Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-01
Southern Io,ua Items

due in Perry at 11:10 p. M, was In
stantly killed Friday evening this side
of ortsmouth when he lost his hold
and fell under the wheels. The accident
happened about o'clock and the flag
man on the rear end of the train saw
his body after the train had passed
over it. The train was Immediately
stopped and the man picked up anu
taken back to Portsmouth and turned
over to the city authorities. The two
companions who were with him re-
manned at Portsmouth and today he
was buried by the county.
Council Bluffs.
The heaviest fine ever imposed In
Pottawattamie county for a. violation of
| Iowa's saloon laws and one of the
heaviest ever assessed In Iowa, was
pronounced in the district court here
Wednesday by Judge Q. ID. Wheeler
He ordered Charles Perrine to pay
81 900 and to stand committed untii
the amount is paid. The stiff line was
chiefly imposed upon the evidence SUP
mitted to Judge Wheeler that minors
had secured intoxicants in Perrlne $
saloon. The evidence was supplied pv
attorneys for Mrs. Emma Morse, whose
1S-year- old son was sent to the peni-
Tertiary for burglary. which, 1t was
alleged, the whisky he drank was re-
| sponsible for Mrs. Morse had pre-
J viously brought a damage suit for
| SO 900 against Perrine.
Washington.
No more will the tango. turkey trot,
and fish walk and like contortions be
permitted in staid old Washington.
| Mayor Glasgow will Tissue an "edict III
few days prohibiting these dances be-
ing staged in this city. He intends that
none but the old time dances shall
gladden. the hearts of the devotees OF
| the Eight fantastic" Several dances
| are held each week in this city and
/ during the winter months this number
/ is augmented. All the latest in the
dance catalog have been tried out in
| this city and reports have come to the
! ears of the mayor that some of the new
| contortions are not just what they
i ought to be. He therefore will censor
! them in the future. A howl will go up
| from several quarters. as some rich.
[ rare and racy dances have been put on
| here this season.
| Pennington.
! While returning from the kahoka
/ fair. the automobile driven by Ray
!
! cupants out and injured all of then;
1 severely and one perhaps fatally. Mr.
/ and Mrs. Waste were both unconscious
4 when picked up. Mr. Waste was in
jured about the head, and his face was
4 severely cut Mrs. Waste is reported
to have conclusion of the brain. She
| has not fully recovered consciousness
She has moments when she Is cog
/ INFANT. then lapses off into uncon-
seriousness. Mrs. Matilda Sharp's lef,
I arm was crushed to a pulp at the el-
! bow. Mrs Wayne Rockmeyer. sistel
of Mrs. Sharp, was bruised about the
! arm and the hip and had a large ragged
piece torn from the underside of hel
left leg, as tho one OF the spokes hat
tried to make it's way thru. Mrs. Ellis
\ stone was bruised about the shoulder
and back.
! Council Bluff
4 His left hand hanging to the arm
i only by Il coS;! at the wrist. William
/ Steel was brought to the Jennie Ed
mundson Memorial hospital and hat
\ his arm amputated just above thu
\ wrist. Mr.. Steel, who lives south of tn,
/ lowe school for the deaf, met with thu
| accident while at work at his hom'
Hast Thursday. He was putting in
4 new well on his place and had thu
4 head of the pump fastened up with {
j chain while he was making the con
nection between the pump barrel am
4 the head when the chain broke away
q letting the whole weight of the puml
4 fall upon his arm. The wrist wal
4 painfully broken. being only held II
I, place by a cord physician wa
4 called Immediately and Sue whist =. g
found 20 be broken SO badly that am
{ pusa.!cn was necessary and the ma,
was brought to the Edmundson hos
i pital in this city where the operatio,
i was performed, Mr.. Steel received III
! further INJURIES than q hxoEaN wrist.