Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-27
Iowa
FIVE PEOPLE BURN 10 DEATH
Night Waterman, Old Soldier, and
Three Children Victims.
ONE AT CAPITAL, FOUR AT ELDoN
state Dairy and Food Commissioner IL
Having nj of His own
with Temperance" Drinks
and other Things.
From a staff Correspondent

FROM 2 StAtI correspondent
DIES MONIES. May 3-w. o. Allen,
night Waterman at the Dood & Struthcrs
lightning rod plant, was killed early today
during a fire which broke out in the base
ment. He sent in the fire alarm and then
undertook TO fight the flames alone. When
the firemen arrived they turned their hose
streams into the building. After the fire
was extinguished the body of Allen was
found at the base OF the stairs. He had
fallen as he was about to leave, overcome
by the smoke. He lay in a pool Of water
and it is not known whether he died OF
suffocation from smoke or whether his life
was finally extinguished by the water.
soldier and Children Burn.
Job Carter, aged 90 years, an old soldier,
and his three grandchildren were burned
to death when a lamp exploded and set
fire to the house of Mrs. Leila Shaw, at
Eldon, this morning. Carter was the
father of Mrs. shaw, who is mother of the
children. She separated from her husband
and has been working in an EIdon restau-
rant lights. She left her children with her
father while she went to work They
were aged y, 10 and 3. a fourth child, a
baby, was at the home Of Carter with
| MrS. carter ana esCdpeu uedlu. NO one
knows for certain how the fire started.
but it is opposed it was by an overturned
lamp. The building was practically de-
stroyed. 1t was beyond the fire limits.
Garter was a prominent @. A. r. man and
an old settler at Eldon.
Alcohol in Temperance Drinks.
Housewives, grocers, resturanteurs ami
authorities all over the state will be deeply
interested in a rather startling discovery
that has just been made at the chemical
labratory of the Iowa pure food commits
sion. 1t is that many of the so-termed
temperance" drinks contain alcohol. Some
OF them have been found to contain as
high as two per cent. Chemical analyses
of some of the malts and other drinks
served at soda fountains and sold by gro
GERS and consumed by teetotalers would
warrant criminal prosecution for selling
liquor contrary to the laws of the state.
Some Of the so-called temperance drinks
are not temperate said state Food and
Dairy COMMISSIONS Wright. 1--WE have
found in some of these appealing liquids
bought at grocery stores as high as two
per cent of alcohol. l hardly think we
will start any prosecutions for violating
7 ne Hlultl law, Dut we may ElNe Il warning
to the dealers in the near future as to what
it will be dangerous for them to handle.
There are some of these malts that might
not contain alcohol at the time they were
put up, but manufacture it within them
selves during the time they await for
some customer to purchase"
Two ice cream manufacturers in Des
Moines have been made defendants in
actions commenced by Mr.. Wright for SELL
Ing ice cream that does not have the
requisite amount of butter fat. The cru
SADIE is going to be pushed throughout the
summer in all the cities of the state. JOY
to the consumers this year. Ice cream will
be the real stuff.
Discussing the COnVicts.
Ministers, state officials. school teachers
and others have become involved In an
interesting discussion in Des Moines as to
the leniency that should be shown men
convicted for the first time Of crime. The
discussion was started by the recent an
nouncement of Canon Bell Of the Episco-
pal church that all first timers should
be paroied and given one more chance.
Sunday Rowland Hanson, a Baptist
preacher here, declared this to be maudlin
sympathy and declared that the COURTS
should show their teeth more for the benc-
fit Of society. Secretary Garrett of the
State Board of Parole also takes issue
with the advocate of the new thory and
announces that the statistics of the parole
board show that 80 per cent of the men
paroled from the penitentiary have made
good Hence he urged that the stigma
of having been a jailbird does not deter
a man from living an upright life when
he gets out. II is possible that a public
debate or two on the question will he the
outcome of numerous challenges that are