Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-02
Northern Io,ua Items

f, afternoon. about quarter of IA mile
east OF Wheatland by engine No. 1918
| OF the Northwestern railway which was
being limbered up by Engineer Hooks,
Fireman Taylor and Conductor
| Checkall The injured man was
brought to Clinton but died in the city
ambulance enroute to Agatha hospital.
Schick was employed as caretaker
for race horses owned by NJ. h, Bru
| baker o: Morrison. Ill. He with the
rest of the Brubaker employees had just
reached Wheauand With string %.
horses and was rear the cuS when the
accident happened.
Cedar Rapids.
, A telegram received Saturday after
noon by. Frank FLIP from Cleveland
o., where the C.. S. =. S. national con
vention is being held. brought the an
nouncemen: that the Cedar Rapids
delegation won over the Chicago, New
York and Cleveland delegations in Sc
J curing the c. s. p. 8. national head
quarters for Cedar Rapids. The ma
tional headquarters Will he moved %
this city from Chicago their present
home, as soon as possible. The same
telegram brought the news that John
/ Tlusty Of Cedar Rapids was elected
president OF the G. S. p. S. grand lodge
Joseph Ulch, business man of Cedar
Rapids and Scion, was elected treas
| urer. Thus Cedar Rapids won two i'm
portant national offices. j. Lunak. OF
Chicago was reelected secretary. The
moving Of the headquarters VIII!
necessitate Mr.. Lunak's moving to
Cedar Rapids.
Mason City.
Nick Barlas. Greek who was Sc
verely burned by a kerosene explosion
five weeks ago, died at the Park hos
| pital Sunday afternoon. Barlas at
| tempted to light a fire that he sup
| posed had gone out completely He
poured Kerosene over the wood in the
stove and 1t would not ignite Lifting
| the oil can again he poured more oil
into the stove and II struck some
smouldering Goals The explosion that
followed burned Barlas' body terribly
When he tried to escape from tho
burning room the screen door had al
ready caught fire. George Gale. the
Lehigh special agent, witnessed the
tragedy. Barlas was cook at No. go
l4ehigh cottage. He was twenty-seven
years Of age. He had arrived froE,
Greece just four weeks previous. An
swering the call of his country he had
gone back to fight in the recent war.
Funeral services. ii Is expected, Will
be held Tuesday.
Fort Dodge.
Some ideas OF the horrors OF war
even In one of the neutral countries of
Europe can be CLEANED from the fol-
lowing extracts from letter received
! from Florence Bowel. Mill Bowel, one
OF the teaching staff OF the Shelter
school. has been studying near Ores
den for the past year and is this sum-
mer spending her vacation with rela-
| tives in Switzerland. She writes from
I, near Bern under date of August 9:
( Switzerland at present Is all excitement
over the Austrian and Servian war.
| All the men are called to service to
protect the Swiss frontiers and the
village and country people are so
| frightened 1t Is very bad for them for
| the hay and corn are just ready for
harvest and both men and horses are
ordered out by the government. They
20 tomorrow and Tuesday All COM
/ munication, as | suppose you know,
between Germany and Switzerland is
1 cut Off and II wanted to 20 back to
I seHerau tSsernAhyj noW SaouiC nave
| TO 20 by way Of France. hope the
war does not affect all Europe aus Il
4 threatens TO-. Later: We have just
! learned this afternoon that Germany
has declared war with Russia. AL
ready the Swiss are excited; sending
i all men To protect the frontiers, laying
in stores Of provisions. shops closing
However am safe and secure here
/ hAAaas =. ~ u thA 0Co yaOnnarav Wa vnn \
have to quarter officers here even
i though switzerland remains neutral 4
& Is very exciting.