Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-02
Southern Io1ua Items

Shena ndoah. u.s.
Miss Leotta Cabeen. who has been
missionary in Egypt the last seven
years, he's arrived home and is visiting
at the home Of her uncle. r. A. Cabeen.
at Blanchard, Iowa. This is her first
visit home in seven years.
Shenandoah.
Earl Whitehill, driver of one of the
merchants delivery Ford cars, was
knocked unconscious when he speeded
into rope stretched across the stree
Thursday morning. The automobile
was badly wrecked. His hip was GU
and bruised as was his head and lip
Clarence.
Leo Connor, % years old, Of Cedar
Rapids, died, at the Lyric restaurant
care early Friday. and the coroner ha:
been called from Upton for an inves'
.,gation Of the cause Of his death. Con.
nor was carpenter.andF had been en-
poyed in Clarence. 1t is said that he
had been drinking heavily and that he
was carried to the restaurant and lail
in an improvised bed upon the floor.
Upton.
E. o. Wilson, so, a furnace dealer.
sustained a severe shock Thursday
when light wire came in contact
with q furnace pipe he was holding IN
the basement Of the Walters sisters
home here. The insulation on the wire
had been worn off and the; shock was
so severe that his right arm was
paralyzed. No permanent injury is ex-
pected, however. ELI
Burllngton5
The petit jury which had been drawn
for service in the September term OF
the district court was discharged by
Judge James D. Smyth when court
opened. Not single case came be-
fore the jurors, the criminal cases be-
ing disposed Of without the necessity
of calling in the services Of the jurors.
This is most unusual and has hap
pened but once before in the last elev-
en- years. according to Deputy Clerk 5.
J. .Beckman, who has held that place
for that length Of time.
Shenandoah. -g
School was dismissed Wednesday at
Yorktown because twenty-six windows
were destroyed by hail during a Sc
we're storm that hit Page county, cen-
tering between Norwich and Clarinda.
The streets were flooded and windows
in most Of the business houses broken.
Twenty-Five were smashed by the
large, stones at the awynn implement
store and elevator. The hail piled six
inches deep around the buildings and
stayed on u long time. Some hail Eel!
at Shenandoah and q torrent Of water
Boone.
Harold Davenport, charged with the
murder Of william Ruse, a negro.
pleaded guilty to granddaughter before
Judge H. e. Fry in the, district court
on Thursday and was sentenced to
eight years, indeterminate sentence at
the penitentiary at Anamosa. Daven-
port killed the negro because he be-
lieved that Ruse had been too friendly
with his wife. Ruse in q death bed
statement said that this was not true,
Tho killing took place In front OF
Ruse's home. behind the Davenport
home on Runyon street Davenport
concealed himself in tho wood shed. He
shot the negro three times 4.
Davenport.
Speeding along Fifth avenue AZ an
estimated rate OF speed OF ABOUT nfty-
five miles an hour. in big seven-pas-
senger automobile. Lou Meuman
driver, and Eddie Anderson, compan-
ion, crashed into q street car. rssult'
ing in the occupants sustaining in
juries which will probably, prove fats
to Anderson. Bystanders who wit.
messed the accident state that the big
automobile racing along Fifth avenue
oward Moline, was on the wrong side
Of the street. Street cars were be-
Ing. run on to the tracks preparatory
to starting the daily run and had been
strung along for about three blocks or
the avenue. Suddenly the driver seem
Ing to realize that he was wrong and
seeing an opening between two stree'
lssaEe. without thEott Ling -doNn ma.
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