Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-16
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

nal cases There are sixteen civil ac-
tions noted for trial. OF the nine GRIM
lnal cases one is from Deep River, one
from Montezuma, five from Grinnell,
one from Washington township, and one
from the Brooklyn neighborhood.
Centervlle.
Certain quantities Of beer and whis-
ky seized on search warrants last week
from the places of v. B. Kinder and
Sam Hampton. in South Centerville,
were condemned in Justice r. Hender-
sons court Monday morning and or
eered destroyed.
Ottumwa.
The members of the Wapello Club re-
Gently decided to purchase the property
on which the house is located, together
with the building. from James c. Devin,
the present owner, paying therefor $780,
600. Several improvements to the club
home are contemplated, but the only one
which is decided upon thus far is to the
veranda, which will be rebuilt larger.
Bloomfield.
Mrs. Orr Gray, who was injured in
who has been confined to her bed since,
has thru her attorney, j. M. Wilson,
brought an action in Davis county
courts for $4,000 against DR.. IL. G.
Young. of Bloomfield. for malpractice.
She alleges that he did not properly
treat her injury and that she has been
damaged thereby to the extent of s10.-
600.
Upton.
The Upton Electric Light Company
have been paying no taxes and at their
meeting this week the board OF super
visors instructed the treasurer to assess
said company for the past five years In
explanation of this state Of affairs the
company officials claim that the city
council in the first franchise granted
the company exempted them from all
taxes and In the second franchise ex-
empted them from municipal taxes.
Abba.
The Union says: There are thousands
of dollars lying idle in the banks of AL
bia that ought to be utilized in some
manner, manufacturing or other enter
prise that would employ the money. We
think Abba needs heating plant. The
whole central portion. business and
residence could be steam heated at much
LEGS cost than is now being done, besides
business and living rooms would be rid
of the dirst and dust incident to the use
Of soft coal. Another item would be the
decrease in insurance.
An important meeting OF Monday
~ aRf tai hoe ,I r>f
the Central Methodist church. 1t for
mally confirmed the choice Of the con-
in the popular vote of Sun
day morning, that the site Of the pro-
posed new church be the corner OF
and Brady streets-the Cite
Of the present abandoned Fourteenth
street church. 1t appointed a building
committee and 1t outlined the cost OF
the edifice which 1t is hoped will be
erected. 1t is expected to put 100000
into the building, and that the church,
with windows. organ and all in place,
will represent fully $4,000.
Council Bluffs.
Ed Morgal of this city, who was SEN
fenced to seventeen years in the Ne
braska penitentiary for criminally as
ken from the Douglas county Jail in
Omaha to the state penitentiary at Lin
coin the latter part of this week to serve
out his sentence. Morgal still continues
his efforts to feign insanity. and has
gone so far as to state that he does not
know whether his age Is 10 years or $50
years, The insanity experts who have
been watching him state that in practi-
cally all cases of dementia the victim is
perfectly rational on some subject, but
Morgal in his efforts to appear insane
does not permit himself to be rational
on any subject.
Sioux City.
The Woodbury. county supervisors are
inclined to retrench and will turn deaf
car to mary applicants for expendi-
lures, according to the Tribune. The
fact that In the poor, bridge and road
funds alone, there was a deflci. last
year of over s31, 900, resulted in the de-
cision by the board that 1t should be its
duty to keep the expenditures in these
three funds down to a minimum. This
will be facilitated by the new system OF
the affairs of each district
by committee of three. The members
of the board may escape in this way the
embarrassment of undue local influence,
for In such cases the other two members
Of the committee will come to his relief
and vote as he would like to vote, but
dares not.
Cedar Rapids.
Charles Mettie came to Cedar Rapids
In search of work. having been
paroled by Governor Shaw. Mettie was
sent to the penitentiary at Anamosa for
three years for completely in attempting
TO destroy the house of Attorney w. l..
Cron with dynamite. He had Aerved
about eighteen months. His home is in
Monroe, Mich, where he has wife and
family. Albert Kuba, the partner of
Afettie, in the dynamiting attempt, was
to fifteen years In the peni-
tertiary for that offense, but appealed
iis case to the supreme court and was
released on bond pending the decision.
The supreme court affirmed the sem
.ence and Kuba has now served three
Or four months of his sentence A petit
ion for his parole has been circulated
and widely signed and 1t Is believed that
Ills parole will be announced very soon.
oes Moines.
Taxes are coming in freely the re-
,eipts since Jan. /, when they became
1iie heinU n ot icea hly Ia rper than for the !