Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-10-06
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three children in one day.
New buildings in Sioux City this
season will total about $1,OOO,o00.
VIM. McNales, aged IS, of Marcus,
was killed by kick from horse.
Fire destroyed the store of 1dso &
Co., at Furgeson, with loss Of $4,000.
Dave Cutler, near Essex, was seri-
ously injured when his auto struck
train.
Ten Iowa girls left Sioux City for
service on the border as red cross
nurses.
Bert Jamison, windmill builder at
Oskaloosa, had his back broken when
he fell forty feet.
vern Holt Of Sioux City was killed
when hit by an eastbound Milwaukee
train near Perry.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. V. Smith Of Bloom
deld celebrated their sixty-third we'd
ding anniversary.
Five men were killed when loco
motive boiler blew up in the round
house at Sanborn.
Oscar Carlson, near Essex, cut his
throat with pocket knife, almost
severing the wind-pipe.
Miss Althea Wolfe of Ord shot and
killed herself with a 22-caliber re-
volver in hotel at Creston.
Mrs. Geo. Wallace Of st. Charles
cleared 1925 raising turkeys as q side
line to her domestic duties.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Rubleman,
near Lone Tree, celebrated their six
ty-seventh wedding anniversary.
Louis Hoffman of Buxton shot and
killed his wife and then turned the
gun on himself with fatal results.
With we'll directed punch Daniel
Whitehead, farmer near Logan, put
q hold-up man out of commission.
An autopsy of the body of a well
dressed man found near Shenandoah
showed that he had starved to death.
Lawrence Rhode, aged AZ, city pa
trolman at Fl. Madison, died from
stroke of paralysis, after making an
arrest.
Safe blowers blew the safe in five
and ten cent store at Ottumwa and
secured a considerable amount of
money.
Anon Dorsey and Miss Ruby Hell
der, former grand opera stars, have
been added to the faculty Of Grinnell
college.
Lincoln Harbold, farmer near
Plano, has herd Of 1000 hogs. He
is buying corn for feed in the field by
the acre.
Two men were seriously injured at
MI in
the basement of department store
exploded.
Harry Edliss was arrested at Vim
ton charged with breaking infantile
paralysis quarantine to visit his
sweetheart.
Harry L. Green, aged 2S brakeman
on the Great Western, was killed
while on his way home to see his new
born baby.
The body Of Henry Werz Of Selma
was found in deserted well with a
bullet in his head and rock tied
about his neck.
Henry Schroeder, aged 70, Of Post
Vile, died as a result Of scratch
from barbed wire, which developed in
blood poisoning.
Uriah Bittner, aged 81, Of MARSHALL
town, hung himself while respondent
over two strokes of paralysis he has
recently suffered.
A young farmer near Cairo was ar
rested charged with putting tacks on
the road in hopes that some motorists
would have tire trouble.
Two sons of Mrs. Mantz, near An
gus, were painfully injured while
playing with some dynamite caps that
they found in the cellar.
A panic was narrowly averted In
| Q moving picture show at Des Moines
| when q street car left the track and
crashed into the building.
Rev. Joseph Fort Newton, of the
Liberal Christian church at Cedar
Rapids, declined call to the City
Temple of London, England.
Fred Wenzel, aged 6, Of New Lib
erty, shot and killed his brother, aged
IL, while playing with shotgun that
| had been loaded for a supposed mar
auder of stock.
Frank Hines. farm hand near Grin
nell, sued his employer for $3.50
claiming his employer gave him q
horse to work with that kicked him
every time he got close to him.
Young men riding in an auto near
New Sharon made the owner Of cali
pay for damages caused when their
car ran into the calf, because they
claimed it had no right in the road.
| L. H. Pammel, head of the botany
department at Iowa State college be-
lieves that hay fever could be reduced
to minimizing if the weeds along the
highways were trimmed, giving them
no chance to bloom.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Hunter of Ne.
vada have started to walk across
country to Arizona to get an irrigated
farm which their uncle wrote he
would give them il they had get up