Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-23
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Dubuque street railway was burned
and five cars destroyed: Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000
In runaway at Mason City
one day last week Charles Brandon
was thrown from buggy and killed.
Two others who were with him We're
hurt. The horse also fell and broke
it's neck.
A servant in the Hotel Allen at
Washington was a few days ago taken
down with the smallpox, and consid-
cradle uneasiness exists. The hotel
has been quarantined, and it is claimed
there is no danger of Il spread.
A Davenport dispatch says: The Lee
Broom and Buster Company has suf-
fered again from fire, the loss this
time amounting to $1,000. The fire
was caused by the overturning Of
stovepipe in a back room, setting fire
to the broom corn, the flames rapidly
spreading. The building and machin-
erv were damaged considerably, but
the company expects to be running
again in a couple of weeks.
Lone Tree dispatch: John Carson,
an old time resident of Lone Tree, ac-
cidentally shot himself in the groin
July 4, 1876, with a 3s-caliber revolver.
The surgeons were unable to find the
bullet The wound healed, but Car
son has been troubled more or less
since with pain. The doctors attrib-
uted it to the bullet in his body. Car
son, while chopping wood, accidentally
cut himself severely in the calf of his
leg. What was his surprise to see drop
from the wound made by the AK the
bullet that had troubled him for
twenty-four years.
Dispatches announce that Archbishop
Keane of Washington and Bishops
Cosgrove of Davenport and Cheyenne
| have been named as candidates for the
archbishopric of Dubuque. Keane has
| been given the refusal in accord with
the expressed wish of the archbishops
of the country, and should he refuse,
Cosgrove will be the next man. Keane
may decline the Dubuque position be-
cause there is almost a certainty of his
being made coadjutor bishop of Chica-
60 1t has been practically settled
that the Dubuque and Davenport do
cese will be divided and Des Moines
and Sioux City made sees, with DR..
Carroll of Dubuque and Rev. McLaugh-
lin of Clinton as bishops. If Cosgrove
should be made archbishop, Linehan
will be transferred to Davenport ana a
new bishop sent to Cheyenne.
Sioux City dispatch: Since the
murder of his brother-in-law, Christ
Bauer, the slayer, Ernest Meyer, has
been securely locked up in the steel
cage in the Woodbury. county Jail. He
is the most miserable man who has
been locked up here for years, and he
is getting about all the mental pun
ishment that ordinarily falls to the lot
of one man. But in addition to the
scenes of his crimes before his eyes,
the man has second serious trouble.
His wife has gone back on him since
in a drunken fit of rage he slew her
brother. The couple has four little
children and they were the idol OF
their fathers eye. But he is not per-
mittcd to see them, and he spends
nearly all of his time soDbing and cry
ing as if his heart would break Mey.
cr is not criminal at heart, in fact he
is said to be a very fine sort of a Ger
man farmer.
The Black Hawk county grand jury
has made it's final report, return
ing two indictments against jerome
W. Hoot. The maximum sentences fol
the two crimes for which Hoot is in
dicted are ten and twenty-five years
respectively. The first Indictment
charges him with assault with intent
to commit murder and the other in
dictment.1s on the charge of throwing
or depositing dynamite into an inhab
tied dwelling. The court fixed the
bonds for each case at SO, 900, making
4 the aggregate bondnecessary to secure
release , $50 o l'9!;r .s1<4.: ...4,.r-