Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1908-09-18

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cal industries of the country were ~
per cent. higher in 1907 than In 1906,
while retail prices of food were AZ
per cent. higher, according to the July
report of the bureau Of labor.
John and Wilbur Patterson, charged
with holding up street car near Bos-
ton, Pa, last May and robbing ii pas
sengers and the conductor, were con-
victed In the criminal court at
Pittsburg.
Six persons were killed and 30 In
jured, four of whom are not expected
to live, as the result of an explosion
of a car of black powder at Windsor
Mo.
A white man named Monker and six
Indians, are believed to have persisted
in the forest fire near Grand Marais.
MINI. They went to save homestead
ers at hester and were cut off by the
flames.
Umpire Jack Sheridan Of the Ameri-
can Baseball league was attacked by
angry baseball enthusiasts in St.
Louis.
The United States circuit court OF
appeals at Richmond, Va, sustained
the opinion of Judge J. c. Pritchard
in the famous case of the Flieschmann
Company and others against the South
Carolina dispensary commission, hold
ing in effect that state cannot con-
duct liquor traffic, that being private
| business.
The Utah Federation of Labor re-
fused to indorse Samuel Gompers' cir
cular urging laboring men to vote for
Bryan.
Suit for the recovery of 100000
damages, alleged to have been sus-
tanned because of boycott, has been
begun against the United Hatters or
America by D. E. Loewe & Co., of Dan
bury, Conn.
Five persons were killed and 16 IN
jured by boiler explosion in mine
near Aix-la- Chapelle.
One Chicago woman WAS almost In
stantly killed and nearly two score OF
other persons, most of them residents
of Indianapolis, were hurt when
Lake Shore suburban train ran into an
excursion train at Chesterton, Ind.
A passenger train on the Yazoo &
Mississippi Valley railroad was
wrecked near Clarksdale, Miss. Three
persons were killed and 80 injured.
For convicts escaped from the state
prison at Ionia, Mich, and two from
the penitentiary at Chester, III.
Sixty students of Armour institute,
Chicago, were arrested after 20 fresh
men had been partly stripped and
marooned on a scow in the lake.
Night riders are organizing in north
eastern Arkansas, for the purpose OF
reducing the cotton acreage for next
year and compelling the holding of
this years crop for the minimum price
set by the International Farmers
Union convention which met at Fort
Worth recently.
Whisky and other liquors must have
age and natural color or be labeled
limitation" So decided Judge Hum
phrey in the United States district
court at Springfield, ILL.,, in the case OF
Wollner & Co., distillers and rectifiers
of Peoria, Ill.,
An attempt to assassinate Gov. Fort
Of New Jersey has been thwarted by
| the watchfulness of post office en-
ployes who discovered an Internal ma
chine addressed to him in the mails.
his life in Springfield, ILL.,, because he
feared he would be victim of hydro
phobia, having been bitten by rabid
SQUIRREL
Denial Of any Intentional contempt
of court was the burden of John
MitchelIs testimony when the former
head of the miners took the stand be-
| fore Examiner Harper in the case
wherein the American Federation of
Labor officials are accused of con-
tempt in the matter Of the Bucks Stove
& Range Company.
The Chicago to New York express
on the Erie road went into the ditch
at Geneva, Pa, and "a persons were
hurt. Officials of the road declare
some enemy Of the company caused
the wreck by opening a switch.
Jenor Zboralski, 19-year-old youth
from Buffalo, N. Y, was taken into
custody at the Polish seminary in De-
troit under circumstances which led to
a suspicion that he intended to use a
loaded revolver which was in his
pocket in attacking Rev. Father With
old Buhaczkowski, head of the SINH
nary.
Miss Willie Bullinger, 10 years old,
was stabbed to death by Lon RAIDER,
aged 81, in Newton, N. c., while seated
at the organ playing the closing hymn
at Sunday school.
Amid intense excitement and to the
accompaniment of cheers and groans
from immense crowds, the Catholic
clergy held their great parade, which
was the closing feature of the Euchar-
istic congress in London.
Dave Newton, a negro, charged with
being implicated in the murder of
John Buchtrin, white man, who was
shot and Killed at his home near
Brookshire. Tex, was taken from jail
by a mob and hanged.
A government crop report estimates
the total Canadian wheat yield at
124, 100000 bushels, an average of 81
bushels per acre. The total yield of
oats Is estimated at 269 1904, 900 bushels,
and the total barley yield 49,4SS,000
bushels
Frank V. Bennett, hotel manager
Of New York, killed himself because
of financial and domestic difficulties
and on learning of it, his friend