Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-30
HAT they ARE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place IN Iowa
Towns.

who has made very able campaign for
expansion in the matter of good fair
buildings. The floral hall, hog barn and
the cattle barn all are new this season
and they remove the worst handicap the
management has had in the past. al
new ticket Office will complete the build-
ing improvements, John Weighton hav-s
ing donated the lumber for 1t.
Burlington.
William Nugent. train boy OIL the
burlington Hannibal run, was blown
from the train which war going thirty
miles an. hour, near Viewer. Wednesday,
while passing between cars. The acct
dent was a remarkable one The force
OF the wind was terrific and Nugent was
simply lifted up by It's force and thrown
on the side of the track, miracuiously
escaping with u Jew bruiees.
4 Alba.
The receipts from the investigation Of
back taxes have reached total Of
nearly $1,000. Last week $1,000 was
collected. Bills have been filed with the
county clerk against the estate OF L. o..
Haskell. deceased. and Patrick Carr, in
which they are asked to call and settle
for taxes against them. All the busi-s
ness OF the collection of back taxes has
now been left In the hands OF County
Treasurer Pabst, as Mccoy & Co. have
left the city.
Webster City.
Three quarters (4SO) acres OF the +.
d. Carson farm In Independence town.
ship. one ofathe largest and best farms
In Hamilton county, has just been eolds
t.. an Illinois man for $50 an acre, which
ts regarded as cheap. Frank has, since
selling. bought the d. G. Chase farm
just south Of the G. G. Dakin place adj
Joining town. comprising 24O acres, at
s55 per acre. This will bring the pur-
chaser close to Webster City and secures
him very desirable location.
Sac City.
The brick work on the canning fac
tor was completed last week. Hhei
chimney is eighty feet high. 1t Is ex-
pected that the carpenters will COM
plete their work on the factory next
week. Considerable of the machinery
already has arrived and the manage
ment hope to be ready for the first
sweet corn. Unfortunately most OF the
early seed was poor and many farmers
were obliged to replant, thus making,
their product later than was desired.
/ Ottumwa.
| A young man named Connolly was
struck by a Burlington passenger train.
Thursday morning and knocked from.
the Sugar creek bridge. He was SEEM
ingly badly hurt and was placed IN the
baggage car and brought to this city.
| The patrol wagon was summoned for
the purpose OF taking him to the hos
pital. but upon his arrival he had re-
lowered sufficiently 10 be able to walk
and would not take advantage OF the
lrelief offered. Connolly was sitting on
1.-the end OF the ties on the bridge when
struck by the train. His home Is In
/ the vicinity OF the place where the ac-
cident happened. Raspberries
were offered at dollar case Thurs
day In this city.
/ Hampton.
The Recorder reports that William
/ Gallagher, who has been loaning
money hereabouts for nearly twenty
years, has been called upon to contrib
ute about 81 200 to the county treasury
ION notes and mortgages hitherto UNI
assessed Mr.. Gallagher declares that
his residence is not in Hampton. but!
has not yet said where it Is. $ During
the thunder storm OF Tuesday night
Twenty head of cattle were killed by
\ lightning on the Davis farm, twelve
miles southwest of Hampton, in Lee
township. All were lying under two
willow trees that were struck. Eight
OF the number belonger to Matt Larsen
nine to Mr.. Smith, who lives on the
farm, and one to ]. r. Myers: David
Vought had two head OF cattle killed
in his pasture three miles north OF
Itown and B. 3. Morris had horse
killed in pasture at Geneva.
Sioux City.
/ According to the decision making the
tax law Of 1898 not retroactive, three,
fiftns OF the delinquent taxes of the
1 five years given by the law originally
will be knocked out. This leaves only
two years for the ferreters 70 pick
| from. and to collect the Is per cent al
lowed by law. So far George Powell
has turned In about $1,000 OF delinquent
taxes. of which, under the existing con-
tract. he receives 10 per cent. Cutting
on three-fifths of this will make the
| business not worth while. 'sIa The
southern half Of Woodbury. county was
severely hit by Wednesday mornings
storm. according to reports that were
brought in the next day. A Sioux City
man who drove across the south part Of
the county stated on his return that he.
had never seen greater havoc than had
been wrought by the rain and wind.
Small grain. on farm after farm that he
passed seemed to be pounded into the.
ground; the wheat was Strengthening
up a little Thursday, he said. but oats
was badly broken down. Corn was
badly bent and broken and in some
fields one-fourth OF it will hardly
straighten up to yield crop.
HIS LIFE SAVED.
BY Cham berlain's Collie. Cholera ana
nlarrhnaa Ham AZ q, 80