illegal arrest.
He claims that the defendants con-
spired together to cause his arrest
and held him against his will and
without any real cause.
Bert Thomas was killed while trying
to board a Chicago, Burlington &,
Quincy train at Quincy. The deceased
was young man 1s years old and was
engaged in company work at Wood
burn. He had spent the day with
relatives in Ottumwa and was to re-
turn to work on the train by which he