Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-17

promise action which has been started
| in the district court: In her petition
| the plaintiff states that she is now
and has always been ready and willing
to marry Eisiie ever, Ssince he named
the wedding day for June l, 1913. Ac-
! cording to plans at that time the
| couple were to have gone to Davenport
and been united III marriage. Believ-
ing that the wedding would occur on
| that day, the plaintiff alleges that she
bought furniture for their home and
also purchased her wedding trousseau.
She states also that she gave up one
year Of her time to entertaining ELISE.
Davenport. ,r
Quarantine signs ,Will be put up this
spring on every farm in Scott county
| where hog cholera. breaks out. The
signs are large green placar:ls warning
all corners from visiting the hog yard
| under quarantine. This is the first
time that farms here have bee.l quar-
antined and the precau.!on Is expecte
| to be OF great value IN checking the
| plague. There will be nothing compul-
| sorry about the placing OF the signs.
| While the law gives the state veterin-
| arian authority to enforce the quaran-
| tine, the Farm improvement league
will not attempt to pu: UP placard
against the farmers wish. The hog
cholera patrol, composed Of $50 Of thr
most prominent farmers in Scott coun,
| ty, will meet here l:ext week and make
plans to fight the plague.
| Museatins.
| Clarence Boland. who left this city
Tuesday morning in the custody OF ar
official Of the Knoxville institution
made his escape and in most spectac
| ular way. While on the train just gu
of Washington, Iowa, he climbed thru
a window in the lavatory and jump
ing to the ground while the train wa!
travelling at about twenty miles Pc
| hour, made his get-a-away. The OIL
Ger who had Boland in charge allowed
him to enter the lavatory without tn
handouts, it is claimed and as consid
cradle time elapsed and he did not ap
pear the officer made All investigation
and found the lavatory empty and tn
window open showing the avenue
escape used. He has not as yet peel
located and 1t is not known whetne
he was injured or not in his iaii Iron
the window Of the train.
North Liberty.
'NTS. Elsie 4LiHlASSI AANofS.'
" a prominent North Liberty Girl, say
her husband killed with his own re
volver in an encounter with detec
tives in Omaha. She had just SAL
goodby to him on the street, teilin
him she would live with him after n
had restored $1,000 which ne wa
claimed to have obtained by fraud u
California and Oklahoma, Some OF IN
circumstances pointed to suicide. pu
coroner's jury returned q verdict
accidental death while resisting ar
rest. Hooper told his wife on partinl
that he would never be captured alive
;. Two detectives stepped up as ne start
ed away. Hooper pulled q revolve
and Detective Fleming grappied VII
him. Hooper's revolver was discharg
ed, and he dropped dead. The oetecs!V
said Hooper could have killed nlmsei
* he had tried. Elsie Liningef. dausn
ter Of Martin e. Lininger, married
II. Hooper. young bond broker iron
Sioux City two years ago. They wen
on a honeymoon trip to Los Angeles
and there abe Is alleged to nave dis
covered her husband was q forgei
They went TO Muskogee. Okla. Mrs
Hooper then left him and went to ON
] aha- ThAv were apart for nearly W
] years, and Hooper went to Omaha
try to effect . reconciliation. Detec
t,ves were told Of his expected Sisi,
and laid IN wait for him,