Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-05
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

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OTTUMWA--John Scully, candy |
maker, and Miss May Heating, disap-
peared and are supposed to have eoped |
Sunday night. scully is reported to
have been living with woman in Os-
kaloosa.
DICKENS-Ileader: Dolly Culver fell
down stairs, last Friday, with lamp
In one hand and lamp chimney in the
other. She was shaken up quite badly,
but strange to say neither the lamp nor
the chimney Were broken.
BELLE PLAINE-The Belle PLANE
Telephone Company now has 165
phones in operation. Eight car
loads of wreckage, Including the three
engines. went through to Clinton Tues
day morning from the Tioga wreck
DAvENPORT-M Members of Company
B are in receipt of their annual stipend
paid by the state for those who attend
the annual state encampment. The
money is about 80 to the man. 1t was
distributed to the boys at the regular
Injecting.
FORT DoDGE-The contract for
lpaving First avenue south was awarded
to the Likes Improvement Company, of
Des Moines, at their bid sl3s per lineal
foot, with the specification that all brick
material used should be purchased in
Fort Dodge.
i DJ,NLAP-Herald: The case of j. B.
| Hunter VS.. Jasper Hunter, case
! wherein the plaintiff began action for
1 SANDER, has been settled by the defend
ant retracting and paying the costs.
The brothers very sensibly got together
and saved unnecessary airing of family
linen in the district court
DIES MOINEs-The supreme court of
Iowa. which convened Tuesday, had
lfifty-five applicants for admission to
1.-THE bar to be examined. Three hundred
land fifteen cases were docketed for sub
mission. From 120 to 125 opinions VIII
be handed down and court will probably
q be in session the greater part of four
weeks.
J, WEBSTER CITY-The returns filed
| in the auditors office show the total
number of pupils in the schools of Ham
'sIiltcn county to be $50, against g, 40 last
lyear. The West Bend and Union
Z schools did not report and Will there
fore not receive their share of the APP
portionment, which amounts TO 40 cents
/ per scholar, against 6S cents last year.
WATERLOO-Sept ember closed with
a week of fair volume in the real estate
: market, the transfers aggregat1ng SOL
/, S55. The total for the month was SlSl,-
los. the largest since last May. The -
t lot deeds averaged s62S, and land deeds
: made the excessive average OF $o.z3S
! The consideration in nearly every deed
was large, and on one day the trans
. actions amounted to s37,4OO.
q OSKALOOSA-An enthusiastic mass
meeting was held at the court house
$ Monday evening to make preliminary
: larrangements for the reception OF Com
I many f upon its arrival home from Ma
g Mia. Committees We're appointed fol
/ this purpose The boys are expected Y
: arrive at San Francisco about Oct. 70
G IIf they are mustered out at sea the.
d viii get home about Nov. ].
s vINTON-Eagle Mrs. b. Murph.
g mas been expecting her brother. lr;
: Baird. who is member of Capt
e Mounts company in the Fifty-frs
q Iowa. home on the steamer Senator
n but she received letter from him las
Is Friday. written in August, stating n
u had re-enlisted for two years he
y going to stay, he says, until Aguinald
&c and his guerilla TaSals are conquered
3. WASHINGTON - Referring to tn
'e brighton editor who has just complete
a tail sentence OF six months for HIDE
and been released, the Press says: =
10 q. Heacock paid in the $3.50 fine Q
Judgment. and it was probably the dead
- est horse ever paid for this county w
/. have searched the Gospels, and find n
&c case where Jesus had to pay In any llp'
y suit. What would Jesus do In such
case2
LINN GROVE-Independen 5. I
:. Buland sold 100 acres of his farm sout
i. of town>to Swan Johnson, of ELK towI
: ship. for $50 per acre, possession to I
=, given the first of next March. This
- the highest figure for which any far
:, in Barnes township [Buena Vista cour
- wi has been sold Mr.. Buland aftel
- ward bought the John Hurn farm ser
=, tion os Douglas township. Clay count
Ia for $40. so per acre.
40 kEOk IJK-Obs Gosewich. OF II
N local weather bureau. has summed U
IN the following data for the month
~ Sentember: The highest temperatul
y, was 90 degrees on the 9Th and the low
"a est was on the 10Th when the mercui
ne dropped to 80 degrees. For the mon'
al of September this is the highest al
=. also the lowest recorded in any Septen
~, Thor since the bureau has been esta
on lished in this city.
tie DUBuQCE-Arthur O'Malley WI
stricken with paralysis Sunday mornii
ed while conversing with some friends
.er N place of business in the office bull
his ing. He became unconscious In fe
tn moments and sank back in his chair
n physician was summoned, who declar
at him TO be suffering from hemorrhage
as the brain and advised his speedy !
Ter moval to the hospital. He did not I
at cover consciousness, and died so
In afterwards. He was but 80.
rts MUSCAT1NE-The annual meeting
he the First Baptist church was held Mo
vi day night. The treasurer. Mr. A.
Hine, reported balance in the tres
In Jury, while Mr.. z. w. Hutchinson ga
Iys full and excellent report as to
ley cost and provision for the $1,000 d.
Or liars spent in the rebuilding Of
he lchurch edifce Other departments
lur the church revealed that great progrt