Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-01-11
Southern Io,ua Items

I sion boat. the City of Peoria, and evil
IDENTIFY intends to embark in the BUSH
ness On larger scale than heretofore.
Marenso.
James Dwyer, Of Parnell. lies in the
county Jail at this place with bullet
hole thru his right wrist. He was shot
| by Marshal John Herman of that place
early Sunday morning, Herman having
discovered him In the aot Of rifling tho
ticket drawer in the Milwaukee depot
there. When Dwyer was discovered by
the marshal he started to run and upon
his refusal to halt the marshal shot
him. Dwyer was carrying a revolver in
his right hand when he was shot and
altho the bullet passed thru his wrist
he held on to the revolver. He waived
the preliminary hearing when arraign-
ed before Mayor Herman at Parnell
and he was then brought to Marengo
by Sheriff Cafterty.
keokuk.
The fifteen-room Connable apart
ment house at 204 Concert street was
Quilted by fire at an early hour Tues
day morning and four families were
forced to leave their rooms in scant
clothing while the household goods
which they left behind was almost en-
tirely destroyed or badly damaged by
fire and water. Today the upper part
of the large apartment house is in ru-
ms. the second story having been gut
ted and the roof burned entirely of.
For three hours and a half the flremen
remained at the scene and two lines
of hose and a chemical engine COM
pleted damage left undone by the fire.
Howard Connable, the owner Is unable
to estimate the damage very closely.
but says it will run up into several
thousand dollars. Insurance on both
the real and personal property practic-
ally covers the loss, he says.
ottumwa.
Scarlet fever. diphtheria and small
pox, with a total Of ia cases in OF
tumwa during the year OF 1911, pro-
duced a death toll Of but four, accord
ing to the annual report Of City Physi
clan E. T. Edgerly to the state board Of
health. The great epidemic Of scarlet
fever that swept the city last summer,
when ninety mine persons were afflict-
ed with the disease, resulted in but
two deaths or death rate of less than
two per cent. Twelve cases Of diph-
iberia were quarantined during the
10
That smallpox has been mastered by
medical science is evidenced in the
fact that none of the four cases re-
suited in death. Cerebral-spinal men
nights claimed five persons but the city
health department was unable to as
certain whether or not it was con-
tagious disease.
Davenport.
4 Weakened from days OF almost total
fasting and from exposure to the Sc
we're cold Of the past week. Barney
Lewis, an old veteran of the civil war,
was taken to the county jail Tuesday
morning. where he will receive medical
and proper food and clothing.
The police were notified of the old
mans condition when he fell over in |
a saloon in East Davenport early in
the morning. He had come into the |
saloon from his old shack, the same
one occupied for many years by Charles
Owen, now under years sentence for
the killing Of James Kane. and after
taking a glass of whisky fell to the
floor. He was too weak to stand alone
and the police were notified. When in
the station Lewis told the police that
he had been living in the old shack for
some time and had only a little food
and less warmth. He had applied TO
The government for pension and this
had been delayed In coming. Some time /
ago he made application to secure an !,
into the old soldiers home,
but owing to the fact that this place !,
r. now overcrowded.4 he had been re-
fused. He Will be 9iven proper care
until n fa1aan car r. AnssW6 >x>~ NS~ D