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IOWA NEWS. ing assault with intent to commit murder. Sheriff Payne, of Dallas county, came after the man. A Homestead of the Brotherhood of American Yeomen was instituted at Clarksville with a charter membership of 20. A Keokuk dispatch says that Hon. S. M. Clark, ex-congressman from that district, is dangerously ill with cystitis, an acute inflammation of the 'bladder; caused by calculi. An operation may be necessary. Kehrberg's dry goods store at LeMars was burned. The fire was caused by the explosion of chemicals. Kehrberg's loss is $27,000; insurance $16,000. Rr. Richey's loss is $2,500; insurance $500. The other tenants' losses were uninsured. A new stamping machine has been acued to the equipment of the Fort Dodge postoffice. The machine is made necessary by the increased volume of business. It will be run by electricity and has a capacity of 30,000 letters an hour. A movement is on foot in Dubuque by the banks receiving time deposits to reduce the rate of interest from 4 per cent, the present rate. to 3 per cent. The reason assigned is the great abundance of money and scarcity of good investments. Al Hutt, a young man who has been in Marshalltown for the past two months, was arrested at the house at 1312 West church street by Sheriff McPherson and Constable Nicholson, on an indictment returned by the Dallas county grand jury last January, chargWalter S. Baker, of Marshalltown, has brought suit in the district court against the Glucose Sugar Refining company of that city, asking damages to the amount of $1,500 for injuries received in having his foot crushed by the machinery while at work in the company's factory in September of last year The citizens of Sloux Rapids are congratulating themselves on the prospects of new railroads this season. Two surveying crews are working through town and another is due here tomorrow. It is an accepted fact that one at least of the roads will be there this summer. Sioux Rapids has the latchstring out for all comers. A distressing accident occurred at Afton. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Lutman had left their 10-months-old baby sitting in a chair near the table. The baby, pulling at the table cloth, pulled a lamp over onto itself. The child fell to the floor, oil spilling on it, the clothing caught fire, and when the parents returned they were smocked to find the black and lifeless body of their darling baby. Henry J. Luder, once a prosperous shoe manufacturer of Keokuk, died in the caliboose of that city. He had been taken there in the patrol wagon early in the morning and was placed in a cell until he could be sent to the county poor farm, but death claimed him before the superintendent arrived. He was once possessed of considerable means, but he died friendless and alone, after subsisting on charity for a long time. is number of people in Iowa are interested financially in the three savings banks which have failed in Sloux City in the last three years. The Home Savings bank will declare a dividend of about 15 per cent inside of a few days. This will be the first payment made in favor of the depositors of the bank. The Iowa Savings bank has paid 40 per cent of the money due its depositors and hopes are entertained that another payment will be made in a short time. M. J. Chambers, of Chicago, representing a cigar house of that city, was slugged and robbed of a large sum of money in Council Bluffs. Chambers was knocked senseless by a blow from a sandbag, and when he recovered consciousness three hours later found himself lying in a hallway a few doors from the Grand hotel, where he was stopping. The robbery is supposed to have been committed by parties who saw him display a large roll of bills in a saloon shortly after midnight, where he went to get a arink after returning from the theater. Major Harry H. Caughlin, of Ottumwa, who has been elected to the coloncy of the Fiftieth regiment, I. N. G., has an enviable record in the military service of the state, and is a young man who will give all his energies to the building up of the reorganized regiment. Mr. Caughlan was born in St. Louis, Mo., September 24, 1867, and is therefore 32 years of age at the present time. He received a good common school education and came to Ottumwa with his parents in 1882, since which time that city has been his home. A great deal of interest is manifested in Sioux City and Woodbury county over the arrest of two men to answer to the charge of jury bribing and accepting a bribe. It has been said for some time in the district court of Woodbury county that there has been someone attempting to work about the juries. The authorities finally landed one man for giving a bribe to a juror. His name is Ed Burke, and he is a notorious character. The juror who took the bribe is Frank Kosak, a baker, and who now is in jail awaiting the action of the grand jury in his case. Both men undoubtedly will be indicted, and the authorities will leave no stone unturned to secure a conviction. The state board of control at its meeting with the superintendents of state institutions in Des Moines decided that after July 1 no superintendents will be permitted to employ relatives in the various institutions. The ministerial association of Des Moines has called a meeting of the