Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-28
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Ocheyedan.
The blow well on the FINLAND farm,
east OF town, was still blowing at last
accounts says the Press.
Muscatine.
The Journal learns in letter from
Capt. Billy Ament that Promoter John.
ston, the opera house builder, is at last
close to actual work on the new Musca
tine play house.
Cedar Fall..
Gazette: Miss Flora Olmsted killed a
spotted adder snake near their residences
on Twelfth street, three feet and one
half in length. She showed more cour-
age than most women would have done
under the circumstances.
Sheffield.
Roy Kay, who was accidentally
wounded recently, was taken to Eldora
Friday last, where the x-ray was used
lin an endeavor to locate the bullet.
Three attempts were made, more of
them proving successful. The patient
WAS brought back to Sheffield and is.
now at his home. He continues to inn
prove.
Mairid.
Miss Lille Norris has been elected
lteacher in the schools at Rhodes. Iowa.
l.She will receive a salary OF $45 per
month for nine months. She showed one
of the best first-class certificates to the
school board there that had ever been
presented by a teacher. That speaks
4 well for one of our Madrid teachers,
says the Register-News.
Il Waterloo.
The excursion to Des Moines on the
1 C. g. w. Friday had one Of the largest
l|crowds ever carried on these popular
|price excursions. There We're 325 pas
lsengers from Waterloo. 305 from Cedar
Falls and over 100 from Oelwein. 1t
WAS estimated that fully 1,5OO passen-
q gers would be on board whensthe special
( train pulled into the capital city.
!. |Oiebolt.
. Robert Holm met with a singular ac-
lc!dent Tuesday evening, which might
Ifave resulted fatally had not medical
HELP been at hand. He was taking a
|bottle of pop to his rooms. and While
.Egoirg up stairs the stuff exploded. The
upper part of the bottle struck MIR
, Holm in the jaw, just above the jugular
), lvein, cutting wide gasil and severine
one of the main arteries OF the face
The blood spurted in streams. but DR.
q Townsend was summoned and he sue
), cseded in stanching the flow.
i Iowa City.
e. William Boone was granted a sixty
) days stay of execution by the supreme
tlcnnrt Thursday. The affirmation of the
q district courts decree removed Boone!
: last hope of not serving in the peniten;
eltiary for year. He was indicted 70
d "assault with intent to do great bodil!
d linjury' and was found guilty and sen
g Itenced to a year in the state prison. TIL,
! sixty day stay of execution was receives
). Iby Sheriff Hofer Friday morning. Tn,
i lstay is probably given to allow Boon
fltlme to settle up his property and bus,
Il lness affairs and to arrange plea t
J. the governor for clemency.
81 Perry.
= Chief Reporter: Two Of our city dude
o arranged last week for n carriage rid
q with two other mems wives. The 10Th
4 err men, heard about it and when TIL
o ride Was over the husbands We're pa
tiently waiting at the place Where TIL
|ladies We're unloadGd. On meeting fac
!. toface one of the, dudes told one of TIL
Husbands not to get funny. The hus
il band thereupon pulled out Il reNolve
d Hand those dudes who are ordinarily con
81 sidered fast, made an exhibition Q
!. lispeed seldom witnessed In Perry, an
* their $fleetness of foot is all that save
II one or two Of Perrys leading familie
d from mourning.
: Grundy Center.
= Workmen have been recently engage
: lin putting IN the stone foundation 70
=. the Odd Fellows building. $50 TIL
e Democrat says DIR. S. Saxby, the oil
\ horse doctor, OF Gilmore City, la. re
J, moved n tooth from just beneath
81 horses ear. by making an incision frol
" the outside, relieving an abscess whic
y, had formed on account of this super
'e numerary tooth, which was about til
g size of mans thumb and an inc
= ,.c:S. The doctor says this Is the thir
n case of this kind he has met with in I'll
of ty-four years practice. The horse wa
+ owned by Mes De Noogd. who was
he very much surprised man when i
IS learned what the difficulty was With h
lt horse.
N hSOsaUqua.
:, The Keosauqua town council has bee
"a Experimenting the past week on Il
"a matter of securing living water to sui
= ply the water works plant. The riv'
~ water contains so much sand by Il
"a time 1t reaches the boiler that thu
e have more or less trouble all the tin
:, on that account The idea was to avo
-. this trouble by sinking come three well
! IL good flow Of water could be secure
= at reasonable depth. With this
: view one well has been sunk near Il
- - power house to the depth OF ninety fee
Y. but 1t provides only a limited auanti
~ of water--not enough to justify goir
= on with the project, 1t Is said Hen
=, the matter has come to standstil.
!. 30 least for the present.
d. Dubuque.
he William r. Treanor. thru his neare
1T friend, Patrick Treanor, wants $40
n damages from the city FOR personal Il
on juries. A claim for that amount h
II been filed. William Treanor Is the l
he Iyear-old son or Patrick Treanor, OF
Hill street. The youth on the eth
May picked up dynamite cap in Il
ALLEY adjoining his home and carried 4
4. dangerous explosive into the house.
IL handling 1t the lad exploded the dyn
=. mite and came nearly being killed.