Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1915-07-30
Geo. W. Prescott, e5. for many years

Sargent Bluffs. Officials investigated
his accounts and found 5000 missing.
Suit has been started to attach his
property TO cover this amount.
Marteo Ciarnalio is dead and Canine
ButyiZaloa is in Jail at Dubuque
charged with his murder following a
fatal shooting in bunk car of the
Great Western railroad. Both are
!t1lian section hands. The former, a
c:a1t with the sinews Of an OK, had
threatened the life of Buttizaloa the
tatter asserts.
A boulder weighing six tons is be-
ing moved from the farm of Capt. D..
Brown to the city park at Leon, re-
Gently donated by Mrs. j. w. Harvey.
A bronco plate bearing the name of
the late Judge Harvey is to be placed
on the stone. Two large traction
engines are required to haul it. Local
marble workers say it is fine piece
of granite.
Mrs. o. E. Johnson was painfully in
jured in the arm by stray bullet
when talking with a neighbor woman
at her home in Missouri Valley. The
family physician was summoned and
the police were notified. Neither Mrs.
Johnson nor her friend heard the shot
and are at loss to account for the
injury except that the shooting was
accidental
Ralph McKim, who has, been en-
ployed in Nevada drug store for the
hos
half interest in the business of Guy
H. Polling and the firm name will now
be Polling & McKim. The new mem
Der of the firm was born in Nevada
and is registered pharmacist, popu-
lar with the trade and thoroughly
good business man.
Myrtle Keeney, eight years old, OF
Mason City, was perhaps fatally
burned when she threw kerosene in
the kitchen stove and the explosion
burned face and hands to crisp. Less
than year ago, the Keeney home
caught fire, two children were burned
to death and ]. j. Keeney, the father,
was so badly burned he was confined
to hospital for months.
Winterset is probing the report OF
a quarrel said to have preceded the
tragedy which wrecked the home OF
Myles Young, ST., prominent grain
dealer. Young, IS, is dead with a bull
let in his neck, self-infiicted. His wife
is dying with portion of her left jaw
torn away by shotgun fired by
Young. Insanity is the only reason
assigned by close friends Of the fam
lily.
A Council Bluffs girl has written
the police authorities at Des Moines
that she was betrayed and fieeced by
young man answering the descrip-
ton of young man who inveigled an
Indianola girl into mock wedding
ceremony and induced her to cash two
checks for $40 each, which money she
turned over to him. In both cases,
the young man disappeared with the
money.
Some time ago Mrs. Henry Milotz, OF
Council Bluffs, placed $50 in currency
in the oven of her kitchen stove for
safe keeping and then proceeded to
forget the money. When she did re-
member the money the bills We're
charred by the heat and resembled
nothing so much as burnt biscuits in
color. She has received new currency
from Washington to replace the lost
money.
The Altoona hotel, owned by {. r.
Greison of Savannah, has been leased
for the next year to A. c. Dutton OF
Cedar Rapids. Mr.. Dutton has had
experience in the management OF
hotel and will conduct the place very
satisfactorily it is prophesled. Mr..
Dodd, who has managed the Altoona
for the last two years, will still con-
tinue to take charge of the interurban
business for some time at least.
Between seventytive and eighty
eighth grade students will graduate
from the district schools of Cerro
Gordo county and arrangements have
been completed to have this take place.
at the North Iowa fair. The exercises
will be held under the direction OIL
superintendent Benson in big tent.
Attorney General Cosson has consent
ed to address the graduates. The eXer-
cises will be held on Tuesday. August
II, the second day OF the fair
Death after extreme suffering CT al
most ten hours came to the relief OF
little Mildred Simons, the 212-year-olu
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Simons, of Davenport, who was struck
bv the automobile OF William Culton.
The child had been struck by the Cui-
ton car near Farnam street and Dover
court, and was taken to Davenport
hospital, where she had medical at
tention. 1t was discovered that she
had sustained broken neck, two OF
the vertebrae being fractured by the
force of the fall on the pavement.
William Arson, former Iowa boy,
was murdered by unknown persons in
Big Lake, Ark, and his body was
brought to West Liberty, his old home,
n.