Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-29

/ fear she had met with foul play of
some sort. 1t was learned that she
had been at the Lowrey home and
various other places south of the city
and she was finally located at the
home of MY: and Mrs Henry Tetwiller
in the north part of town. where she
had spent the might previous. She
came to the Tetwiller home a stranger
and told them that she had been sent
there by a neighbor, who was to call
for her some time during the night.
She was taken home by the officer.
Waterloo.
With thunderous detonation the
tall smokestack at the heating plant
of the Black Hawk Nationa! Bank fell
Sunday evening. fss!ing over the cleo
trio light and power wires and strk-
ing on top of the three story Tiffany
building across the alley. The heavy
tubing rested on the wires and i'm
mediately all power and light service
on the circuit affected were cut off
Men worked all night and were able to
raise the steel tubing far enough by
, in starting work in a number of man
luS Otlci DluulS WnerC
! electric power is used
Cedar Falls.
| A great deal of sympathy has gone
out to Bedros Appelian, the young
Armenian who has been student
the past two years in the state teach
ers' college and Is a member of the
graduating class. His home and
| family are in kessab. Syria, a town
near Adana. the seat OF the recent ter
rors in the east He has recently re-
ceived word that his oldest brother, a
physician. and his young son escaped
to Bierout in safety, but his wife and
daughter were taken prisoners. Nc
message has reached Mr.. Appelian con-
corning the fate of his mother and the
other members of his family. His
father was massacred at the time of
the uprising in 1896 and their property
was confiscated.
Webster City.
| Glen, the little year and a half
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Prin-
gle. was quite severely scalded here
while playing about the washing ma
chine where the mother was at work
The little fellow pulled the plug out OF
the machine while the mother was no,
looking. and the boiling hot water
poured down over the chld's breast
and saturated its clothing. The 1T
tie one was SO badly scalded that
the skin on his abdomen and on
one whole side of his body was bad
ly blistered and peeled off A doc
tor was called Immediately and gave
the little sufferer what relief ne
could. He expressed 1t as his opin-
ion that If the burn did not go deer
enough to strike the bowels that tha
little fellow would get along all
right.
Fort Dodge.
| A. l.. Norton, who visited For,
Dodge last fall, representing himsel,
to be a salesman for a tailoring com.
pany, and who solicited orders among
the men OF the city for clothing, was
brought back mere from Des Moinei
under arrest on Sunday on the charge
! Of obtaining money under false pre-.
tense. At the time the order was sole.
tied. Norton represented he was Obliged
to collect 81 in advance, and after 9
reasonable time, when the clothins
failed to arrive the matter was brought
to the attention of the police de.
partment and an investigation was
started. He was arraigned before
Justice Busby but asked and was
granted a continuance until Thursday
morning, at which time the preliminar,
hearing will be held. 1t is understood
between fifteen and twenty men of thu
city were swindled.