The Leon reporter., 1901-02-07
THE NEWS IN IOWA

Jhe government $4,000 per year.
Chas. Chapman, charged with hay.
ing burglarized the residence of M
! n. Goodson of Boone, about month
ago, and getting away with $3.50 in
cash, has been bound over to the
grand jury in bonds of $500, which
were furnished by his father, prom
inent farmer of Story county.
The Misses Grimes, daughters ot
the late Governor Grimes, and the
wealthiest girls in Des Moines county
I were attacked in their country home
near Burlington a few days ago by
q masked man, who demanded money
en- penalty of death. In answer the
girls opened fire with a shotgun and
drove the man away, possibly badly
wounded.
Mrs. Bentley, of Oskaloosa, who
has been stopping at the Colfax san
itarium for surgical treatment, com
mitted suicide at the hotel few
days ago by drinking a, quantity of
oarbolic acid, then leaping from the
veranda of the second floor. She
lived but half an hour after the act.
Her husband is a member of the
wholesale drug firm of Green g. Bent
| ley of Oskaloosa.
Sadie, 7-year-old daughter of JAS
Williams of West Bend, was killed
as result of the accidental discharge
OF gun. Her father came in from
| hunting and gave the gun to a, little
son to clean. The boy, supposing
the gun to be empty, pulled the trig-
ger and discharged the contents of a
heavily loaded cartridge into his
little sisters body. The child lived
several hours in intense agony, and
died as the result of an operation
intended to relieve her.
Egloff Hansen, an employe at the
creamery Packing company's plant at
Waterloo, lies at the point of death as
result of injuries received by being
caught in a swiftly revolving shaft
and whirled through the air at rate
of $50 revolutions minute. He as
cended q step ladder to repair the
shafting and in some manner his
clothing became caught. The first in
timation that his companions had OF
the accident was a thud which caused
them to look up. The young man
was being hurled through the air at
lightning speed and at each revolu-
tion his head, arms and feet We're
thrown against the ceiling, which
was only twenty inches from the
shaft. The engine was stopped as
soon as possible, but not before the
unfortunate fellow had made at least
seventy-tive revolutions on the shaft.
When he was at last taken from the
machinery all his clothing had been
torn from his body and he was COW
cred with cuts and wounds. Physi-
, clans were called and everything done
for the man, but it is not possible
for him to recover after such an ex-
perience.
Senator j. S. Lothrop of Sioux City
a, few days ago presented to the exc
ciutive council his reasons for
believing the state could collect
II ON the federal government the
interest on the money paid out by the
state at the time of the civil war in
|the equipment of troops. The sum to
I which the state is entitled, according
tov fator Lothrop, is $42O, 900, and he
see<s to be appointed as agent to
make the collection on commission.
The members of the executive coun-
Gil are convinced the state has a
claim against the government, and
| steps toward collection will be taken.
The question that hampered proceed
lngs was whether the executive coun-
Gil, or the governor, had the power
to name an agent to press the claim
for the interest. Senator Lothrop
was unable to answer this question,
out he will communicate with the
council later, either directly or in
writing, after looking into the law
on this subject. Governor Shaw and
Attorney General Mullan will take up
this phase of the matter and deter
. mine what are the rights of the state
as to the claim, what the exact
1 amount is and whether an agent can
/ be appointed to undertake the active
/ work of collection.
A new law point which is of exceed
ing interest to the better paid class
of pensioners throughout the nation
is raised in suit brought at Ottum-
wa, in which Calvin Manning, who
was one of the United States com
missioners to the Paris exposition, is
plaintiff and County Treasurer John
II. Spry and Wapello county are the
defendants. In short. the question is,
can pension money be taxed? The
plaintiff is guardian for John Schwab-
key, an insane person, who served
through the war of the rebellion and
who, on account of his total disabil-
ity, draws pension of $72 per month.
In 1894 the plaintiff, for his ward. re-
ceived S11,244 as back and accrued
pension, and some time during Janu-
ary Treasurer Spry levied upon sucl,
moneys as were held by the plaintiff
in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900,
the total tax for that time amount
ing to $2,101.s3, and this sum now
appears on the tax books as against
said plaintiff and his ward, who
brought suit as stated under the pro.
visions of section 4747 of the revised
statutes of the United States for the
year 1878. and it is especially prayed
by the plaintiff that he be granted
| absolute immunity against the as
sessments and levies for the past,
1 present and henceforth. 1t is also
| pleaded that under the laws of Iowa
said moneys and the credits are ex-
| empt from taxation.
Ole Vaale, postmaster at Sande
vas accidentally killed by falling of
his wagon, loaded with lumber, while
| returning home from Lawler. Ali
Dleson, ex-member of the board o1
supervisors. was with him and was
injured, but not fatally.
A telegram received from Los An.
geles, Cal, says that Artemas Lamb