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near Onawa.
Miss Maria L. Hammer of Iowa City
died aged So.
Buena Vista College at Storm Lake
will raise 100000.
The town of Newhall was quaran.
tined with smallpox.
A big preparedness parade was held
in Des Moines June 3.
James Mcmahon of Norway lost both
legs when a train hit him.
Twenty-Five graduates will receive
diplomas at Rock Rapids.
Eighty head of Hereford stock was
sold at Norway for $4,000.
Heavy damage was done in the vi
cinity of Ryan by tornado.
The C. A. & n. railroad of Waterloo
proposes to electrify the line.
&C. Craft of Linden is dead as a re-
suit of fall down a stairway.
A sea wall will be constructed on
the river front at Cedar Rapids.
Louis Kozel, age %, a former sail
or, was drowned at Fort Dodge.
Five generations were present 1T a
double wedding jubilee at Clinton.
Three persons were injured IN an
| automobile accident at Davenport.
Ernest A. Moore, a student at Oska-
loosa, was drowned while bathing.
The St. Mary's Catholic church Of
Iowa City held its diamond jubilee.
A large sewer system will be in
stalled at Marengo at cost Of $4,000.
Captain r. H. Trombley, one Of the
oldest river captains at Dubuque, is
dead.
John Swetz, age IS, window washer
at Des Moines, fell six stories to his
death.
Martha Copeland, age 5, Of Manila
was burned to death while burning
paper.
A Waterloo Judge sentenced man
to the rock pile for beating his aged
father.
Carrot Williamson, farmer near
Orange City, was kicked to death by
a horse.
Garfield Moody, near Usage, lost
ninety-six sheep in two weeks by dogs
or wolves.
A bolt of lightning wrecked the gas
house at Council Bluffs, causing $780,
900 damage.
Many persons in Burlington had
their pockets picked while circus
was in town.
John Fox, of Dallas county, former
member of the Iowa legislature, died
of heart failure.
Louis McCardle, farmer near Shen-
andoah, was accidentally shot by his
son, and killed.
J. A. Collins, former commissioner
of public safety at Keokuk, is dead at
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Arthur McCreedy of Webster City,
civil war veteran, died at the home |
at Marshal!town.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Peters OF Glen
wood were injured when their buggy |
ran into an auto.
Roy Gallagher of Emmetsburg was
killed by train, when he was sitting
on bridge fishing.
The body of Leonard Griffin, who
was drowned near Abba, was recov-
cred by mis- mother.
Mike Jordan, stock buyer OF Cries.
ton, had his knee cap broken while
alighting from a train.
Curtis Strohm Of Sioux City was in
stantly killed when his auto crashed
into horse and buggy.
Lawrence Stenger Of Brooklyn died
from combination of measles; pneu-
monia and appendicitis.
Sixty-two persons entered for state
bar examination. This is the largest
class the state ever had.
Charles Clute, aged o. has left
Waterloo to walk over the Lincoln
highway to San Francisco.
l.. E. Stout of Fort Madison was the
first victim Of the heat. Physicians
say his condition is serious.
T. R. Wilson Of Abel was drowned
in the Raccoon river near Valley juno
ton, when his boat capsized.
A prisoner in the Fort Dodge Jail !!
hanged himself after he was found |
guilty Of robbing jewelry store.
John Amaer. age 4, near Marshall |
town, was killed when he was thrown
into the gear of manure spreader.
A Shellsburg man has invented
new combined tractor and gang plow,
for which he has been offered $4,000. |
A 16 year old girl was bitten by
rabid skunk near Shellsburg, &C
cording to test taken at Iowa City.
A machine that will compute the
number of pounds of butter fat in
milk has been invented by Keokuk
man.
Arthur Lass, bell boy at Clinton,
was attacked by an insane man in
dark hallway, receiving numerous in
juries.
While Mr.. James Higbey and son,
near Peosta, were narrowing, light |
ming struck their team, killing both
horses.
Pupils at Marshalltown will take
part in a spelling bee. The winners
will enter the state contest at Des
Moines.