Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-22
Northern Io,un Items

Roadway in spite of four streams OF
water. After trying in vain to subdue
the conflagration. more drastic meas
ures were adopted Locomotives were
hftched to and the building literally
torn to pieces. AS it was it took three
hours of hot work to drown out the
blazing lumber The building which
was 25x75 is practically a total loss
and the whole will proba bly, cost up
between $4,000 and $4,000. Much of
the lumber was saved.
Mason City.
Mile Thorpe, who came to Mason
CITY a short time ago from Swaledale,
evidently followed the course of the
great white way TOO closely for her
own benefit. She was picked up by
the police Monday in a West Fourth
street shine parior. conducted by ne
groes and brought before Mayor
kirschman. A relative in the city
called the attention OF the police to
the fact that the girl had run away
from her home at Swaledale. Officer
Campbell brought her to the station.
where she was allowed to CO. after a
severe reprimand by Mayor Kirsch-
man.
lie Mars.
A shocking tragedy occurred at the
Charles stable home in Lincoln town
ship SUNDAY evening. when several
neighbors We're gathered for social
time Some Young men were engaged
in shooting at mark with small
rifle and some children We're playing
around While Ed Heimgartner. a
youth of o.! years. was aiming at the
Il
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Webbing.
who was rolling on the grass. suddenly
Jumped up. The gun was discharged
at that instant and bullet lodged in
the back of the boys head. He only
lived a few hours His parents are
distracted and Heimgartner has been
under restraint since. as he is crazed
with grief and remorse.
Lehieh.
p. @. Blank. engineer in charge Of
the surveying crew which is determin-
ing the amount of power that may be
generated by the Des Moines river
about four and one-half miles on the
river north of Lehigh, is running levels
to determine how far the water will be
backed by dam forty feet in height
This information will be compiled at
Des Moines and placed on record there
to inform corporations seeking power
sites Big sandstone bluffs line the river
for over four miles of the mouth OF
Prairie creek. where the site is located
The river is $40 feet wide from bluff
to bluff and has rock bed. Mr. Blank
has designed an earthen dam 200 feet
thick al the base and twenty-fiv or
thirty feet at the top. The spillway is
designed 10 be covered with concrete
Fills at each end of the dam would
make the structure about 900 feet long
Nevada.
After living with him for nearly
twenty-six years and raising a family
of children, Mrs. Karen Marie Ras-
mussen has filed petition with the
clerk of the district court in which shel
asks decree of divorce. temporary
and permanent alimony and the Gus
tody of the eight minor children, from
her husband, Chris Rasmussen. whom
she married in this city on Sept
g. 1884 She charges cruel and ~inhum-
an treatment on the part of the hus-
band. which she says has existed dur
ing practically all of her married life
She recites specific instances of cruel
~, both by force and word. and saws
she is without means. while her nus
band Is worth nearly 5000 The
defendant is we'll known farmer liv-
ing west Of the city. and the filing of a
friends and neighbors OF the family.