Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-29
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

"A MISSISSIPPI river sturgeon wa
caught near keosauqua recently.
Miss Minnie Fulton has been ap
pointed postmaster at Bentonsport.
Mrs. Nancy Gul. ., an aged resi-
dent of the town Of Garrison, passet
away.
Burglars got $178 in cash whe1
they robbed the store Of II. S. Pierce
at Sand Springs.
John Wendt of Lansing found q
pearl that weighed forty grains. tie
sold it for $1,000.
Della Russell, wife of DR.. David NJ
Edwards, president of Penn college
is dead at Oskalo.sa.
Lightning struck the cupola on the
Hotel Brunton in Wall Lake during
an electric storm and set it afire.
Lance Thompson reports fifty-six
bu.-.els per acre of oats threshed
from thirty acres near Shell Rock.
The cornerstone of the new post
office building at Denison was laid.
The exercises were in charge of the
Masons.
The annual meeting of the English
River Baptist association will be held
in the Hedrick Baptist church August
% to 81.
The Rev. E. S. Chaffee, for two
years pastor of the Presbyterian
church at Lytton, has rendered his
resignation.
The c., r. I. & P. depot at Kellogg
burned to the ground, destroying
nearly all of the books and records
in the Office.
Since January /, 1913, total of
343 divorce cases have been disposed
of by the judges Of the district court
at Des Moines.
Prof. Sieg, of the department Of
physics Of the State University OF
Iowa, was married to Miss Gretchen
Potts of Garden City.
Garrison's handsome new school
building was struck by lightning
during storm. No damage Of any
great amount was done.
Workmen are progressing rapidly
in laying the underground wires for
the new street lighting system around
the square at Washington.
Mehmet Braen, who is under arrest
at Marshalltown, has confessed to
killing Cater, Turk. He testified at
the coroner's inquest that he shot in
self defense.
Howard Cady of Keota completed
his 1856 mile walk to Lohrvil]e, being
four days on the road. His record
on the trip was ffty-two miles in
twelve hours.
A deputy game warden recently
captured white blackbird near Man.
chester. The rare specie of bird has
attracted much attention locally and
is being exhibited.
Allen Aschuff, aged years, died
at St. Francis hospital at Waterloo,
following the receiving of fatal burns
while playing about bonfire in the
yard at his home.
A large barn burned down on the
farm of Frank Lawrence, north of
Cedar Falls. With it went three
horses, thirty-five tons Of hay in the
NOW, harnesses ana leeQ.
The body of we'll dressed man
was found hanging by a satchel strap
from stringer Of an Illinois Central
railroad bridge near Merrill. Grips
nearby contained $50 in cash.
j. Ii. Cummins Of Cedar Falls, aged
70 years, was fatally injured and died
in ten minutes when his horse plunged
al a passing automobile and the end
of the thill penetrated his heart.
During the progress of mimic
battle between boys at Marshalltown,
Arthur Timbush, aged s, was struck
on the head by buckshot from an
air rifle, and is under the doctors
care.
Nels Christensen, who was killed in
an auto accident at Council Bluffs,
was buried. His daughter, who was
in the machine when it went over an
embankment, is rot expected to re-
cover.
For $25 cash A. J. Back, father of
1O-year-old George Back of Sioux
City, purchased and obtained delivery
from 12-year-old Kenneth Lyons suf-
ficient cuticle to save the younger
boys life.
Roland Yates, bricklayer on the
new hotel jefferson at Iowa City, has
brought suit for $4,000 damages
against the Clifton-K Kelly Carnival
company because he was chewed up
by bulldog.
D. Petit filed petition in the dis
trict court at Des Moines, in which
he claims damages of $4,000 from
the Shackelford Brick company for
injuries he received while in the conf
pany's employ.
Contracting lung trouble following
a siege with diphtheria, which she
caught from nursing patients with
that disease, Miss Grace Putnam,
aged "a, trained nurse, is dead at
Council Bluffs.
The corn crop as a whole was
greatly benefited the last week by
vain. hut the rain came too late tn