The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-04-11
THE NEWS In IOWA

recently tried at Fairfield, the jur.
brought i'll a verdict of guilty.
According to the Minneapolis Trib
.une, Rev. Joseph Underwood, a Bap
fist colored preacher, now occupying
| the pulpit at Fraser, is now princi
pal in the most interesting divorce
case ever taken up in court. Ida G
| Underwood of ST. Paul has COM
menced proceedings against him
| charging him with having married
| two white women in st. Paul, one il
Adrian, Mich, and three in Fraser
| Underwood stands high in coloret
church circles.
Robert Golf and Charles Lauer, two
| Cherokee young men, quarreled over {
girl both loved and Lauer is lying
| near death with bullet wound ovel
ais heart. Golf and the young wo
man were sitting on bridge in the
| south part of town, when Lauer anC
another young. man drove up and
stopped. Words followed and finally
Golf drew his gun and shot Lauer just
over the heart. Golf was arrested
| and will be held over until the result
of Lauer's wounds are known.
| The Marshalltown Stone company
| has been awarded a contract to fur.
nish the Chicago Great Western with
100000 cubic yards of crushed stone
| to be used as ballast for the road
bed between Marshalltown and Del.
vein. Manager Pierce of the stone
company has gone to Chicago to pur-
chase crusher plant at cost OF
$1,000 with capacity of 400 yards
per day. The quarries are located just
| a few miles northeast of Marshall-
town and will employ about sixty
| men.
| Wabash freight No. 90, which car.
ries passengers, was wrecked one
mile north of Bloomfield a few days
ago. The four rear cars in the train
left the track, ran along on the ties
for a short distance, then the caboose
and next car turned over, rolling tt
the bottom of the siN-foot embank-
ment. Four passengers were injured
They We're removed to Bloomfield and
to their homes. The cars were badly
damaged. A box car of lumber in
front of the cabooSe was smashed to
kindling wood. The list of injured
follows: DR.. Clara L. Kemble of
Bloomfield, probably fatally hurt; in
jured in the back, several ribs broken,
two severe cuts in her head and one
cut on her face; Max Hinkle of
| Bloomfield, hand badly mashed;
George Messer of Bloomfield, one rib
broken; DR.. c. II. Cronk of Bloom
field, injuries slight.
| U1,o lao1 1>.l,, S,,,,,aJ
a prosperous farmer who had been
missing from his home few miles
north of Council Bluffs, was found
hanging from a rafter in a small va.
can't house on his mothers farm ad.
joining. Roberts left his home few
days ago after eating dinner. He had
advertised sale of stock on his farm,
for the following day, but as he
failed to put in an appearance, it was
declared off and the prospective buy
ers were compelled to return home
William Roberts, a brother of the
missing man. had. occasion to go to
the small Muse on his mothers farm
and was lorrifed to find the body OF
hanging .s from the s th5s =
| Saturday. Rober, 80 been suffer
ing from nerpous Istration. and Ms
supposed TO haAsesss-@,qa- bis Clife~whfle
and three children.
Andrew Larsen, aged s, of North
wood, was shot and killed and his
body thrown into the Boone river.
Larsen was out hunting with Milo
Madison, aged 10 years. At midnight
Madison told Larsen's family that the
boy had accidentally shot himself and
fallen into the river. A searching
party was organized and the body
found. The top of the head was shot
entirely away. The place where the
! shooting took place Was found some
distance from the river. Parts of the
boys skull and brain were found or
trees for distance of thirty feet
AS it was evident Larsen did not
shoot himself, Madison was closely
questioned. He confessed that his
first story was false. He said he haG
accidentally shot Larsen and then
being greatly alarmed, threw the
body into the river and told his frs
story. Careful investigation has Lee
to the conclusion that Madson's stor,
is correct and that Larsen's deatl
was due to accident.
Buena Vista college at Storm Lake
which has been struggling for exist
ence in competition with larger edu
eational institutions of the state, il
to be placed on a seif-sustt tanning basi
by an endowment of 100000. In ad
dition to subscribing funds to pur
chase the site and build the handsom,
college building, Storm Lake citizen.
have kept the college running by lib
eral assistance yearly. 1t has been I;
trying struggle. Now local citizens
have subscribed $4,000 more toward
an endowment of 100000. The Pres
lbyterians of Iowa have promised a.
much more and large percentage
of this has been actually subscribed
The board of aid for colleges have as
signed Buena Vista field in Ohio
which is very promising, and Presi
dent Reed stakes his reputation OF
the question of successfully raising
the 100000 endowment this year
The college has always done excellen-
work, but unfortunately its presi
dents have not had the faculty O.
raising funds. Mr.. Reed is long OF
this faculty, and is filling the position
with great credit and honor to the
college.
The Carrie Nation craze strucl
Iowa City few days ago. Mrs. Will
liam Yarvosky was passing Senners
saloon and seeing her husband
therein rushed in and grabbing from
his hand schooner of beer threw
the glass and contents straight tow