Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-02-28
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Mr.. Mary Ivory Of Tabor, Is years
Of age, died from the effects OF q
fall in which she broke her hip.
A new barn belonging to Themas
Parks, near Cherokee, burned to the
ground with 600 bushels. Of oats.
| Nearly $2,00O,000 are to be asked
Of the state legislature by the Iowa
State college during the present ses-
! sion. .s.
Attorneys for the defense in the
case of Earl Madden at Crestcn, con-
victed of being a "frebug," state
that they will ask for new trial.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the Auditorium Princess motion pic
ture theater at Fort Madison. The
damage amounted to about. 1900.
Three hundred buttermakers of
Iowa We're in attendance at the third
annual convention of the state but
termakers at Cedar Rapids.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cox, living at
Belknap, are the parents Of wee
baby girl weighing but two and one
half pounds. The little one is
healthy.
Joseph Durfee, aged 80, died at
Keokuk, after long illness. He was
one of the pioneer residents of Keo-
kuk and a prominent democrat for
many years.
Johannes Schroeder, aged AZ and
single, hung himself in his barn at
: Eldridge. His father, his only rela-
tive, is in the insane department of a
local hospital.
Don F. Bennett, who claimed to be
the, youngest aviator on earth and
who was wanted in Davenport for
passing worthless checks, has been
arrested in Ashland, Wisconsin.
James Mahon of Des Moines died
Of Injuries Rceived when he fell un-
der a Burlington freight train. The
wheels passed over both legs and one
arm. Mahon was 40 years old.
Curtis Hart of Keokuk will sue
coed C. B. Lake, who disappeared two
weeks ago, as county clerk. Exam
liners have discovered a shortage in
Lakes cash Of from $4,000 to SIS 900.
Miss Ida Saxton of Danbury was
shot in the leg while walking along
the railroad track near Danbury.
Small boys who were hunting did
the mischief. The wound is not seri-
Gus.
While trying to re-enter buggy
from which he had alighted to get
warm by running, Ben Goodrich of
Galva fell and had his ankle sprained
when the buggy wheels passed over
his foot. :.
Fireman William Mullane, 90 years
old, Of Preston, Mimi, was instantly
killed when a Milwaukee engine ten
der buckled after striking coal car
on a siding which had not cleared at
Dubuque.
When Col. G. o. Shield, New York
City, a lecturer on animal life, APP
peared at Mason City, Rev. H. Fl.
Shield of Fertile, brother, whom he
had not seen in forty years, was in
the audience. .
George Coleman, chief electrician
Of the Sanborn electric plant, was
electrocuted. Death was instantane-
Gus. The accident occurred while he
was repairing switches. The current
was LOO volts.
Charles Holmes Of Coin met with
a painful accident while loading
wagon with heavy posts. A post fell
on his hand between it and the wagon
wheel, crushing it badly.
Hiram Mitchell, an Indian, who was
hauling Q load of grain across the
river on the ice to Onawa, lost the
entire load in the river when the back
wheels broke through and the wagon
tipped up. The driver and team es-
capped.
About II o'clock at night q fire
broke out in the George Wagner
building at Reinbeck. Firemen pre-
vented the blaze from spreading to
the hotel, but were unable to save the
building. The damage is estimated
at $500. .- ,.....-sa-.. ..a
Rockwell City, Sutherland, Spirit
Lake and Fort Dodge asked admis-
sion into the northwestern Iowa fair
circuit at it's annual meeting at Sioux
City. Two Of the four must be re-
fused, as but two vacancies exist in
the circuit.
A representative Of an eastern
milk condensing company was in Red
Oak recently making an investigation
rs to the conditions to ascertain
whether or not the place would be a
suitable one for the location of q
branch plant.
Ames' special election upon tho
proposition Of new light plant re-
suited in victory for the supporters
Of the plant by margin of seventy
votes. The plant will probably be To-
Gated west of town along the edge of
the college campus.
Emmett county last year, Tor the
first time, experimental with sugar
beets, raising about 500 acres to sup
ply the factory at Chaska, MINI. The
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