Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1901-02-21

| tie church and reformatory work. iI5
has been made the defendant in n s5.oal
damage suit. christensen claiming that
amount because of alleged persecution
and damage TO character and business.
This case will also come up before tho
March term The town has taken side.
on the question and 1t Will enter into the
town and school elections
BIG AND HANDSOME PARK.
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One to he Plated About the Asylum fol
Insane at Cherokee.
Cherokee, la. Feb. 2l.-'lhc member;
of the board of control will be herr
ether Saturday or Monday to collel
| With landscape artists regarding the
| planting of the 600 acres comprising the
| grounds of the new state hospital. ana
| especially TO consider letting q contrac
| for a park of about 100 acres i'm extent
which Will Immediately surround the
hospital buildings.
Judge Robinson has said that thu
work on the grounds would be moIe
extensive than has been supposed. II
is the plan of the board to let the con.
tract for q park which will lie as
beautiful y place as it is possible 10
make The exact extent of this and
| the amount of money to he expended,
| during the visit 10 Cherokee. 10 ~.
made within a week. Correspondence
| has been carried ON for some Tina witt
d number of leading landscape artists
| and Il variety of suggestions are to
| be considered.
The money to be spent on the park
Will probably call for Il large Gctl,lc-
tion from the Cherokee appropriation
fund. as il has already been discovered
that there are some expensive fea
lures attending the park making bust
ness. For instance the charges for TN;
| mere drawing of the plans will be 50
| per acre. SO that the board estimates
an expenditure of probably $500 will be-
necessary for this preliminary work.
Iowa Sotes.
| Martin Duffy, said to be over i0e
years old. has just died at Clinton.
Fred Foster, who was he'd up anu
shot by John Robinson at Algona, VIII
| recover.
Peter Martin died at creston from
Injuries received in u Railroad wreck
near Alton.
Mathew Sehon of Hawarden and Miss
MaNmie Josephine Phillips of Akron
We're married AT HawarCen yesterday.
Fire early Tuesday morning did $1,000
damage 10 the general store of t. n
Reese at Turin. The building and stock
| We're insured
George H;lmmar has sold his stock OF
clothing at iawarden to Frank Feel;
of the firm of Beck & Dunklebeige,. OF
Rock Rapids la.
Frank Montague has been indiote&
AT Ottumwa for the murder of William.
1 Gilmore the young man he was t!.ay-
cling with last December.
The state board of control has beer
Uniformed autlaoritativey that there l.:
no indication of smallpox at the inst-
tuition for feeble minded children ut
Gilenwood.
Muscatine pastors devoted their ser
mons last Sunday to local political
topics. They urged voters to uphold
| law and morality at the election two
weeks hence.
John Jenny of Dubuque heard tina.
his brother George had been playing {,
SLOT machine in Henry Stuber's Place
all day with small returns so he took
an AK and went to the saloon. smashed
the machine. took the none and left
| Nellie Carlson. after working fol
three days as Il domestic in the family
of DR.. II. Il. DevereauX. Il Fort DodSe
dentist, disappeared at the same time
| that $50 worth of silks and larcs be-
| longing TO her mistress vanished.
The Bloomfield laundress. Mrs. Ste
vens. who thought she had fallen heiI
| to $3,OC1G0o, Will probably keep or
washing for a living. 1t is claimed that
William Mates, who claimed 10 lac he
uncle and who Was going To will her his
immense fortune, has worked the same
graft in other places
4 a Councii Bluffs jury after being out
several hours joined in singing Near
cr My God to Thee" and returned Z
Verdict for the Woman's Christian as
ISOLATION in Il case wherein u. w
| Thompson sued for damages alleged T.
| have been sustained by his Wife Whil,
IL patient mt the associations hospital
l.. Knowles of Dubuque has been ar
rested and taken to that city by tn,
1 officials of the Illinois Central railroad
/ He boarded the fast train to SO u
Delaware. When told that the train
did not stop there he pulled the bel
rope and the engineer applied the air
| The company proposes to see That ii,
rules are complied With
A Waterloo woman broke Il finger OF
bar right hand while crashing hel
dlesS.
Farm lands in Boone county to iii.
value Of sl,47t,96l92 changed owner.
ship during the past yc.r.
Harry w. Wiliams,the travelling mar
who is i'll of smallpox at Iowa City
has been removed to the seXtons hous,
in the cemetery and placed unde
Mrs. Wellington. of Burlington Sc
cured II verdict for $500 against Mrs
W. H. Duggan of that city for SANDER
Both are We'll known there.
The state executive council Seems
disposed to criticise Superintendent o
Public Institution Barrett for extrav
aganee in the matter of printing
Word has been received from lndi.
of the death of Rev. G. w. Wood
dard. n Des Moines county boy. WI,
was doing missionary work there
a farmer in Fremont county signe,
q note for lightning rods, and has jus
been notified by the bank that the not
was for $50, instead of So, as he sup
posed.
The Caldwell store building at Whit
Oak, together with contents, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire. Loss abou
5000.
A man was found In box car n
Boone with his hands and feet so bad
~ frozen that amputation may be nee
-ssary
An opera house, Christian churcl
and Il hospital are among the build
ing Improvements for Boone this year
The supervisors of Davis count,
have decided to furnish medical aid /,
the poor of the county free of charge
The Southwestern Iowa Medical as
ISOLATION Will hold its seventh annua
convention at Creston February Il.
u. G. Conner, an old and prominen
citizen of Forest City, died at his HON
l there ftar \ y, &c,