Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-11-20
.SLASHES OFFICER
WITH A CLEANER.
Drunken Man at Boone Makes
a Vicious Assault Upon
Policeman Lille.

a Vicious Assault Upon
| Policeman Lille.
MOB WAS READY TO AvENGE
Policeman q Seriously Injured and
Disfgured. Having One Ear on,
But Il 10 Believed That He VIII
Recover.
Boone, Nov. 20.-Dan Gillette, IN .
drunken frenzy, viciously swung his
cleaver at Policeman L. E. Lille last
evening, cutting on one ear and IN
fiicting deep wound in the officers
neck The injuries may prove fatal:
Gillette II under arrest.
l Gillette. who is very abusive when
drunk, was in meat shop he former
ly owned. when the officer called to
quiet the drunken man. Gillette
threatened the policeman, but the lat
ter thinking Gillette's menace blum
| tried to take hold Of him. Gillette
! quickly slashed the cleayer at the Of
fcer's head and only for his dogtng,
| Lilies head would have been split.
| Lille was Immediately taken to the
| city physicians Office. His wounds
were pronounced not necessarily IA
| tai, as no important artery YVES sever
ed. However, he will be dis6gured.
Great excitement prevailed as Lille
| is a popular officer and mob would
have been dangerous II Lille had
been fatally injured. Gillette was
caught in q nearby store and Is now
lodged In the city Jail.
George Matheson, who has been on
trial at Council Bluffs for the attempt
ed murder of Deputy Sheriff Baker
last May, was found guilty as charged
| the jury being out but about one hour.
The verdict carries with 1t q peni-
Tertiary sentence Of from one to ten
! years. 49, .,s1
Sneak thieves, in broad daylight,
stole two satchels, the property Of
Mrs. Richard Wilbur. from dray as
they were moving from Clear Lake to
Mason City. The satchels contained
the family silver and jewels and ar
ticles of clothing valued at nearly
| $1,000. There is no clew.
Fire destroyed the Foster block at
Preston. In the building were Fred
Kings general store and the Farm
ers' and Merchants bank. On the
second floor were the opera house,
Knights Of Pythias hall and Office
rooms. Losses were as follows: King,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000; Foster
block. 10000; insurance, $4,000;
bank, $1,000; fully insured. The con-
tents Of the opera house. and also
lodge rooms were destroyed.
Scorned by the man she went to
Denver to marry. Grace Harmon, a
pretty Cedar Rapids stenographer,
asked the chief of police to force
Edw. d. Davis, an express messenger,
to pay her fare home, saying that
she Is penniless. Miss Harmon says
that Davis promised to get q divorce
and marry her II she would 60 to
Denver. She went and found he had
compromised with his wife. They
were living together and Davis
scorned her appeals for aid
The Cedar Falls Hub Clothing COM
pany, one of the largest clothing
firms in the city, has been placed in
the hands of q receiver on the request
ct creditors in Chicago. The house
Is branch OF the Hub Clothing COM
| pany of Chicago. A. M. Grains, rep.
| resenting the Grains agency of Chi.
cago, is in Cedar Falls and has
taken charge of the business. The
| assets are valued at $4,000, and the
liabilities are at present unknown.
M. E. ,Guthmann has been in charge
| Of the business since last July.
Ermo Heinrichs. a well.to-do Ger.
man farmer living near Palmer, was
! frozen to death few nights ago. He
! started home from Manson somewhat
under the influence of liquor. His
J team ran OF q high grade into a
ditch and Heinrichs was unable to get
them back upon the road. He wan
dered about in the cold, finally fall.
ing into a pond. Here he was found
early the next morning SO badly
chilled and frozen that he died after
he was brought home. Heinrichs
leaves wife and eight children.
A sensation was caused at Cedar
Rapids by the arrest of c. H. Ohmans,
c. Bomber, W.. Graf, G. X. Esner, j.
! Rusck, employees of the Continental
| Biscuit company, who were caught
| in the act Of plundering the factory.
| The thefts have been going on for
1 months and the manager of the fac
4 tory had been unable to account for
! the big losses that were being sus'
tanned. It is believed the amount
! taken will be in the neighborhood OF
several thousand dollars worth OF
goods.
H. G. Rich, of Lorah, small sta
ton near Atlantic, who went to Kan
sas City few nights ago in company
with his brother, D. B. Rich Of Extra
was held up by two masked men
and robbed of $500. H. G. Rich
! had Just sold farm near Atlantic
1 and had gone to Kansas City with a
T! view Of buying farming land neal
1 that city. While going from the I'm
! ion deuot to their hotel he and his
i brothe" became confused and wan
dered into side street, where they
/ were surprised by the footpads. Rich
Z. was left without cent.
4 John Lake & Co, of Clinton, secured
i the contract for two-story building
| Of brick and stone, for G.. Gordon, al
4 Delmar.
] George Menagh contemplates erect
ing new buildings at Denison.
4 A firm is negotiating with Arch
4 inshop Keane for the lease of the
j"Bishop block" at Dubuque and pro
poses to erect modern building.
4 Frank Cooper will put in a factory
at Fairfield to make mittens OF cantor
i flannel. !.