The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-18
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DIES MONIES, IOWA-Congressman
Hull has announced that he has decided
to recommend r. P. Clarson of this city
for the position Of United States pension
agent for the Des Moines district. This
district includes Iowa and Nebraska. The
salary is $4,000 year. Mr.. Clarkson Is a
brother of General Ret GARRISON and until
recently was editor of the Register. s-sa
From Guthrie county comes the an
nouncement that the venerable Nate
Wright will not be a candidate for an
other term for representative and that e.
w. Weeks of Guthrie Center, a we'll
known politician, will be candidate. He
will be opposed by G. II. Maris. +" Mr..
Weeks is secretary of the national league
Of republican clubs and indications are
he will defeat Mr.. Maris in the primaries.
1t is also announced that Asmus Boysen
of Audubon will contest with Senator
Hopkins Of Guthrie county for the sena-
torship from the district composed of
Delas, Guthrie and Audubon counties.
MARsHALLToWN,,I oWA.-Harry F.
Marsh, assistant general freight agent of
the Iowa Central, with headquarters at
Peoria, accidentally stepped into an ele-
Vator shaft here and fell to the base
ment. He was seriously injured, but will
recover.-Judge Burnham has extended
judicial clemency to the five youthful
burglars who were convicted Of robbing
the Fraley store at Albion and for break
ing into the Anson school here. The par
ents OF the lads were in court, and the
judge read both the parents and the boys
a severe lecture and gave them some
sound advice, and then stated that he
would continue their cases during GOOD
behavior and require peronal bond Of
5000 each for appearance before Judge
Caswell at the January term. If Judge
CasWell finds they have not been guilty Of
misbehavior in the interim he will con-
tinue their cases to the March term. when
Burnham, If they have made a good rec
ord Will probably dismiss their cases.
TR1POLl, IOWA.-Emma Schwemm. a
domestic employed in the home of Frank
klmball, farmer, is the heroine of a
shoot'ng ARRAY In which she and tramp
were the principals. She was in the
mouse alone with a small child of the
klmbalfs when the tramp demanded adj
mlttance. He threatened to kill the girl
unless she opened the door, finally draw
ing revolver and firing through the
window. Miss Schwemm procured a re-
volver and stepping to the window, where
the tramp was still endeavoring to gain
admlttance, fired three shots. The hobo
grasped his arm and ran. 1t is believed
he was slightly wounded.
CEDAR FALLS, loWA-suspende6
from cable of the Cedar Valley Tele:
phone company, thirty-five feet above the
brick pavement, Will Webb, a telephone
lineman, deliberately went on a spree last
evening by drinking the greater part OF
the contents of a quart bottle Of whisky
Manager e. M. Crotop risked his own life
to rescue his drunken employee by USING
a swinging platform, such as Webb was
seated on. Webb was fifty feet from any
pole and thirty feet above the ground. BY
pulling his own car and that of Webb
Grotop succeeded in getting the drunken
man to a pole, where a. rope was secured
with which to let him down.
NEVADA, IoWA-Boardman Brothers
one of the largest commission houses il
the state, assigned with liabilities esti
mated at $4,000 and assets about the
same. The Des Moines Savings bank j.
| the largest creditor but is secured by rea
estate. Other creditors are the First Ma.
tional Bank of Nevada, $4,000, and the
Farmers Bank Of Nevada, $4,000.
! NASHUA; lOWA.-The wapsie Valley
Oil company, which sank a we'll al
F'rederika In search Of oil and finally
abandoned it for lack of funds, has de.
cided to try it again and complete the tes
we'll. A circular letter to stockholders an.
nounces that $4,000 has been raised will
which to finish the borings.
MERRILL, IOWA.-An Illinois Contra
passenger train killed thirty-nine head O
| cattle out of a drove of forty-one, Tn
cattle belonged to F. Hoese and starte,
down the, track in single file, when tn