Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-20
ASKS $4,000.

Tort Madison Man Claims His Eye
WINS Worth That Much to Him. q
1T. Madison, Aug. 20.-J. Benjamin
Hesse has filed a petition in the district
court at Fort Madison thru his attor-3
neys Watson & Weber, asking $4,000
from John r.. Hinze.
The petition states that on or about
June %, 1900, John F. Hinze, without
tprovocation and without fault on the
part of the plaintiff, wilfully, malicious.
|ly, and in violation Of law, did cruelty
and inhumanly strik and beat plaintiff
on the right eye, cutting his eye and in
juring the cornea, thereby destroying
his sight and disabling him from attend
ing to any business since the occurrence
and that he is still unable to perform
labor; that he has been and is still un-5
der the treatment of an oculist; that
such disability and injury is permanent;
that he has also suffered great mental
and physical pain and anguish and asks
damages in the sum of $4,000.
The Officers Arrested.
Boone, Aug. 20.-The War against the
saloon goes merrily on. The last ca seq
wers against Chief Of Police Weaver
and Officers Lille and Brady for not
doing their duty when asked by the
ministers to swear out warrants for the
search of suspected premises. This the
officers refused to dc, az the premises
We're not located for them, being desig-
mated as "a certain place. The minis
ters had the officers arrested and tried
before Justice McBirnie, who dismissed
the cases. Five jugs We're seized at Ed
Gartand's place and locked UP in the
basement of the new jail The stuff
Was to have been sampled Saturday,
but when court convened and the sheriff
Went 10 bring it in he found that a graf
ling had been spried off the outside VIM
dow, and some one had smashed the
five jugs with a crowbar; consequently
they We're not able TO appear for trial.
Whether they contained malt tonic,
whisky or water is not known The sa-
looms are all closed, but the club rooms
and blind pigs are doing a rushing bus
lineSs The new petition has been circu-
Hated and few hundred more names
procured than is necessary to reopen
them next month.
Heat Claims u Victim.
Burlington, Aug. 20.-The heatclaimed
Hts first victim#in Burlington last even
ling in the death of Jumbo" Smith, a
negro whose size and strength secured
for him the aobriquet by which he vas
always, known.
Smith vas a big. healthy colored man.
probably s feet inches in height and
weighing $50 pounds He Was we'll
proportioned a giant in stature, pos
ssessiiig enormous strength and had
t.neyer been sick a day in the sixty odd
years of his life.
Yesterday he worked aa usual at the
warehouse of the Star Ice company, and
ii is said drank considerable ice water.
| eliNed in a small house in the district
known as Tin Cam alley, off Angular
i,strset. on Third. After his work he
Went home and for supper ate consider
Table watermelon. While enjoying this
luscious fruit he became suddenly i'll,
land before medical assistance could be
summoned died, about o'clock.
Boy Nlnn;.Ied by Cars.
Fort Dodge, Aug. pa fatal railroad
accident occurred at storm Lake satur-
lday afternoon. resulting in the death Of
la boy about ~ or 10 years old, appar-
emily unknown, who Vas run over by an
| Illinois Central gravel train just east of
liles HddkeS cIos'sllls. DON itSs3WeEs
Gu. off, an arm crushed and his head
BADLY crushed. He was insensible when
4 picked up, but was already dying and
expired in about half an hour without
regaining consciousness. He had been
1 put off the train in the yard and was
next seen as he was in the act of jump
ling from a gravel car to a pile OF
crushed rock near the crossing. He re-
bounded from the rock pile and fell be-
tween the5cars. a letter from his mother
was found upon him. 1t was addressed
Ito Lee Reeves, Kingsley, Iowa. 1, was
unsigned, but bore the return address
Mrs. G. A. Reeves, Grant City. Mo-, on
the envelope
4 Missing Cashier Poolc I.oca1cd.
Charles City, Aug. PC. j. Poole
cashier of the Losier bank in Nashua
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