The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-01

predicts the election Of William Hoffman
IN the second by ajority Of about 1000.
He says Wade will receive some compli-
mentary votes from republican friends in
Iowa and johnson counties, but that these
gains Will be more than offset by the
d1sarection OF free silver voters who do
not like Wade because he is a SOUND
money man. Mr.. Richards predicts the
election Of Lacey by fair majority. He
says the mining element Is not a unit for
Reese and that the fact it has been SO
strongly advertised that Reese is the can
didate OF the miners has hurt him with
the farmers.
Just as Predicted. ID. ""
The grand Jury, as predicted in these
columns two days ago, has returned In
dictments charging murder In the first de-
gree against Harry Leyitch white, and
James Walker, colored for the alleged
killing of Isaac Finkelstein the night Of
Aug. 4. Both men are in the county Jail.
,Levich was out on bonds but was ar
rested yesterday afternoon. Intense public
interest surrounds the case.
+ UNION, lOWA.-The funeral of Miss
Fannie Whitmore, who committed suicide
Wednesday night after having discovered
that her lover had wife and two chill
dren in Des Moines, was held yesterday
afternoon. Nothing that has happened in
the town for years has so stirred the
people as the untimely death Of Miss
Wh1tmore, who was a universal fayorite,
and a handsome and affectionate girl.
Public indignation against Seth A. Per-
kins, salesman for Langdon Bros, whole
sale stationers of Des Moines, who is &C.
cused Of having won her love while pos
Ing as single man, Is intense. Had he
been In the neighborhood when the body
was recovered from the river it is doubt
full whether he would have escaped mob
violence. Perkins was located at Sac City
Friday and he denied the accusation in
toto. -- n
SIOUX CITY, IoWA-It developed in
the trial Of Mrs. Nettie Mahan before the
insanity commission that she has been
made insane because of prenatal inf1u-
ences. Her mother, Mrs. Jane Il. Doane,
testified that in the months before the
birth Of her daughter, her husband was in
the civil war and that she constantly wor-
ried for fear he would be killed. She be-
came chronically nervous and the child,
born In this period, has been strangely
nervous all her life. Yesterday Mrs Ma
han collapsed entirely and will be sent to
the state asylum.-Rev. J. A. Earl Of
Waterloo the prohibition nominee for con-
gress in his district, who says he ousted
Speaker Henderson, addressed the state
convention Of the Y. M. c.. A. here YES
terday. The convention organized by
electing Mrs. c.. A. Rawson, Des Moines,
president; Mrs. Fred Wattles, Sioux City,
vice president; Lora Hagler, Simpson COL
lege, Ethel Elliott, state university. and
Mrs. Leila Blair, Sioux City, secretaries,
CEDAR FALLS, ioWA-''Tama Jim"
Wilson, secl etary of the department Of ag-
rlculture, passed through the city yester-
day on his way to Waterloo, where he
speaks Monday evening. He says the
corn crop in Iowa will be more than has
been estimated. In speaking of the cam
pa1gn he said the Iowa idea" was grow
ing in favor, over the entire country He
Will deliver six speeches in this state
The trustees Of the state normal school
at their meeting just closed decided to
build new gymnasium next year at an
expense of $4,000. This will be the first
building erected from the special building
fund provided by the last legislature The
library or laboratory will be the next
building erected. 49,.
MARsHALLToWN, aiOWA E w.
Stubs has received news that his son,
Earl E. Stubs, who Is legally dead, ac-
cordtng to the war department record, is
alive. The young man was reported killed
while serving In the Philippines two years
ooo' 0SNDoS fI0S 'JQSI-I cCclSeu d let
ter from the son himself. Q In this the son
explains that he has been working on the
Russian railway in Siberia, in the Ca
pacity of a civil engineer:-Ralph e. Shell.
don, son Of a farmer, has been caught by
officers of this county at Laurens. He de-,
serted from the United States steamship
Indiana, May II, 1902. and will be taken
to the Brooklyn navy yards for trial.
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IOWA CITY, IOWA.-The Iowa state
conference Of charities and corrections
closed its fifth annual session here to-
day, electing the following officers: Pres
ident, Judge Clifford S. Robinson, Sioux
City; vice-presidents, Elmer Park, Keo-
kuk, DR.. Anne Burnett. Mt Pleasant,
H. s. Hollingsworth, Des Moines; gem
eral-. secretary, John Beardsley, Des
Moines. The closing numbers on the pro-
gram were papers by Rev. George l..
Cady, Iowa City; Superintendent B.. J.
Miles of, the Eldora industrial school;
Judge Emlin McClain OF the supreme
board Of control; and Professor J. P. Hug
gett of the University of Iowa.
DEBORAH, loWA-The funeral of Cap
tain E. I. Weiser, who died Monday eve
ming from heart failure, was held yester-
day afternoon and was the largest and
most impressive ever held in DEBORAH. He
came here In 1856 and had lived here ever
since. He was the first man to enlist
from this county and was captain of Com
pany D., Third Iowa., and twice severely
wounded. He had been, commander Of
Colonel Hughes post almost continuously
since it was organized and had held high
positions in the state guards. The bust
ness houses closed during the funeral.
| CLARlNDA, IOWA-Dorothy Morris,
| wife of Scott Morris, a farmer. met him
when he was coming from his work, cried
| out, "Scott, this ends it," and drank two
! ounces Of carbolic acid. She died without
| speaking again. She had shown signs of
mental impairment and feared she was go