Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-29
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The DoingS of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.


under the name of the Castana Savings
Bank, of which w. r. Day is president
and G. t. Hansen is cashier.
Waterloo.
A young man employed on the Illi-
nois Central was arrested Saturday
charged with beating and ILL treating
his wife. He was given good piece
of advice and paid a fine of about $40
for his misbehavior. His wife has be-
gun suit for divorce and it will un-
doubtedly be granted.
Essex.
Warner Hooker of walla Walla.
Wash, son of p. r. Hooker, of Essex,
committed suicide by taking poison.
Mr.. Hooker was we'll known in this
section and his parents and his wife's
parents reside in Essex. Mr.. Hooker
was in poor health for some time and 1t
is thought dependency caused his act.
He carried $4,000 life insurance.
VilIisca.
Sunday evening Robert and Stanley
Hyde We're driving a young team. one
that had been driven but few times.
when one became unmanageable and
ran away with them. After going
short distance the tongue broke, throw
ing them both out. Stanley's left col
lar bone was broken In two places and
his brother was badly shaken up.
Clear Lake.
Alan Lafferty, son of Dr. Lafferty.
met with quite a severe accident lately.
He had found loaded gun shell while
playing and after cutting into 1t SC as
to expose the powder he lit it with a
match. An explosion Immediately fol-
lowed, the result being that his face
was very badly burned. 1t was very
fortunate that it did not result more
serious.
Walnut.
The heavy wind here Friday evening
did great deal of DANCE to light out
buildings windmills, etc. A corn crib
belonging to Chester Boiler blew over
onto some hogs and killed number of
them. The smoke stack OF the Walnut
mill was demolished and the loss will
be something like $3.50. A fue hay barn
on the farm Of o. Mosier was de-
stroyed.
the city.
An accident. which came nearly ter
minating fatally, occurred late Friday
afternoon at the Ideal steam laundry.
Lew Long is the efficient engineer.
While engaged in his work he in some
way got caught in the betting and he
was drawn into the pulleys with the
result that his clothing was pretty
nearly all destroyed and severe bruises
sustained.
LeMars.
The insurance adjusters have settled
the loss on the Flaughter block, which
was totally destroyed by fire two weeks
ago last Sunday. c. HI. Horning and
C. Z. F'laughter. the owners, will re-
build at once and put up a much finer
block to replace the former one. 1t will
be occupied by the Grand Rpids Furni-
ture Company and large department
store in part.
Davenport.
Bert n. Blanchard was arrested Sat-
urday afternoon by Constable Rum'sey
on warrant charging him with the
forgery of the name of his uncle, VIII
liam Blanchard. to note for SITS. The
young man is said to have discounted
the note at the Davenport Nationa,
Bank last September ond the note is
reported to have become recently due
so that the alleged forgery has been
discovered within a week or so.
Massena.
r. j. Knott & Son, proprietors Of the
Massena mills, invited the public to
visit their mill last Saturday night.
and it seemed that the entire popula-
ton took advantage of the invitation.
They were shown how wheat was con-
verified into flour by the use of ma
chinery under the hands of skilled OPP
eratives. The plant was well lighted
from basement to garrett, as they have
small electric light plant for their
own use.
Charles City
Under the direction of Superintend-
ent Johnson, of the United States fish
commission, c. H. Hruby has placed
$4,000 rainbow trout in the Cedar river
above the dam at this place. Mr.. Hru-
by has planted $4,000 fish of the same
kind as these in the Wapsie at Ionia
and in the Turkey at Fit Atkinson and
in the Upper Iowa at DEBORAH making
total of 100000 of this beautiful vari-
ETY. of fish placed in the waters of this
part of the state.
Oakland.
The blow on Friday afternoon and
night was general all over this neigh
borhood, and few farmers escaped
their share OF damage. From one point
northeast OF town there can be seen SIX
windmills Frustrated and several de-
molished barns. In town most of the.
light outbuildings are Frustrated and
many sidewalks to the four winds of
heaven. The fire alarm bell tower was
blown over and entirely ruined. While
damage of this kind is to be seen ev-
erywhere, yet the real destruction of
property was light and such as will be
repaired in short order and at little ex-
.penes.
Rockwell City.
A small cyclone passed thru the
country four or five miles southwest of
here Friday evening about 4 o'clock. 1t
totally destroyed the machine shop and
other buildings on the farm of William
Fisher and two COW barns on the farm
of A. G.. Richter The barns were IGN
3S and 16x24 feet The lumber from
these barns was carried eighty rods
and left in field. The same storm
moved the residence of Archie Widel
two feet from it's foundation. The
barn and windmill of Ode Goodwin
were torn to kindling wood. During the
storm more than one and one-half
inches of rain fell and the ground is
now we'll soaked with water.
EontaneIIe