The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-02-27
OVER THE STATE

j. M. Butler, young farmer west
OF Iowa Falls, was instantly killed as
the result of the breaking of a
tumbling rod on a power woou saw, a
piece striking him on the head
James Cole, who has been chief OF
police of Clinton for the past four
| years, has been removed and dis.
| charged from the department for not
| obeying orders relative to the closing
| of gambling houses.
Through the good offices of Senator
j. P. Dolliver, the city of Eldora will
receive for ornamental purposes in
the public park one of the Spanish
captured guns from off the Spanish
war vessels sunk during the late war
with Spain.
Jacob S. Miller, a prominent farmer
| near Mount Ayr, who was tried for
assault upon Robert Shaler with in.
| tent to murder was convicted of as.
sault with intent to do great bodily
| injury. He was fined $500 and costs,
which he paid.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Atherton, of Kolo,
enjoy the proud distinction of being
the parents of triplets. Three lusty
babies, two boys and a girl, opened
| their eyes on this world of joys and
sorrows a few nights since, and at
last reports mother and children We're
doing well.
George Curry, Jr., a 19-year-old
youth of Washington township, Jas
per county, committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. He was
spending the evening with his sweet
heart, Miss Fleming, a 16-year-old
girl. At her refusal to his suit he
rushed out onto the porch and blew
out his brains.
Elmer Bean and a Miss Mock were
struck by the fast mail on the Burling-
ton road near Abba, and had miracu-
lous escape from death. The team
they were driving was killed and the
buggy smashed into kindling wood.
Beans mind is slightly affected and
his utterances are incoherent. 1t is
thought he will recover. The young
woman was not hurt.
The Sioux City and Pacific depot
at Onawa was totally destroyed by
fire. Most of the contents was saved,
but the building was entirely destroy
ed. 1t stood some distance from the
man part of the town, and the water
conduitS do not extend to it, so all the
citizens could do was to stand by and
see it burn. 1t is supposed defec-
tive flue was the cause of the fire.
The loss is between $4,000 and $4,000.
Donahue of O'Brien, one of the
members of the house who aided ard
emily in knocking out the hughes anti
pass bill, has brought in a bill to
compel the railroads to provide free
transportation to members of the leg
islature, state officers and judges of
the supreme and district courts. The
bill is Yfodeled after the New Jersey
law and is directly in contrast to the
Hughes anti-pass bill.
One hundred freshmen medical stud
ents of the University of Iowa have
protested because of the suspension
of ten of their colleagues, and formed
"a strike, attending no classes. They
Gay they will attend Drake university
unless their petition is granted. The
ten students were suspended for COM
plicity in throwing boards in a class
room that broke Miss olga Averkieff's
rib. Nine of the students say they are
innocent.
Judge Whitaker of Webster City
mas handed down a decision against
Archbishop Keane in suit brought
some time ago by the German Cath
olics of Williams. The church at Will
1iams was rebuilt in 1885, after having
| h1,o tNr
German Catholics contributed $4,000
and brought suit for the return OF this
on the ground that they had given it
| with the express understanding that a
priest should be sent who should speak
both German and English. This was
not done.
| Chris Olsen is in Jail at Waterloo
awaiting the investigation by the
grand jury of his threats to murder
| his wife and children. He was called
upon some time ago to go as surety on
the bond of his son, Charles, and his
brother-in-law, Charles Rowe, who
were arrested, charged with stealing
hogs. When he got into trouble his
friends, who We're enjoying liberty
| because of his accommodating spirit,
refused to aid him, and he had to go
to prison. He then asked to be reeas.
ed from the bonds of the men, and
they are now neighbors to him in the
bastile. 1t is said by mis- wife that he
threatened to murder her. and that
she fears him, and wants him locked
up for safe keeping.
In the district court at Mt. Ayr,
MAT" Hunter was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life for the murder of
Homer Holland. Judge r. G. Henry
and S. W. Miles, attorneys for Hunter,
both pleaded in court for ten years
sentence. Judge Parish approved the
finding of the jury and said he would
have done so even had the verdict
| been for the first degree. He said that
If Hunter lived up to the gamblers
code of honor it made no difference.
He lived in a moral, peaceful com
munity, with good school privileges
and yet chose the most illegal of oc-
equations. Holland was your friend
yet you deliberately armed yourself