Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-08
Southern Io,ua Items

40, severe bruises about body and left
leg; Ben Stone, aged AZ, severe bruises
about body; Jerry Fawcett. aged 10,
cut about hands and bruises about
body. The Great Western building Is
being torn down to make room for the
new Empress, theater, which VIII De
erected on the site.
Perry.
The plans of the Milwaukee railroad
for a bid for the thru coast traffic have
been announced and with it a state
ment that beginning April s. there will
be a solid steel train operated thru
Perry over the Milwaukee and the
Union Pacific The trains will be solid
steel thruout and will be drawn by the
new superheated type Of Pacific en-
gines. The date of the first train out
of Chicago has been changed to April
6. one week later than first announced
The trains will consist Of dynamo bag
gage car, dining car. two tourist cars
and four sleeper.s. One tourist and TWO
sleepers will go thru to Los Angeles.
The others will go thru to San Fran
cisco. The dividing point will be os-
dent. Utah.
Brighton.
Saturday night. Marshal Fred Sweet
received word from Corning, n. u,
telling him to watch for q couple who
were on their way he.e. He went to
the depot Sunday morning and arrested
them as they got off the train and
took them to his office to await the ar
rival of the officers. Upon investiga-
ton, it was found that the couple
whose names were Mr.. and Mrs. Ray
Dillon, had been married on Thursday
of last week and were on their way to
visit relatives near Keota. When the
man who had caused their arrest ar
rived Tuesday it proved to be only a
neighbor who had no authority but
was merely objecting on the grounds
that the bride had given her age
wrongly as she lacked a month or so
of being Of age. AS there seemed to be
nothing further in the case the couple
was allowed to go on their way and
the man returned to his home.
Fairfield.
The large base burner at the home
lof Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Miller exploded
and injured the two small children OF
the family The children, while not
seriously injured. have both suffered
quite a little from the accident and
their narrow escape Is regarded as al
most miraculous. The two children,
Leslie, aged and a girl. Marie, aged
3 years, were sitting on the floor in
front Of the stove preparing for bed
when the accident occurred. No one
besides the children were in the room
at the time. as Mrs. Miller had stepped
TO the kitchen and Mr.. Miller had gone
to a neighbours home for few min
utes Suddenly there was loud report
and the entire top and back OF the base
burner were blown of, the pieces
ranging in size from that Of bullet to a
foot long The heavy iron back struck
the wall, crashing thru the plastering.
Bits Of the hot iron were hurled all.
over the room and 1t was some of these
smaller pieces which struck the two
children, The little boy suffered scalp
wound cut open to the skull about three
inches long with an ugly cash on both
arms and also one leg. 1t was neces-
sary to take several stitches in Dress
ing these wounds. The little girl was
struck by a piece of hot iron on top
of the head and suffered scalp wound
which was not so bad as that OF her
brother.