Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-24
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Davenport
The death by apoplexy Of Alderman
Rowden Sunday night takes the contro
OF the city council from the republi'
cans by the law Of the Thirty hftf
general assembly, which allows thu
council to appoint man to fill va
cancy in special charter cities.
pss Moinss.
]. q. Raitt was arrested IN Car
Smiths saloon Monday evening when
the officer became suspicious OF sub
scription Raitt was taking up to SEND
his wife to the hospital. At police
headquarters Raft was charged with
obtaining money under false pretences
West Liberty.
Mrs. Sarah whitacre, SO years Of
age, is confined to her home with 8
broken right hip. the result Of a fal
on the slippery sidewalk. Her son-in'
law, Ross Mountain, was assisting hel
home from church, and both fell. Mr.
Mountain was uninjured but could no.
prevent the full force Of the aget
lady's fall.
West Liberty.
| After six months. the West Libert,
Presbyterian church is to have a regu'
lar pastor. Rev Robert McInturff, un'
| til recently the pastor of the church a
Odebolt, has accepted q call to thu
local church and will begin his worl
here. the first Sunday In January. NJ
regular services has been held in tn
church since the resignation of F. N
Dowlin last June.
West Liberty.
Shipments Of live stock have beer
heavy from Yves, Liberty since thu
lifting of the quarantine few day:
Iago. Hogs have been especially strong
talthough a large number of cattle. too
have gone toward Chicago. In spite o
these shipments. however. many far
mers still are feeding. in anticipation o
a better market, following this frs
rush Of stuff.
Des Moines.
Earl Kelso was slugged from be
hind, knocked off wagon he was
driving and robbed Of SO at $50
o'clock Monday night. police sur
geon was sent out when the first cal
came in that Kelso had been fount
lying unconscious beside the wagon
The police surgeon found there nat
been a spasm Of the heart muscle ant
l revived hclSO.
GIidden.
| Because Of the small dividend de
clared by the receivers Of the Farmers
bank, which failed here last summer
a number OF depositors In the FRS
National Bank began a run on that In
stitution yesterday. The dividend OF
the defunct bank was declared las
week. All the depositors who de-
manded their money Tuesday wer'
paid in full, and toward closing time
the run ended, and some of those WHIT
had withdrawn their deposits began t.
reopen their accounts.
ottumwa.
A petition entitled Mabel Fritchle We
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, has been flied with the clerk q
the district court. In this petition the
plaintiff seeks the sum Of $4,000 a
damages for the alleged negligence O.
the company in not sending q message
dated at Ottumwa, Iowa, on Sept. s
1914. by the plaintiff to her sister
! Mrs. Earle Clark of Rosston. Okla, an.
nouncing the serious illness and deatf
OF their father It rs stated In thu
petition that the claim Of Mrs. Carl
has been assigned to the platntin.
pss Moinss.
An explosion Of gas in the vault o.
the Ford Bros, real estate office In thu
Manhattan building Monday afternoon
before s o'clock threw John Ford hal
way across the room, broke the glas.
! In the front door Of the Office ana y