Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-22
VIVA I they ARE DOING
Affairs Of Iowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

Sextette. Col. Balm, Hawley Smith and
John II. Finerty, the eloquent Irish
editor and politician OF Chicago. Dates
and the additional number will be de-
itermined later on.
Iowa City.
The people Of this city were inde-
-scribably saddened by special cable
gram from Vienna, Austria. from DIR.
Albertus Burge, which announced the
sudden death IL his wife, Mrs. Georgia
Adams Burge, well known resident OF
this county. Diphtheria was the dread
disease which carried her away. Mrs.
Burgh was the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Adams, Of Scion, Ia.
Belmond.
d. NJ. Hench informs the Herald OF a
little twister that did business in his
locality during the Saturday storm.
1t took off about thirty feet Of Bert
tensions harm and tore up a number
of large trees near Mr.. Hench's resi-
dence. The hbuse was slightly racked,
SO that 1t will have to be replastered.
He went out in the rain, about mid
night and cleared the road, which was
full Of fallen trees.
Clear Lake.
A movement Is on foot to erect ten
cottages on Mars Hill on the camp
grounds. Senator Craig, of Allison.
and Duncan Rule, OF Mason City. are
among those principally interested in.
the proposition. The camp ground as
ISOLATION has offered them the free use
of the ground and will also plat 1t on
agreement OF the parties interested to
erect ten good cottages These cot
tages. as now planned, will be erected
in semi-circular form, but. unlike the
Outing Club. will not be under com
mon roof nor provided with a common
dining hall.
Belle PLANE.
Union: The gang OF tramps who have
been travelling along this road between
Marshalltown and Clinton holding up
travellers, who like themselves pre-
|ferred side door sleepers on the score
Of economy. did job in the yards here
Tuesday night and robbed a young
German OF ali the change he had and
beat him severely. The young German
who gives his name as Paul Wetzig.
land who is about % years old. was one
of a gang OF forty or fifty men who
l
4 on No. II to work with the crawling
lgang between here and Mason City.
Dubuque.
Charles Dale. of Shell Rock, was sem
|tenced to six months in the Dubuque
county jail by Judge Shiras. Dale wrote
an obscene letter to a woman in Shell
Rock and sent it thru the malls. He
was arrested and taken before Commits
sioner Smale at New Hampton. where
he signed a confession of his guilt. He
was unable to furnish bonds In the sum
Il of $500 and was committed to the Jail
There. Last week the federal grand jury
lin session at Fort Dodge, returned ar
indictment against him. He was taken
before Judge Shiras Tuesday and plead
ed that when he wrote the letter he did
not know he was violating any law. The
court said that were he violating no
5|law, common decency ought to restrain
him from sending obscene matter to a
woman. In passing sentence Judge
Shiras said that he would let Dale off
with six months but that il he ever
came before him again on such a charge
he would get the limit of five years.
Dale is about 40 years of age.
4 Council BluHs.
When Lou Lopez. living at 1920 Ninth
avenue. dressed himself Tuesday morn
ling and Went into the parlor about 0
O'Clock he found a strange man seated
4 in rocking chair taking comfort
able snooze. He had a black eye and a
4 generally unprepossessing appearance
Lopez awoke him and began to drag
him out Of the chair. The unwelcome
la lively fight ensued in which Lopez
A came out victorious. The stranger was
taken to the city Jail. where he began
to show symptoms Of insanity All he
knew was that he had found Loper's
front door unlocked and had walked in
and made himself at home In his
I pockets We're found letters addressed to
him ut the insane hospital at Inde-
A pendence, Ia, where he says he has
been for the past year or more. His
i name, from the letters, was found to
be j. F. Hutchinson. Me claims to have
been working for the past three days
4 as section hand on the Union Pacific
4 railway, but where he was unable to
4 say. He was taken before the com
a missioners of insanity for an examina-
ton in the afternoon and that body de-
Il cided to commit him to st. Bernard's
hospital for observation. Hutchinson
a is understood to have a brother ut Lake
4 City, Ia, in the person of j. w. Hutch.
Iinson. His black eye is the result OF his
1 falling from seat in depot in ar
, epileptic fit.
! Waterloo.
4 Cedar township furnishes a chapter IL
the history OF a waif. Three years age
d maiden who loved not wisely became
d the mother OF female infant. Ths
child was taken into the family of q
friend, but no adoption papers We're ex.
. lecuted. The mother married subse.
4 quently and recently concluded to real
4 her first born under her own vine and fit
tree. She went to the home OF the fostel
parents and asked for the child, bu
they refused to give it up having be
come greatly attached to 1t. Warn
a words ensued. a fainting scene was In
cluded In the drama and legal advic,
Twas taken. The lawyers said that mas
much as the adoption was not scorrobor
ated by Instruments Of writing the rea
mother held superior rights and could
take her child, but must defray the ex2
pense incurred by parties Of the second
!, part in rearing the same. The lattel
was arranged and amid protestation
. and tears. the child taking an activ,
part, the mother and her HUSBAND