Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-09

way thru the solid stone walls of the
Mitchell Jail in August, 1908, by means
of tools made from their zee legs and
a large spike which they had pried from
tho wall. Brennan is known to the
Sioux City police, having peer SEN
fenced to one year and six months in
h p~enitentiary for burglary in 1902
and two years in 1904, charged with
being implicated in the attempt to
blow the safe iof'..ahe Queal Lumber
Company.
Ida Grove.
Bert Heilman, the 1~1-year-old son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Heilman, of Bat
tie township, was brought to the hospi-
tai in Holstein II his right eye re-
moved. Young Holman lost his y
as the result of an accident While he
and h~is-older, brother We're shooting at
a mark with a 22-caliber rifle. They
found a shotgun shell and stuck it up
between two boards in a fence for a
target. The older boy shot at the shell
and hit it, causing the shell to explode.
AS tine end of the she'll was tight in the
fence the shell ~rebounded with terrific
force and struck John in the right eye,
mutiiating the eyeball terribly.
Dubuque.
Attorney Franzen. of his city, went
to Racine. Wis. and revealed the his
tory of John Squires, who died at st.
Mary's hospital a month ago. He died
supposedly a pauper but it now appears
that he owned a big farm near Dubu-
que, and that his real name was Sun
derland. He had deserted his family,
clipping with his wife's sister ten years
ago. Towards the end of the mans
life. when he began to realize that
death was near, he drew up a will in
order to cut off his family in Iowa.
1t seems he never repented, as in the
will he stipulated particularly that
not a cen should go to his widow and
children.
Dysart.
While John Harrington was remod-
cling his house on the old Judge
TreanOr farm, one mile east and four
north OF Dysart, recently, = door casing
which was removed contained on the
reverse side the following. written with
q lead pencil: Benton county, Iowa,
June 10, 1859. | hereby appoint JOS
eph Dysart. Esq, a delegate to the re-
state convention which is
called to assemble at the city Of Des
Moines on the twenty-second inst. and
to do all those things in my stead as a
member Of said convention which i of
might do if present at the same.
John Treanor." The instrument Is a
delegates proxy to the state onven
ton. written out nearly fifty-one years
ago by Judge Treanor for his political
friend. Joseph Dysart. The Judge was
then busy building his new house. and
had evidently drafted cut the form of
his proxy on a dressed board as he was
at work and the board had later been
used as u easement.
To cross the threshold of home for the
last time and pass into a religious life
the drama being enacted by n
party of young ladies' in this vicinity
asst week. Misses Agnes and Emma
Goedken of Petersburg, Mathilda Pot
tebaum of Luxemburg and Ida Becker
and Christian Thoma Of Dyersville and
Fischback of Granville, arrived
in Dyersville recently to pay a visit to
kindred which was full Of mean
ing to them. The young ladies entered
the Of st. Francis at Dubuque
the year past and have served
period Of noviceship. The day on
which they are to take the veil is APP
preaching, after which occasion. ac-
to the strict rules of the order,
hey will never again re allowed TO
,isit home with the exception in case
IF critical illness of a member of their
Hence before entering into the
3uties of satlGe given to their Master,
ladies were given an oppor-
unity Tor farewell %sojourn with par
.nts, sisters md brothers. They re-
.urred to the convent today. 1