The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-06
OVER THE STATE

| Seroy'S Vile died two years ago. HIS
boy had the scarlet fever and refused
one day to take medicine, whereupon
| the father secured a chisel and cut
out almost all the teeth in the child's
| jaw, inf1icting deep wound in the
roof of the mouth and breaking the
jawbone. Vanseroy is under bonds.
James Farrell and his sister Ger
Witt, Clinton county, We're found
bound and gagged and beaten into in.
sensibility by robbers. At last ac
counts both were still unconscious
and will propaply die. The suppose.
ton is that they We're first chloro
formed, but regained consciousness
offered resistance, and We're assaulted
There is no clue to the perpetrators
of the deed.
No further light has been thrown
on the mystery that envelopes the
death of the young woman Frances
Dozah, in the Western hotel at Bur
lington a few nights ago, and with
the verdict reached by the coroner's
jury the affair is apparently a closed
incident. The verdict was that death
was caused by heart disease. No post
mortem was held, as it was not deem
ed necessary in the face of the evi-
dence submitted. No trace has yet
been found of the strange man, who
was with Miss Dozah
In digging among the musty records
DIT the state house a few days ago
Thomas l.. Stephens, record clerk in
the office of Adjutant General Byers,
liam III. Kinsman that are OF peculiar
interest at this time in view of the
approaching dedication of the Dodge
monument in Kinsman's honor at
Council Bluffs. One of these letters
in particular reveals something of the
fierce energy and enthusiasm that
burned in the soul of this remarkable
young Iowa commander. 1t was writ
ten January 8, 1868, to Governor Sam
uel j. Kirlwood and asked his aid in
getting President Lincoln to give him
command of a brigade of Iowa troops.
in whose ability, as the letter indi-
Gates, he had supreme confidence. He
was sick of the red tape and inertness
that prevailed and desired to act in
dependently following the course of
Stuart and some of the other rebel
commanders, of the effectiveness OF
whose operations he was thoroughl,s
convinced. To march and fight inces-
sanity was the gospel of war as he
saw it. The letters just found were
among the documents hidden away in
the governors office for some yeass
but now in the records of the adju-
tant generals office.
Pretty Francis Dozeah, &c years old,
a resident of Quincy, ILL.,. who for
some time has been clerk in the
Grand department store at burlington,
was found dead in a room in the West
ern hotel few days ago with the
warmth still in her body She had
been visiting with her mother and
sister. Mrs. w. e. Moore, in Quincy.
for several weeks. The day before
her death a stranger called at the
hotel and engaged two rooms, saying
that his sister would arrive on the
evening train, and paying the bill in
advance. No one saw the couple en-
ter the hotel in the evening, but the
night clerk heard them go up stairs
to the rooms. About 10 o'clock in the
morning the man was seen to leave
the hotel by side entrance and dis
appear down an alley, evidently in
great hurry. Shortly afterward the
chambermaid went to make up the
room, but seeing the woman lying in
bed, apparently asleep, she let her
alone. At 1 o'clock she went to the
room again, and found the girl was
dead. The police believe they will
have little difficulty in tracing the
mysterious man who spent the night
with the girl. The girls relatives
claim she was troubled with heart
disease and are not inclined to be.
lieve she committed suicide or that
4 drug was given her.
A recent dispatch from MARSHALL
town says: Oliver M. Anstead, for
merly dry goods merchant at this
place. has brought suit against Mrs.
Lizzie Yohn-Ayers at Marion, Ind, for
100000, whic-- he says is only part
OF the money of which she has robbed
him. Anstead's story is that several
years ago Mrs. Ayers, then Miss Liz
zie Yohn, was bookkeeper and man.
ager Of his store in Marshalltown.
1ney left here and established a store
in Grand Rapids, afterwards going to
Illinois, Where Aastead started stores
in Bloomington and Decatur Miss
vohn had charge of the Bloomington
store, and Anstead said she required
SO much money that it forced his as
signment at Decatur. AS soon as he
assigned. he says, Miss Yohn sold out
the Bloomington store and left with
the proceeds. 100000, together with
some valuable diamonds which he had
givt.l her. and that he lost all trace
of her until few days since, when
he saw her on the streets of Marion,
Ind. In the time between her leaving
Bloomington and now Miss Yohn mar
ried Lafayette Ayers, a prominent
capitalist, at Marion, Ind, who is very
prominent there, belongs to all the
clubs and moves in the SWEETEST so.
ciety. Anstead's attorneys say they
have a good case and will push it
without reference to the woman's
family connections. The woman has
number of relatives here When An.