The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-20
STATE NEWS.

STATE NEWS.
The Clear Lake Chautauqua will be
held from July 81 to August IL.
The Milwaukee depot was broken
into at Hawarden Saturday night for
the second time this summer.
On Saturday Boone county lost an
other of her pioneer residents, Mr.
Richard Hopkins of Zenorsville.
The Jasper County Telephone COM
pany has announced that the rentals
on rural lines will not be raised.
The W. R. Webb farm, west of
Spencer, was sold to Charles Johnson
the consideration being s100 per acre.
]. A. Stamen, of Oldham, S. D., has
been chosen cashier of the Truesdale
Savings bank, to succeed w. H. Har-
riS
The two year old child Of Peter
Jacobson, living near Reinbeck, was
drowned by falling into the horse
| trough
! According to an official report for
the year 1909. Emmett county has had
1S9 births, ITO marriages and four
divorces.
]. NJ. Plantz and family of Bradford
we're rendered homeless by a fire
which destroyed their home and some
of their furniture
! While playing about bonfire the
! six year old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
4 Tony Rapp, who reside near Wool
stock, was very severely, if not fatally
burned
According to the Moulton Sun. Moul-
| ton Is to have union depot The Wa
bash and Burlington have decided to
join their issues and thus save
operating expenses.
Rev. Arlando P. Pershing, pastor of
Il the Presbyterian church at Ada, Ohio,
has accepted call to the pastorate of
\ the Presbyterian church of Estherville
commencing August.
4 Thomas Healy. father of P. B. Healy,
clerk of the district court of Jasper
county, died at Newton at the age of
sixty-one years. Mr. Healy was one
of the old settlers of the county.
4 Joseph Koba, the pioneer farmer OF
Iowa City, whose right eye was rent
in twain by hay hook recently. may
lose the left eye also, as a conse
quence of sympathetic Inflammation
Mrs. William Doak of Newton
seyenty-fiye years of age, hanged her
self in an evergreen tree. She failed
to come to breakfast when called and
the search started which ended with
the discovery of the body.
Charles Darrah, long resident Of
Corning. respondent because of failing
. health, s4ot himself in the head. This
bullet aimed at the temple, missed {
!, vital part and the physician thinks BIZ
may recover.
DR.. Robert Evans, former presiden
of the Iowa Society Of Surgeons o
Fort Dodge, and Herbert Hough, :
, druggist. we're injured south Of al
! coma when DR.. Evans automobile
, turned over
The Solomon Grain company's ele
vator at Solomon was struck by light
ming. 1t caught fire in several place
: but II was Immediately put out, how
:. ever the loss sustained was estimates
to be about 1925.
irwin Conover and L. A. Antrim
have returned from Mt. Pleasant t
institute further search in the Missis
, sippi for the body of Mrs. Conover
The hair and combs found last weel
being identified as that Of Mrs. Cor
J over
There is move on foot for tn
German Evangelical synod of Mort
t America to found an educational inst
5 tuition at Denison The church is e1
: pecting to raise some 100000 to pu
! the undertaking on It's feet
( An application has been made for
charter for q national bank in March,
with capital OF $4,000. The stoc
: was placed on the market at s115 pc
e share and quickly oyersubscribed. Th
4 new corporation will practically be
t successor TO the Citizens bank
= The entire community Of Caro-
: was shocked when It was learned thu
: Peter Mohr while mentally derange
had taken his own life. At times NJ
Mohr had spells when he did not rea
I ize what he was doing. and twas dul
I ing one Of these times that he con
;, mitted the deed