Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-14
Northern Io1ua Items

slide of hundreds Of tons of earth was
caused. it is believed, by the process
of thawing. The men We're hard at
workswhen with subtle roar the mass
of earth tore loose and was precipitated
over the track. A number of the men
escaped entirely without injury. others
were felled to the track and We're
badly bruised as a result.
Dubuque. %
Each year revives the talk OF old
rafting days on the Mississippi but it
remained for 1910, the year following
the Deep Waterways" excursion Of
the president to practically finish the
steamboat traffic that once was the
most important business of the Mis-
sissippi valley. This year there will
be but four raft boats in the business
between st. Paul and ST. Louis and
hardly twice that many packets where
once there were hundreds of both
sorts of vessels. Each year the traffic
has dwindled until now there remains
but pitiful remnant of the once for
midable fleet of steamboats, that fur
nished the only means of transfer of
large quantities of freight for millions
of people.
WaverIy.
The talk of paving West Bremner
avenue, from the opera house to
Pages foundry, has again been re-
vived and if a proposition that has
been submitted is accepted, the work
may be extended to the Illinois
Central depot. A firm in Bad Axe,
Mich, has written to Mayor Hazlett
stating that they will construct and
guarantee one-half mile of cement
paving for $3.50. If this work is what
it is represented to be. the cost to each
Individual having property on the
avenue will be very small This firm
claim for their method of putting
down paving that it is far superior to
that heretofore used in street work. and
they are willing to give satisfactory
bond to carry out the contract.
Denison.
State superintendent Riggs won the
a Northwestern train the other
night, by pommeling a big drunken
man, who had terrorized the train crew
and. raised a rough house on the train.
The man, who is said to be Sioux
City hotel man, went down the aisle
knocking hats off right and left He
struck Superintendent Riggs, knocking
his hat off and breaking his glasses.
Riggs went after him, knocked him
down and slugged him vigorously until
other passengers came to- his aid and
dra gged the drunk to the vestibule. The
train crew finally mustered courage
and the man was put off at West Side.
Mr.. Riggs was on his way to Sioux
City. He injured his hand in the
scuffle.
Ida Grove.
Taken with a severe nosebleed while
on the afternoon train coming west re-
Gently, Horace Horpbeck. Sioux City
travelling man, was so weak by the
time the train reached IDA Grove that
he could not stand. and it was with
difficulty that DIR. J. f. Conn finally
stopped the hemorrhage, Hornbeck
says when he got on at Lake City the
train started suddenly and he struck
the side of his head against the door.
but thought nothing of 1t until an hour
later his nose commenced to bleed. Ar
-riving at Ida Grove, he was hurried to
DR.. Conn's office, where the doctor
packed his nose. and then for time
the man b1ed from his eyelids. He
finally became so weak from the loss
of blood he could not raise his limbs,
and swooned dead away when they
picked him up to place him on cot.
The 11emorrhage was at last stopped
and he was taken TO Mrs. Benefits
where he was cared for. 1t is esti-
mated that Hornbeck lost several pints
of blood. It will be some time before
he regains his strength and he had
narrow escape from death.