Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-07
IOWA NEWS FOR IOWA READERS

breaking up Of the raft The raft
struck the ice breakers on the Chicago
& Alton railway bridge 1t was broken
into several sections and number of
cribs were bursted and scattered in the.
river Nearly all the lumber has been
caught and the boat will probably re-.
sumo its course to ST. Louis in a day or
two : Heavy consignments Of
Japan tea are now arriving at Dubuque
tby raiD, the duty on which will
amount to 1856.
Clear Lake.
One of the sadidest tragedies in the
annals of Grant township took place on
| "Wednesday evening. Peter Nelson a
farmer living about half mile from
the Grant Center school house was
ifgored to death by wild bull. While
lgcrossing a pasture the bull probably
becoming enraged by the sight of a
white sack gave chase to him. The
\ ground shows that the old man made,
Il race for his life but just before he
REACHED the fence the bull overlook him
land pulled him down tramplins on him
and goring him with his horns.
Iowa City.
j. a. Bonnel has been appointed
manager of the Iowa telephone offices
in the city, to succeed Manager F. -
Holmes, who rendered his resignation
on the first of the month. The resig-
tnation of Mr.. Holmes, says the Repub-
lean, takes away from the city one of
4 the best and most experienced tele-
phone managers and operators in the
state. He has been in the business for
4 twenty years. being manager of the To-
cal Office for nine years. : : Tobeck &.
/ Watson, of this city, have secured the
contract for the heating plant of the
state university at $22,SsO.
lSae City.
The assistant in the high school for
1.-THE coming school year has been chosen
lin the person of Miss May G.. Garfield,
Of Traer, Iowa. Miss Garfield Is a
4 graduate of the State Normal School.
|ofE Cedar Falls. in the classical course.
and comes to her new field highly rec
4 0mended. Lev! Cline is re-
tported to have threshed l.0l0 bushels of
oats grown on thirteen acres of land on
/ 1.-THE Shirk farm The oats are said also
lsmachine measure. He threahed also
4 ground on the same farm
Fort Dodge.
4 Elmer Holmdahl. the 15-year-old boy
4 who has been employed as devil in
\ the office of the Messenger, has proved
4 incorrigible and may have ODE sent to
4 1.-THE reform school. Elmer had been abb
y stracting small sums of money from
\ the office drawer and was finally
A caught in the act AS his parents prom
A sed to straighten the matter out he
4 was given another opportunity On
i going 10 the postofiice for mail he
i opened a letter. found check for Sc,
4 forged the business managers name as
s endorsement on the back Oft and OBJ
a tanned the money at a merchants
= store.
I Upton.
q Wednesday afternoon while making
Ihay on the Plat farm north Of town
lack MCNAMARA and George Mottef
Igot intua quarrel which5led into5a hand
Ito hand struggle. Motter succeeded In
Il downing Jack and began to scratch and
chew at him until he succeeded in
1lchewing halfsof his ear off Jack says
!. Motters swallowed the half of his ear
'iJack was brought to town Immediately
q and had his wound dressed and it Will
], no doubt make a very sore ear for a
4 While but fortunately did not disable
a hims so he would have to stop his work.
Il Motter was Immediately arrested and
.placed under $500 bond to appear in pos
}, lice court.
4 Waterloo.
Two divorce petitions have been filed
=.
81 Saptsnlber term of court. Grace May
& Hawks has begun an action TO-; di-
Ivorce from her husband, James Hawks
q lon the grounds Of desertion, abuse and
Il cruel ana inhuman treatment. They
: were married August Ii, 1895, al La
tCrosss. Wis. Frank Grshard asks Tor q
ll decree Of divorce from his wife. Clara
y 6i,lshard, on the grounds az desertlon
The couple lived together from March
{ q, 1892, until March II. 1898. The PEE
i tition alleges that his wife is now liv-
!. Ling in Nebraska. Two children wers
s. born 10 their union. both OF whom have
been adopted by other families.
Pocahontas.
The Record states that an improve
j ment nov in sight and one which vii
I. mean q great deal to our town is that o.
81 the construction of a sewerage system
J The town Will be surveyed and laid Out
A in sewerage districts. SO that all Cellars
], etc, can be thoroughly drained. Sewer
little tWo or three feet in diameter Will bs
i used. when will be placed ten or TWEEN
lily feet under the level of Beulah ave.
> lnue. There isn't town. in the county
With such a system of drainage and !,
speaks we'll for the enterprise Of ou
lcitiaens that they have undertaken Il
--6tput this In ct the present time, as II
! lwill be Il permanent improvement ant
Twill answer, the needs of the town fol
!. many years.
S Council Bluffs.
Charles kearns, OF this city. was
! istruck on the side Of the face with the
: blade of a hatchet Thursday afternoon
7 lfracturing the lower jaw and knocking
: out three teeth. The police are looking
for Nanny Graham, who is charged b,
Kearns and by John Plant With deliver
ling the blow. Grahan's home is ii
/ Hamburg. Ia. but he has been her.
: about a week, making his headquarter!
! with Plant. Graham is horse trader
2 and 1t is understood that he and Kearn.
4 were5 at outs over a trade they had beer
about $3.50 There are many
s implications forsthe principalship of tn.
i