Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-09
Northern Io1ua Items

Gruver.
Engineer Andrew Jackson was Sc
verely hurt in a peculiar way. The oil
cap on the drive wheel flew off and
struck him in the mouth fracturing his
lower jaw and knocking out many of
his teeth.
Manchester.
The whistle on the 1. C. trains which
run thru Manchester and the siren fire
whistle of that city are so much alike
that the hremen have made several
false runs lately and have petitioned
the Illinois Central people to help them
remedy the difficulty.
Manly.
The much talked of and long advo-
Gated dairy and agricultural picnic
will be fully realized if the weather
man permits at Manly on Thursday,
Sept. 16. "A mass meeting held in the
hall by the business men and citizens
resulted in that determination.
Greene.
Supervisor McTaggart and his gang
of bridgemen are at work putting in
The sixteen-foot concrete bridge, east
of town on the new road running by
the Knight farm. Mr.. Murphy who is
experimenting the work is an expert
and with the eight men will make
short work of this job
Waukon.
While transacting some business
around town Fred Intlekofer's pockets
became so overloaded with Uncle
SAINTS currency that he laid twenty
dollar bill on Anderson & Straate' S
store floor. Counting his cash he
missed the twenty and was in a guam
dairy for a time as to its whereabouts,
but retracing his former trip he found
it reposing in the same old place.
Alton.
Mrs. John Norman, an aged woman
of this place, en- route to North Dakota
slipped in the union depot at ST. Paul
and ruptured varicose vein. She be-
came exhausted from loss Of blood
and was assisted into the drug store OF
Dietz & Messing by Patrolman Tom
Mcmahon and John Fahey of the Mer-
chants, wehre she tainted. The police
ambulance was called and she was TAX
en- to st. Joseph's hospital.
Kelly.
OeIwein.
Constable Mcqueen was the victim
Of an assault at the hands of half
dozen loboes and was knocked sense
less by the gang. He bears the marks
of their fists and clubs and will carry
them for some time. 1t is learned that
the gang was playing merry hades, and
were raising a big racket. They had
evidently been drinking and Mcqueen
went among them requesting them to
disperse or come With him. They told
him to go to warmer place than
Oelwein and he sailed in to arrest some
of them.
Waterloo.
Asserting that the presence of Miss
Margaret Teisinger, arrested on a
charge of forgery, at the Industrial
School for Girls at Mitchellville would
be detrimental to the welfare of the
school, Judge Franklin c. Plat this
forenoon ordered her committed to
the Iowa. industrial Reformatory for
females at Anamosa until she Is 81
years Of age unless sooner paroled
The court found that she was guilty
of four forgeries committed here and
at Cedar Falls. and she was declared
to be incorrigible. She is In her 18th
year. Judge Platt ordered her to Ana
mosa under the provisions of new
law, she being the first to be sent
there under similar conditions.
Webster City.
Neglecting to lay aside his pipe
when going to bed, caused fire to
break out in the Charles Evans
home, los North Prospect street,
early yesterday afternoon. Evans
who Is an old man and rather child
ish, lives with his aged wife at the
north end Of Prospect. He is ac-
customed to taking a nap each af-
ternoon and usually lies down on
the bed smoking his short stemmed
pipe, which is his constant compan-
ion. It was this practice which
came near causing the old man to
lose his little dwelling yesterday
The fumes from the smoke caused