Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-21
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DOings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

In the mill race and was opposite the
little one-story frame building at No.
.l5 North First street occupied by II.
Frankie as junk shop. Mr.. Frankie
and a boy assistant had a narrow es-
cape from going down in the wreck.
They had just issued from the old
structure when it collapsed with a
crash.
keokuk.
Professor N. w. Wilson, formerly of
Keokuk, now instructor in music at the
Ambidexter Institute, Springfield, ILL.,,
DIED Thursday night while giving les
son to a class at the institute. He was
singing u solo when he dropped to the
floor unconscious, and expired before
medical aid could be summoned.
Nashua.
The Big Four Fair Association has
purchased the race track grounds of
the Nashua Agricultural Society for a
consideration of $4,000, the amount
having been subscribed by local people.
The following officers have been
chosen. w. +. st. Clair, president; j.
G. Laird, vice president; c. H. Bauder,
secretary: E. H. Russell, treasurer,
Nashua will have no June races, but
she will celebrate the Fourth.
Carroll.
Adam THEM, one of CAROLS repre-
sentativcs in Alaska, who has been
spending the winter at home, will leave
for Cape Nome. He expects to reach
Nome about June 15. Mr.. Them went
to Alaska about four years ago and for
sixteen months endured the hardships
of the ice bound country. but he is now
interested in several good claims that
are turning out the yellow metal to him
at the rate of several thousand dollars
per year.
Wapelo.
B. e. Thompson, living in Grand
view township, was the victim of Sc
we're accident Saturday afternoon. He
was disi<ing in a field near his resi-
dence, when shower came up and he
drove his team under n tree for shell
ter. While there lightning struck the
tree and the force of the shock knocked
him senseless. His team became fright
ened at the crash and ran away. Mr..
Thompson was unconscious for some
hours after the accident.
Davenport.
At about 1915 o'clock Saturday
morning lightning struck the eighty
five-foot brick smokestack of the
Knostman & Petersen furniture factory
on East River street, cutting 1t short
off about twenty feet from the ground
and literally blowing every brick away
from the mortar and bringing the whole
gigantic mass down upon the plant of
the company underneath. The huge
weight of the falling mass tore thru the
roof of the building and down into the
plant
OeIwein.
The Great Western road has awarded
the contract for laying the steel on the
HamptG n Clarion branch Of their road
to e. J. Brenna, contractor of st.
Paul, has started his forces on the
work. The grading has reached a
point where the laying of steel will in
nc wise interfere. The whole extension
yet to be laid is twenty-seven miles.
eight miles having been laid on the
Hampton end last fall. If the weather
will permit 1T the company hopes to be
able to have a construction train on by
June /.
Fort Dodge.
Charley Webster was arrested re-
Gently for the brutal abuse of Miss Ellie
Buttricks, young woman living above
the National meat market, on South
Sixth street. Webster entered Miss
Buttrick's rooms in the afternoon. while
in an intoxicated condition, choked her,
and then struck her with his fists, rem
dering her insensible. A physicians
services were necessary to restore her,
hut it is not believed that she was sert-
ously injured. Webster was arrested
and lodged in the city Jail to await his
trial
Mount Pleasant.
The relatives and friends of Charles
of Denova, are considerably
worried over his disappearance. For
some months he has been sick, but re-
Gently has been able to get out and
visit around. He was in Mount Pleas
ant for a few days, and short time ago
went to Burlington for visit, but he
has mysteriouslv disappeared, and the
parties with whom he stayed do not
know what became of him. 1t is feared
that illness has affected his mind and
that he has wandered away and some
accident possibly befallen him.
Mapieton.
A couple of sneak thieves got away
with S25 belonging to I. c. Dale pretty
slick last Saturday morning. Mr.. Dale
has a room at the Arlington Hotel, and
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