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

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| Mrs. Victor l.. Long, an assistant
in the Office OF DR.. J. H. Crippen
4 Waterloo, was attacked by strange
while she was in the ONCE alone
and received two severe gashes VIII
razor on her arm while she wa.
struggling with him.
The annual old settlers picnic oc
Cured at Mason City on the Bird with
big dinner and programme Of
pioneer "reminiscences. Several hun
dred people participated. Among the
guests OF honor were three survivors
OF the first settlers in the county.
Mrs. Patrick Hughes, Mrs. Thomp.
son and their brother Mark Owen,
who was the first white child born
in the county. The next meet VIII
be held In clear Lake.
| In an alteration over young WON.
an and an umbrella. Noah Tut,
aged 70 years, stabbed Ben Johnson,
aged 81, with knife at the formers
home, in Muscatine. inficting q
wound that may prove fatal. Tut
says that the boy had been paying
too much attention to his house
keeper, and the injured lad claims
he called for an umbrella.
The Atlantic Gas and Fuel COM
pany has again changed hands, j..
A. McWaid selling the plant and stock
| 80 h1 tn u KiHHnr nf Re6
Oak The sale included the business
OF the company for this month also,
and the key was turned over to Mr..
Kidder, who will manage the COM
pany. He Is one of the four men who
own the Red Oak plant and it Is said
that it is their intention to rebuild
the local plant and spend about
$4,000 in reconstructing the system.
I'M. Van Arsdale, representing the
Apollo club, of Des Moines, has filed
petition in district cosrt asking
that the court order r. :. Hi;gin-
botham, formerly head of the CLUB, to
make an accounting as to the re-
ceipts Oh concerts given at Ingersoll
| park in May. While Mr.. Higginbot-
ham has made part settlement with
the club it is claimed that he has
not yet paid over the entire amount
due to various members of the or
ganization.
One of the biggest individual ship
ments of live stock in several years
over the Rock Island has been made
ny John Griffith, formerly we'll
known resident of Bows, but now en-
gagged in stock raising and farming in
Emmett county. The shipment con-
sists OF a special train of fourteen
cars, two of cattle and twelve Of
hogs. It is estimated that at the
prevailing prices on the Chicago mar
ket for cattle and hogs that the ship
ment netted Mr.. Griffith $4,000.
The various church and civic
societies of Iowa. Falls having al
ready demonstrated their ability on
the baseball diamond in behalf Of
charity the matter is now under con-
sideration OF offering spectacular
attraction on the diamond in follow
ing the example OF the social leaders
at Correstionvilie, iowa, where the
wives and daughters Of the Masons
and Odd Fellows are te give exh;bi.
lions of their ability in the national
| game. While the details of the pro-
| gram are not completed or the dates
set for the big event, the indications
are that the demonstrations of petit.
! coat ability with ball and bat will be
the big event of the season in this
city.
! Is a railroad train travelling at the
rate of thirty miles an hour being
operated in reckless, dangerous and
extremely reprehensible manner?
James Smith AYERS that 1t is, if it
is on the Great Western road, and he
has started suit for $3.50 against
the railway company foc damages he
AYERS he sustained as the result OF
such gross negligence. recllessneSs
and excessive speed or the part OF
the Great Western Railway company
He, AYERS that thirty miles an hour
is dangerous speed on the Great
| "CSICAA LACy ouu III priv SIoiAlG
that he was thrown from train
while it was travelling at that fright
full pace. He was severely injured
he says, and it will cost him $1,25t
to recuperate. And he wants the
railway company to pay.
| None of the romance which at
taches to the honeym> ons. of the In
dian hero and heroine of the popular
songs marked the wedding journey
of Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Stavelar. In
dams, who came to Sioux City from
the Omaha reservation to celebrate
their honeymoon. The festivities go
the better of the dusky bride ant
groom and the police found then
/ asleep In the rear of a building a
Third and Douglas street. The bride
was the drunken of the two and i
took four men to carry her to the
patron wagon. Both Of them .wer'
carted to the police staten. The
husband had about $12 cash, which
J will cover the fine which will likely
be placed against them in the police
court. ~ -.l#. +
Numerous clouds of locusts are re
ported in the outskirts of Des Moine:
and the adjoining agricultural dis
tricts. In some parts these pests
have stripped everything, even tn,
trees OF their leaves.
Arthur Ramsdell young married
man Of Tama, is lying unconscious
at his home, the result OF a fal
from scaffolding and will probabl!
die. Ramsdell was employed IL