Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-11-20
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

boy on his fathers farm sever
miles from Charles City 1t has beer
brought here TO DE mounted.
Harvey Lane was SO seriousl.
burned when the Lane Bros ice house
ilt Yves, Union VAS destroyed by fire
nat his recovery is doubtful. The
blaze was of unknown origin.
In buying its lubricating Oil for the
coming year. the state found one
article where high cost Of everything
mas been brought down. The price
was one half cent gallon less than
a year ago.
Mrs. B. 8. Brown passed away at
her home in Vinton. The deceased
was an early settler of Benton county.
Death was due to paralysis. Mrs.
Brown was born in Ticonderoga, N.
Y, Nov. %, 1887.
While brooding over i'll health,
James Sawyer prominent retired
| farmer near Vinton, shot himself twice
dying almost instantly. Both shots
were in the vicinity of the heart. He
was 76 years old.
Murder and robbery were put on
nearly equal terms by Judge William
S. Ayres. Tom Concord was sentenced
to life Imprisonment for the holdup
on the streets of Des Moines while
armed with revolver.
Edward Harzfeld, aged GO, retired
farmer was drowned in Lime Creek
near Mason City. He was found by
fishing party. There was no witness
to the accident. He was mentally
weak, which gives rise to the suicide
cry.
Rollo Cain of Des Moines, II years
old, was arraigned before Judge Law
renee de Graft in criminal court at
Des Moines on an indictment charg
ing him with having deserted his
wife, Maude Cain, aged 16. He pleaded
not guilty.
Edith Quarrels, 19-year-old colored-
girl of Keokuk, attempted to commit
suicide by drinking a bottle of ink.
She will recover. The girls wish to
die was because Archie Boyd, 81,
colored, refused to keep his promise
to marry her.
Bertha Peters obtained a jury
verdict Of $1,501.6O against Joachim
Hansen in the district court at Ida
Grove for damages received by being
thrown from buggy, the team being
frightened by an automobile driven
by the defendant.
Cherokee county has demonstrated
the fact that Iowa can raise peanuts
as profitable crop. Last spring a
farmer living near the town of Marans
planted a quart of the tubers and has
just harvested a bushel of large
peanuts from this seed.
Dynamite and smokeless powder
enough to completely destroy the
place was found under the John
Smith home at Clinton. The police
are puzzled as Smith knows of no
enemies and no other reason for the
presence Of the stuff can be found.
A gang of dental thieves has been
busy in Des Moines for the past week.
Sunday night the Offices of Drs. w. A.
Sharp, R. G. Miller and C. NJ. Ken
nedy were entered and bulk gold used
in dental work worth $3.50 taken. |
There is no clue to the miscreants.
A verdict for $19,s2S against Page
and Fremont counties was returned in
favor of Mrs. Ella Johnson, whose
husband G. w. Johnson was crushed
across Warren Creek on the county
line, collapsed with his traction
engine.
A cigarette crusade has been started
at Cedar Falls. Charges were filed
against fourteen local tobacco dealers
for violations Of the laws prohibiting
the distribution of cigarette papers
and the illegal sale Of tobacco to
minors. They were convicted and
assessed fines of $25.
There are 5,462 homes in Page
county. Of this number 2,237 are
farm houses and CAB Of the farm
homes are owned by their occupants
and are free of mortgage and in
cumbrance. The mortgaged farm
homes number COZ. Renters occupy
1893 homes in this county.
A revolver duel on the stairway in
the dark was the exciting finish of an
attempted robbery of the Frank S.
Luck rooming house in MARSHALL
town. The burglar made his get
away uninjured. One bullet pierced
Luick's night shirt and others bored
through the partition about him.
Burglars seem to have made a
general roundup in Marshalltown. In
he John W. Wells home the night
,rowler secured only 81 in change,
,ut made a harvest Of s44 in the ].
'. Hall residence. None of the
members Of either household were
disturbed by the midnight visitors.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a
,arn belonging to Otto Tillman, a
armer living five miles east of
essex. The fire was discovered only
lfter 1t had gained great Roadway
Tive horses persisted besides some
rain and few other articles. There
vas $3.50 insurance on the barn only.