The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-21
The R. |. FIGHTS
THE INIERURBANs
SPECIAL HOURLY TRAIN SERVICE
BETWEEN IOWA CITIES.
The Vanderbilt Lines Begin Their I'm
provement Of Railroad Literature"
Church VS.. the Police in a Struggle
to Get the Better of the Thugs in
Des Moines.
Snaaial tn The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Des Mones Iowa, July 2.-The Rock Island
has begun sharp competition with }nterurban
roads in Iowa. A special hourly train service
has been ordered between Cedar Rapids and
Iowa City and the same service Will be estaD-
lished next Monday morning between Des Moines
and Indianola President Polk Of the inter-
urban says:
1--WE will continue our service between Des
Moines and outside points we were just W1,r get
set and the new service is established to
scare us"
Improving Railroad Literature.
The North Western line today issued orders TO
cut off all paper back novels on the main line
and branch trains in Iowa. 1t is understood
| that the same order will be issued for all other
states where the system has lines The order
carries out an agreement recently reached by
the heads Of Vanderbilt lines to raise the stan
dard of literature handled by news agents. None
but standard books of fiction with bound backs
will be sold. No trashy stuff, detective stories
or joke books will be handled.
Thugs in Des Moines.
For just one week the police and church people
of Des Moines have been running race to
see who could first catch the murderer Of Fritz
Westbrook, the young man who was killed on
| Fourteenth street presumably by thugs. The
police admit that they have worked In vain.
The report Of the church committee OF Ply
mouth church was made at prayer-meeting last
| night. The churchmen admit that they have
made little progress. l.. J. Kasson, who heads
| the committee says:
|
Moines is infested with a gang Of thieves and
| cut-throats and that the police have been I'M
| able to down the assassins in our midst
Busy church members are no match for cum
| ming criminals who have established themselves
| here. We now compelled to give up the
work. The committee favors fund by church
people to be used for paying experienced de-
| tectives from Chicago and New York. -
IOWA FALLS, IowA.-Two white men ant
a negro from Enterprise, Iowa, were arratgnet
in Inst
fight that took PLACE on sna the %
| two whites, Bennington and Meyers. attacked
| the negro. who backed by some of his negro
friends from Enterprise. In the melee that fol
ing INDUCED in. Car, seats We're smashed
women passengers tainted, children screapet
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fined and Lewis was liberated. r..
MASON CITY, IOWA.. J. Ryan, brake
man, and E. r. Chambers, conductor on thu
Northwestern, who have runs between her
of local railroad officials on the charge of tax
ing goods from freight while In transit
Each was taken before a justice court ant
the cases viii be is not at this time known
1t is believed to be the beginning Of breaking
UP systematic method Of taking goods Will
in transit.
GARNER, 1owA.--At a meeting of the Stat
Of County 4to held at De
was elected president-Ch W. Knoop, VIII
for the past ten years has been cashier Of tn
First National bank, has resigned to take tn
at Waterloo. F. M. Hanson. formerly cashie
of the State Savings bank of Kanawha, Iowa
has been, elected to Mr.. Knoops position.
CLINTON, IowA.-H. W. Wright, o. shreve
port, La, aeronaut, alighted in the middle 0
the Mississippi river last night after MAXIM
!; 5,OOO-foot ascension, one Of the best an
most successful performed in the city
| Wright is here under the auSniceS a Mort
) Side Carnival company. About 10000 peopl
} watched the balloon mount skyward.
| GRINNELL, IOWA.-Rev. DR.. Daniel F. Brad
ley, president Of Iowa college, has been chose
as pastor Of Pilgrim Congregational church o
Cleveland, Ohio.