The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-13

Sallinger, supreme court reporter, mas
announced himself candidate fol
| omination to succeed Mr.. Deliver fol
| congress in the Tenth district. There
are now ten candidates.
A find which has startled the whole
city was made on Central avenue al
Fort Dodge. While searching among
the straw, which had been left by 8
| snake eating sfreak" which was one
of the attractions of the recent street
fair, some boys discovered nine live
| young rattle snakes.
Burglars entered the dental office OF
DR.. P. p. Dorr at Fort Dodge and pos.
sessed themselves of valuable
amount of gold filling pellets. The
entrance into the Office was made
through a window, which was pried
open with jimmy. No clue to the
identity of the authors of the burg
larry has been discovered.
Marcus Seigling, farmer in Lib
erty township eight miles southwest
of Iowa City, was accidentally shot
to death a short distance from his
home. Seigling, Jacob Slower and
| Albert III. Morris We're conversing,
! when Siegling stepped benin the buggy
and commenced to pull a shotgun
from under the seat. The muzzle
| pointing directly toward him, the
hammers caught, both barrels being
emptied into his stomach. his death
occurring shortly after.
At Canton, ILL.,, few days ago W.
j. Ackley died in the county poor
house. Thirty-fve years ago Ackley
with others founded the town of
Ackley in Hardin county this state
and it was there Ackley laid the foun-
dalton for his future thousands. He
was at one time reputed TO be worth
100000, and friends We're numerous.
Reverses came, and Acllley became
practically penniless and about two
years since he applied and was taken
into the poor house as above stated.
An Indictment for murder has been
returned against Frank Peyton, the
dope fend and all-around crook who
confessed in st. Louis recently that
he helped kill Contractor John Z. Rob-
son in Sioux City last December while
robbing the latter's Office. Peyton
will be brought to Sioux City imme-
diately and will be tried at the pres
ent term of court. His crime aroused
wide interest because of it's brutality,
the mystery surrounding it and the
efforts made TO find the murderer.
Two different innocent men were ar
rested for the crime and after trial
released. Peyton's first confession, in
which he partially admitted part
in the murder, came as a startling
surprise August II.
At Des Moines few days ago Mat
tie Mash, colored, shot and perhaps
fatally wounded William Foster, 4
colored attorney. Immediately after
the shooting the Mash woman jumped
into buggy and dashed the horse in
desperate efforts to escape capture.
Sergeant Morris and Fire Chief Bur-
nett, in the chiefs buggy, started
after her, and at the corner of Seventh
street and Grand avenue they collided
with buggy containing Mr.. and Mrs.
r. j. Putnam and Mrs. NJ A. Hays.
The occupants of the buggy were
the pavement and the two
LADIES' n severely, but it is not
though Wy. Officer Livingstone
contlnueoS Fase and captured the
woman near Twelfth street and Grand
avenue. The woman charges that
Foster had accomplished her ruin un-
der promise of marriage, and declined
to keep his promise.
A dispatch from Marshalltown saws
the canning season in Marshall
county is practically over. 1t has been,
a busy and prosperous one. For the
past five weeks the Marshall Canning
company of that city has employed
200 hands night and day, putting up
$4,000 cans of corn every twenty-four
hours. The seasons pack will be at
least 100000 cans. A larger business
than usual has also been done bv the
Hawkeye Canning company of the
same city, in both corn and tomatoes.
while at Gilman, in the southern part
of the county, phenomenal seasons
run has been made, breaking all pre-
vious records. The Gilman concern
is one of the most extensive in the
state, and it's product is almost in
variably sold entire before single
can is sealed. Marshall county canned
corn is in active demand in nearly
all parts of the world.
A mysterious case of poisoning hap
pened at Delta recently which has
ended in the arrest of the wife of
the dead man on the charge of muir
der. The facts have just leaked out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kuhn of Delta
drove to What Cheer, where they pur.
chased four bottles of beer, two of
which were drank on the road home.
just before reaching Delta Kuhn gave
scream and said that he had been
poisoned and would die unless immedi-
ately helped. He was driven rapidly
to Delta, where he was taken to the
office of physician, but expired in a
few minutes. His last words were ad-
dressed to his wife and were: you
have poisoned me-" A coroner's Jury
was empanelled the next morning and
the evidence of physicians who had
made post norton examination was
taken. Mrs. Kuhn was arrested and
placed in Jail, charged with murder.
1t is said there is a man in the plot.
j. ID. Clifford of Boone was killed by
an officer at Ell Paso while resisting
arrest. 1t is said he was heir to a
fortune in Chicago.
w. A. Roe of Des Moines has been
reelected president of the Hay Fever
association of the United States at it's
session just concluded at Marquette
and at which over 600 members were
in attendance.
Within four months the townships
of Saylor and Four Mile, Polk county,
expended $4,000 of the county funds
for the maintenance of smallpox hos
pitfalls and expenses incidental to keep