Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-13
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

lOSt ny the plague TO GATE, says the |
Advocate.
CARROLL. Henry Nicholson, of
Carroll township, SO years old, first
voted for William Henry Harrison in
1910. and has voted at every election
since.
ESTHERvILLE-Th jury in the
case of A. F. Tough vs.. the NJ. & ST. L..
Railway Company brought in q verdict
in favor of plaintiff for $3.50 damages.
This was an appeal from the decision of
the condemnation jury that allowed
him $3.50.
VINTON-On the night of election
full returns of the county were ga
thered in by telephone by eleven o'clock
from every township but two. Every
township except the two mentioned
was reported. within five minutes after
the count was completed.
ELDORA- Notwithstanding the fact
that the voters have been instructed
time and again as to the method of
voting, yet forty voters in Hardin
| county went to the trouble of going to
the polls Tuesday and by wrongful
marking of the ballot lost their votes.
/ OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES was filed in
the district court Wednesday of the
insanity of Chris III. Peterson of Pales-
tine township. Deputy Sheriff Banks
went to bring him to this city yester-
day and found that he had left the
country a day before the information
was filed.
STORM LAKE-Frank j. Howe, of
Storm Lake, has filed petition in vol
I untary bankruptcy in the federal court
at Sioux City. He schedules liabilities
4 of s22.9S7.71 and assets of s1,09s, of
which 1851 is already pledged to secure
the payment of portion of his in
VI debtedness.
4 TOLEDO-Steward LaDue. of the
i county farm, marketed an even dozen
hogs last week that averaged 4s5
pounds and brought the top price He
has raised over 100 pigs this season.
Mr.. LaDue is giving the county good
service as farmer as we'll as custo-
dian of the County Home, says the
Chronicle
MASON CITY, F.. Younglove re-
ports his company as securing 10000
bushel elevator at Heron Lake, Mimi,
and one at Early, Iowa. With the con :
tract of six duplicates, weather being
favorable, for the construction. These
= 4
of Younglove & Co.'S designs, costing
$500 each.
COUNCIL BLUFFS Mrs. Mary
, Carlson, of Rockford. ILL.,, returnec
home Friday night with the casket con
tanning the body of Harmon Smith
which she identified as that of her son
He was injured in a railway accident al
Logan last week and died at ST. Der
t., = l., ,tf,,
of the Illinois Central road Before tn,
: end he said his mother lived at Rock
ford but did not tell her name.
IOWA CITY-Dr. j. c. Shrader !:
home from the semi -annual meeting %
1.-THE state board of health and medica
EXAMINERS at Des Moines. He reports
) that there is no smallpox in Iowa now
and there are fewer cases of diphtheri;
ana scarlet fever than usual at thi
|time of the year. There is quite Sc
we're siege of diphtheria in and nea
IOttumwa and of scarlet fever in Sou
Icounty.
CEDAR FALLs-C. A. Wise sent t
Des Moines $500, the amount coilecte
bfrom the ten banks-S4o each--in thi
county. This money is loaned to tn
5. state by the banks to pay for the trans
porta,ion of the Flfty-first Iowa regi
ment home from San Francisco. The
are to look to the next Legislature I
make good this loan when they NEE
next January. Mr.. Wise was appointe
by Governor Shaw to collect tn
amount from Blackhawk county.
AUDURON-The Republican ha
hanging in it's office an insurgent' can
= teen, picked up along the trenches out
side of San Fernando and brought I
j that paper by Clyde Baker 1t is
big joint of bamboo stock, has a wood
en- plug, and has d string made of ban
boo fiber by which it is carried wne
\. swung over the shoulder. 1t holds
A. gallon of water and beats no canteen q
L. all great deal. 1t is quite curios
|ity and is priced very highly by tn
q. Republican publisher.
n. SIOUX CITY Fresh supplies of too
ns for the international Packing Con
lpany's construction gangs at the OF
. Silberhorn plant arrived in the Gil
" yesterday and the force of workme
y. was Increased TO between 100 and Il
II. men. Mtre are being hired now an
no effort Will be spared to accomplis
:, what President W hite so much desire
tho completion of the contemplate
improvements and repairs by Dec.
n. tine deed for the transfer of the plal
n. from the stock yards to the paclSif
u. company vii be filed as soon as
n tr.fsns, mistake in the description
N. corrected The consideration named
~ n, 100000.
TIPTON-The mulct petition W;
circulated on election day at most
the polling places but the result is n
n. get public 1t is currently reporte
n however. that about IS per cent of u
M voters in the county signed 1T. In III
~. ton about Is per cent of the vote
M M signed. Cass reports so per cent. FIR
mont 40 per cent Massiiion and sprin
m. field 90 per cent. Inland 50 per cer
n. n. Dayton small per cent, while in n
an. Oak and Springdale there We're
m. signers. The total vote cast was AZ
~, ~ nd in order to secure the necessary
i cent 3,O37 signers must be secure
is understood that the work of $
lrlng the additional names reaulr
iii be pushed during the next thir
avs.
m COUNCIL .BLUFFs-Jacob Wolff
IN. 3wly dying of lockjaw at st. BE
n'' lrd's hospital. week ago he W
. AIKEN there, his right foot badly