The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
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John Thompson, formerly Of Dubu que,
lad theee ribs broken and was otherwise
seriously injured while attempting to board
a moving street car in New York recently;
Frank P. Toll, an employe of the American
Express company at Clinton. skipped out
with $500 of the company's money, which
hehad taken from express packages.
At Traer last week two of DR.. r. NJ. Par.
sons children died Of diphtheria. His
three other children are now attacked with
the disease and not expected to live.
At business carnival at Wall Lake re-
Gently woman appeared among the mas
queraders in suit OF butchers working
clothes and carried banner decorated with
bologna sausages.
Last week DR.. Sitter, of Sac City, removed
a piece of bone from the head Of q soldier
from Fonda which had remained there ever
since the battle of Antietam, where he had
received wound in the skull.
Fred S. Harbolt, a Burlington brakeman,
fell twenty feet into the water from train
while crossing Prairie creek near Cedar Rap
ids. With the exception of an ugly cut on
his head he escaped injury.
The authorities of Sac City are looking for
George Lewis, who disappeared from his farm
near that city not long ago with his wife's
youngest sister and leaving numerous cred
itors.
AL Weaver, q switchman in tho Central
yards at Marshalltown, while coupling cars
had his right hand caught between the
bumpers and crushed so badly as to render
amputation necessary.
Miss Kate Ryan, Clinton school teacher,
pxnished little Alvina Thiesen with ruler so
severely that the child has been confined to
her bed for over week with nervousness and
fright.
Mrs. Kis Eadden, aged 70 years, who re-
moved from Bellevue to southern Colorado
about year ago, was caught in the recent
blizzard while on her way home from
neighbours and frozen to death.
Capt Will Pattee of Bremen county, the
last living official of the old democratic re-
gime in Iowa, called on Gov.-Elect Boies at
his home in Waterloo. Capt. Pattee held
the position of state auditor fran 1851 to
1854.
The little 2-year-old son Of Mrs. Jennie
Anderson, of Marshalltown. got hold OF
can Of powdered lye and before discovered
had eaten a mouthful of it, with probably
fatal effect.
Krebs Bros, of Cedar Rapids, have been
awarded the contract to build the Tama
county soldiers monument. 1t will be a
com animation OF white bronze and granite,
and will cost $4,000.
- D. E. Gleason. Council Bluffs coal dealer
wants Geo H. Champ to give him $40, 600
500, 900 for libel and $4,000 for Islander.
Alleged that Champ said Gleason was
swindling his patrons by giving them short
weight.
A. A. Noys, OF Steamboat Rock, has just
shipped 800 head ofcattle-eighteen carloads
direct to Liverpool, Eng. This stock had
been fed for fifteen months and average ], 500
each all in prime condition. Over thous-
and head will be shipped from Iowa Falls
next week.
Owing to the recent trouble at Des Moines
college, brought about by the Teeter mar
rage, the male students have formed
brotherhood, the purported object of which
is to stick together in the marriage business.
The girls, it is stated, have also formed an
organization or sisterhood. with the same
object. and it is feared by the faculty that
when the two Organizations come together
in joint session there will be decided decrease
in the enrolment Of the college-unless the
rule prohibiting matrimony is materially
modified.