Evening times-Republican., 1911-07-03
Northern I01uu Items

| oats and fifteen tons Of hay in the barn
and this was destroyed except some OF
the oats that failed to burn. The heavy
rain that followed helped In keeping
the fire from spreading to the house
but even with that in their favor 4,
| took considerable work to save the 9TH
er property. The neighbors discovered
the fire almost as soon as the barn was
struck and they did valiant service in
helping to save Mr.. McComb's property.
kirkwood.
The Kirkwood Leader. which has
been published for sixteen and a half
years by w. D. Campbell, will be under
new management July 1, the paper
having been sold to Mr. E. e. Davis
and son, Forest E. Davis Of Alexis. The
younger Mr. Davis will at once assume
charge Of the business and take up the
work Of publishing the paper. The older
member Of the new firm is pastor Of
the Presbyterian church at Alexis. His
son has had some experience in news
paper work.
Fremont.
Fred Beck is at his home here suffer-
ing with a badly burned foot. Tuesday
he was at Highland Center shipping a
car Of hogs and stepped on board and
run nail in the f1eshy part Of his foot
He Immediately went to the farm near
by and filled a small syringe with so
luton Of carbolic acid and injected the
solution into the opening to kill the
poison. The acid remained in the foot
and burned the tissues and nerves to an
extent that for the next two days he
suffered intense pain.
West Liberty.
Punishment was visited upon a
tramp by the local marshal, John Will
ey, following the Identification OF the
man by the two young daughters of
Jacob Neubauer as the one who had
sprung upon them as they were walk
ing near the railroad track at the rear
Of their home. The tramp was cap
tured by Wiley as he lay in hiding be-
side the rack some distance from the
Neubauer home Walking his charge
along the tracks TO point on the edge
Of the town, the officer administered
a beating and ordered him to leave
town.
Bellevue.
A. P. Hubbard. a well known bust
ness man Of Davenport, was in this
city recently, looking over the ground
with a view of establishing a button
factory here, in place Of the one which
was recently closed. He took the mat
ter up with the commercial club and
favora BILE developments are expected by
the people OF the city. Mr.. Hubbard
asked for no bonus at all and this met
with approval a here. Bellevue has sew
eral expert button cutters who were
thrown out of employment when the
Other button factory shut down and all
of them are ready to start work again
II another such factory starts business
here Bellevue is as good a place for a
button factory as any city along the
big stream.
Davenport.
Ecclesia sites In close touch with
Roman Catholic diocesan affairs are
authority for the statement that the
Davenport diocese will be divided with
in the next few years, Iowa made an
archbishopric by itself and Omaha
created as a new metropolitan see with
an archbishop. They say. however. that
this action will not be taken before
winter as. advices from Des Moines
would indicate. Four dioceses are nee
essary for an archbishopric and with
the Davenport diocese divided with
Des Moines a separate division. there
would be the necessary number. To
create an archbishopric at Omaha. that
diocese would be divided. A communi-
cation has been sent to the apostolic
delegate at Washington asking If pc
tition to Rome for this purpose would
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