Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-08-22
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

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The sol: to prevent the extension
of the capitol grounds in Des Moines
has began.
FREQ Pecks was seriously injured
while attempting to stop runaway
1t I-eAars.
The contract has been let for q
new opera house at Denison. 1t vii
cost about $4,000.
The sexton of the Dow City Gene
tory hanged himself in e. tree in the
cemetery grounds. No cause for his
action is known.
Stephen Bareum, a laborer, was
instantly killed at Mason City when
caught under a freight car at the Le-
high cement mill.
Mrs. F., Denherder of Sheldon was
fatally injured when an auto In which
she and he'll husband were riding was
struck by an Omaha train.
Two cases Of infantile paralysis
have been reported to the state board
of health from Hopkinton. The pa
tents are and years old.
Mrs. John Condor of Marshalltown
shot and seriously wounded her hEs-
band in family quarrel when her
former husband visited their home.
Ten b0rses We're burned, eight cat
tie, five hogs, hay and grain were de-
stroyed when the barn on the John
Hobart farm east of Mason City
caught fire.
Hogs ere dying in large numbers
around Red Oak, one farmer having
lost 200 young pigs and thirteen old
ones. incubation proved ineffective.
The first Brethren church If Wat
erloo j.; t. have a new house of wor-
ship, preliminary work on which hi;
already begun. The church when
complete will cost $35,000.
John Almquist, rich retired farm
er Of Shenandoah, sold five farms to
five Of his sons at auction and re-
fused to sell a sixth to a sixth sen
because the price bid was not enough
Harry Story, aged rs, bricklayer,
fell fran the top of the Hubbell sky
scraper at Des Moines to the ground
and died in the hospital half an hour
later. His head was crushed. He
leaves = wife and family.
The report of the treasurer shows
that it cost Lake City $971.76 to GEL
citrate the Fourth of July. The COM
mittee II charge now has balance
on hand CT $1,000 as a starter for
similar fund in the future.
The many improvements being
made At Iowa Falls this summer have
brought ebout shortage of laborers.
The paving company as well as the
contractor for the new postoffice are
finding it hard to find help.
c. G. Icnlon, 80 years old, a pio-
neer North western employe and own
er Of several farms in the county,
died Of heart disease at Clinton. He
was the father of Maude Fenlon Boil
man ct Rockford, ILL.,, noted singer.
p. N. Miller, an aged resident of
Clinton, committed suicide in the
summer kitchen of his home by hang
ing. His body was found three hours
later. 1t is supposed that ill health
and dependency caused him to kill
himself.
e. Dolan and S. Darling of New
Albin are busy receiving congratula-
tions on the great luck they had
while at claiming. One afternoon
while cooking out shells they discov-
cred handsome balloon shaped pearl
Of pinkish luster, weighing about IS
grains.
The ive-year-old. son of John Swift
zer of East Des Moines was probably
fatally injured when he fell from a
Walker street car. He ran from his
home and climbed on a car to escape
q playmate. When he attempted to
get off the car he fell off on his head,
fracturing his skull.
AS the result of fight a, Manly,
Michael Cochrane, brakeman on the
Rock Island, was shot through the
legs by the town marshal, who was
trying 70 quell the disturbance Coch-
rane was severely wounded the ball
taking effect at the knees and passing
through tcth limbs.
"This is the way to commit sui
cide," Charles Slossy, z years old,
said to friends of his own age at Des
Moines. He put a revolver to his
head and pulled the trigger. Death
came shortly after. The boys had
found the revolver, which contained
one unexploded cartridge, in an alley.
Mrs. Charles Johnson and 2-year-
old daughter, Dorothy, are still in a
Des Moines hospital as the result of
cuts received from the father, who
attacked them with a knife. The
father IS still at large and the police
are searching for him. The mother
will recover, but the child is expected
to die.
While Mrs. Montgomery, her
daughter, Mrs. Sydney Baughman,
and children were driving to Girls
void their horses became frightened
at passing automobile, driven by
John Hnlly, and overturned the
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