The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1902-02-06
OVER THE STATE

laundry.
]. w Hunter, who went to the
home of his divorced wife at Bloom
field and drove her into the street,
has been adjudged insane, and sent
to Mt. Pleasant.
Chairman E. M. Vittum, of the com.
mittee of trustees of Grinnell, has re-
ceived letter from Rev. Dan F.
Bradley, accepting the presidency of
the college. He will assume the du-
ties of the position about April 1.
At the session of the district court
at Pocahontas, fine Of SIS and costs
was imposed on number of violators
of the prohibitory law for selling in
toXicating liquors in temperance sa-
looms. The persons fined We're John
Stream, George Kinney, M. T. Stan
ton and Steward Swinks, all of Fonda;
VIM. Lynch Varina, and Matt Flaher-
ty, Pocahontas. Indictments were
found against all of these persons last
fall on evidence furnished the grand
jury by Rev. H. H. Abrams, and all
of them pleaded guilty when their
cases came for trial.
General vaccination by an ample
corps of physicians, sharp medical
inspection and careful quarantining
are urged by DR.. Herman Spalding,
| chief medical Inspector of the depart.
| ment of health OF Chicago, as neces-
sary to prevent a grave epidemic of
smallpox in Des Moines. OF these,
| general vaccination is rated as of the
| first Importance. DR.. Spalding says
if this precaution is insisted upon
the disease will be practically stamp
| ed out in forty days. Otherwise, he
| predicts dangerous ravageS from the
disease during March, April and May
and says thSusand or more cases
will inevitably result from the large
number of points of contagion that
now exist.
A number of small boys were on
hill at Corydon coasting, when George
Gascoyne, with another boy, drove to
boys piled on the sleigh and some one
of the crowd grabbed the hat of the
driver and started to run down the
hill with it, when Gascoyne jumped
out of his sleigh with whip in hand
and began to slash the boys around
the legs with the whip. Toby Nc
Can, boy II years old, approached
the boy with the whip in threaten
ing manner when Gascoyne said 81
will fix you" and turning the whip
and using both hands dealt HIM a
fearful blow with the butt end of
the whip, crushing his skull, which
caused death in about twenty-five
minutes. Gascoyne is % years of age,
and was a member of the Fifty-first
regiment of Iowa volunteers in the
Spanish-American war. He is ply
sically powerful fellow, with
feeble, almost unbalanced mind from
a long and severe type of epilepsy.
The whole community deplores this
sad tragedy, which no doubt began in
fun and ended in death.
G. P. McVicar, mayor of Blairs-
burg, has been called upon to answer
to the federal authorities upon the
charge of selling Intoxicating liquors
without government license Mayor
McVicar owns the finest meat market
in harrisburg. 1t is alleged that in a
we'll furnished back apartment to the
meat market he sold "hop cream
| Because of his official position as
| chief executive of the city his place
| was well patronlzed and was said@to
| be run openly in defiance of law.
| United States Marshal Paterson, of
| dubuque, received tip some few
days ago from one of McVicars poll.
teal enemies that all was not straight.
Paterson notified Deputy Marshal
Gustafson, at FIT. Dodge. Gustafson
swooped down upon the offender and
raided his finely fitted up shop. He
returned to Ft. Dodge, taking Blairs.
burg's mayor along with him, leaving
the city to manage it's municipal af-
fairs as best it could without it's chief
executive. Mayor McVicar pleaded
| guilty to having sold hop cream"
but protested to be ignorant OF it's
intoxicating qualities. He was bound
over to await the action of lie United
States grand jury and gave bonds for
his appearances. The affair has Great
ed a sensation in and about Blairs.
burg on account of McVicar's prom.
tnence in poll..cal circles.
Hon. Lewis Todhunter, promin.
ent character in central Iowa. died at
his home in Indianola January 30. He
| was an old settler and well known
throughout the state. especially on
account of his unwavering champion
ship of temperance reform. He was
a most unrelenting foe to the saloon
ana lntemperance in every form and
| was tireless in his prosecution of il.
legal sales. He was successful bus
mess man and for a half century a
prominent and respected citizen OF
Warren county and central Iowa. He
was born in Fayette county, O., April
8, 1917, and was admitted to the bar
in Highland county, of the same state,
in 1S48, and came to Iowa in 1850,
and to Indianola in 1854, and began
the practice of the law, and acted as
prosecuting attorney and served in
many other official capacities. He
was member of Iowa's constitutional
convention which met in Iowa City in
1857, and thus assisted in framing the
organic law of the state. He served
as quartermaster in the army from
| 1863 to 1865 with the rank of captain.
Was member of the Methodist
| church and various civic societies,
and though possessing many eccentri-
cities was strong character and
| made himself felt in the community