Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-09-04

DOu4U, ACdIAy hAAAAAAo $500 ~ ut
preliminary hearing. Under bonds @
| $1,000 he was remanded to the grand
Jury. His victim is holding his own
but the result OF his injuries will not
( be known for two days or more.
The Rev. Francis Wesley Evans
one OF the Oldest pioneer Methodist
ministers in the state. died at his
home, 1919 East Ninth street, Des
! Moines, on Sept. Bird, aged 70 years,
following a severe attack OF appen.
dicitis. The Rev. Mr.. Evans was not
only one OF the oldest members OF
the Methodist conference but was q
charter member in the Odd Fellow
lodge in the state and pioneer
Mason.
Fred Parker and Galen Wise, OF
Iowa Falls have been taken before
the United States commissioner on
the charge Of violating the federal
laws, the two men being charged
with selling intoxicating liquor with
out license. The men were ar
rested at Buffalo Center, and upon ex.
animation were held to the federal
grand Jury, which meets at Fort
Dodge in November, and gave bonds
for their appearance then.
Gen. Grenville NJ. Dodge, whose
residence is in Council Bluffs, but VINO
is known and loved throughout Iowa,
led the Hawkeye veterans In the
great parade of the Grand Army OF
the Republic in Toledo. The Iowans
we're proud to march behind the dis
tinguished soldier and all the state
will be proud to learn that General
Dodge's health would permit OF the
long march. Unmounted, he walked
three miles at the head of the Iowa
column and was as fresh at the end
as when he started.
Smothered to death in a large
barrel of oats was the unusual death
which befell a 2.year-old child of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Stulik, who lives
one miles west of Williamson. The
babe was playing in the yard when
it fell headforemost into the barrel
containing the oats. The little fellow
managed to get out Of the barrel and
was observed by an older sister, whs
called her mother, saying that the
baby's face was dirty. Mrs. Stulih
responded to the call and found the
child gaspinG for breath. rs mouth
nose and ears were filled with small
grains of oats, and though physi
clan was summoned at once the babe
died from straagulatiOn.
John D. Lawson, aged farmer living
four miles south of Ames, was struck
by a freight train and seriously in
injured while crossing the Northwest
ern tracks at Kellogg street. One OF
his legs was badly crushed and he
was severely bruised about the head
and arms. 1t is not thought that the
injuries will prove fatal. though the
shock was a severe one for SO old a
man. His team was so badly mutt
lated that they had to be shot. They
were fine Percheron mares that he
had been offered $500 for few days
ago. Ca. o
Mrs. May Hartzinger of Lincoln,
Neb, who claims to be the common
law wife of ]. H. Peters, telephone
lineman who recently came to Story
City with another and younger
bride, attempted to shoot him
here. She arrivd on an early train
from her Nebraska home and i'm
mediately hunted him up and asked
to speak with him. Upon his re-
fusal to have anything to do with
her the woman fired on him, one Of
the bullets grazing his arm as he
ran. The others he escaped entirely
BY lodging into a nearby alley.
When the woman was arrested she
gave her name as Mrs. Mary Hart
Finger and her home as Lincoln, Neb.,
where she keeps a beading house.
She says she picked Peters up when
he was down and out, staked him for
$500 of her hard earned money and
lived with him for three years as
his wife, though she had neglected
going through the legal ceremonies.
Ruth Hoover, 50 years old, trained
nurse and companion to Mrs. S. David.
son, 1925 Oakland avenue, Des Moines,
tried three times to kill herself and
was finally taken screaming out OF
the water on the south bank Of the
river at the foot Of Fourth street at
2 o'clock in the morning. For two
hours the woman had been arousing
people by her shrill screams. Seem
ingly, she had tried to drown herself
in the old Zoo lake. She had taken
most of two ounce bottle of chloro'
form. And she had finally waded into
the river, fully clothed, and struggled
down stream for 200 feet before her
clothes caught on the brush at this
edge of the river and kept her head
out of water She declared that she
was tired of living and resents the
efforts Of the police to save her. Miss
Hoover has been a housekeeper and
companion for Mrs. S. Davidson fo1
nine years. She has suffered from
stomach and nervous troubles FOL
several weeks, and Mrs. Davidson be-
lieves that her sufferings alone were
responsible for her attempts to kill
herself. Miss Hoover left the house
early in the evening and she was mex,
seen by the men who pulled her from
the river.
Walking on the tracks of the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad com
pany in her sleep, 1t is believed, Mrs
Peter Schmidt of Clinton, received
wounds which are hourly expected. ia