Omaha daily bee., 1901-03-22
BYERS ISSUES REQUISITlON
Iowa Militia Wants Clothing to Replace
That Turned Over to Government
LARGE ERROR IN ACCOUNTS OF oRpHANAeE
Former Resident Of Manchester Ac-
cuscd of Bi9amy-Locates Run
away Wite-s. VI. Cole of Ne
braska Commits suicide.

DES MONIES March 21.-(Specinl)-Ad-
jutant General Byers this morning issued
requisition on the War department for
$4,000 worth of clothing and army equip
ment to supplant that which was turned
over to the government at the time the
four regiments of the Iowa National guard
We're mustered into the volunteer service
at the beginning of the Cuban war The
Iowa guards were well equipped with cloth
ing, which was according to the regular
army standard AS soon as the regiments
entered the volunteer service this clothing
became the property of the United states.
The requisition today corresponds to the
inventory taken at that time and receipted
for by the government.
The list includes 2,067 trousers, 1854
blouses, 279 non commissioned officers
blouses, 1,767 overcoats, 7S5 infantry blank
cts. 1855 company hats. 1,3i1 leggings. GO
trumpets and 46 music pouches. The value
OF the total aggregate nearly $50, 900. 1t is
anticipated that there will be no trouble
In securing these goods from the govern
ment to replace those turned over by the
state of Iowa. Other similar requisitions,
though for smaller amounts, have been
honored and it is believed this will be.
second lieutenant of Company NJ Fifty
first regiment Red Oak, was received by
the adjutant general today. He resigns
because of removal to Colorado.
Fails to Get the Money.
peculiar error has been discovered in
the matter of handling the accounts OF
state institutions at the time the change
was made from the old trustee system to
that of tho single rJ NJ
intendent Gass of the Iowa Soldiers Or
phans home at Davenport has found out
that the money due that institution for
the month of July, 1898, had never been
credited to the home That was the month
when the change was made. In transferring
accounts one month was overlooked. The
money has been collected and is in the
treasury, but the warrants had never been
drawn by the auditor for the home The
sum involved is $4,43055. Now Superintend
ent Gass wants to get the money, but the
Board Of Control has no authority to go
back and make corrections in accounts pre-
vious to the time of its taking control.
The attorney general will be asked TO
decide what legal steps may be necessary
to get the account Strengthened, and II Is
probable that he will recommend that the
money be placed to the credit of the in
board may decide. The fact that the or
phanage has run along nearly two years
without missing such large sum indicates
that 1t has not been bard pressed for money.
Accused of Bigamy.
Robert Hewett formerly resident of
Manchester, is under arrest in Cleveland
o.. accused of biganly. Hewett some years
ago married the daughter of Mrs. Margaret
Williams Nit toll
the trouble TO secure a divorce, he mar
ried his mother-in-law and came to Man
chester to live, where he remained several
years. He recently went to Cleveland, o..
where his first wife was and she caused
his arrest for bigamy. Wife No. returned
to Manchester last week, and she was ar
rested and taken before the local board OF
| insanity and declared insane. She is now
in the State Hospital for the Insane
Banquet Drinks on the Side.
The Des Moines men who were at one
| time members of the Greek college So
| cieties have an organization and on the
evening of April they are to give a ban
quet, which will have one feature novel in
banquets The liquid refreshments are to
be left off, the regular menu and those who
wish drinks will be expected to pay for
them on the side. This was done as a con-
cession to the large number of temperance
men in the association, who refused to
join in banquet II they were to be re-
CURED to pay for wines and other liquors
which they would not use. There are about
l25 members of the association and they
were very nearly equally divided on the
question of using wines at the banquet.
Locates Runaway Wife.
j. W. Kramer, prosperous farmer Of
Dallas county living near Desoto. has To-
Gated his runaway wife near Sloan, where
! he says she is living with man named
| Kroll to whom she had not been married
Kramer went out to sell patent medicines.
| His wife went to Illinois last fall and then
| Kroll disappeared Kramer has located
them near Sloan and is planning to cause
! them trouble.
| New Corporations.
The Iowa Implement Supply company of
New Hampton has been incorporated with
$4,000 capital, by o. V, Eckert, d. A. Lyons
and others. Att
The Shenandoah Poultry House company
| has been incorporated, with SIC, 900 capital,
by ID. S. Presse, o. T. Rankin and others.
The Nj. Constant company of Council
Bluffs has filed incorporation papers with
the secretary of state. The capital stock is
$4,000, and incorporators, NJ Constant
George G. Bell and Herman Bierdorf.
Nebraska Man a Suicide.
S. M. Cole, farmer of Gage county Me-
braska, who had rented farm in Madison
county, twenty miles from Des Moines, anc
was moving his goods there, for some un-
accountable reason committed suicide the
forepart of the week. He had bought
farm OF Mr.. Warrington and was moving
his effects from Beatrice, having them un
loaded at Van Meter. An employe had ac.
companied him and was helping move the
goods into the house on the farm when
Mr. Cole went upstairs and shot himself
Cole lived nearly a day after doing the
shooting, declared that he had done 1t him
self and refused to give any reason there
for. His wife and two children were to
join him this week.
Court House Quarantined.
The county court house was this after
noon closed and the doors locked and a
strict quarantine ordered by the local
health board on account of smallpox, The
old building will be again subjected tc
thorough fumigation and will not be re-
opened until all who have been exposed to
smallpox have passed danger, Action was
taken on petition by the county courts and
the employees at the court house
Old-Time Boats Sink.
| MUSCATlNE, Ia March 21.-TWo old