The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-03-13
OVER THE STATE

A bad railway accident occurred at
Muscatine few days ago. which may
result in the death of the unfortunate
victim. Bully" Minor, 81 years of
age, while attempting to board fast
freight train, fell and several cars
passed over him. His arm was re-
duced to a pulp. his knee cap smash
ed, leg injured and head badly bruised.
He has mother residing at rs.
Smith, Ark. whittier he was bound.
He had no money and is said to have
been drinking.
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 closed
incident. The verdict was that death
was caused by heart disease. No post
mos'tem was held as it was not deem
ed necessary in the face of the evil
dence submitted No trace has yet
was with Miss Dozah.
Attorney General Mullan filed his
report on the Lafayette Young bind
ing overcharge, rev Gays ago, with
the executive council. which met at
once and made the document public.
Young overdrew s4,639.73 during the
last two years of his six years in
cumbency of the office. OF this ST.
900.87 the attorney general finds was
overcharged through mistake of
facts and the remainder through a
mistake Of law. He says he has no
doubt of the ability of the state to
recover from Mr.. Young on both ac
counts. He will wait for instructions
from the council to sue the former
state binder.
City Assessor Everst of Council
Bluffs has included in his assessment
roll the property of the Portland Min
ing company, whose headquarters are
in that city, but whose property hold
ings are in Colorado. The Iowa code
makes a provision for taxing corpora
tons having their principal place of
business within the state. The local
representative of the company refus-
ed to make statement of it's taxable
property and the assessor has decided
to assess the company on the basis of
its alleged actual value of 100000
as provided by the law. The recent
suit for possession of
million dollars of stock in the Portland
the assessors say, formed a
basis for calculations on the value of
its property. The action of the city
is expected to precipitate law suit.
Mrs. Eva Bliss has been held to the
grand jury of Wapello county to an
swer to the charge of numbering Rolla
D. Houdyshell. She was committed to
the county Jail without bail. Her
case will probably be acted upon
by the grand jury which convenes
here about March "a. The crime for
which the woman must answer is the
alleged murder of Rolla D. Houdyshell,
with whom it is said she has been liv-
ing, in her home on the afternoon of
February 20. The man was found
with a pistol wound in the side of his
head. which resulted in, his death
about an hour after he had been found.
The woman, who was alone with him
when the shooting was done, claimed
that Houdyshell fired the shot him
self, but the evidence introduced at
the preliminary hearing was strong
enough to decide Justice Balford to
hold her to the higher court.
Fire at Marshalltown burned half
block of buildings in the heart of the
city. entailing loss of $4,000, result
ing in injuries to several guests and
employees of the fremont hotel. The
injured are: Lulu Stephens. waitress,
back severely sprained, internal in
juries, serious; Mrs. Jessie Madden,
waitress, leg broken; Birdie Myers,
waitress, ankle broken; j. H. Jayne,
landlord, feet burned; Jacob Kunkle,
cook, hands and face burned, serious;
George G. Steffe, salesman John
Church company. Chicago, ankle
sprained. Forty guests had but little
time to escape, as the flames spread
rapidly. cutting off avenues of escape.
Many of the employees jumped from
the first floor balcony to the pave
ment in their night clothes. The
three injured girls jumped from the
third story to the front balcony, and
others jumped to the areaway and es.
capped uninjured. The fire caught at
the base of the elevator of the hotel.
E. 1. Dupont-Nemours & Co.'S pow
der plant, five miles west of KeoEuk,
was seriously damaged by an explo-
sion few days ago. Two men were
killed outright, third will die, and
three others are seriously injured.
The dead are: Frank Schneider, blown
to pieces, and Egbert Erickson, head
blown off. The injured: Lewis Leak,
injured in the neck, will die; James
Galloway, cut about head and face,
may die; Ben Hamilton, cut about
head by falling rock; unknown man
cut on head by falling rock The ex-
plosion was in mill No. 1OA, and the
cause Is unknown. The men killed
and injured were working in the build
ing. The unknown man who was in
jured by falling rock was employed
about the grounds. None in the other
buildings at work were injured. The
damage to the mill will reach about