Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-16
FROM ALL OVER IOWA
The Doings of Your Friends in Iowa Towns
Your Old Home.

name of Burmater passed in front OF
the team, ard as he did so one of the
horses reached out and took hold of
him, tearing his clothing and setting
his teeth in the little fellows arm
The wound will be painful.
Traer.
w. Mowry. near Elberon, was ir
Traer Tuesday with wool from $50 head
of sheep. He sold it to Campbell &
Logan at 1919 cents per pound, the
buyers doing the shearng Wool brings
about IA cents in the regular way this
year.
Jefferson.
Mr.. John Barrett, Of Hardin town
ship, as he was at work with his team
IN The field, was struck by lightning. II
is hoped the stroke will not prove fatal
as at the latest he is conscious and i'm.
proving. One horse was killed. Full
particulars are not at hand.
WalIingford.
Martin Sevatson's broncho team
got loose last week and walked up owe,
the cattle guards and inside of the
killed by the train, and the other got
OUT ana was iouilu Northeast vi
Baskerville a few days later.
Rowan.
The b., C. r. & n. Company is en-
larging the stock yards at this place
building more sheds and putting in
cement bottoms. The company In
tend making general improvements at
the depot. A new platform will be put
in, new foundation laid, the building
painted and everything fixed up in good
shape.
Charlton.
Charles Bot, who injured his eye so
badly some six weeks ago, thought it
was getting along nicely until the lat
ter part of last week, when it became
very much infamed. Monday he went
to Osceola to consult with DR.. Sells,
who removed from the lower lid piece
of willow stick three-fourths of an inch
long. and in one place measured one
half an inch, which had been, covered
by the lining of the eye.
Traer.
Frank Harmon, the night clerk at
the Best hotel, lad an experience
Thursday night that he will not care
to have repeated. In going to the
Northwestern depot at II o'clock p. M
to ascertain how trains were running
he plunged off the sidewalk, not know
ing it had been washed away, into the
swift current, which was over his
head. BEING a good swimmer he was
able to regain the sidewalk by strong
effort.
keosauqua.
- 1t, Il, -
good starter for menagerie or hippo
drome at the lower livery barn here. IT
was a huge horse 10 hands high and
correspondingly big all over. Altho not
fat it is said to weigh 2,065. The ISRAEL
boys bought it of one of the Newbold' S
near Hillsboro, who raised it. The
horse was said to be years old. The
Israels took 1t with them to Dakota.
Sherman Jamison, a farmer be-
low town, has wheat field of thirteen
acres which he thinks will make from
twenty-five to thirty bushels to the
acre, If he gets 1t harvested in hood
shape.
Clear Lake.
At 2:15 the other morning lightning
struck the telegraph wires near the
Milwaukee depot, the electric current
following the wire into the depot, set
ting that on fire. The fire bell was
,ung and in a few minutes a large
crowd was there. The door of the
store room was broken open and sew
eral dozen fire extinguishers were Sc
cured and were broken over the flames
before the fire company arrived. This
soon put out all the fire, but the heat
left everything in bad condition, and
perhaps $500 worth of damage was
sustained on the building. besides the
telegraph instruments being entirely
destroyed.
Bows.
John, the 14-year- son of T.
Townsend, northeast OF Bows, was ac-
cidentally shot last Sunday. He was
posed a stray bullet from some hunt
er's gun struck him in the right breast.
He was able to reach his home, after
which Dr. George was called. The
young man is getting along all right,
altho the bullet has not been extracted.
John Darlow, a prominent farmer
living near Popejoy, came to the Wood
men picnic. While watching the ball
game his pockets were picked. A large
pocketbook containing $50 in money
was swiped from his inside vest peck
eft, and a small purse containing S. in
money was taken from his pants pock-
ct.
Dubuque.
George Ridley, negro who had been
working on an Illinois Central bridge
gang south Of East Dubuque, fired four
shots at Mike Duggan Wednesday af-
ternoon because he refused to work
with him. None OF them took effect,
however. Ridley turned and started
20 walk down the railroad track, while
Duggan, in company with his friend,
Bergman, returned to East Dubuque
and notified Marshal Duffy of the af-
fair The latter at once started for the
negro and arrested him about a mile
below Menominee while walking along
the railroad track. He was brought
back to East Dubuque and, after re-
naming over night in the cell. was
brought before Justice Brandstatter
and bound over to the grand jury in
default Of bond.
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