Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-21
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings Of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

altry. Booth was captured ten days af-
ter the shooting near Bowling Green,
Va. and after he was apprehended he
was placed in charge of Private Milling
ton, who received s., 65S as his share of
the reward for assisting in Booths
capture. The assassin was shot by a
man named Boston" Corbett and died
in three hours.
Clarion.
Taken as whole the corn crop of
Wright county will be fully two-thirds
an average one In yield and more than
that in quality. $3.50 A farmer living
near town got SAT worth of experienced;
about three minutes on the falr grounds
Friday afternoon. 1t is surprising
how many people there are. who think
they can beat sharper at his own
game, remarks the Monitor.
Carroll.
There is considerable corn being cut
up and shocked in Carroll county. The
rains have made the fields disagreeable
to work in, but 1t is only the surface
that is affected and the cutting has not
been retarded There will be so much
provender and feed this fall and winter
that those who expected to see the price
of hay go out Of sight will be disap-
pointed, says the Herald.
ottumwa.
Irwin Coombs the seven-year-o,d son
of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Coombs, of this
city, while playing with a number OF
his school mates was run over by q
wagon Wednesday afternoon on Court
street and had his leg broken. The boys
had been amusing themselves by jump
ing on the passing sand wagons. In
some way young Coombs fell SO that the
back wheel passed over his leg crushing
both bones between the knee and ankle.
Dubuque.
Vitus Fleischman, aged IS years, was
drowned Wednesday afternoon about 4
o'clock in the slough west of Hooper's
island The man had been fishing OF
a raft near the Rumpf- Frudden lumber
mills and was sitting in q skin which
was tied to the shore One of the work
men of the lumber mill heard cry and
splash, and, looking over, saw q man
fiounderlng in the water in death
struggle. Deceased was tailor ems
ployed in this city.
Jefferson.
MT. II. u. henderson,, OF J3ckbOn
township, says that new corn is sprout-
ing from the stalks he cut q month ago
and some OF the new growth is putting
out tassels and starting ears. II frost
will hold of there may be the odd spec
tacle OF two crops of corn from a single
stalk The wonders of the corn harvest
will apparently never cease. Mr.. A. w.
Gibson hands the Bee positively the
biggest and heaviest ear yet. from the
old CHEM farm in Grant. 1t weighs just
two pounds. and contains 1904 kernels.
Mr. Gibson challenges the county to
show better.
Clarinda.
Mrs. Joe Johnson underwent an oper-
alton for gall stones at the Clarinda
hospital last wednesday,. She had been
suffering for about eighteen months
with hyptic collie caused by gall stones.
AS there was no jaundice in connection
with with the collie and no relief from
imecical treatment from different physi-
clans the x-ray was used and the gall
stones located in the gall bladder. An
operation was then decided upon and
was performed as above stated. and ten.
stones removed, since which time she
has been making rapid recovery, her
sufferlngs being entirely relieved.