Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-19
Southern Io1ua Items

tinue to live he will be helplessly par
alyzed. Oldham has been driving a
wagon for the Burlington Scrap Iron
Company. While walking beside his
wagon. which was heavily loaded with
junk. he slipped and fell between the
wheels. the rear wheel passing over his
body. The physicians do not hold out
any hope for his recovery. Oldham
is about 80 years Of age. George
Dorney. the Turkish laborer who broke
his back last week in falling OFF a
brige. is reported slightly improved
at st. Francis hospital.
keokuk.
A big automobile is the most recent
investment of the Keokuk and Hamil-
ton Water Power Company. This pur-
| chase was announced by Secretary j. p.
Allen, following his return from Chi
cago with Engineer Hugh l.. Cooper.
The speed car has arrived and Il chauf-
feur will be employed to pilot it about.
! The automobile. it is announced. has
been purchased by the company for the
purpose of facilitating trips that the
company's officers and employees Will
have to make during the construction
of the dam.
Des Moines.
| Joe Manning. the negro. who with
John Mitchell. was arrested in Des
| Moines some time ago charged with
! being engaged in the white slave traf-
| fic, will have to serve time. according
! to a decision of the supreme court
"Wednesday. Manning and Mitchell
were caught by the police in the COM
pany of two white girls. Bertha Lindell
and Carrie Sprague. whom they had
! enticed from Jefferson. They We're in
dicted on a charge of conspiracy TO
ruin the girls and convicted. Both
J :,ppea,cG and thc supreme court stuck
Manning Mitchelrs case has not yet
come down.
Jefferson.
| District court adjourned at the con
| clusion Of the jury trial of l.. +. John
son versus Charles FYeck. This was L
| cas-, arising ont of the desperate corn
! husking conditions of last fall. Mr..
Johnson was on Mr.. Fleck's farm. and
much of the corn was still in the field
when he moved off in March. Mr..
| Johnson then made bargain with Mr..
| Flecl< TO sell him the renters share OF
the corn in the field at an agreed price.
When the time came for settlement. Il
] disagreement arose as to who was
| liable for the hsuking and the hauling
| TO market of the landlords share of the
| crop. The result was that the jury
awarded to Mr. Johnson the price
agreed upon for the renters share OF
| the corn, and also allowed Mr.. Fieck
| his counter claim. amounting TO about
| $50. for husking and hauling the land
lords share of the crop.
Ottumwa.
! The Iowa Produce Com pany has filed
SUIT in the district court against the
c. B. & Q. railway for 1856 so for alleg-
ed loss to a shipment of poultry over
the defendants road. The plaintiff for
cause Of action states that he shipped
| sixteen barrels OF dressed poultry
from Pennington. Iowa. in, 1908 con-
signed to II. b. Chraman & Son. New
York City. He also states that he or
dered the shipment sent over the Mar
chants dispatch line by way of Chicago
but the employees OF the company
changed the route Of shipment to tho
Pennsylvania line without his know
ledge and that by so doing delayed the
poultry in reaching its destination. He
also alleges that the entire trip was
made without refrigeration and when
the shipment reached New York It was
entirely unfit for use and was re-
fused.