Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1914-07-24
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Maurice Connolly will speak at the
chautauqua at West Union July 20.
New oats have been received at the
New London elevators, bringing 81
cents bushel
VIM. O'Connor, aged 81. a wei
known high school athlete and run,
her, was drowned at Iowa City. .-.A :
A floor and stairway Of a dance hal1
collapsed during a celebration al
Manly, injuring several persons.
Poor mothers and children of Of
tumwa will be given an outing by the
Salvation army at Caldwell park, on
July %.
Silver City defeated the attempts of
the Mckinley syndicate to secure con-
troll of the electric light situation at
that place.
While swinging from a rope, sus-
pended over a ravine, Margaret
Hodges, of Ottumwa, dislocated her
right limb and shoulder.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad has ANNOUNCED that passenger
service will be re-established on the
Keokuk & Western line.
While driving hay rack, Raymond
Mini, aged 10, Of near Epworth. was
frightfully injured when his team ran
away, throwing him under the tines.
w. L. Myers, formerly of West
Branch, who has taken post graduate
work at Harvard, has been engaged as
instructor in English at the State uni
versity.
Judge Kamrar, of Webster City.
granted temporary injunction
against building a $250,000 Boone
county court house on the old Boones-
boro site.
While icing a refrigerator car at
Marion, VIM. Yeatz. laborer. was
killed. He was working on top of the
car and lost his footing. His neck
was broken.
Fred Rosenberg, a young man OF
Grimes, while racing at Woodward,
was seriously injured by being thrown
to the ground on his head when his
saddle girth broke.
Clinton is in the throes of a warm
fight following the sudden
death of Mayor Geo. B. Farver. The
successor must be appointed by the
council under the Iowa law.
While helping his father to put a
sickle in a mower, Fay Midnight, 49,
year-old son of Guy Mcknight, living
several miles south of Marshalltown,
lost the end of one Of his fingers.
Friends of VIM. Cozad, held in the
county jail at Upton. on charge of
his brother, are seeking to
raise fund for his defense. Cozad
killed his brother in fist fight.
John Welter, aged 10, and John
Kaiser, Fl, of Dubuque, are in a hos
oital as the result of the explosion of
/ two-inch cannon. Both men re-
,eived splinters of iron in the legs.
For injuries he alleges he received
when he went through wagon
bridge, Chas. Graham, farmer. has
brought suit against the Johnson |
county board of supervisors for $780,
700 damages.
Howard Shipley, formerly Of Oska-a
oosa, who has resided for several
,ears on a mining claim in Wyoming
With his partner, was murdered in
heir cabin. The bodies of both were
illed with bullets.
Plymouth county is proud of it's
and birth record for the
asst year. The year ending July LIST
hows only ten divorces, while there
we're 27S marriage licenses issued and
'OS births recorded.
Grand Secretary F. c. Robinson Of
he Elks, and assistants, left Cedar
Rapids for Chicago. where they join
pecial train party for Denver where
he grand lodge convention will be
leld. Mr.. Robinson is candidate for
He has no opposition.
AS the result of an automobile acct T
lent in which Charles Finlay was
Tiled while riding in machine
lriven by Silas HI. Crow, Grow was
leld to the grand jury on a charge of t
by Justice Dunck. of
,arroll.
The greater Iowa committee an.
LOUNGES it will hold its convention Of
ditors and newspaper men at Spirit
lake in July. The session probably
will be held at the Hotel Orleans,
which has ample accommodations for
he editors.
Several candidates are lined up to
i'll the shoes of Barry Gilbert who
'esigned as head of the law depart
nent of Iowa State university and
ome other positions, all of which will
re filled at a meeting of the state
'oard of education.
The biggest rattlesnake killed In
ohnson county in many day was
lain by William Lovetinsky, at the
tone quarry, near Iowa City. The
reature measured three feet six
inches from tip to tip. and carried
thirteen rattles and a button.
The Iowa Retail Shoe Dealers as
in session at Cedar Rapids,