Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18

4, 3llaralIAl ltnn1tI I, 5nma,
same paper states that q large amount
of money is being paid out there by the
pearl buyers and 1t ID no small item.
This. added to the thousands paid out
for shells by pearl button factories,
makes money plenty among the people
here. One factory paid out overl
80, 800 for shells here last week and has
as many more engaged. AS high as 50
per ton Is now being paid for stored
shells.
Dubuque.
Papers in the suit Of Louis Brin, Jr.,
VS.. Isaac Harris, for $4,000 damages, |
were filed with the clerk OF the district
court Tuesday. The fact that Mr.. Brin
intended to bring this action was pub
slished in this paper couple of weeks
ago. Mr. Brin states that his reputa-
ton and standing in this community
has been damaged in the sum named
because of certain alleged slenderous
statements made by Mr.. Harris in pub
lie. The one particular statement to
which Mr.. Brin takes exception is one
In which he was denounced as thief,
q fire bug, swindler and crook
Mc,ca.ine.
Cedar township cc:::c: &c the from
With another fine gas we'll. Grosiean &
Masonholder sunk a we'll to the depth
of lib feet, and their efforts were
crowned with the result that an excel
lent flow of natural gas was struck. At
fiist the flow showed a pressure of five
and hall pounds, but has since devel-
ope,l 20 ten pounds. This is a good
oneI indeed for Cedar township. Nat
ural gas and coal in the county means
more to the prosperity of the commune
Ity than is at first evident. When
match was touched to the Issuing gas
a flame leaped into the air twenty feet.
Mason City.
A man by the name OF Scoles, who is
alleged to have jumped the smallpox
Quarantine at Marble Rock or Greene
was arrested Tuesday night here and
locked up in a barn on the outskirts of
the city till 1t can be ascertained if he
1 is real victim. The wind.
! Wednesday afternoon did quite little
damage on the William Brett farm Just
southeast Of the Junction. He had a
new hog house eighty feet long and
twenty feet wide and this was blown
over. In the morning. during the cleo
trio storm some of his fence on the
south part of the farm was riddled by
Ilightning.
5Skenandoah.
Isaac White, prominent farmer re-
siding in Fisher township, Fremont
county. eight miles southwest of this
place, was arrested last evening by the
sheriff of Montgomery county in Red
i Oak charged with attempted rape on
4 the person of his neighbours daughter,
Miss Olive Perkins, aged - years. Con-
4 stable j. NJ. Gudgel went to Red Oak
4 last evening and brought White to
4 Farragut where he waived examination
until next Tuesday and in the mean
A time has been placed under bond of
$1,000. The young girl was caught by
White while out hanging May baskets,
but she managed to escape him after a
4 struggle.
4 Boone.
4 Before starting on his European trip
i Wednesday morning B. Arie made the
j promise that he would give Boone the
long desired opera house next season.
A He said he would take up the matter of
4 having plans prepared and getting
q ready for the work Immediately after
{ his return home. The business block
he had plarned to be erected at Eight
and Allan streets this season has beer
wholly given up. The site of the pro
!, posed block Will be utilized for TIL,
a opera house. In addition to the opera
house there will be some store ant
Il office rooms in the block. Mr.. Arie'.
plan is to have a first class modern
" theater on the ground floor. the en-
\ trance being on Eighth street. He fig,
ures that the total cost of the improve
ment Will be between 100000 and s40,-
00O.
L Burlington.
A handsome and substantial modern
!. business block will replace the I3iklen
!, Winner Grocery Company's building
& destroyed by fire on the morning o
i December %. 1899. The contract wa:
], lawarded Thursday to j. w. Sandersol
by G.. II. Bilklen, the cost Of the new
i, structure to be approximately $4,000
to be completed by October 1. A Mar
shalltown architect furnished the plan
$50 Next Monday the smallpox CANT
maintained north of town will b.
broken up. The patient is we'll nov
! and is quarantined further only for tn
, safety of others. He will be dis
!. charged Monday and the camp thel
j broken up. ! is the intent to destro.
! everything that can be burned and I
!. otherwise render harmless everything
used in the camp that cannot be con
sumed When the camp is broken Vi
four weeks will have elapsed since TIL
establishment thereof and the begin
: ming Of the scare which, fortunately
did not prove so bad as seemed immi
! lnent The total expense of the care o
: the one patient is estimated to be abou
! $500, which is much less than was eN
! pended in the care of the last smallpo
J, patient, DR.. Taylor.
< Tortured a Witness.
Intense suffering was endured b
q Witness I. L. Martin. of Dixie. Ky. be
x fore he gave this evidence: II coughe
every night until my throat was nearl
raw; then tried DR.. Kings New Dis
e covery, which gave instant relief
] have used it in my family for fou
: years and recommend it as the creates
e remedy for coughs, colds and a
:. throat, chest and lung troubles. 1t wi