Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-21
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Judge Bishop was at Waterloo to
attend the meeting Of the stS1e bar
association. At the time Of hiS death
he was waiting with friends to 60
into the annual banquet of the or
sanization which was to have been
attended by several hundred attor.
neys and other prominent men. on
account of his death the banquet
was abandoned and the sessions Of
the convention will be curtailed.
Mrs. Bishop and the little six.yeari
old daughter and Mrs Matthew Smith
Mr.. Smith is a brother of the wife
OF Judge Bishops son-are visiting at
the summer home Of Mrs. Bishops
parents, the Lyman home at a vii.
lage north of Los Angeles and which
10 on railroad and difficult of &C.
cass.
When Judge Josiah Given of Polk
county was appointed supreme fudge
by Gov. Larrabee in March, 1889, Mr..
Bishop was appointed district Judge
| In this district to fill the vacancy.
He was not reelected, however, In
1890 on account of the democratic
landslide of that year, and resumed
the practice of the law in this city.
In 1897 he was again appointed dis
trict judge in Polk county, by Gov.
Francis M. Drake and the following
year was elected to the full term OF
four years. He resigned from the
bench, however on March 8, 1902, to
resume the practice as member Of
the firm of Bishop, Dowell & Par.
| IRISH.
In June of the same year, 1902,
Judge G. M. Waterman of the SUI.
preme bench resigned to give his at.
tention to the practice at Davenport.
with Joe R. Lane. Gov. Albert B.
Cummins at once appointed Judge
Bishop to fill the vacancy and in 1902
he was elected to fill out the short
term and in 1903 was elected for the
| full term, which ends jan /, 1911, on
account of the extension of year of
the term because of the adoption of
the biennial elections amendment,
He was a candidate for the replb-
lican nomination for supreme Judge
In 1901 but because of the candidacy
Of Mr.. Cummins for governor. both
residing in Des Moines, he gave way
In that year and at last did not 20
into the race.
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Sioux City Bank Holds Sack.
The famous Brown bank failure at
Sheldon was brought into public at
tention after years quiet by the
decision of the supreme court. which
refused to name the Peoples Savings
bank of Sioux City as one of the pre-
ferred creditors OF the defunct insti.
tuition. The Peoples bank held GER
tihcates of deposit in the Sheldon
bank to the amount Of $4,000 which
was to have been used for the trans-
| action Of business. The claim was
that 1t was trust fund and therefore
the bank had priority claim In the
settlement Of the affairs OF the Shell.
don concern. The court held that the
Sheldon bank also had some funds in
the Sioux City concern and that they
should be set of against each other
and that the claims should be given
no preference in settlement. A large
number of similar claims held by
other creditors also were settled in
the same way, none of them being de-
clared preferred creditors.
Reporters Want More Money
More money for their work is what
the members of the Iowa Shorthand
Reporters association are after And
the legislative committee of the asso-
citation was specifically instructed as
Its commission to do all in its power
at the next general assembly to get
laws passed increasing the wages OF
court reporters. In the first place
the court reporters want the law
changed 40 that $4,000 year will be,
the minimum salary. The minimum
at present is $1,000. And they want
the per diem fee Of court reporter
to be increased from Sc to $40. 4.
One consumptive Cured,
OF the sixty persona af1icted with
lneipient tuberculosis who have been
admitted to the state sanatorium at
Iowa City, one has been discharged
with the disease arrested and eight
have left voluntarily after improve.
ment.
On Vaudeville Stage.
AT salary of $50 per week Mrs.
Frank Shercliffe, wife of the notorious
diamond robber, and the woman who
was taken with Owen Ball, arrested
by the detectives last week for par,
the country. More than that the
ticipation with Shercliffe in train
robbery at Minneapolis, has been en-
gagged to appear in moving picture
and vaudeville thestsrs throughout
manager gave Mrs. Shercliffe carte
blanche to the dress goods. millinery
and lingerie counters.
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO,
LUCAS COUNTY. 60
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he ia senior
partner of the firm Of F. j. Cheney & Co.. doing
business in the City OF Toledo, County and
State aforesaid, and that said firm will nav the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured
by the use of Halls Catarrh Cure,
FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In my
presence, this 9th day of December, A. d. 1885.
A. W. GLEASON.
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