Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1909-02-05

yer, member Of the supreme court OF
Iowa, was held to the grand jury In
the district court at Iowa Falls on q
charge of having issued forged papers
| Three trainmen were killed and an.
other was fatally injured when two
stock trains on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad We're in head,
on collision at Powersville, Mo. The
crew lost control of one train, causing
the crash.
| The deadlock in the negotiations be.
| tween w. /. Buchanan, Americas spe-
cial commissioner, and the Venezuelan
| government, remains unbroken through
| the refusal of either side to yield in
the dispute over-the method of arDi.
| trating the cases Of the New York and
| Bermudez Asphalt Company and the
Orinoco corporation.
The assembly of the Nevada legis.
lature adopted the resolution against
the Japanese, after cutting out the
censure of President Roosevelt.
Helen Maloney, daughter of Martin
Maloney, wealthy Philadelphia, was
married second time to Herbert Os,
born of New York, their first marriage
being annulled.
Horace Butler, member of an old
New York family, fearing he was going
insane, committed suicide by shoot,
ing himself.
Miss Verna Ware shot four men dur.
ing the progress of trial in a Texas
courtroom. Two are expected to die.
Seventeen men, five whites and IL
negroes. were killed by an explosion
resulting from windy shot in an Ala
bama coal mine.
The West Virginia senate was
aroused by statement that $1,000.000
had been raised to prevent prohibition
in the state.
Miners in the national convention at
Indianapolis rebuked President Lewis
for his action in connection with t. Q
Kansas strike. .,
Capt. James Brown, who was a
member of a party that searched fol-
the famous Cocos island treasure in
1850, sailed again for the South seas
to recover the spells of the Spanish
freebooters taken from them by Capt
Smith of the schooner Black Witch, in
1920.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the plant of the American Tubular
Axle Company in Toledo, O., causing
loss of $125,O00.
A local option bill, fathered by the
Anti-Saloon league of Pennsylvania,
was introduced in the lower house OF
the Pennsylvania legislature.
A bill requiring that applicants for
marriage license in Oregon be pro.
vided with a certificate of good health
from license physician was unani
mously passed by the state senate.
Two children of Nathaniel Work
man, living near Lexington, KY. were
burned to death when his house was
destroyed by fire. #s .~
A bank guarantee bill, prepared by
the joint committee from the Kansas
house and senate, after consultation
with Gov. Stubs and other admins
tration leaders. will be introduced. II
provides a levyo of one-twentieth Of one
per cent. on all bank deposits.
The alleged carelessness Of negro
porter in putting man in the wrong
berth of a sleeping car was the basis
of a $4,000 suit brought in the fed
eral court at New Orleans by Mrs.
Amelia M. Dubourg against the Pull
man Company.
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reserves will be held at Toledo this
summer at the same time that tho
1aaneuvers of the United States army
department of the great lakes, are
being conducted.
The administration Of Thomas F.
Lewis, president Of the United Mine
Workers Of America, was supported by
the delegates to the national conven,
ton in indianapolis. A roll call showed
1927 approving and 1,O54 dissenting.
Secretary Taft inspected the Guile
bra cut and approved the Gatun dam
of the Panama canal.
The Turko-Bulgarian deadlock over
the amount of money to be paid be-
cause of Bulgaria's declaration of indie.
pendence has been settled on a plan
proposed by Russia.
Failing to give bond, F. r. McDon.
aid, deposed secretary-treasurer OF the
Illinois-Indiana council, No. 4, Interna-
tional Union of Electrical Workers,
went to Jail on charge of larceny as
bailee.
In preparation for the observation of
the Lincoln centenary at the birth
place of the emancipation, near Hodg-
enville, KY, the cabin in which Lin
coin was born was removed to the me-
mortal farm.
Without amendment the senate
passed the house bill making Febru-
airy -, 1909, the one hundredth ami
versary Of the birth of Abraham Lin.
coin legal holiday and recommend
ing it's celebration throughout the
United States. 4
George Busse, brother of Mayor
Busse of Chicago, who accidentally |
shot and killed Mrs. Lucius Tucker.
man, was exonerated by the coroner's
jury which investigated the tragedy.
The widow of Father John of Kron. |
stadt, the well-known Russian priest
who died about month ago in St.
Petersburg, has been given a yearly
pension of $1,000.