The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-17
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George Fullerton, aged 70, has been
arrested for robberies of the Marion
postofhce covering period of sew
eral weeks. He has plead guilty.
Train No. 3 on the Chicago &
Northwestern road, west bound, ran
down and instantly killed Fred DAILY,
bridge carpenter, near Jefferson.
His head was cut open, both legs
broken and he sustained cut in the
bowels. DAILY leaves wife and two
children.
Ezra b. Tucker of Louisa county,
elector from the First district, was
chosen special messenger to Wash
ington by the presidential electors
at their meeting at Des Moines a
few days ago. George e. Bowers
Of Sioux City, elector from the
Eleventh district, was elected special
messenger to deliver one of the GER
titled lists of votes to Judge Smith
MCPHERSON of Red Oak, Judge of the
United States district court.
The story is related by Miss S. Il,
Brown of Burlington that $1,000 in
greenbacks belonging to her was ac-
cidentally burned by flame from a
gas stove. She claims the money had
been drawn from savings bank. 1t
was her entire fortune, left by her
father, and was left in package near
The stove while she stepped into the
next room. When she returned the
money was in ashes and the table on
fire. The house was saved from de
struction by the timely aid of the
neighbors.
J. II. Deming, a large property
owner in Fort Dodge, has paid into
the county treasury s1o,o14.s3 in
back taxes in which he was delin-
quent. This payment was the result
of Investigations made by tax ad-
3usters in Webster county, who dis
covered large amount of property
in possession of Deming which had
not been assessed for some years
past. Deming did not resist the claim
OF the tax adjuster, but settlement
was reached Immediately. Deming
recently donated $4,000 to Tabor
college at Tabor. He has always
borne good reputation in Fort
Dodge, and the large claim of the
tax adjuster against him creates
much surprise.
John Biggs, aged Sc years, of Win
terset, went to the hall of the local
lodge of Maccabees, cut his throat
with a razor and died almost imme-
diately. Biggs was man of excel
lent standing in the community. He
was a member of the Methodist
church and of numerous fraternal
organizations. He leaves wife,
three sons and two daughters. He
was printer by trade and for num-
Der of years was employed by the
Madisonian. More recently he has
operated a job printing office for him
self and has enjoyed a good patron
age. He was injured about the head
in a runaway some time ago and has
not been exactly right mentally since.
1t is thought he was demented when
he killed himself.
Thomas E. Coppock, a young man
about "a years of age, living at Fair
field, after few doses Of an alleged
patent medicine, suddenly became a
raving maniac. 1t was necessary to
call in the neighhors to hold him in
his room that night, and in the
morning he was taken before the
insane commissioners and by them
sent to the hospital for the insane
at Mt. Pleasant. Coppock was mar
ried November 1, 1900, to Miss Fife
McMullen of Fairfield. He had long
been affected with epilepsy in mild
form, and it was through his efforts
of trying to cure this disease that
he sent for the medicine of well
known eastern firm, who claimed
they had the stuff that would cure
him. He had only taken few doses
of the medicine when he became af-
fected as above stated.
Judge A. R. Dewey, of the Sixth
judicial district, has handed down a
decisic, refusing to grant the in
junction prayed for by the Temper
ance League to restrain express COM
panies from carrying liquor into the
state. The decision was another
case of the local temperance society,
who had seized liquors shipped by
the Adams and United States express
companies and filed suits against
them, charging their agents with be-
ing retail dealers because they col
lected for liquor. The defense claim
ed the sales were made in Illinois,
Kentucky and elsewhere and that the
goods were in transit under the inter-
state commerce law. The liquor,
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export into Illinois and from there
to Washington. Judge Dewey re-
fused the injunction, holding the IL
quor to be a legitimate article OF
commerce under decisions of the SUI
preme court. The decision is of great
Importance to transportation COM
panies in Iowa. The temperance
people ire expected to take the case
higher.
One daily paper in New York, two
in Ohio and one in Canada will follow
the bold example of the Des Moines
Daily News and reduce their SUBJ
scription price to 81 year. The sue
cess Of the Des Moines paper, after
five years experience, is no longer
questioned, the Daily News being adj
mittedly the most valuable newspaper
property in Iowa.
Fire in the fourth floor of the Cud-
shy packing company's plant at Sioux
City gave the fire department hard
fight, but did only $4,000 damage.
The w. c. T. U. has taken up ac-
ton against the slot machines of
Waterloo and has been seconded by
the mayor and police. Each officer
on the force has been instructed to
9ecure the names of the h11sinasc