Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-08-10

i S1XGn Huu ILutOu SCACCC0 A"S SOSSAA
burned down. This time it is w. J.
Mize who is the loser. The fine barn
which he built there about three years
ago was discovered to be on fire, and
in thirty-fve minutes the structure
was heap OF smoking ruins.
Rolfe is afflicted with Jack the
Hugger." When the shadows of even
| ing fall sufficiently he HES himself to
some lonely spot on the walk and
awaits victim. 1t is said he doesn't
wait for them singly. but will take
twos A great big rousing hug seems
to satisfy him and he moves on to
greener fields and hugging more. The
| freak has not vet been recognized.
Sickness and financial burdens too
heavy for endurance led Emil Loehr,
| laborer of Davenport, to take his
own life. His son went down into the
| cellar to get some potatoes and found
| the body of his father, stiff. in death,
| hanging by his neck on rope at
| tached to the floor above. For year
| past Luehr had suffered greatly and
| it was at times thought that his mind
| was affected.
A sixteen-months-old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Walrod of Calender was
| fearfully cut by a field mower. Thr
| child got away from its people and
had wandered into the long grass. The
driver failed to see it until it was
too late and the little child was fear
fully mangIed. One arm was cut en-
tirely off, sOme toes were also severed
from the foot and it's body amt face
were severely cut. The ckild may live
In frenzy of rage. Andrew Nelson.
of Davenport, aged 20. shot his wife
with double barreled shotgu az
then cut his own throat. Mrs. Mel
son is at the Moline hospital with q
very slight chance of recovery. The
charge of small shot tore her and so
that it had to be ampu'ated and
lodged in her breast. She fell upon
the floor, blood flowing in livid
streams all over her person and spout
ing out upon curtains and furniture.
The state levy in Iowa this year will
be either 2.5 or 2.6 mills. On the lat
ter basis there will be reduction Of
2-10 OF mill FROM Il year ago. This
reduction is warranted because OF the
increase in returns of all kinds OF
property from those of a year ago,
expected to aggregate Sl4.O0O,OOO.
There is an unusually large increase
in personal property and new build
ings. a large increase in railroad val
uations. and small increase on tel
egraph and telephones. \ year ago
the general state levy was three mills,
49, ~ for
the state university ordered by the
legislature. This year there is in ad-
dition to the standing tax of the state
university. Ito of q mill for the State
College of Agriculture. This added
to the &c mills fixed by the council
will still make the state levy 2-10 of
mill less than that of year ago.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the first annual state golf
tournament which is to be held in
Des Moines the last week in August,
beginning the 2Sth. More than fifty
golf enthusiasts from all parts of the
state will be in Des Nloines. At the
close of the tournament state asso-
citation of golf clubs will be formed,
and a series of annual meetings will
be inaugurated. Mr. Raymond Wind
sor, who has been until recently cap
tain of the Des Moines Golf club, is
chairman of the committee on az
rangements for the state meeting.
Associated with him in the prepare
tons are George +. Henry, Warren
Dickinson and Kirk Jewett. The first
three days of the meet will be taken
up with individual contests. On the
l., in 1,oo 70. fab
with four men from each town COM
peting. On the evening of the fourth
day there will be Il meeting for or
ganization. The players will be
the delegates to this meeting.
Invitations to attend the meeting and
take part in the organization have
been sent to all the towns in the state
where golf is the popular game, and
| undoubtedly fifteen or twenty will
send representatives. Eleven have al
ready notified Mr.. Windsor that they
will be on hand.
A recent dispatch from Webster
City says: Ex-Sheriff W. ". Sinclair,
| whose sudden disappearance some
| nine weeks ago caused a large amount
of talk, returned as suddenly a few
| days ago. Sinclair, it will be remem-
bered, left home without telling any
| one where he was going, and his
wife persisted in the idea that he had
beeen kidnapped. At about the time
! Of his disappearance Nellie Hand, a
| rather notorious character in these
| parts, also disappeared, and the gen
eral opinion prevailed that the pair
had eloped together. They were said
| to have been seen in Denver togethu'.
| but this statement was never veri-
fed. Sinclair denies ever having seen
the Hand woman during his travels,
and says he left home on account of
family troubles. which, he claims,
were breaking down his health. He
says he has been in Nebraska, Illinois
and other states. working most of the
time as hired hand on farms. He
looks much better than before he left
and says his health is greatly i'm
proved. He expects to make this
place his headquarters. but will be
out of the city much of the time on
business Sinclair's wife, whose health
has gradually been growing worse
since his disappearance, is said to be
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