Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-04-07

| representatives from every county me
in Des Moines.
Hiram Toms, veteran of the civi
war, who disappeared fortnight age
was found dead near Riverside, vii
| lage near Iowa City.
| Safe blowers cracked the vault o
| Kreske's five and ten cent store .
Davenport with nitro glycerine, bu
were frightened away by the arriva
of the night Waterman before they Sc
cured $500 within easy reach.
A resolution favoring the construc
ton of permanent bridges was adopted
at mass meeting of road officials a,
Denison. 1t was also resolved to con.
struct permanent culverts on the coun.
ty road system for $50 miles,
What seems to be recurrence OF
the disease caused by soft spoiled
corn, which attacked a number OF
horses here last fall, occurred again
when William Dvorsky of Scion lost a
young horse of unknown causes.
Gerald Barnes, son of w. w. Barnes
liveryman at Hamburg, had a narrow
escape from death when the upper
floor of building into which he had
driven jitney bus collapsed from the
weight of baled hay in the loft above
A. w. Weiss, proprietor of a storage
battery company, opened at Dubuque
few months ago, is missing, and
numerous acquaintance made in that
time are holding notes and checks on
which they expect to realize nothing.
The Crooked Creek railway, one Of
the historic lines of Iowa, was sold
at public auction at Webster City to
w. R. Dyer Of Boone for $112,3OO. 1t
is said that Dyer represents the f.
Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Inter-
urban.
Residents Of Humboldt county are
lures Villa. This action is due to the
fact that James Dean, one of those
killed in the Columbus raid, was form
erly resident of the county, and his
son lives there.
James Finch Of Epworth, had rib
broken and sustained other injuries
while standing on the sidelines, watch
ing basketball game at Dubuque One
Of the players was accidentally thrown
against Finch who was knocked
against some benches
A night attempt was made to burn
the Keokuk G. Des Moines railway
freight office at Keokuk, but the blaze
was discovered and extinguished be-
fore much damage was done. Officials
think the fire was of incendiary origin,
as similar attempt was made about
a year ago.
w. B. Robinson, the widely known
aviator, was killed by falling
from an altitude of about 10000 feet.
His body was partly consumed after
The machine struck the ground. 1t is
believed that the thin air of the high
altitude caused Robinson to lose con-
.rol of the machine.
The administrator of the estate Of
Henry Laudheer, of Clinton, the man
whose dead body was found on the
tracks near Prairie
Creek over year ago, has filed suit
Tor $4,000 against the Northwestern
claiming that Laudheer's
leath was due to negligence on the
part of the railroad.
Elmer Schultz, farmer of Gutten-
)erg, bought team of horses for $500
It Cassville, Wis, and attempted to
lrive them across the Mississippi on
he ice. The ice broke one hundred
teet from the Wisconsin shore and the
.eam was drowned. Schultz was res
,ued after struggling in the icy water
nearly mile.
A pile Of papers at the bottom of an
elevator shaft Of the Peoples Popular
building at Des Moines saved
the life of Roy Wilson, aged 10, when
he fell three stories. He stepped into
the elevator shaft thinking the ele-
vator was there, and dropped thirty
feet and alighted on pile of papers
1t the bottom.
To teach three years in a college on
The banks Of the Nile, within two miles
Of the Sahara desert, will be the inter-
esting experience of Demaree c. Bess
Of Iowa City, now senior in the Uni
of Iowa. He will receive his
degree this June and will leave for his
new position at Assiut, Upper Egypt.
where he will be assistant professor of
English in the United Presbyterian
college.
The Iowa Threshermen's association
in session at Des Moines elected the
officers: President, l. N.
Shook, West Point; vice president, ].
w. Joice, Emmetsburg; secretary
treasurer, August Y. Lembke, Girls
void; directors: J. c. Gregory, Percy;
G. B. Jickling, Winterset; James Devin,
Valley Junction; legislative commit
tee: Henry Parsons, Rockwell City; F.
c. Newell, Fenton; H. c. Reese, Pres
colt.
Frank Shercliffe, former resident
of Iowa, whose real name is Sherman
w. Morris, was granted an uncondi-
tional pardon from the Colorado peni-
Tertiary, where he was serving a 25-