Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-09
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

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Charlton.
Thomas Proctor is suffering with
blood poisoning of the arm and hand
He was dehorning some cattle when 6
log chain slipped and the hook caugh
In his hand tearing it open. 1t is feared
he may lose the injured member.
#. Dodge.
Almost coal famine has been ex-
perienced at the M. & ST. L. roun6
house the past few days. Saturday
morning the supply was exhausted
for short time, there not being g
pound of the carbon product in tho
house.
Coon Rapids.
The Coon Rapids postmaster will re-
ceive another 500 annual raise in sal
airy. This makes an increase of $40C
a year since he took charge of the Of
flee, steady increase of 500 a year
Is the greatest increase in the history
of the office.
Mystic.
The members of the United Brethren
have new church about completed
a new church building at that place
which they will dedicate on Sunday
April 20. Bishop E. B. Kephart, OF
Westerville, O., will officiate at the
dedication.
Boone.
Arthur Craver. formerly vel
known Boone business man, who will
be remembered by many as the part
ner of Mr.. Hile in the grocery firm OF
q few years ago of Hile & Carver
expired at his residence near Berkeley
Saturday afternoon after a protracted
illness from complication of dis
eases.
Winfield.
Mrs. Peters, of Winfield. gave John
Brady horse whipping on the streets
there few days ago. Brady was form
erly an inmate of the penitentiary from
Louisa county, and lived near Morning
Sun. At the whipping Mr.. Peters was
present and remarked that Brady
knows very well for what he is being
whipped"
Ottumwa.
Two men, whose names are withheld
at their request stated to Courier re-
Ottumwa men are figuring on erecting
smelter at or near Sumpter, Ore. to
cost in the neighborhood of 100000,
and that B. F. SHUTS, ex sheriff, and
Chris Haw are in the west at the pres
ent time looking the matter up.
Charlton.
Just five minutes before a deputy
marshal arrived from Des Moines to
arrest Alfred Steigress at his home
in Charlton, Sunday, the man died, and
thus cheated the federal court out of a
prisoner. Steigress was wanted for
abootlegging. it being charged that he
disguised himself as nurse and then
sold whiskey from baby carriage
which he pushed in front of him.
Council Bluffs.
A woman named Lindsey, member
Of the stock company which played
at the operal house here last week,
is wanted in Nicola for the theft of a
hat. She went into Mrs. Brodenbers
er's place this morning, selected a hat
and asked to take it across the street
to the hotel to see if it was what was
wanted. Instead she made a run for a
train. A telephone message was sent
to this city to make an arrest
Hiteman.
Harry Carwin, young man Is years
of age, was accidentally hurt in the coal
mines at Hiteman Saturday afternoon.
He was a miner, and while helping to
run out a car of coal fell down and was
run over by a car, sustaining a COM
pound fracture of one of his arms. He
was taken in the evening to Ottumwa,
by DR.. McFall, the attending physician
at Hiteman, and taken to the Ottumwa
hospital, where the bones We're set,
and the patient is now doing as we'll as
could be expected. He will remain in
that city some time for treatment be-
fore returning home.
Carroll.
A gruesome find was made at the
cemetery recently, being the remains
OF an unknown person encountered by
the sexton while digging a grave.
The present owner of the lot purchased
it about fifteen years ago and several
interments have been made therein
since. There is no record of the sale
of the lot and no stone or other evil
dence that would reveal the remains
were to be found. A heavy beard in
dictated that the remains were those
of man well advanced in life and of
large stature. Monday the body was
taken up and inferred in another part
of the cemetery.
Perry.
Saturday night, the extra which leIt
Perry, in charge of Conductor Will
Brubaker, and pulled by engineer Ben
Stapleton, met with little mishap.
just west of Bagley. An emigrant
car in the middle of the train. jumped
the track, and turned completely over.
There were some horses in the car.