Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-15

son and brother They are stopping
al othe heme of the Rev. John Panos
pastor Of the Greek church.
Fort Dodge.
Thomas kenney, lately of Craugh-
well, county of Galway, Ireland, a lead
| err in the recent Irish rebellion, was In
Fort Dodge for a few hours Friday.
! Charged with completely in the late
rebellion in Ireland. Mr. kenney is
wanted by the British government anc
there is d reward fouu\ for his capture
! MIR. @Kenney made this escape from Ire
land, coming to the United States. II;
stopped in Fort Dodge with letters ol
| Introduction to several! men, relatives
| OF friends of his He left here for Cal.
| .forna where he expects to make his
| future home. The former Irish leade.
! would not talk much of the part he
| played in the rebellion nor Of the cir
| cumstane=s which made it possible
| for him to escape from his country. He
would talk enough, howeve, TO de-
nuunce England and English misruIe
| of ireland. ~
M ontceIle. sE's"N
Sufficient s,igners have been secured
to assure a county agent for this coun-
". Fl. NJ. Harter and his assistants
have canvassed the territory and have
| at present influenced 237 farmers and
! nifty business men, owners of farms, ia
sign. Each signer has pledged him
| self TO pay IS year for a period OF
| three years. as dues to the association
With the money thus raised together
with one-t tenth of l per cent of the
| capital at the. banks in the county, the
sum of sl,745 will be realized, from
| what work has been done at the pres
Isent time. It was moved and carried at
their meeting in Wyoming last, week
| that Mr.. EHarter and his assistants con-
tinue in the campaign for more men,
bers. The work will not now be limited
simply to farmers, but any one inter-
ested in better farming and better
| agricultural conditions of all kinds, are
eligible to membership.
W aterIoo.
To have bolt of lightning slit the
shoe on his left foot and himself SUI
fer no i'll effects was the somewhat
| terrifying sensation experienced by
John o. Wildhagen, a gardener, living
at sos Pleasant avenue. Wildhagen
door at his home during the downpoul
of rain and electrical storm when 4
bolt struck the house, passing thru the
roof and into bedroom on the second
| floor. The lightning passed thru the
| room and struck brass curtain pole
on window on the first floor, jumping
to a brass bed and thence thru the
floor into the basement and into the
ground thru a pipe. The bolt is
thought to have forked after entering
the first story of the house as Wild
hagen was standing several feet away
from the window and bed. The light
ming slit the shoe on his left foot in
| several places and then passed out
thru the screen door, knocking it on
it's hinges. Mr.. Wildhagen suffered
slightly from the shock but sustained
no burns or serious injuries.
Charles City.
John &. Legel, former senator from
this district, has IS bill OF the year
IT'S signed by George Washington
The wording on the bill is This bill
entities the bearer to five Spanish
milled dollars or vale thereof in COLA
or silver. according to resolution
passed by congress in Philadelphia
Sept. rs, ITS. Signed. L. r. Roberts
and g. Washington" Mr.. Legel also
has a money order issued at San Fran.
cisco in 1856 and sent all the way BY
stage to New York City. 1t Is Wells
Fargo & Co. order for $50. Another
interesting historical bill owned by MI
Legel is wild cat bill issued by order
Of the bank at Hutsenville, ILL.,. in De-
cember, 1888. Mr.. Legel obtained 4
| souvenir coin at the time he pur-
chased his present business about
| thirty years ago that Is of special in
terest now. It is a coin issued in 1875
| in Austria to commemorate the TWEEN.
ty-ffth wedding anniversary of thu
present Emperor Franz Joseph and his
wife, who was later assassinated. Very
few OF the souvenir coins were issued
and the coin is quite rare. =.