The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-04-17
OVER THE STATE

The barns and live stock Of John
Neimand. q farmer living north of
Sioux Rapids, were destroyed by fire.
entailing loss of from $4,000 to
$4,000.
! Kirk Winchell and Albert Ables, two
prisoners held to the grand jury for
the Extra robbery. broke jail at Au-
dubon by cutting out a wooden win.
dow jam between the inner and outer
gratings and prying out bricks. APP.
pearances indicate outside help, as a
piece of saw and knife were found
in Jail and a piece of brick pried off
around outside grating.
Stem Johnson, aged 13 years, a resi-
dent Of Fort Dodge. is lying at the
point OF death from burns. The boys
clothing caught fire while he was
playing about bonfire and was liter.
ally burned from his body. He was
badly burned about the face, hands,
legs and abdomen and is enduring
great agony. 1t is feared that his life
cannot be saved.
| Among the cases recently decided
by the supreme court is that Of Myers
vs.. B.. G. R. & N. railway. The opin-
ion written by Judge Weover is of
fifty-one typewriter pages. said to be
the longest ever filed in the supreme
court Of Iowa. 1t affirms verdict of
damages on account of death of Ella
Ellington at turn-table operated by
the defendant road at Muscatine.
Recently Drs. Middleton and Brown.
lee performed surgical operation on
a Mrs. Deets. of Walnut. Pottawat.
tamie county, and during the opera
ton DR.. Middleton pricked his hand
accidentally, causing 1t to bleed some
what, and DR.. Brownlee drew silk
thread under his finger nail. Both
surgeons contracted blood poisoning.
DR.. Middleton is now dead and DR..
Brownlee is not expected to recover.
/ The patient is dead. DIR. Middleton
resided at Davenport, and for six years
has been dean Of the medical faculty
of the state university.
Crazed to desperation over ten.
days lay-off for neglec,.ng to have his
watch regulated, Charles Steffin,
Sioux City railroad man, broke away
from his attendants at the Samaritan
hospital at Sioux City, jumped out of
widow onto a spot but a few inches
wide and climbed about the roof and
walls of the hospital in a most reck-
less manner, much to the terror of the
doctors, nurses and attendants, who
expected any moment to see him fall
to the ground to his death. BY the
time the police arrived in answer to
a call from the hospital the demented
young man had managed to find his
way safely to the ground, and dashed
away. He was recaptured several
miles north of Sioux City, entirely TN.
injured.
The scandal raised by the alleged
elopement of George w. Dickinson
with Mrs. James Bloom, of Jesup,
few months ago promises to be cost
ly affair before finished. The third
suit has Just been filed, involving in
all about $4,000. Dickinson is a
wealthy Black Hawk county farmer,
estimated to be worth $125,U00. Mrs.
Bloom has entered suit against George
W. Yourg, wealthy neighbor, for
$4,000 damages for blacllmail. She
alleges that Young acted as a detec-
tive for Mrs. Dickinson and that the
reports he circulated were the cause OF
the entire trouble. AS Young is very
wealthy, the case will be hard fought.
Thomas and Lena Peterson were
murdered at $3.50 o'clock Sunday
night at a lonely spot half a mile
northeast of Highland Park college,
Des Moines. The dual murder was
as foul and brutal as has ever married
the records of Iowa. The children,
for the boy was but 10 years old and
his sister not quite l6. were on their
way home from church. The testi-
mony of physicians is that both lives
were lost in defense of the honor of
the girl. Both were brutally beaten
and their skulls crushed with some
blunt instrument. The theory from
the few known facts is that the boy
was killed in manly attempt to pro-
tect his sister and that later she was
slain either because OF her continued
resistance or in order to prevent her
ever telling her story. Tracks of two
persons led across a field away from
the scene of this tragedy This cir
cumstance, together with the fact
that neither of the children escaped
or was able to make sufficient cutlery
to attract help, leads to the conclu-
sion that there were two murderers.
The boiler of the saw mill owned by
James Carter of Richland township,
Mahaska county, blew up with ter.
rife force, killing Dudley Boyd, James
Shaffer and Frank Myers, and injur.
Ing the proprietor. James Carter. Boyd
was found crushed in horrible shape,
and Shaffer's head and one foot were
blown off. Myers was found lying be-
meath the drive wheel with limbs
broken and SO badly injured that he
died in less than an hour. Carter
walked to his home mile and half
away. Boyd was single man, aged
about IS. Shaffer about the same age,
Myers about As, and the two latter
leave families. The explosion was of
fearful force. The mill stood about a
mile and half west of the old Parker
& Kramer mill site, on South river,
southwest of Peoria. The boiler was
old, patched and considered danger.
OILS Little 0f tha mill 10 lof+ bo;,o