Omaha daily bee., 1911-09-09
MANY DIVORCE CASES FILED
Four Hundred and Thirty.Six Peti.
tions at Des Moines.
SEVERE STORM AT NDIANOIA
Anti-saloon League sends Petition 90
Taft Protesting Against seere-
tary Wilson Presiding at
Brewers' Congress.
(From a staff Correspondent


DIES MONIES. Ia, Sept. S-(specisl Tele-
gram --Record breaking for divorces IL
promised in district court at the next term.
A total Of 1856 petitions for divorces has been
filed with the clerk. about evenly divided
between men and women and all manner Of
reasons are assigned. The courts report that
the number Of divorces asked for is steadily
INCREASING here every year.
storm Scene True 20 Life.
A remarkable coincidence lie reported from
Indianola where the Henry band Of this
city was playing at the county fair In
the midst Of the presentation Of the storm
scone from the William Tell overture q
storm came up and the band stand was
struck by lightning. Several Of the men
were thrown from their chairs and the con-
cert was broken up. but no person was
seriously hurt.
Protest sent to Taft.
At the session of the Iowa conference at
Fairfield a resolution introduced by c. s.
Copper. of the Anti-saloon league. was
adopted, strongly protesting against the
fact that Secretary Wilson is to preside
at the National Brewers congress. A copy
Of the resolution was ordered sent to Presi-
dent Taft.
Resume the Prison Probe.
Attorney General Cosson went TO Fort
Madison this afternoon to resume the probe
into the affairs at the state prison caused
by sensational newspaper attacks on the
state administration. He viii be Joined
there by Judge Roberts and Mayor Shell
don and the work OF taking testimony will
be commenced. II Is expected that several
weeks will be taken in the whole investiga-
ton.
Need a Prison Photographer.
Warden Sanders OF the Fort Madison
prison, who was here today in consulta-
ton with members OF the Board OF Con-
troll, is looking for a prison photographer.
The release from prison OF Frank Novak,
who had been official photographer for
many years, left the prison entirely with
out any inmate capable of taking photo
graphs of the new arrivals
VIII Not Accept Decision.
The street car employees today gave an
swer to the management and declared that
they will not accept as final and definite
the decision of the management as to the
discharge Of certain OF the conductors. The
union committee announces that the evil
dence is not conclusive as to the guilt OF
the men in disobeying orders and that the
union will demand their reinstatement.
This means another controversy over the
whole matter. as the management cannot
very we'll back down now. Whether 1t will
result in a strike will depend largely upon
the attitude of the business interests OF
the city
TippecanOe Club Banquets.
The Iowa Tippecanoe club held lite ban
quet this evening in the First Methodist
Episcopal church and invited a number Of
leading residents OF the city to discuss
political questions. Among them were
Senator Cummins, Congressman Prouty
ex-senator Young and Sidney Foster, sec
rotary Of an insurance company. Congress-
man Prouty spoke at length on the south
ern influence in congress and aroused
much enthusiasm by pointing out how es-
sential 1t was to maintain the supremacy
of northern ideas in national affairs.
State Suffrage Convention.
Mrs. Harriet Towner Of Corning. as pres
ident OF the Iowa Equal Suffrage associa-
ton, has issued a call for the convention
OF that body at Perry, October TO- The
program has not yet been prepared.