Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-09-25

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gan which threatened to wipe out sew
eral towns. Residents had to flee for
their lives. Foster City, Mich, lum.
Der town across the Wisconsin line of
Marinette county, was said to have
been destroyed with the loss OF SIX
lives, though this was not confirmed.
Forest fires were reported to have
destroyed some small settlements In
northern Wisconsin and Michigan and
to be spreading rapidly in the Adiron-
dacks.
Heavy rains checked the forest fires
IN northern Michigan and Wisconsin.
w. II. Burletson, cashier of the
Parma, Hanover and Pittsfield (Mich)
banks, which closed, was placed under
arrest at his home in Parma.
Nearly 600 feet of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad bridge over the Susque-
hanna river at Havre de Grace, Md,
collapsed, one man being fatally in
jured.
Fifty persons were injured in col
lision of interurban trolley cars near
Philadelphia.
During gunnery drill at Toulon one
of the big turret guns on the French
armored cruiser Latouche Treville ex-
ploded with terrific violence, COM
pletely wrecking the after turret and
killing outright the entire gun crew
Of 10 men. A number of men were
seriously injured, some of them prob
ably fatally.
Nat c.. Goodwin, the actor, filed a
sealed complaint for divorce against
his wife, Bessie Hall Goodwin, better
known as Maxine Elliott, at Reno,
New.
William J. Bryan in telegram to
President Roosevelt vigorously de-
tended Gov. Haskell against charges
Of connection with the Standard Oil
Company.
The government Of Paraguay un-
earthed a plot against it organized by
members of the negro party. All the
conspirators were taken into custody
and a state of siege was proclaimed.
Enrique de Lara, II years old, son
Of a West Indian merchant, was ar
rested for the murder of Rev. Arturo
Asencio, a Spanish priest, in Central
park, New York.
The American bark Star of Bengal
was wrecked on Coronation island
and 40 men drowned, nine being
whites. Twenty-seven were saved.
7 ioh of IN in OF 70
at the st. Elizabeth Asylum for the
Insane at Washington, killed Patrick
Maloney, overseer of the grounds, and
Mile Follin, a young inmate of the
asylum, and severely injured Miss
Robinson, another inmate.
George Clark, colored, was hanged
by mob at Shero, Tex, but was
found alive some hours later and put
in Jail.
Three men tried to rob bank at
Wheeling, Mo-. using dynamite on the
vault, but were frightened away.
Wilbur Wright, the American aero
pianist, flew in his machine at the
Auvours field at LIE Mans, France, for
This is the worlds record.
A gift of 100000 to Tufts college
under the provisions of the Braker will
recently admitted to probate in New
York was announced by President
Hamilton.
The Cassidy & Gray Commission
Company, with headquarters at Quin
cy, ILL.,, and offices in Chicago, Peoria
and AZ other cities in Illinois and Iowa,
made an assignment.
Because she accepted the attentions
Of another man, Lewis Turner of La
Grange, ILL.,, shot and killed Dora Hell
mer, his fiancee, and committed sui
eide.
Mrs. katherine Clemmons Gould
who is suing Howard Gould for di
vorce, applied for an order compelling
Mr.. Gould to pay her $4,000 a year
alimony and $4,000 for her counsel
fees.
st. Petersburg is in the grasp of the
Asiatic cholera, which already has ex
ceeded in severity and numbers of vic
Tins the visitation of 1898. The dis
ease is increasing daily at an alarming
rate. The government has threatened
to apply the provisions of martial law
and this threat has driven the munich
pality officials to bend all their ener
gies to the campaign of clearing the
city of the scourge.
Sheriff Mooney of Baxter county
Ark. and Mrs. John Roberts were
fatally wounded near Prestonia in q
desperate fight made by Roberts and
his wife against arrest. Roberts and
two of the sheriffs posse were badly
wounded. The sheriff was trying tc
arrest Roberts for the murder of his
neighbor, ODE Kessinger.
Anxiety is filling the heart of the
New England farmer for a drought
which is pronounced to be one of the
severest in many years, has spread it
self over the New England states
causing suffering to people, cattle and
crops.
A cablegram from Tanning island
said the long missing British steamer
Aeon was wrecked on Christmas is
land but all the passengers and crew
escaped and were camping comfort
abby ashore.
Tilted by an 1S-year-old girl, John
Smith of Calhoun, Wis, shot and fatal
ly wounded the mother of the girl
Mrs. Augusta Grabow, wounded the gir]
herself, and then wounded the sheriff
who came to arrest him.
Maj. Gen. Charles Edward Lizard
retired, whose wife was mysteriously
murdered near London August "a.
committed suicide by throwing him.
Golf in front Of q railroad t.oi. II