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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1882
Page
3
The Iowa City Press notes tight races as Hunt wins in the twelfth district by 24 votes and McKenly takes the eighteenth by seven. It also recalls a Des Moines mayoral scandal involving a saloon keeper, a paid hush and a mayoral guarantee, with later affidavits signaling further inquiry.
The Iowa Supreme Court declares option trading gambling, echoed by business leaders while reports note a Dayton Ohio doctor jailed for treasonable utterances against the Emperor. Articles discuss Iowa prohibitory amendment cases, police violence in Des Moines, Beecher's withdrawal from Orthodoxy, and political party tensions. Also covered are murder mob events in Evansville, and a primer on partition fences and herd law with two recent Supreme Court decisions.
In a mob action near Rednap in Pusey County, a man named Redman was killed after being taken from a buggy and struck by a heavy blow. David Murphy, brother-in-law of the murdered woman, was also killed as police attempted to disperse the mob. About five men were arrested. one leader, a heavyset man, was later released. Reporters and others connected to the event were detained. The scene highlights tensions over Sabbath enforcement and Prohibition politics in Ohio, with Democratic gains and Republican losses noted in the accompanying analysis.
The article discusses herd and line fence interpretations under stock laws, citing Section 1508 and Sayas vs. Peck. It notes Grundy County cases where fences are required between adjoining lands with stock restrained, and judges oppose imposing needless fence costs on nonrestrictive counties.
In St Louis a dispute at the Post-Dispatch office ended with editor John A. Cockerell shooting Col. Slayback dead. Accounts vary. Cockerell claims Slayback drew a pistol and threatened him, while others say Slayback had no weapon. Cockerell is jailed pending investigation. Also notes probate and estate notices from Iowa and Iowa counties, with council clerk filings and an estray heifer in Clinton township.
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