Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-19

! .ltity thu AZ !,
amount Of their shipments they VIM
realise u 600 on this years. pick up.
Last year the amount Of their sales
was 36S7.50. They made one shipment
some days since ana are making an
other today. The pearls are sent to.
Milwaukee.
Leon.
The citizens OF Leon are UP in arms
over the removal Of the X. q w. route
depot, and in order to have the depot
near the public square they will prob
ably present the matter to the railway
commissioners. The depot has been
moved seven.eighths Of q mile from the
square.
Washington.
Expressman Mason judges that from
$50 to 200 fewer cases Of beer have been
shipped in here 30 far this year, as
compared with the first half Of 1899.
- A score or more were received
into the NJ. e. church. Sunday, and
three were baptized. - In seven
years those who contributed q fourth
Of the sum to build the N. e. church
have died, or moved away.
| Council Bluffs.
Miss Gertrude Hooker received se-
we're electric shock during the storm Of
Sunday afternoon while she was sit
ting on the front porch Of her home at
62S Blur street. when bolt of Light
ming seemed to explode in the yard.
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and 1t was fully an hour before she
had recovered from the shock, tho Miss
Hazen, who sat near her, was I'M
injured.
Dubuque.
Joe Brin will ask jury in the dis
I8trict court to give him Judgment OF
$1,000 against Policeman Louis Zeid-
man as damages for alleged malicious
prosecution. Brin was arrested by the
officer for disorderly conduct, but on
the trial was acquitted. John Ma
honey died at the insane hospital Sat
laurday evening at the age of so years.
The body has been shipped to Otto, Ia.
for burial.
Mason City.
Glen Konvalinka, the six-year-old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Nonvalinka,
lis becoming the most distinguished
youthful individual in the country. AS
a bicycle rider, a wing shot and as a
hero In rescuing another little boy from
drowning, he deserving all he is receiy-
ling. Tuesday morning the mail brought
to him beautiful knife from the Fox
! Cutlery Company, as recognition OF
1 his accomplishments.
Boone.
s. L. Moore has made an offer Of
prizes for oratorq. The offer is this:
| For the three finest orations delivered
by any attendants of the Boone county
schools. between the ages of 12 and 20
years, Mr.. Moore will give three prizes,
| first prize OF $50: second prize OF $50 and
third prize of $40. The contest is to
occur within sixty days. All other ar
engagements are left in the hands Of
| Superintendent Neneman and the COM
l5mittee appointed by him.
| Charlton.
The farmers OF Lucas county who
4 last week We're very anxious about
their crops, are now the happiest NOR
tails living. 1t is all the result Of a fine
\ rain that visited this place Monday.
The corn, which was in a very precar-
ious condition, is now practically made,
4 the rain coming Just at the right time.
4 Blackberries that We're drying on the
bushes have taken new lease on life
land potatoes that were nearly failure
will be greatly benefited.
4 Remsen.
The people who were made danger
5ously sick at the Frank home near
/ Remsens a week ago by poison in the
bread have all nearly recovered from
4 the effects and regained their usual
\ health. II has. not yet been discovered
how the bread became poisoned. MIR.
Meinert, of Remsen, is chemist and
assisted in analyzing the food eaten. He
4 said there was a large quantity of ar
senic in the flour from which the bread
was baked, but how it got there is a
mystery.
Burlington.
James S. a1agel, the twenty-year-old
son Of Henry AIagel. residing on the
+ Augusta road, was held to the grand
jury by Judge Gillespie Tuesday On the
charge Of seduction. His father, a
wealthy farmer. furnished bond OF
/ 900. and the boy was released. The
complainant is Miss Maud Courtwright,
a girl OF eighteen or nineteen living
Wit her father on the farm adjoining
the Magel place. on the Middle Augusta
road. The young man refuses to marry
the girl and Is backed by his father.
| Mt. Pleasant.
w. E. cambridge. Of Council Bluffs,
the second secretary of the American
Legation at Pekin. is known to 4 good
many Of our citizens thru the prom
inent part he took in the campaign for
governor OF he state in 1895. he being
at that time one Of Senator Harlan's
warmest friends In western Iowa. He
was an excellent young man, and mar
ried sister of Jacob Sims. now a
prominent candidate for attorney gem
.eral Of Iowa. All hope for their safety,
but the hope is growing fainter each
day.
Waterloo.
4 II .ocal nimrods are anticipafin greg