Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-04-18
70 FRAUD PROVED.
End of Litigation Over a Waterloo Insur
ance Company.

ance Company.
Waterloo, Ia April 1G.-One of the
cases decided by the supreme court last
week ends the litigation over the defunct
Citizens Mutual Insurance company of
Waterloo. 1t was a case against ex-Gov-
ernor Buren, II. Sherman and Others Tho
supreme court finds that the company
was duly organized and that the guar
anty fund was not n working capital for
the company and was not inconsistent
with the nlan of Il mutual company.
There was no fraud proved in the issu-
nnce of policies, claimed, and nothing
to show that the officers who issued tile
policies which were clearly Illegal haa
any reason TO doubt they were procced-
ing regular The directors of the com
pany and the signers OF the guaranty
notes as individuals, were not responsi-
BILE for the fact that the company was
doing business Illegally. Hence there can
notes. which were originally put up as
security on which the company COM
ulenced doing business.
Iowa Notes.
Castana is to have a school library.
The stationary engineers at Clinton
have organized.
There were eighteen deaths in keo-
kuk during March.
The DE Soto roller mills near Abel,
We're destroyed by fire.
Five acres of land in Centerville have
been donated for a public park.
The divorced wife of Professor Her
ron is visiting in South Carolina.
julius Peterson, an aged resident of
Atlantic, was struck by q train and
killed.
Davenport has been increased to $4,000
a year.
The foundation is in for the library
building at Muscatine and the work is
being rushed.
The smallpox scare at Des Moines
has subsidized and the schools have been
opened again.
There We're two hundred and eleven
deaths in Ottumwa during the last
twelve months.
The supervisors of Dubuque county
refuse to pay the smallpox bills of the
city of Dubuque.
The Rock Island road has commenced
the work of elevating it's tracks
through Davenport.
From February 16 to March is ST.
063 111.63 worth of Calhoun county real
estate changed hands.
The man who jumped from the Coun
Gil Bluffs Omaha bridge Saturday wa
John Belell, tailor.
Smallpox has been stamped out at
Abba and the last patient has been
released from quarantine.
The Plymouth Congregationalists in
Des Moines have let the contract for
their new church at s64,7S2.
The @. a. r. post at Modale will buy
strip Of ground for park purposes
and donate 1t to the town.
j. d. Woodward, who has lived in
Onawa for some years, has just sold
his home farm in Grant township.
Monona county, Of 1000 acres for
| $25, 900.
Isaac Finklestein, Des Moines He
brew, has sued the Des Moines Leader
for $4,000 damages for alleged libel.
The grand jury at Ottumwa has re.
turned ten more indictments, this time
against alleged saloonists and gam
blers.
The physician of the board of health
In Ottumwa wants ferry boat in or
der to dump the city's garbage in the
river.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Teachers Association Of Northwest
Iowa will meet in Sheldon April IL IL
and 20. -
Miss Mabel Dawson of colsax won
first hsnors at Indianola in the state
declamatory contest. She rccited the
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