Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-27
Southern Io1pn Items

and afternoon, and Wh1le there VIII De
mo formal. program. many matters OF
interest will be taken up for discus
sion
West Liberty.
Stanatis Kapaneritis, Greek labor
err. was instantly killed, and J. w. Mes
NTH. engineer, cut about the head.
is also losing several of its population.
mains from beneath the crane. Mes
with had set the brakes to back the
engine down the itrack and on the In
cline at the end Of the rails the en-
CINE slid, and clearing the rails, turned
over. Kapaneritis, who was standing
beside the tracks, attempted to escape
and was climbing a fence when struck
down. He was married and his widow
and son are in Greece. He was 40 years
of age.
:Museatins.
A bomb was exploded in the council
chamber when an ordinance fixing the
price of illuminating gas in the city
of Muscatine at rate of $1.10 per
thousand was presented. 1t passed on
it's first reading after having been sub
mitted to the lighting committee Tor
immediate action and being reported
back as unfavorable. 1t was then read
and passed on its second reading and
laid over until the next meeting of the
council Under the terms Of the ordi-
nance as read and parsed on two read
ings and which will. If passed on its
third and final reading 60 into effect
on May l, 1914, the rate of $l.lO per
thousand will be charged for illuminat-
ing gas in this city with sliding scale
such that the end Of a term Of five
wears the rate is to be 81 per thousand
to consumers. minimum monthly
charge Of 50 cents is to he made for all
meters on Illuminating gas.
Davenport.
Four stalwart young men. their pat
riotic spirit aroused by the warlike
operations Of the United States IN
Mexico, marched into the local recruit
ing station, and were accepted for ser
vice in the United States army. The
new soldiers are Robert $. Miller ana
Walter l.. Fisk of Clinton. Charles |.
Barrett Of Lyons and Arthur H. kiinge
OF Cedar Rapids. Klinge has served
one enlistment In the army. All Will
he taken into the infantry. The men
will he sent to the receiving station at
ST Louis, where they will be put thru
| the school IT a soldier and other ele-
mentary tactics necessary to the equip
ment Of a fighter. I'm my opinion.
said Captain Powell. in charge Of army
recruiting in this district. these fel-
lows as we'll as all who are now In the
army and those who may enlist later,
will get all the fighting they care about,
for think the engagements in Mexico
will prove long and tedious.
Davenport.
Frightened at the anti Mexican dem
onstration at ST. Ambrose college IN
which practically all the students OF
1.-THE college participated Wednesday
evening, the Mexican colony along the
railroad tracks in the west end and
in the C. r. I. & p. freight yards IS
rapidly dwindling. Many left the city
early Thursday morning and more are
leaving on every train. 1t is the state
ment OF the G. r. !. & p. railway offi-
Gals that thirteen Mexicans left for
the border on the early morning train
Thursday and that more are leaving on
every southwest bound train. The
Mexican colony located in the c. r. I.
& p. railway freight yards Is growing
smaller and smaller with every hour.
The colony in the west end of the city
along the c. NJ. & st, p. railway tracks
when a travelling coal crane was de-
rallied and overturned in the local Rock
Island railroad yards Thursday after
non. Kapaneritis was caught beneath
the gigantic arm of the crane and
crushed TO an unrecognixable mass, so
than m hour was needed to dig his re-