Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-01

DUBUQUE-The Enterprise Printing COM
pany,. an old established concern here.
closed its doors yesterday. This is the
second failure Of the concern.
OTTUMwA-wTliam Waits and Frank
Ash, both negroes, dug a hole through the
walls of the county jail and made their
escape. Waits was captured later, but Ash
is still at large.
MARSHALLTOwN-Eugene w. Chafin,
the Chicago attorney who is the prohibition
candidate for president, addressed an audi
ence of perhaps 1000 people in an outdoor
meeting here last night.
IOWA FALLS-At the home Of the
brides mother, Mrs. +. w. Colling, in this
city yesterday, the marriage of Miss Ma
bel Rae Colling to Mr.. Howard NJ. Rose Of
Marshalltown took place.
MARSHALLTOWN-The annual reunion
Of the Tama Veterans association will be
held in Treaer, Tama county, on August
y and 10. On the second day of the reunion
the veterans attending will parade in auto
mobiles.
WAsHINGTON-Owen Wilson Of Des
Moines, who has been visiting here, suf=
fered a broken leg yesterday while playing
leap-frog. Mrs. Mel Anderson was badly
injured yesterday by a fall and is in a seri-
Gus condition.
MARSHALLTOWN-The large barn and
all of its contents, including two horses
and quantities of hay and grain, on the
Matthew BOIL farm near Buffalo Center,
were destroyed by fire of an unknown or
lg1n early this morning. The loss is $1,000,
partly insured.
IOWA FALLs-T. r. Hasley, who has
been chief engineer on the Des Moines
snort Line for several years, has accepted
the position of superintendent of construC-
ton OF a big power plant that is to be
built at Menomlnee, Mich
ATLANTIC-There will at least be no
scarcity of teachers in Cass county this
year, as over eighty are at the present
time taking the teachers examination at
the office Of Superintendent Johnson, and
of all these but three are men.
ATLANTIC-Charles II. Cornell Of this
city received word today that he had been
awarded the Margaret Nickel King schol-
arship at Cornell college, Grinnell, la. This
county in the state received one with the
exception of Kossuth, 1t getting two.
.CENTERVILLE-Marvin Clark, a 6-year-
old boy, was drowned yesterday in a pond
near this city. In company with two other
boys he had gone in search of blackber
ries. He became separated from the Others
and going TO a pond nearby went in swim
ming. HIS companions found him as he
was going down for the last time.
IOWA -CITY-The report that the St
Paul & Des Moines road would move its
headquarters from this city to Des Moines
on August is erroneous. Superintendent
Seuder stated today that 1t would be two
be made as it was impossible to get things
In shape here for such a change before
that time.
ATLANTIC-Rev. f. S. Hill, for thirt,
years pastor of the First Congregational
church here. but recently Of California
will arrive in the city Friday morning ant
vi ouhudS WI u us Olu pulpit at ina
church. Rev. Mr.. Hill came to this city
when the church was in It's infancy ant
built up one Of the largest and weaithiest
congregations in the place.
IOWA ~FALLS-Rural Carrier Hadley OF
one of the routes emanating from this cit
Is demonstrating that the motorcycle in tn,
rural carrier service may become a new
factor in the delivery of mail on the rura
routes of the country. He has just put II
service a motorcycle, and the saving II
time is remarkable. His route is twenty
five miles long and he serves seventy-fiv,
patrons. He can cover the route and stoI
at each of the boxes in two hours, anC
claims he can reduce this record a hal
hour.