Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-24
Storm Lake.

Storm Lake.
Commercial Club members of Storm
Lake decided to establish club rooms
| for the use of merchants. The sum OF
n $1,000 was raised to buy furniture and
equipment.
Dubuque.
Thirty-four head of cattle and sew
enty-two head of hogs at a total value
of 81, 700, were slaughtered on the Otto
Broessel farm in Dubuque county be-
| cause OF foot and mouth disease Fri
day. Ha
Lansing. ~
Con Sheehan, aged 3s. was killed on
Wednesday when he was pinned be-
Meath an overturned wagonload OF
corn. He was employed by the Joyce
crew and was returning with feed fol-
his team when the accident occurred
He was native Of Ireland and has
relatives in Pennsylvania.
Fort Dodge.
G. P. Smith, county engineer, Sunday
received a phone message from his
brother, c. P.-Smith, who stated thai
the new cement bridge at Estherville
over the west branch of the Des
Moines was threatened Saturday, when
the river rose suddenly. The false
work Of the bridge was carried down
stream and 1t is feared that the grade
| on both sides will be washed out.
Ruthvsn.
Saturday afternoon Sylvia Sheker a
little 9-year-old girl living on farm
near Ruthven was playing near gas
olene pump. She stepped too near the
machine and her hair was caught in a
cog wheel Before the pump could be
stopped her ear was torn from her
head She was taken to the Mercy
hospital where the ear was sewed on
again,
/ Waukon.
Sheriff Larson went to Prairie du
4 Chen after George Grandek, of Cas-
ITALIA, aged 10 years, wanted for the
i burglary of the Peterson hardware
store in this city. Grandek has also
confessed. it is said. to have perpetrat-
ed burglaries at McGregor, Postville
and DEBORAH, and when searched by
Sheriff Larson a fiashlight and zoo
keys were found on his person.
Clinton.
In two actions brought against Johr
Bender In the Clinton county district
court, Robert Evans, father Of Walter
Dewey Evans. asks damages to the
amount Of s11,2S5 for injuries alleged
to have been sustained by the boy when
he was struck by the defendants auto
at Fourth and Warren streets in Dav-
export on Sept. q, 1914, at about 6: Il
p. m. The boy was riding bicycle i,
is claimed
Sioux City.
| Clad only in guaZe undershirt and a
petticoat, Mrs. A. McCarty was picked
up by the police at Fourth and Jack
son streets Monday afternoon. The
woman was screaming at the top OF
her lungs when taken. She was lodged
in the woman's cell at the police sta
ton where she continued crying at the
top Of her voice. 1t is believed the
woman is temporarily insane. Appar-
emily she had been drinking.
Meriden.
A. c. vandestegg. Of Sioux City
baggageman on the Chicago Sioux
City passenger on the Illinois Central
railroad, was seriously injured about
the head Friday afternoon at Meriden
1 when the steel doors of the baggage
car closed on his head. Vandestegg
was standing in the doorway while the
train was nearing the Meriden station
A sudden stop Of the train forced both
steel doors to close. A deep cash was
cut. Physicians declare that they dc
not believe his skull was fractured.
Sioux City.
Floods which covered the tracks OF
the Milwaukee and Northwestern lines
to the southeast. and which receded
somewhat Sunday. were rising again
Sunday night and Monday the Milwau-
kee was detouring trains over the
Northwestern. The Northwestern is
having difficulty with tracks which are
under water near Psgah. Lines to the
north are also badly flooded and 1t will
be several days before conditions are
restored to normal In the city the
Floyd is receding at present and unless
q new rise occurs all danger is past
i Perry creek hardly reached the threat
ening stage at any time.
Cedar Rapids.
There viii be a real regret at the an
announcement that p. I. Lambert. man.