Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-15
Northern Io1ua Items

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Jason City.
A barn. twelve horses. eight cows.
hay and grain We're burned on the j.
w. Smith farm Saturday. The loss Is
| $40 900; insurance. $1,000.
Storm Lake.
S. A. Holmes shot large red fox
near the little lake. 1t is the first speci-
men of the kind seen in this vicinity
for years.
i Clarion.
Jeiske Cramer, OF Wall Lake town
ship. bought the evangelistic tabernacle
i for $500. The building Is 6GalGG feet
! and contains $1,000 feet of lumber The
building will be taken down by Dec. 1
and utilized in the Instruction Of
barns, sheds and cribs. The evangelist
ic campaign closed Sunday with three
monster services The local expenses
| are about $500. but the people here
raised nearly $1,000 thru free will offer
!ings and subscriptions. The balance Of
nearly 5000 will be divided among the
| churches The net cost Of the building
was about 5000
| Aigona.
ly Deputy Sheriff w. a. Laden dorff
had unique experience. On turning
| his head he found the whole rear OF the
| buggy TO be in flames likewise his
neither garments were burning. The
| fire had reached such a stage that Billy
was unable to put it out and he hastily
unhitched the te m from the burning
! buggy and turned in a Ali alarm for
the Ledyard fire department. Mean
while the flames cracked merrily and
the top and box were soon reduced to
ashes. The running gear was rescued
by Billy" and brought back to Led
yard as souvenir of the occasion. The
cause OF the fire is not known.
Fort Dodge.
Federal court adjourned Saturday
afternoon and the grand jury was dis
missed. Further indictments were re-
turned as follows: Roy Straw. James
Reason Henry Brink, Mason City. In
dicted for Illegal sale Of liquor. They
| were arraigned in court and pleaded
guilty. They were sentenced to thirty
days in the county Jail and fned 800
each. Sam Jankovich, Of Mason City.
and Tobias Ottsvig. OF Jewell, indicted
on the same charge. settled in court.
| The case of James F. Weir, a rural
tinued. Weir was indicted over a year
ago charged with opening a letter be-
! longing TO another.
/ Manson.
| Two Manson boys. Ray and Albert
Smith. have begun an action against
| The Illinois Central asking $4,000 dam
+, ages because of the refusal of a con-
ductor TO allow them to ride on a
| freight train. The circum stances are
peculiar and the result will be watched
with interest as ii involves q point
| never before raised The two young
men had companion who was intoXi-
Gated. The conductor refused to allow
| the party on board the train, altho the
Smith boys pleaded with him, prom
Using TO care for the intoxicated mem
\ Der. The conductor called the mar
| shall and ordered him not to allow any
of the party to board the train. Thus
the Smith boys We're prevented from
riding, altho they were not intoxicated.
Sioux City.
Charged with threatening to kill
Robert Hagan was arrested Sunday
night after entering the rooms of his
divorced wife in the Lerch building
Fifth and Douglas streets. and causing
disturbance which aroused the other
occupants OF the building, who tele-
phoned the police. According to the
police, Hagan was recently released
| from the state penitentiary, where he
! was sent about a wear ago on a charge
of assaulting a young girl Since his
release he has been calling at the rooms
! of his former wife. who secured di-
vorce from him while he was in prison.
and trying to get her to live with him
again. In the last letter he threatened
to kill both Of their children and him
self unless she complied with his re-
quest.
ida Grove.
| Tha, T.. Fl. Campbell. the newly
| elected representative from Ida county.
| made q strenuous campaign is appar-
ent from the number Of votes with
which he defeated Barefoot Bob" Bax-
ter, who two years ago tied S. NJ. Corrie
for the same office. II has just leaked
out that one reason for his big major
| ity is the fact that for the past two
weeks Mr.. Campbell has been greatly
assisted in his race by his twin broth
or. "Jud" While the real candidate
was canvassing one part OF the coun-
| try the brother was doing likewise IN
another section, and the voter was none
! the wiser when he shook hands with
| the "ther" twin, and thought he was
| forming the acquaintance OF the real
article. They are both vote getters.
personally, and one would make as
popular q representative as the other.
Waterloo.
| Forced to lead a life Of shame that
her husband might live without work
ing. was the pitiful tale told the police
by Emma Piper aged IL wears, follow
ing raid conducted.by Chief OF Police
Dinneen and Sergeant Hollcroft. result
/, ing in the arrest Of Fred Piper. aged
% years. and who claims to be the
husband Of the girl. In the tale told
the police, Emma Piper. wearing
large picture hat, neatly clothed other