Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-23
Northern I01ua Items

lished the business known as the Iowa
! Cut Stone Works. Deceased retired
| from active duty about Eve years ago
and had been in Ill health for the last
+, two years.
Waterloo.
| a, o'clock Tuesday afternoon thir-
| ty electrical workers who stopped work
I Monday morning, pending the sign
+, ing of new agreement with their en-
! ployers, returned to work. Monday
i'evening a committee representing the
union met with the employers and q
new agreement was signed. However
it was not binding upon the union
until the members held a meeting and
voted to accept 1t. This was done at
10 O'Clock Tuesday morning and at I
o'clock all the men were back at work.
One new item that has been inserted
in the agreement adopted pertains to
travelling expenses. Hereafter the cleo
tricians will receive straight time from
the moment they start to n job until
they get back to the shop and all ex-
penses in case they have to go to an
other city or go into the country.
LeMars.
young woman employed at the
home OF d. C. Lehman On West Fifth
street was badly scared on Sunday
evening a little after o'clock when
some ruffian seized hold OF her at the
corner OF Howard and Fifth streets.
The young lady was returning from a
visit with her sister in the east part
of town and was walking rapidly
homewards. When near the Rogers
residence a tall man stepped up to her
and grabbed her by the throat The
frightened girl managed tn free her
self from his grasp and ran down the
street with the fellow liz hot pursuit.
She ran into the yard at the Coffey
residence where Mrs. Coffey and some
friends were sitting on the lawn. Her
assailant then made Off He is de-
scribed as being tall man of power
full build and wore a dark coat and
light trousers.
Dubuque.
Monday morning abou, 7:so Rev.
Thomas E. Shields, D. D. Of Washing
ton. D. c., and another priest. in big
touring car were going north on Lo-
Gust street when they crashed with
machine carrying a party Of out of
IcVh PScPic- AhCS AAdllCI SeI W dS SOlnS
west on Ninth street and was just
turning south into Locust, and did not
see the big car. Both machines were
going at fast rate Of speed when the
| accident occurred. The smaller car
was thrown upon the sidewalk at the
| east side OF the Dubuque CLUB building,
but suffered no damage other than a
smashed mud guard. The large ma
| chine was not damaged at all. The
smaller car carried two young women
as passengers whose screams when
| the cars met attracted quite crowd
A few moments after the accident,
| however. both cars left the scene and
the crowd dispersed.
Dubuque
| The friends Of Alderman John
Stumpf were painfully surprised by
| the news of his sudden death on Sun
day morning at o'clock ut the island
home of his brother, Emil, on the Wis
| consin side OF the river, opposite Du-
ouque. For the past year Mr.. Stumpi
had been falling in health and was
spending the summer at cottage
owned by his brother in the hope that
the fresh air and change would prove
beneficial. He spent Friday in Du-
buque and returned to the island on
| Saturday. Sunday morning while he
and his brother were out fishing Mr.
! Stumpf was seized with a severe
coughing spell, followed by hem
orrhage and died instantly. The hem
orrhage was the result Of complica-
tions from which he had suffering fol
some time. The deceased was born and
reared and had spent all his life In
DUBUQUE, being AZ years OF age At the
time of death.