Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-03-09

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Don Stewart, a farmer 80 years OF
age residing near Abba, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat with razor
He had been brooding over imaginary
troubles and recently was adjudged in
sane. The commissioner withdrew
the information and the mother OF the
deceased had been entrusted with his
care. Stewart leaves a wife and sew
eral small children.
w. ellis and wife were badly burned
by the explosion of lamp. The burn
ing oil was scattered over Mrs. ellis
clothes and she went screaming from
room to room. The neighbors hearing
her cries ran to her assistance and ex-
tinpuished the fire. Her face. head,
arms and back are terribly burned and
she will probably die. Mr.. ellis was
not so badly burned as was his wife,
vet he is in serious condition.
Archbishop Hennessey died at his
home in Dubuque on the 4th, after an
illness which had extended over a pc
Rod of several weeks. Archbishop
Hennessey was born in the county OF
Limerick, Ireland, in 1924, and came to
the United States when q mere boy.
He was educated in St. Luke's Univer-
sity, completing his course in two SEM
inaries, and came to Dubuque, Iowa,
where after successful term in charge
of a parish he was consecrated bishop
September IS, 1866. He was elevated
to the archepiscopal dignity September
II, 1893, and was the ruler of the bish-
oprics centering in Davenport, Du-
buoue, Omaha, Lincoln and Cheyenne,
beyond whom the only appeal was to
Rome. Archbishop Hennessey had
thus been a bishop for thirty-four
wears, and in all his career there was
no appeal from his decision. When he
was created bishop there were but
twenty-seven priests in Iowa, and
when he died as archbishop there were
293 priests in the archdiocese alone,
besides 100 in the Davenport diocese,
which was divided from the Dubuque
diocese in 1881. There are now in his
diocese two academies and fifty in the
archdiocese, 100 parochial schools, with
An enrolment of 1000, an orphanage,
an industrial and reform school and
two other charitable institutions.
At Des Moines few days ago Howe
l. Miller, attorneys for Mark Chiesa,
E. Roman, j. d. Hagernan and 5.
Neuderman, saloon men cited to ap-
pear and show cause why they should
not be punished for contempt OF court,
fled demurrers to the informations
that it is claimed will not only quash
these four cases, which were brought
by representatives of the anti-saloon
people, but all the contempt proceed
ings instituted by J. D. Laws and will
render imperative about 5000 injunc-
lions granted prior to 1897. The sa-
loon men maintain that the law, I'M
der which the old injunctions, those
of 1895, were granted, was not re-
enacted and provision was not made
in the new code for the continuance OF
the old injunctions, SO that in reality
thew have gone out of existence and no
violation can be charged on their ac'
count. They are taking the ground on
which the anti-saloon people fought
when they attacked the old consent
petition granted prior to the enact
ment of the old code and which they
maintained and the supreme court has
held was invalidated by that point.
The liquor men are so confident as to
their positions that they propose to
rest on the demurrers and to appeal
to the supreme court in the event that
the lower court holds against them.
Tom futile, 10 years old, whom the
authorities at Charlton have in custody
on the charge of implication in the
brutal assault which was made on Miss
Anna Hemming recently, is said tc
have made a confession duplicating
Frank Sandahl, who is also under ar
rest, but refuses to make a statement
The former says that Sandahl pointed
the girl out to him and he was to re
ceive S., 900 to kill her, one-half the
amount that was to be paid to get her
out of the way. 1t is suspected that
there are others implicated in the case
futile says Sandahl told him to knock
her down, but that he need not Kill
her unless he wanted to; that he him
self would finish the job. Sandahl de
MES the story, but both men were pos
itively identified by Miss Hemming
eandahl was shown to her and She
stated absolutely that he was the las
man to attack her as she was losing
consciousness. Out of dozen or fit
teen she positively identified the two
men, who are now in Jail. The tow1
is greatly excited over the arrest
There was little or no clew to work on
except that she and her mother by
adoption never lived happily together
The girls father by adoption, whose
name is Peter Larson, decided her con
adorable real estate not long ago. II
is said that this act intensified thu
feeling between her step-mother ant
herself and that the motive for tn
deed may possibly be found in a desire
to have the real estate revert to Lar
son, as would be the case in the even
of her death.
A. /. Breckenridge, for several year
s.oro+orv If the Pernetual BuildinI