The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-05-16

to the candidacy of Senator Harri
man for governor.
Wisconsin university defeated lowe
in a debate on the "Construction o.
the Nicaraguan Canal" at Madison
Wisconsin favored the canal.
At Ames few days ago Drake wor
the triangular meet from Grinnel
and Ames with comparative ease. The
winning score was fifty-fonr points
Grinnell added forty-three and Ames
thirty-eight.
E. c. Young, brakeman ON the
Algona branch, was run over and in.
stantly killed at Hampton while
making up freight train, his foot
being caught on a guard rail. He was
a single man 80 years old.
NJ. I. Bishop was killed two miles
east of Stanton. He attempted tc
board an eastbound freight train that
was going twenty-five miles an hour
when he was thrown under the
wheels and frightfully mangled. He
was is years old and his parents re.
side in Stanton.
Burglars broke into the Fair store
ut Lone Tree, bound and gagged the
| night Waterman, and stole $500 worth
of clothing and $50 worth of jewelry.
They stole handcar and escaped,
afterwards throwing the car into
the Iowa river at Iowa City, where
| it was found.
| The trustees committee on faculty
of Iowa college has accepted the res
| ignations of Prof. r. G. Cole, head OF
the musical department.; Mrs. G. G,
| Cole, of the piano department.; Miss
Hall, of the same department.; Miss
Grace Henderson, preceptress of the
academy, and Miss Haines, instructor
of the academy. Prof. Cole will spend
the coming year in Europe.
The Bee Hive department store in
Burlington, managed by the Weber
Smith company, has assigned, with
assets of $4,000; liabilities, $4,000.
The cause of the failure is given as
poor collections and the backward
spring. Twenty-one Chicago firms are
involved in sums ranging from $40 to
$500, the latter being SELF, Schwab &
Company. There are fifteen Ohio
firms involved, and others scattered
all over the east and southeast.
A young man giving the name of G..
B. Hines was arrested at Waterloo by
United States Deputy Marshal Healey
and taken to Cedar Rapids to answer
a charge of attempting to evade the
revenue laws. He was working in
Waterloo and nearby country for a
fraternal insurance order. He mailed
check for $14 to a man in Cedar
Rapids, but before doing so failed to
place thereon 2-cent revenue stamp.
The man turned the check over to the
federal authorities. 1t will probably
cost him handsome fine.
Davenport has another clam-pearl
story, and this one is vouched for as
truth. This time it is Jack Bailey of
LeClaire, who is reputed to be the
lucky man, and $1,000 is given as the
purchase price of his find. Bailey is
a well known riverman, who has been
''clamming'' for couple of years
past. He was working clambank
near Gordon's Ferry, ten miles below
Dubuque, and in passing the clam
shells from one kettle to another,
searching the meaty residue for slugs
and pearls, he found clam with
something hard imbedded in the
meaty portion and a moment later
eNtricated a pearl as large as pea.
The next day one of the members of
Howe Bros, jewelers. of Clinton, paid
$1,000 for the pearl, which was out Of
Mississippi river clam,
A suit for $4,000 adds new chap
ter to the Finn-Muroy sensation that
developed in Hardin county several
weeks ago, resulting in the disruption
of the Finn home at Radcliffe, and
the commitment of Mrs. Finn to the
state asylum at Independence. Speak
ing of the new case, the Enterprise
says: Gas a result of the recent
trouble in the Finn case at Radcliffe
papers have been filed by Mr.. Finn
with Clerk Meader asking $4,000 of
A. Muroy as damages for the aliena-
ton of plaintiffs wife's affections,
also asking temporary order enjoin-
ing any communication with Mrs.
Finn, who is now in the asylum at In
dependence. The petition also asks
that the said temporary injunction be
made permanent on final hearing.
Sheriff Mitterer served papers on MI
roy at Hubbard Friday" Muroy is a
Mexican music teacher and is making
Iowa Falls his headquarters, where hf
is giving lessons.
John Fairgraves, the Valley juno,
ton saloonkeeper, has taken shot
at the Iowa statutes governing con-
tempt proceedings for violation of
liquor injunctions. He has filed an
amendment to his motion for a dis
charge of the case against him in the
Polk county court on the grounds
that the statute under which the pro-
ceedings were brought is unconstitu-
tional and therefore void. Fairgraves
holds that inasmuch as the courts are
created by the constitution of the
state, the power and jurisdiction in
herent in the courts is wholly de-
rived from the constitution, existing
for the purpose of protecting the iu-
dietary. 1t is further held that the
legislature has no power over sub
jects of contempt coming under iu-
dicial branch of the government save
that it makes reasonable regulations
concerning procedure in cases of con-
tempt; that the act is an invasion by
one of the coordinate branches of the
government and of exclusive province
and jurisdiction of another branch.
The statute is attacked from another
point on the grounds that it attempts
to authorize an injunction where none
could issue at common law, to forbid
acts which the law denounces and
Furnishes as crimes, in order to pun
ish the repetition thereof as con
tempt of court. 1t is claimed this
method deprives the accused of a
chance to prove his innocence by q
jury trial.
Burglars entered the convent of the
Sacred Heart at Cedar Falls and stole
$26 and all the valuable deeds and