Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-20

found that in entering the tongue ii
] had split and portions had lodged in
different parts OF the tongue. 1t was
necessary to do some cutting TO get the
two pieces but they were finally To-
Gated and extracted.
Silver City.
!, A 2-year- old child OF Mr.. and Mrs.
Horace Allon got a bottle containing
carbolic acid a few days ago and swal-
| lowed some Of the contents before be-
| ing discovered. a physician was call
! ed and everything possible done TO re-
| lieve the little sufferer. The child was
unconscious for several hours and altho
| its mouth and throat are terribly burn
ed, it is getting along fairly we'll and
hopes are entertained for its recovery.
| Imossns.
! The Draper section, otherwise known
as the old Frank Johnson place. was
bought by four men, Charles Traveute.
Charles and Joseph FIGHTER and Thorn
! as Slater The total amount paid was
$4,000. but the number Of acres is not
exactly known. but Mr.. Maher UNDER
stands the average price paid was Sis
! per acre and ne says 1t is first class
land. akho somewhat run down. The
men who bought the land are ali good
! farmers adjoining. George E. Draper.
the seller, is a large land owner OF Sid
ney.
Council Bluffs.
/ The firm of Burns & Mcdonnell. OF
Kansas City, consulting engineers and
watecWorks experts, have been employ
| ed by the city to make an expert ap-
| praisement and valuation Of the water
! plant and furnish expert testimony to
/ the court of district Judges who begin
! their sessions IN the condemnation pro-
ceedings here Thursday. The firm will
| receive compensation at the rate OF $50
per day for time actually. enga ged upon
f! the work. exclusive o. time spent in
, court. the total amount paid by the
| city not ID exceed $500.
ottumwa.
F.; The opening Of the bids at St. Jo-
seph's academy on Fourth street for
i. the erection of the new academy and
convent tina, is to cost about $500
was featured by the attendance Of
sixty-eight contractors, bidders, sub
! bidders. clerks, etc, as we'll as a num-
. Der OF local men and Architect John
| OCounor OF Des Moines Architect
OConnor. the representative of the
; sisters and the sisters who have the
matter in charge, decided on all Of the
bids but three. telling the other twelve
OF their finding and thus permitting
| them TO leave for their several homes
Announcement OF the successful bider
will be made later.
Davenport.
Threatening to drive long pocket
knife into the body OF a switchnan
with whom he had engaged in . dts
pute at restaurant, Henry Ho1sting
was prevented from carrying out HIS
threat by the arriva! OF Officer Cannon
who had been called when the trouble
began a. the restaurant. The object OF
! Horsting's alleged attack was a switch
man whose name could not be learned
and who vacated the place as soon az
He is still at large and it is probable
that he will be secured in order to
testify to an assault and battery charge
which may be brought against Horst
ing. The young man is now held under
a ten days Jail sentence.
lows City.
The three babies that were carried
:. from the burning home Of the White
Cross Society Monday morning, az de.
scribed in these dispatches, will live
II nothing unforeseen develops. Char
lotte, aged nine months is burned or
the legs, and John, aged months, and
Laura, aged 4 months. were nearly
jsuffocated. as was Charlotte. but the
surgeons at the Homeopathic hospital
where the infants are being cared for
do not anticipate fatal consequences
Miss Stahl OF Cherokee, the trained
nurse who risked her own life to save
the babies, as did Miss Anna Marshall
of Iowa City. is suffering the effects oil
her fall upon the ice, when she ciasped
two Of the babies in her arms and pre-
!; vented them from being injured.
ottunwa.
= The peculiar desor-ni.y Of a horses
hoof may be the means of solving a
riddle that has given the sheriffs office
some worry for the past few DAYS, and
incidently disclosed a strange acting
hog thief. The first intimation given
the sherfTs Office was early during the
past week, when a report from the
Hagen farm southwest Of the city told
Of thief having visited the farm the
night before. and after killing q hos
threw the animal over the fence, load.
ed it into a wagon and drove of with.
out attracting attention. The report
also stated that the person or persons
who perpetrated the theft drove g
horse. the impression Of whose hoof wAs
strange and easy OF detection Sunday
: night at the T. p. Box home a similar
. stunt was pulled of. There were only
two pigs on the Box place and mex
morning one was missing, and TIT
, same method Of taking the animal a,
. was used at the Hagen farm earlier IL
l the week. The peculiar shaped hoo
! print was also left to trace the aninia
t to the road. where it was lost in thu
J numerous other hoof prints.