Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-10-06
Governor Clark has named October

/ A Lincoln monument will be erect
ed in Waterloo at cost of 100000.
Augustus Liggig, Oldest resident of
Davenport, is dead at the age Of SO.
! Police at Waterloo made $50 arrests
in August and $479 was paid in fines.
! Mrs. Rachel Adkins of Kellogg, aged
80, heads family Of five generations.
A young man was drowned near
Usage when seized with an epileptic
fit.
More than one thousand students
are enrolled at Coe college, Cedar
Rapids.
Attempts are being made to open
! up the zinc mines in the vicinity Of
Dubuque.
John -McCleary, horse thief at Du-
buque, was sentenced to five years ut
Anamosa.
Robbers entered q jewelry store at
Garwin and secured $1,000 in watches
!. and rings. +
William Ballenger. prominent at
torney at Keokuk, died as result Of
, an operation.
Two Chinese students from Peking
! college are enrolled at Iowa State
college at Ames.
Burglars entered the store Of H. w.
Wilson at Farnhamville, and secured
$3.50 worth Of lace.
Two auto thieves at Garner were
sentenced to five years in the refor-
matory at Anamosa.
Jackson Durbin, aged s, Of Council
Bluffs, died from tetanus after being
struck by an automobile.
Charley Rampot of Cedar Rapids
slept while burglar entered his
home and stole his clothing.
The five-year-old child Of John
Nordstrom Of Algona was struck and
seriously injured by an auto.
Clarence Nelson, near Roland, was
injured when one of the tines Of
pitchfork ran through his arm.
A public sale at the court house at
Davenport brought 1901 per acre for
q 160-acre farm near Davenport.
]. P. Bardman of Dubuque was hor-
ribly mangled when switch engine
and several cars passed over his body.
Rev. F. S. Nichols, chaplain Of the
First Iowa regiment on the border,
has resigned to fill pulpit at Iowa
City.
T. B. Holcomb of Muscatine was
badly injured when. he leaped from
bridge to escape an approaching
train.
Mrs. Florence Burdick Of Clear
Lake was arrested charged with at
tempting to send steel saws to pris-
oners.
DR.. Rudolph M. Anderson Of Des
Moines, who has been exploring the
Arctic seas, has returned to Seattle.
Wash.
Council Bluffs citizens are asking
for a free bridge over the Missouri
river between Council Bluffs and
Omaha.
Arthur Stevens, aged IS, wealthy
farmer near Iowa City, was burned to
death. when his gasoline stove ex-
ploded.
Norval Mathes and wife of Iowa City
were hurled twenty feet and badly in
jured when their auto struck the rail
Of a bridge.
Three persons were sent to Jail for
speeding at Des Moines. One Of them
was man Sc years old and another
boy of 16.
Samuel P. Whitman, aged %, Of Ba-
tavia, committed suicide in the pres
ence of his family, while in a fit Of
dependency.
The estate of the late Ed Waters Of
Waukon, who was killed by a train,
has filed suit against the Milwaukee
railroad for $4,000.
Jess Allstott Of Scranton was sem
fenced to five years at Ft. Madison for
stealing copper wire from the Iowa
Light and Power Co.
Alfred j. Howard, aged SO, of Sioux
City, told friends that he had lived
long enough, then shot himself
through the forehead.
Eight horses, 200 chickens, a dog
and an automobile were destroyed
when Jud Reisen's barn, near Alta
LISA, was destroyed by fire.
Fifty honor prisoners from Ana
mosa were working on roads this
summer, and out Of that number thir-
teen broke parole and escaped.
Several night officers at Waterloo
nearly collapsed while searching q
bootlegger. He was carrying on his
person fifteen bottles Of whiskey.
The two-year old son Of Lewis
Gump of Mason City fell from the
window Of a moving train. He lit in
tall weeds and was not seriously in
jured.
The chief Of police at Sioux City has
a club for boys that have
been arrested for petty crimes. He
recently took twenty Of them to q
circus.
School children at Sioux City saw
man standing in the road sharpening
a razor and when they returned later
found him lying dead in the road with
his throat cut.