The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-24
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| Clyde Gubelstein and Eddie Hoff.
man were badly injured in coasting
accident at Davenport.
Helen Hallac, aged Z, of Brighton
will probably die as a result of bob
sled runaway. Four other children
were badly hurt.
Charles Frank of Carpenter is al
legged to have kissed three girls at a
church social. He had the smallpox
and they have it now.
On Monday, the 18th, registered
mail package containing $4,000 was
taken from mail car on the side
track of the Chicago Great Western
railway. Postoffice inspectors w. M.
Ketcham of Marshalltown and C. L.
Stewart of Iowa City, after u three
| days investigation, were a>able to
locate the thief. and finally Inspector
hetcfam and Sheriff Watt and Post
office Clerk Morris found the money
In the cellar of Jack Hanson, a
brakeman on the Chicago Great
Western railway. He was arrested
and has confessed.
The supreme court on the 18th en-
tered the following order, in sustain
ing the motion to have the Titus
amendment appeal case advanced to
the head of the calendar: State of
Iowa eN rel Marsh w. Bailey VS.. S. W..
Brookhart, appellant. The motion to
advance cause is sustained. Cause to
be submitted January 23 at 8 o'clock
a. M. i'll print. Counsel interested in
like questions in other cases to have
permission to file printed arguments
in this case. This case may be ar
eued orally by two counsel on side,
each to have one hour.
The grand jury of Warren county
has indicted Mrs. Hossack for the
murder of her husband, John Hos
sack. She is charged with murder in
the first degree. The case is expect
ed to be tried at as. early a date as
possible, though it is not likely that
II will be reached this month. Hen
derson and Berry, attorneys for the
defendant, are anxious to have an
early trial. Both deny that they will
ask for a change of venue to Polk
county or any other place and de-
clare their confidence in being able
to obtain fair trial in Indianola.
As if the Titus amendment he'd not
already seen enough grief, some in
dustrious Sioux City attorneys have
discovered some more alleged pune
lures in the situation. They declare
that even if the supreme court of
the state shall make ruling one
way or the other in the Washing
ton county case, that ruling can
not have general effect and need
not be accepted by the officials of
OF any other county. They say the
constitution and statutes specifically
provide that no judge interested in
{. question at issue can preside at
hearing of said question, except by
agreement of ali parties concerned.
IL happens that the parties in the
Washington county case have agreed,
but they certainly cannot waive OBJ
iections for officials from other coun-
ties. When the Washington case
is decided contesting officials from
other counties can say they did not
waive their objections to the judges,
who may possibly be prejudiced, and
therefore the ruling can not be fore
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tation of the law and the conditions
the ruling of the supreme court in
the Washington case extends no far
Their than the limits of Washington
county.
twenty-five years after q band of
Sioux Indians captured and destroyed
several hundred head of oxen and
horses belonging to the old Black
Hills freighting partnership of John
Hornicls, Fred I. Evans and Richard
Dunn, the government has allowed
claim for the property carried away
to the amount of $4,556, less than one
fifth of the original amount demand
ed. After making fight of nine
years for his client, Capt. j. S. Lath-
rop of Sioux City has received notice
from the United States court of
claims of his final victory. But John
Hornick was cut out from participa-
ton in the benefits of the claim, for
the reason that he is not citizen of
the United States. For more than a
generation Mr.. Hornick has been a
prominent factor in Sioux City's
growth; in the old boom days he was
member of the "big FOUR" and
reputed millionaire. Today he is
again wealthy, in spite of heavy
losses and services. He has never
had any doubts of his citizenship. He
has for years voted regularly, firm in
the belief that he had right to all
the privileges of citizenship. He
served as faithful soldier through
out the civil war, entering the army
as lad of 10 years, and he cast his
first ballot for Abraham Lincoln in
1864; ever since then he has been ac-
tive as citizen and rarely has he
missed his ballot. The court held
that John Hornick is not citizen
because he was of foreign birth, and
he could not present complete evil
dence of his fathers naturalization.
c. E. Walters, expert accountant
employed by the creditors of Officer
g. Pusey's bank at Council Bluffs,
says the co-partnership formed in
1856 had been insolvent since 1883.
The ten sophomores who took
President Styles of the freshman
class at the State university out of
the city and detained him until after
the freshman banquet have been ex-
PEELED from the university by thu fac
ulty of the college of liberal ;rts.
Mrs. Margaret Hossack, charged
with the murder of her husband, and
indicted by the grand jury of Warren
county for murder in the first degree,
was refused bail by Judge Applegate,
and as consequence must remain in
the county Jail until the March term
| of the district court, at which time
| it is expected that the case will be