Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-23
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LoGAN-The city council IN session here
last evening decided to receive bids from
civil engineers on the matter Of cost OF
making a survey. plat and profile OF Logan
for sanitary sewerage system.
IOWA CITY-Mrs. Gertrude Marshall
Of the Rock island road for the death Of
her husband in an accident here last Feb
ruRry. The suit has been started IN the
Johnson county district court
IOWA CITY-Senator Thomas Lambert,
member OF the Iowa state Board OF Educe-
ton, today intimated in Iowa City that
Prof @. f. Kay would succeed the late
Or. Calvin as head of the department Of
geology at the University Of Iowa.
GUTHRIE CENTER-The city council
let the contract for five miles of sewerage
TO Charles +. Chase of Clinton, OF the Iowa
Engineering company. There were five
competitors. Surveys will be begun at once
for the work. The town Is also figuring
on installing white way"
NEwToN-Leo Krampe. a farmer of
near Baxter was today indicted for muir
der in the first degree. It is charged that
he killed Matilda Hersmeier, who was
found dead in her home several days after
the murder was committed Robbery Is
supposed to have been the motive. Krampe
Is in jail
CRESTON-D. b. McElwain. who for the
last sixteen years has been the agent for
the Adams Express company here. has
been promoted to be route agent at Gales
burg, H.. and will enter on his new work
at once. He Is succeeded here by r. r.
Scott formerly OF Aurora ILL.,. and the
Aurora office goes to Herbert Dunlap, for
merly Of this city.
DENISON-There will be a SUNDAY school
convention at Deloit, the first station on
the Northwestern north of here, SUNDAY
April %, under the auspices OF the County
Sabbath School association. Addresses on
Sunday school topics will be made by Rev.
]. J. DePree. county president; Charles K.
Meyers, county secretary; ex-supenntend-
ent +. L. Hoffman, Prof Preston of the
Normal college, and others.
IDA GROVE-Ida county district court
convened here with Judge Powers on the
bench The grand jury returned no indict-
ments, but recommended that the jail be
made sanitary. There has not been any
body in the jail now for eleven months
The court dismissed the petit jury and
there will be no jury trials this term. The
contest over the viii OF the late Alex Nc
Hugh was continued over till next term.
HAMPTON-After being out for thirty
seven hours the jury in the case brought
by E. l.. Jordan against the Hampton
Globe for $4,000 for alleged libel. returned
unable to reach verdict. The jury was
discharged. Jordan brought suit for al
legged derogatory and defamatory state
ments made in news item in the Globe
last winter. The case has been on trial for
week.
LoGAN-TheNOdd Fellows annual con-
vention will be held at Logan Friday, April
$ at which time and place the following
program is scheduled: 1880 p. M, initlatory
degree, Golden Rule lodge No i7s, Dunlap /;
3 p. m. first degree, Woodbine lodge No.
end degree, Missouri Valley lodge No. l7O;
y. m, address by Stymest Stevenson,
d. q. M, Council Bluffs. During the ses-
sion w. w. Brunton Of Boone Is to give
instructions.
IOWA FALLs-The $4,000 damage suit Of
w. e. Shaffer Of this city against the
Chicago Northwestern Railway com
plaintiff is given $500, the company alse
agreeing to pas an costs, inc,uUnI1
torney fees, hospital and surgeons fees
road company when the engine on which
he was riding went through q bridge
near Sanborn, MINI. Shaffer was badly
bruised and injured internally.
DENISON-The Odd Fellows Anniver-
saTy association of Greene, Crawford and
Carroll counties will celebrate at Carroll
on April Is, the ninety-second anniversary
of the founding of the order. The program
calls for addresses by Mayor johnson of
Carroll. e. o. THEM of Denlson, Rev. DR.
Sarchett OF jefferson, Rev. Mr. Right, grand
chaplain, and II. c. Ring. grand master
The lodges of Scranton and Dow City will
exemplify the work. There Is also a meet
ing of the Rebekah lodges of the district
at the same time.
EMMETSBURG-Th dreaded infantiIe
paralysis which raised such havoc in Iowa
a year ago, has again put in it's appear
ance and in q most violent form. For sew
eral days the little 5-year-old son Of Mr.
and Mrs. ]. f. Schooley has been ailing
Doctors at first believed that II was
typhoid fever, but gradually there was a
paralysis OF the right side of the body
and now he has almost entirely lost the
power of speech. DR.. Powers. who has
had some experience with the disease. is
quite confident that II 10 infantile paralysis
There is but little hope for the recovery Of
the child.
LENOX-The two days session of the
Corning Presbytery, which met at Lenox
this week, closed yesterday morning. Rev
s. F. Gutelius of Corning was elected minis
ter commissioner to the general assembly.
which meets in Atlantic City In May and
elder commissioner Rev. j. P. Linn and
NJ. B. Dobbs of Creston were elected
alternates. The reports OF the different
boards of missions were most gratifying,
that of foreign missions having the largest
increase in receipts Of any of the boards,
the gain being over $500 Rev. ]. F. Hink-
house of Parsons college. Fairfield. gave
presbytery gave hearty endorsement to
Parsons.
IDA GROVE-Because he was one day
late in filing his papers Jens Madsen, a
prominent young farmer. was today refused
citizenship papers by Judge Powers of the
district court, The government filed an
objection and asked that Madsen's applica-
ton be dismissed and the court so ordered.
Madsen made his application for first
25 1906, when 20 years of age. The old law
made no provision whereby a minor could
file application for first papers, but on
September &c, 1906, a day after he filed,
the new law went into effect that provides
for all over is being able to file papers.
The government was asked to overlook the
matter of one little day, but the application
mill