Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-31

doWs of the office were found locked.
| An ordinary key will open the office
door ard the thief had no trouble in
getting into the room and was evident
lv careful to lock the door on leaving.
| The safe is Il small affair and the thief
! apparently inserted a wire inside the
| rim Of the comb ination lock and opened
the safe. The marshal was notified Of
/ the robbery by the manager of the ele-
! vator company and is trying to get a
| clue.
Cedar Rapids.
While watching the unloading of the
| Ringing Bros. circus near + avenue,
| west. Ellsworth Wilson, i2-year- old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Wilson. 532 e
avenue, west, sustained fractures in
his leg and an Injury to his nand be-
! cause he was buried under a lumber
/. pile Ellsworth Wilson and another
| spectator it was explained. climbed
upon a small lumber pile in the yard of
the Cedar Rapids Sash and Door Com
pany so they could see the circus men
| lead their horses out of the cars The
man suddenly jumped from the pile.
| His jump caused the pile to fall. Young
! Wilson fell with the pile and was
!, thrown Under the heavy lumber. One
| and his hand was injured. Physicians
were summoned Immediately, and or
! dered him conveyed to st. Lukes nos
ri:al.
| Clinton.
| Fourteen cripples Of all descriptions
held convention in Clinton, meeting
! in a strip of willow land known as the
! little Jungle. The police raided Them
1 Gro
crippled In the legs escaped. The
i cripples said they had regular or
/ ganization, which meets annually. They
| SAID they met in Clinton two years
aso. When Officer Ed Burke broke in
en- the deliberations Of the convention
the cripples said they were WAITING
| for ''rattler" before going on their
various ways Burke didn't know
what their RATHER was but said the
cit:- could furnish them one So h.
called the patrol. All the one-a.nieo
and one-eyed cril pies darted Off thru
! the jungles, but the rest vera lodde,
into the city RATHER" and escorted T..
/ TIE police station. The "junsles" will
be cut down by the stree. commits
| sioner's force.
cosson.
! One OF the largest crowds ever pres
ent in Coggon attended the Harvest
Home here Wednesday,. Hon. W. r.
Law of Waterloo, was the speaker OF
the day. and delivered an excellent
| address Music was furnished thruout
the day and evening by the Coggon
! hand. The agricultural exhibits were
excellent, some of the best grains
| fruits and vegetables ever shown here
being in evidence. The ball games
| were between jackson Grange and
Paris, and Walker and Springville. The
i Grange team defeated Paris in an en-
cellent game by a score of 10 to s. 1t
was anybody's game until the last man
| was out. Walker defeated Springville
in ten inning contest by a score oi
| C to 5. The dance was also largely at
| tended and the 1914 inn County Har-
! vest Home will be recorded as one oil
the most successful ever held here.
Sac City.
I During the hCt, dry weather of las,
week water ceased to run In the Coon
! river and it was the lowest this writer
remembers seeing it in the last TWEEN
| ty-one wears. Owing to the scarcity oi
water and the intense heat. thousands
of fish that were caught in the smaller
holes above the dam pcrishcd. and as
late as last SUNDAY the dead fish could
be seen lying along the banks or aoat-
! ing in the water. The timely rain or
| last Saturday .ight raised the water In
I the river and it was flowing good
| stream again on Sunday On that DAY
many boys and men could be seen In
! the river with clubs hunting for live
| fish, and 1t is said that they succeeded
| in capturing a considerable uumhc!
1 in that manner OF course 1t was no,
! a legal way to take them: but, In
view of the thousands that had per.
ished because Of the drouth, one could
not make any serious complaint against
such technical violation OF the law