Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-30
Southern Io1ua Items
about $4,000. The club house was in
sured in the Farmers Mutual lnsur-
ance cemnany fer $1,000. Mr.. Weaver

about $3,UOO. Inc ciup housc was -
sured in the Farmers Mutual 1nsur-
anee !cewsn'ay fer $1,000. Mr.. Weaver
Seymour ,,,,
Rev. w. r. Coventry, Of the FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN church here, filed war
rants against a gang OF c.ever graft
ers who pose as Syrian church WORKERS
for one of the churches of'Syrla. Aitei
visiting Seymour and other iowa
towns asking for money to aid schoois
and hospitals in their nome country
Rev, Mr.. Coventry correspondent WIFI
Robert E. Spears, secretary OF tne
board of foreign missions, VINO pral'ue
these men as ,impostors, ana reports
that the hundreds of letters which tne9
have carried, saying they were from
patriots of the east, American Goa
suls. mayors Of cities, ETC., are fraud
ulent.
keokuk.
Thomas Caruso, who by the way
claims no relationship to the famous
tenor, was the fleeing end and Mars
dino Sanchez the chasing end OF
Main street thriller Wednesday even
ing. The participants are both foreign
ers. Hundreds Of people on their way
home after work stopped and watched
aehast as Sanchez, armed with a dan
gerous looking knife, chased Caruso
thru the streets for several blocks only
to be cheated of his prey when CaruSo
. darted into barber shop and was
given protection. An information was
| filed by Chief Of Police Schevers
against Sanchez, charging him with
threatening to commit a pubic OF
tense. An unpaid board bill was the
! cause Of the trouble.
Dss Moines.
With the temperature below zero
eight persons clothed In their night
clothing, and bare feet, crept over ar
lev porch and climbed down ladders
to safety at 1880 o'clock Thursday
morning when fire was discovered n
the residence OF David Benefiei. Two
other persons in the house who were
on the first floor when the fire wal
l discovered, escaped by breaking out
window in their room. No one wa!
i hurt. altho Guy Wismer, stepson o
/ Renefiel. was overcome by smoke Whli'
4 attempting to arouse the sleeping PEG
ME on, the second floor. He was auickl!
revived. The Benefiel family and sew
eral roomers lost practically all o
their clothing. The furniture was al
, DESTROYED, the loss to the furniture be
ing about $4,000. The building wa
lowned by F. NJ. Hubbell and valued a
$4,000.
Griswold.
Len Black, 26-year- son Of job
r. Black, widely known land owne
! near Griswold. has disappeared ate
q following, from Avoca to Minneapolis
by way Of Sioux City. the trail OF
, valuable team Of horses stolen fror
|. his fathers pasture early in December
1t IL feared that the young man ma
disappeared at the hands OF the des
. perate gang Of horse thieves he was o
Z the trail Of. Black began trying to 10
. cate the missing horses after they ma
!. been stolen from his fathers farm
J the night Of Dec. 1. On Dec. 10.
learned that the horses had bee
shipped out Of Avoca In car. He fol
lowed the route OF the car to Siou
l | City and learned there that the ca
r had been transferred and shipped on
: Minneapolis. He followed 1t to this
. place and the last heard Of him
. that he stopped for three days at u
J. Nicollet hotel In that city, leaving II
1 hotel on Dec. 10. On that same day b
. drew . cfisok for 3ioo on the hc.s
a Prior to that time, the second day
z was in the city. Black wrote homo
J his wife Ut Griswold that he expecte
& to be Ct home for Christmas.