Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-05

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Shepard attended him. He states thai
the injury to n of the ankles is fully
as bad as a break and may take longer
for the young mar to recover
Clear Lake.
The barn on the Amos Thomas prop
erty. occupied by Bert Carter. was
burnde to the ground last Thursday af-
%ternoon about 3 o'clock. Mr.. Thomas
carried 500 insurance, so he loss to
him is not very serious. Bert Carter,
however, lost a lot of hay and corn, be-
sides three sets Of harness n other
things, with no insurance. A little
Garter boy with matches did the bust
ness.
Toledo.
The Indian industrial school is BOOM
ing these days. Altho 1T was My de-
signed to accommodate seventy-tve
pupnls, 1T now has eighty beneath it's
roof. consisting of forty-four boys and
thirty-six girls. OF this number twen-
ty-two are M~usquakies and the bal
ance representing the following tribes:
Winnebagos, Chippewas. Delawares,
Shawnees. Pueblos. Pottawattawies
and Stockbridge Indians.
Carroll.
Two patents from the United States,
dated 1860, were filed at the recorders
office this week. One is to Albert KEEL
ly, the other to George e. Harding. and
together they confirm the title to 24O
acres in section 2. Eden township.
Many of the early settlers neglected to
have their patents recorded, and to
complete the chain Of title it has been
81 to,,o ooniac nf tho NrtpinlI
patents issued by the interior depart
ment at Washington.
Waverly.
The yight-of way agent of The chi
cago Great Western is at work
Waverly and Oelwein buying land for
the new line to be built by this COM
pany between these points. A party of
surveyors is following him setting
grade stakes, all of which would indi-
cate that this new piece of line was to
be pushed to early completion. Waver-
ly is wondering what route will be cho-
sen thru that place, several surveys
having been run last fall.
Bloomfield.
Ex-Treasurer John Bond, accompa-
MED by j. Richardson, who lives in the
vicinity of Wesley Chapel, hot a dog
recently which they believed to be mad,
having chansed a number Of cattle be-
longing to B. Hardy, but whether the
cattle had been bitten or not has not
been ascertained. When the animal
was discovered it made a vicious attack
upon them, but was instantly shot. The
dog was a stranger in that locality and
had probably travelled some distance.
Reinbsck.
G. E. Sibert is now the owner of the
Pilgrim Hotel building. He has owned
a half interest in this building for some
time and his week purchased the 9th
erhalf of w. H. Brun of Waterloo. The
consideration was s1,250. D. Nc
Whittier bought eighteen head of fat
cattle of William Brown southwest of
town this week that came to $1,681.94.
And he also purchased forty-three head
of hogs of the same gentleman that
came to $S57.50, making a total of 3d.
1894.
Guthrie Center.
Monday 1t was announced that a
couple of the members of the Weston
Rae vaudeville company, that had been
playing in the opera house the past
week, were afflicted with mild cases of
smallpox. The board of health at once
quarantined the members of h troupe
and took all the steps necessary to pre-
vent the spread of the disease. No
alarm Is felt by the citizens that it will
spread to other parties, as the cases
are so mild that there is a doubt ex-
pressed that the disease is smallpox.
Davenport.
Sheriff Charles Reinhard, of Eau
| Claire, Wis, and Deputy Sheriff Frank
Andrews made an important arrest
Thursday morning on the Davenport
levee. H. j. Kremer, a former travel
ing representative of a wholesale firm
in Eau Claire, absconded about three
weeks tgo with $4,000 and has since
been missing from his family home in
Eau Claire. His lereabouts have been
the reason for considerable activity on
the part of the Wisconsin police, altho
lKremer has eluded their vigilant eye
Bedford.
Some miscreant entered the cattle
yard of L. Wright, living south Of this
] city about six miles and with a sharp
knife inflicted dangerous wounds to two
fine steers. Mr.. Wright has q car load
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very valuable and his surprise and in
dignation can well be imagined when
he discovered in the flank of them a
dep cut about eight inches long from
which the intestines were protruding
and in another a dangerous wound di-
rectly back of the fore leg as tho the
heart had been aimed at.
Kent.
For several months past q. D. Brad
ford has been missing shoes and other
articles from his store, but no trace Of
the thief or the gods could be obtained
until one day last week asnumber of
pairs Of new shoes were discovered by
the school children in the garnet of No.
s, Douglas township. commonly known
as the Worsely school house. The
goods were identified by Mr.. Bradford.
1t is thought the thief has a key which
fits the lock of one Of the doors of the
store and has been helping himself to
the stock of goods for some time. No
definite clue to the robbery has as yet
been discovered.
Dubuque.
The Key City Barrel factory at the
foot Of Sixth street was burglarized on
Thursday night for the second time
within two years. Some time late in
the night or early in the morning
thieves entered the building thru one
Of the windows and stripped off all the
betting from the shafting. All told