Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28
Northern Io,ua Items


about sixty - passengers. This extra
train service was allowed by the state
commission due to the petitions sent
in by the people living along the line.
between Monticello and Calmar. The
merchants are very much pleased to
have it put on, as it gives the people
living to the north of us, at Hopkinton,
Delhi, and other points, the opportunity
to conae to- Monticello to do their shop
ping and get home in the evening by
train. = ift
Cedar Rapids. e s''' 5t7E2s
Kenneth Mckay, 35S Eighth avenue
west, and Harry Stevenson, Ninth ave-
nue. and Ninth street west, were in
jured Friday evening when scaffold-
ing on which they We're working broke
and precipitated them to the ground.
twenty-five feet below. Mckay is
contractor and Stevenson one of his
employees. They are constructing
house at Grande avenue and Nineteenth
street. Both men struck on their
backs. Stevenson was seriously hurt
and is in Mercy hospital. Mckay was
taken to the hospital, but later was
conveyed to his home.
Sioux City. -
the home of Leo Chase. confessed prn-
cipal in more than fifty burglaries here
in the last year. is a set Of keys stolen
from Frank Moshier in charge of the
Morningside postoffice station. The
theft of the keys necessitated the
changing of the lock on every street
mail box in Sioux City Three dray
loads have been hauled from the resi-
dence of Chase to the police station.
The plumber exceeds in value 100000.
It includes among other things, sixty
four jeweled rings already inventoried
by the police. Twelve suitcases Of
plumber are yet unopened.
Dubuque.
A mysterious fire, believed to have
been due to spontaneous combustion,
did some damage at the Iowa Coffin
| Company's plant, Fifteenth and Elm
streets. The fire started on the first
! floor in pile of caskets wrapped in
heavy paper and ready for shipment
| It was discovered by employees, who
used a fire hose to good effect pending
| the arrival of firemen. The latter ex-
| tinguished what fire remained with
chemicals. An official Of the com
pany said the damage was mostly thru
water and that it would amount to
more than 800. He could give no
| reason for the origin of the fire.
Clinton.
! Henry Vining. residing at the corner
I Of Wesley and Iowa avenues, had a
| narrow escape from death by suffo-
cation Thursday afternoon. In retir-
| ing in the morning, Mr.. Vining, who is
! employed at night, hung his trousers
over the gas fixtures, and his suspend
i ers caught the cock, pulling it open.
When Mrs. Vining went to arouse her
| husband in the afternoon she found
him unconscious from the fumes Of
the gas. doctor was summoned and
he telephoned to the central fire station
for the pu1motor which was brought
to the house and after three hours
work Mr.. Vining was revived. 1t was
a close call as another five minutes ex-
posture to the gas fumes would have
caused his death.
Sioux City.
When the forty-seven saloons OF
this city close up on Dec. 81. they will
be given wild farewell. Though the
saloon men themselves are opposed to
any disposition to a carousal, there will
be carousal. If indications count for
anything. Moreover, it will be the
widest orgy ever put on in this city. so
] the wise ones say, and the stocks of
liquor being laid away by those dis
posed to thisssort of pastime, ap-
parently corroborates their promise.
Sioux City usually celebrates New
Years eve along liberal lines, and
the fact that this promises to be the
/ final wet New Years eve for this
town has inspired plans for q night Of
lit that will put the widest festivities
Of the ''old days" to shame.