Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-05
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

be built at once and that other branches
and extensions would be built later.
What lends probability to the project is
| the fact a company has been organized
| in Davenport to build electric lines con-
Meeting surrounding towns with that
city.
Dubuque.
William F. Cody, of North McGregor,
has been appointed local freight agent
for the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad at this point to All the place Of
James McGrath. who has served in this
capacity for about twenty years. Mr..
McGrath in one of the venterans Of the
company in Dubuque and his long and
| faithful service Is greatly appreciated
by the company. He will remain with
the road and be connected with the
freight department.
Waterloo.
| Contractor Atkinson says the danger
point on the court house roof Is passed,
that work will continue all winter and
that the new county building will be fin
| ished as soon as expected. during the
coming spring or early summer.
In Waterloo many rubber horse shoes
are being used. They are set with steel
| toe piece and the calks on the heel are
rubber. Strange to say these rubber
shoes out wear the steel shoes ard are
much easier on the horse especially on
brick ravements. The cost of a rubber
shoe is but little more than steel shoe.
Shenandoah.
Four mild cases OF smallpox are re-
ported by the Sentinel. The members
OF the home from which Salmons was
taken to the isolation house was ex-
pected to have it, altho they were vac
cinated Immediately. The father, moth
er and child now have it in a mild form.
Two doors east Of the Salmon home, In
the former Stanton property, lives G. j.
Lainson, a travelling man. A little child
about three years of age, was known to
have played with the Salmon child, and
this little one also was vaccinateG and
quarantined. but is now broken out with
the disease. These are all the cases
known in Shenandoah and have all been
hemmed in from the first.
Council Bluffs.
o. E. Beswick, of this city, is enjoying
a visit from two of his brothers, A Bes-
wick Of Denver, whom he had not seen
for twenty-one years and Dick Beswick,
of Norfolk. Neb. The reunion Of these
three brothers recalls the fact that
when the civil war broke out the six
Beswick brothers all enlisted in the un-
ion army Five of them came out of the
war alive. only one having fallen on the
field OF battle. Since the war but one
has passed away, he having died at
Kearney, Neb., last summer. o. E. Bes
wick Of this city, who was member of
the One Hundred and Second Illinois
infantry regiment, was the only one of
the brothers, however, to end his ex-
cellent army career without scratch.
His brother Abe. who was in the same
regiment with him, was wounded near
Atlanta and Dick Beswick, who served
in the Seventeenth Illinois regiment, re-
ceived wound at Shiloh.
Fort Dodge.
Twenty Italian laborers who recently
came to the city to work on the new
yards OF the Great Western, struck
Tuesday. The alleged cause Of the
strike was that on December !, in ac-
cordance with warning previously CIV
en-, their wages were cut from 81 per
day to 1.75 per day. They worked for a
day under the new scale Of wages. and
struck Tuesday morning. The real rea-
son. In the mind Of the officials VI the
road, however, is that the men who had
only just been brought over from sun
ny Italy, found the weather getting too
cold for them. and were not at all anx-
ious to continue work any longer. tax
Ing the decrease in their wages as pre-
tense for quitting. The Italians were
not in the least violent in their de-
mands. They simply dropped their
shovels, and said sweetly. but with evil
dent obstinacy, that they would not
work any longer. The company took
them at their word. has paid them off,
and will send them back to Chicago.