Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-07-23
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was crushed to death two miles south
of Wayland when threshing machine
fell upon him.
Prof. Ubo Riedel and Attorney F. J.
Cochran, of Iowa City,are in court, the
! lawyer being charged with assault
with intent to kill the professor.
At a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Sac City Independent
school district, w. H. Hart was re-
elected secretary for his twenty-ninth
successive year.
While taking his gun through a
| fence Renus Johnson, young married
man of Ida Grove, suffered the loss
of his left thumb when the weapon
was discharged.
| The eldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Brown, residing near Raglan,
was seriously injured when the point
Of a scythe in the hands of her father
struck her in the eye.
Master Francis Ackley, Of Scion, met
with a painful accident at his home
there recently while swinging on a
gate His hand was caught in the
/ lluSe ana the eIluS VI SeNeAoA uA6CA .
were pinched off.
A new $4,000 Methodist church has
been dedicated at Ruthven. Rev. j. B.
Trimble, D. D., preached the opening
sermon. DR.. Trimble, in a few min
utes, raised $7,065 toward paying for
the new structure.
A letter from Spokane, Wash,
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has been received at the latter place
and states that the body of Prof W. P.
Christy, his brother-in-law, drowned,
had not been recovered.
Pennington is the last Iowa city to
get colony Of convicts from the peni-
Tertiary at Fort Madison. A gang Of
fifteen have pitched camp on farm
near that place, where considerable
contract work will be done.
Prof. A. G. Meiners, former clerk OF
courts of Allamakee county, has re-
moved with his family to Austin, Mimi,
where he will become an instructor
in the commercial department OF a
business college at that place.
George E. Gray, of keoku;i, was
frightfully burned about the lads in
an explosion of a gasoline stove IN
his home. The fire which resulted al
most completely destroyed the dwell
ing. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Frank Stanty, Bohemian of Sioux
City, jumped into the Missouri river
in an attempt to end his life because
an agent for one OF the railroads there
refused to sell him ticket for the old
country where he wanted to join the
army
During the fiscal year just closed the
1O7 life ins france companies and bene-
ticiary societies operating in Iowa,
paid into the state treasury $546,S7S.24.
They have a deposit to protect their
cy-holders amounting to $62,7S9.-
64329.
A $4,000 shortage has been discover
ed in the books of Fred Somers, aged
20, freight cashier for the Illinois Gen.
trail railroad office at Dubuque. He
left July 3, saying he and his mother
were going to st. Louis for the
Fourth.
Edwin C. McSheedy, who for sever
al years has been publisher of the
Lake View Resort, printed at Lake
View, Ia, has sold out to c. d. Won
Coelin. Mr.. McSheedy will remain at
Lake View, where he will engage in
other business.
Frank J. Hynek, butcher OF State
Center, received injuries that may
prove fatal while drivink an automo-
bile at high speed near Colo, la. The
car struck a sandy place and skidded,
turning turtle and throwing the three
occupants clear.
Thomas ]. Baird, citizen of Abba
for the last forty years, shot himself
while cleaning a revolver. BY some
| means the gun exploded, wounding
him in the stomach and passing up
ward through the shoulder. He died
in few minutes.
Mrs. E. S. Bailey, the widow Of the
man who was shot and killed in their
home at Percival recently, and who
was herself shot in the arm, has had
the member amputated. Physicians
declare she will recover. No arrests
have as yet been made.
The Trades and Labor assembly Of
Ottumwa are planning on gala cele-
| bration on Labor Day this year. Four
cities, Ottumwa, Oskaloosa, Abba AID
Centerville will take part in the pro-
gram. Lieutenant Governor Harding
| will be the principal speaker.
Mrs. ]. S. Houser, of Monticello, had
the misfortune to fall and break her
hip She was walking in front Of the
house, when she stumbled and fell.
AS Mrs. Houser is in her S0th year,
| it seems long siege for her under the
! most. favorable circumstances.
Judge H. M. Towner of the Eighth
Iowa district will attend the rural let
ter carriers meeting to be held at At
lantic July 20 to % An usually large
delegation from Pottawatamie cou-,y
will be present Perry is said to be a