Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-28
Northern Io1ua Items

from Governor Clarke. He maze
personal visit to the governor and was
rewarded with reprleve until Jan. l.
The board OF parole has been ordered
to investigate the case. Bosgs Is mucn
elated. over his conference with the
governor and says he was treated with
the utmost courtesy. The banker VINO
gave Boggs the recommendation with
which he gained favor at the Morrison
bank has been found guilty anu
judgment OF 100000 has been placed
against him.
Dubuque.
That the validity OF marriages per-
formed after Dec. may he called into
question unless a 10-cent revenue
stamp is affixed to the marriage certi-
ficate is the contention ofFa minister
who has taken the matter up with
Louis Murphy collector az internal
revenue for Iowa 1.-The ttcontention.
the collector says. us hardly tenable
one. The act Of Oct. %. commonly
referred to as the war revenue emer-
gency act, requires stamp on certi-
ficates required by law. A marriage
certificate is one such. However, when
a license to marry Is issued by clerk
of court in Iowa. two certificates are
issued with 1t. One OF these is re-
turned by the officiating minister or
magistrate 20 the clerk of courts to
become part of "a public record. The
other is delivered to the newlyweds.
1t is this certificate which must bear
a 1O-cent revenue stamp. The GER
tificate returned to the clerk requires
no stamp.
Sanborn.
Mrs. Earl Conway, who was burned
while starting fire with kerosene,
died of her injuries. The mother and g.
month old baby, who also was fatally
burned, were buried side by side in the
Prmghar cemetery Further details
regarding the accident show that as
Mrs. Conway was starting fire with
kerosene to get supper there was an
explosion which set her clothing on
fire. She ran. screaming to her hus-
band, who was in bed asleep, prepara-
tory to a night run on his engine. He
rushed to her assistance and, with bed
ding, extinguished the flames, but not
until she had been fatally burned. In
the meantime the house had become
a furnace The 9-month-old baby was
in the kitchen and by the time Mf.
Conway had rescued his wife the
baby was burned to crisp. Mrs.
Conway was only &c years old and the
mother of three children. Her husband
is a fireman on the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad.
Sioux City.
Seventeen horses were burned and
/ 1000 bushels of corn was destroyed
Wednesday evening in fire which
consumed large barn and other
buildings on the farm of Frank B.
Buekwaiser, of Sioux City. The farm
is located at the southern edge of
Homer. Neb. The buildings burned
! included two barns, two corn cribs and
a granary. The loss amounts to about
$4,000. protected by insurance of $4,000,
Mr.. Buckwalter said. Two corn cribs
, containing 5000 bushels of corn and
all of the cattle sheds We're saved.
Neighbors assisted in the work OF ex-
tinguishing the fire. which was famed
by a wind. Edward Ross, tenant on
the farm, was the first to discover the
fire, which broke out in the largest OF
the two barns. When he arrived at the
barn the entire hay loft was in flames
Before help arrived the barn was in
ruins. Over the telephone Mr.. Ross
told Mr.. Buckwalter that the origin OF
the fire could not be ascertained. No
clews were found that night. The the-
DRY that tramps sleeping IN the barn
ignited the hay and then fled Is with
out foundation, Mr.. Ross said.