Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1913-06-27

corah and while sitting on the be-
talking to his relatives, dropped
dead He was appars2tly in gooe
health when he reatc-:ed the house
and was feeling exceedingly we'll.
Fire of am unknown cause original
ing in the pqstoffice of Masonville de-
stroyed four buildings, and for 6
time threatened the whole town. The
loss is about $4,000. The buildings
burned were P. c.. Mulvihill's drug
store, Pixies general store and post.
Office and the Colson meat market.
Several young men of Missouri
Valley are in Jail and will he tried
for assault because they attacked
and "beat up number Of Omaha
high school cadets, in camp there. It
is claimed the controversy started
over the fact that the cadets were
making a hit" with the local young
women.
Through love letter, the man who
was killed by a fall from a Rock
Island passenger train at Rockford,
has been found to be Fred A. Hay of
Randolph. His sweetheart was Miss
Mollie Haney of Ames. With his
mother, Mrs. Laura Antrim, of Ran
dolph, she arrived to take care Of
the body.
Health Officer William Mueller Of
Davenport announced that he had
the smallpox and was taken to the
city's pest house. DR.. Mueller has
had several cases of this disease un-
der his charge at the city infection
hospital and it is supposed he con-
tracted the malady from one of his
patients.
William Stuver of Davenport, "a
years old, motorman for the street
railway company at Davenport,
jumped from the government bridge
and was drowned. Two men in a
skiff saw him jump and recovered his
hat, which was identified by friends.
He had intimated to friends that he
intended to kill himself.
Symptoms of pneumonia, which, it
is said, was caused by contact with
a bullet near the left lung, have been
discovered by physicians attending
Mrs. Cora Prescott, who was the VIC
tim Of shots alleged to have been
fred by her husband, Louis Prescott,
at Clear Lake, June /. Her condi-
ton is said to be serious.
A diligent search is being made for
Frank Mills, IA year old son of E. J.
Mills Of Iowa City, who disappeared
from home June 5th. At that time,
he was supposed to have gone to the
country to work, but nothing has
been heard of him since. The boy
was five feet, four inches in height,
had dark hair and gray eyes.
The w. M. WEIGH company Of Ana
mosa, engravers, photographers and
bipders, has been reorganized with
capital Of $125,ooo, following years Of
litigation, and the name has been
changed to the Metropolitan Supply
company. The concern has become
known as one of the largest school
supply factories in the middle west.
Two men, believed to be Clarence
Homme Of Erie, Pa, and E. T.
Schlimer Of Blue Island, ILL.,, were
killed in a freight wreck on the Rock
Island at Rock Island. They were
riding in q car Of steel, on . train
of fourteen cars Of steel and five cars
of coal, when the train was ditched.
The cause Of the wreck was a spread
ing rail. ----es il
AS a result of eating a dish Of
strawberries at the evening meal,
Mrs. Gerta Lindberg, aged 80 years,
died at her home in Muscatine. The
woman appeared to be in excellent
health during the day, but the lus-
cious fruit brought about acute indi-
gestion, which proved fatal. She
became critically i'll during the night
and died several hours later.
Following the official naming Of
the lake created in the Mississippi
by the building Of the dam a, Keo-
kuk Lake Cooper by the war de-
partment, It is being advertised un-
ger tuAS LAhNAS " etc8uOOoL AAASS.
Many different names have been sug-
gested in different river cities for
the lake, but It will now carry the
name of the engineer who built the
dam.
"Professor" Wells, the oil stove
demonstrated, who was arrested on a
charge of "jumping' his BOARD bill
at the Montrose hotel It New Hamp-
ton, proved to be Ben Schooling, a
paroled convict from Saltwater. BY
getting into Jail he violated his
parole and was taken by State Agent
Whittier to Saltwater TO complete his
three year team FOR highway rob-
berry.
Bouncing for twenty miles, in the
lonneau Of big automobile going at
an average rate Of a mile minute,
Miss May Allday Of Keokuk won a
race with death. Miss Allday re-
ceived news that her old mother, who
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