Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-09


Fire Tuesday morning destroyed the
building occupied by the Luxembourg
Savings Bank, causing loss Of $4,000;
fully insured.
Dow City.
Farmers along the Boyer bottoms
were moving their hay last week that
was stacked on the low land The wa
ter had been two feet deep around
the stacks. They intended feeding the
wet hay, thus sustaining no great
amount of damage.
Edon.
Paul Fame. night engineer at the
Eldon power house, was held UP We'd
nesday night while at work at the
plant. Fame declares his assailant
overpowered him by throwing some
kind of powder in his face. He was
rendered unconscious and the assault
upon him was not discovered until in
vestigation as to why the city lights
went, out was made.
keokuk.
The first Mann act violation case
tried in Keokuk, in which c. w. John
son was found guiltysof violating the
white slave law and sentenced to five
years in the federal prison at Still
water, has been reversed, according to
notification received by Johnson's at
torney. Johnson was alleged to have
transported his wife from Burlington
to Peoria for immoral purposes.
Keosauqua.
The first of the week the home Of the
late Benjamin Daugherty was sold to
Elk Sheriff Fellows, which Will be oc-
cupied by his son Jay and wife. POS
session is to be given July l. This is
one of the oldest if not the Oldest home
in Keosauuua, and is still comfortable
home. The home was purchased by
the elder Mr.. Daugherty soon after
coming to Iowa in 1910. 1t later be-
came the home of Benjamin Daugherty,
his son, thus making it the home OF
these splendid people for nearly sew
enty-five years.
West Liberty.
Christ Peterson, of Kenosha, Wis,
has secured the controct for the first
street to be paved IN West Liberty, 49,
900 square yards of surfacing with
burlington brick, from the Galesburg,
Ill.,, plant, asphaltic filler and on a
concrete base. His bid, the lowest Of
any submitted by the fourteen con-
tractors in the competition was $l.Sl
per square yard Gittercl & Sullivan,
of Webster City, secured the contract
for the construction of the curbing at
81 cents per foot for straight curb and
a. cents fur coui5;i.si, cub AID gutter.
Harlan.
AS Fred McKeighan moved from the
Walmer place, last Monday, he had an
expensive smash-up Of his goods. Six
teams were engaged in the work. AS
the movers were loading a hog into
the rear Of a wagon. the animal
suuealed and caused the team to run
away. AS the team ran it struck an
other wagon and upset it. The wagon
upset contained about 800 quarts Of
canned fruit in glass jars A good deal
more than half of these were broken.
The wagon attached to the team which
ran was about two-thirds loaded with
household goods. The team ran about
half a mile south from the Walmer
place and stopped at home. 1t scat
tered the goods along the way, break
| ing most of them. The wagon was
also badly broken. 1t took quite a
| while to clean up the wreck, get a new
wagon and complete the work.
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| erosion.
Coroner A. N. Keys reports that the
! death oe Mrs Sarah Emery: of Thayer
| was from natural causes, and what
promised to be big sensation. fizzled
1t will be remembered that upon GER
tain complaint the body of Mrs. Sarah
Emery that had been buried in the
Buelah cemetery on Feb. ~. was taken
up for investigation Of the state chem
| ist. The stomach was taken from the
] body and sent to Des Moines. Foul play
| had been the accusations OF certain
parties The state chemist has Just
sent his report to Union county au-
| thorities that his investigation proved
! to his satisfaction chat there was nc
poisoning in the stomach. Thus are al
! parties exonerated from any crime thai