Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-17
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Bloomfield.
Jacob King, German farmer. COM
mitted suicide by hanging Sunday att
ernoon. Unhappy family relations are
given as the cause. A newly married
second wife left him, taking with her
large sum OF money recently
keokuk. 3
All records In the Keokuk public
library were broken on Feb. 20. when
CAT books were given out by the
librarians Considering that an almost
equal number of books were returned
the librarians handled over 1900 books
in one day.
Des Moines.
Frank Amadeo, an Italian, who killed
his wife and daughter while enraged
because his wife urged him not to
quarrel with boarder over an un-
paid bill, was sentenced for life to the
Fort Madison penitentiary by District
Judge McHenry Monday.
Wilton.
wilton, in Muscatine county. reports
land sales on March l aggregate 5000, :
900 at prices ranging from $3.50 TO WOW
per acre. The transfers were more
numerous than In 1914. and the con-
sideration greater. incidentally, 1t is
noted that Wilton has three strong
banks, and that the actual cash that
changed hands was $4,000 larger than
last year
Des Moines.
Thomas Shivers, for eighteen years a
member Of the Des Moines fire depart
ment, was killed Sunday when the
chemicals in portable fire extinguish-
err exploded. the force Of the explosion
crashing the cap of the metal tank
against his right eye and temple. The
accident occurred at $3.50 Sunday
morning when Shivers and other
members of the fire department were
fighting a small blaze on the roof OF
l.. D. Gnsbergs home, 80 West Thlr-
teenth street, and Shivers died at
Mercy hospital two hours later.
Des Moines.
Thirty men and women. most OF
them. according to the police, loaded
to the eyebrows with bootleg whisky"
the same consisting, also according TO
the police, of essence OF old rubber
boot and tobacco juice. We're bulletined
"ntoxication" at the police station In
the thirty-siX hour period between Sat
urday mornings court and Sunday
night. This exceeds by a considerable
margin the average HuIuDcT VI aIieStS
of this sort that has prevailed for sew
eral years past in like period.
Ottumwa.
Robbers cracked the safe of the Har-
ris Mercantile Company at Bidwell. a
small mining town near here, during
Friday night, and got SIS in money and
stamps. Several checks We're taken
but We're discarded by the robbers
along the railroad tracks near town.
Nothing else was taken from the store.
Saturday was pay day at the Bidwell
mines and the robbers thought the
payroll was in the store safe. but 1t
was held in an Ottumwa bank. En-
trance was effected by breaking the
lock on the front door
keokuk.
A fish net big enough to drive team
of horses into and by far the largest
ever seen on this part of the river, Is
being constructed at the foot Of Main
street by Henry McAdams and w. H.
Skates, two local fishermen. The net Is
called a pond net" and is for use in
the deep water Of Lake Cooper. The
net is fifty-seven feet long, eleven feet
in diameter at the large end and seven
feet in diameter at the small end 1t
will be raised and lowered into the wa
ter, forty or fifty feet deep from float
Of special construction, by heavy