Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-06
Northern Io1ua Items

cent. In addition. the company fur
nishes a bond for the safe transporta-
ton and delivery of the goods handled.
The barge in question is gas propelled.
Hampton.
The heavy rains of the past week
have played havoc with the oat crop
hereabouts. Dat fields not cut are in
bad shape and in places the grain is
lodged SO badly that 1t will be impos-
sible for 1t to come up. Grain that is
| in the shock on flat land is rotting be-
cause of SO much moisture in the
| ground 1t is impossible to get on some
of the low lands with wagon. The
| total amount Of damage done in this
county alone by recent rains can not
be estimated in dollars and cents, but
it will run into large figures. The hay
that has been cut and l;.ys waiting for
the sun to dry it, is soaked thru and
thru. Farmers have been trying to
gather their hay for three weeks but
| have been unable to do SO on account
of frequent showers.
Waterloo.
Waterloo. has typhoid fever cpl
dernic. The disease is confined to two
sections of the city, but to prevent a
spread of the disease the city health
officer, DR. Harry w. Sigworth, urges
all to boil drinking water whether
coming from the city or private wells.
There are from twenty to twenty-five
cases in the city at present and all so
far have been traced to certain wells.
A majority of the cases have been re-
ported from lower Commercial and
Jefferson streets Eleventh street west
and on Ankeny street. A number of
the patients have been removed to the
| hospitals, but majority of the cases
are a mild form of the disease The
| city physician believes the disease has
| resulted from the heavy rains wash
ing surface water into wells. Water
| from the city wells was recently an
alyzed by state experts and was found
to be In satisfactory condition.
Waterloo.
While answering call from Elk Run
| Inn shortly after midnight John Max
! field. 317 Tenth street east. driver of a
jitney bus, was held up and robbed of
S21. The jitney driver was held up at
the point of a gun and was compelled
| to turn over all the money he had in
| his possession. Maxfeld received
call to pick up a passenger at the Elk
Run Hotel. He Immediately respond
l
passenger was in sight. The jitney
operator started on the return trip, but
had gone only short distance when
| he was ordered to halt. The bandit
jumped on the running board, accord
| ing to MaXfields story, and ordered the
jitney driver to turn over his money.
Part of the money which Maxfeld had
/ in his pockets did not belong to him,
/! but had been entrusted to him by
friend. Maxfield declared that earlier
! in the evening another attempt had
| been made to hold him up, but that
| he recognized the party and informed
the police he would file information
against the suspect,
Fort Dodge.
E. P. Casavaw, 1407 Fifth avenue,
north, had both ankles broken when
he was partly buried under big slide
of clay at the Hawkeye clay works
! Tuesday afternoon shortly after 8.
His condition is reported as very sat
isfactory, and the attending surgeons
believe he will recover. The accident
which almost cost Mr.. Casavaw his life
was a peculiar one. Jim Fitzpatrick.
manager of the plant, had been called
out of the city and Mr.. Casavaw was
experimenting the works for the day.
He was standing at the bottom of a
big clay bank. Suddenly one of the
men called to him to look out, that a
big slide was coming. Casavaw start
ed to run, but too late to escape en-
tirely The big slide, coming with ter
rifle force, hit him around the ankles.
burying him in 1t about half way up
to the waist. The timely warning per-
haps saved his life. as second before
he would have been completely buried
in the clay. 1T was the work of
few minutes only to remove Mr.. Casa
vaw from the clay. An ambulance was
summoned and he was removed to his
residence.