Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-04

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Cholera killed 476.712 hogs in Iowa
in 1915.
John Holm, aged IA, CT Jewell, is
missing.
! A 100000 armory will be erected at
Keokuk.
Mary Jane Graham, aged SO, OF AT
lantic, is dead.
Carl Jones, aged 8. Of Fl Dodge. was
killed by an auto.
James Jones, aged s, was killed by
an auto at Ft. Dodge.
A life saving station will be IN
stalled at Fl. Madison.
Ed Denlnan, a well dagger, was
drowned at Des Moines.
Lucy Selby, aged 6, of Berwick, died
from infantile paralysis.
VIM. H. Reece, aged 60, OF OttumWa,
was drowned near Eldon.
Bernard F. Cornwall of Sioux City
was drowned at Hawarden.
There has been five deaths from the
heat at Dubuque this season.
Mayor George w. Koontz of Iowa
City was overcome by the heat.
Six persons were injured at OttuM-
wa when an auto turned turtle.
David Fisher, ST., prominent indie
pendence man, died from apoplexy.
A store building at Scranton was de-
stroyed by fire causing heavy loss.
The rebuilding of $4,000 worth OF
bridges was begun near McGregor,
Eric Quax, aged Is, near Garden
City, was killed in an auto accident.
Ed Williams, Of Moorehead, was
drowned in Blue Lake, near Onawa.
Waterloo will raise $1,000 monthly
for relief of National Guard families.
Miss Agnes Heaps. aged II, OF
Boone, was drowned while swimming
Mrs. Lois Page Of Lenox was fined
81 600 for burning her husbands barn.
Harvey Chansky was drowned 1t
Iowa City on the eve of his 21st BIRTH
day.
A man named Thorson, near St.
Ansgar, was instantly killed by light
ming.
Dorothy Gillin, small girl at Sioux
City, was a victim of infantile para
lysis.
The amount paid for hunting licen-
ses in Chickasaw county in 1915 was
$1,2OS.
James Hutchinson, of Perry, was
seriously injured when he fell down
stairs.
Several freight and passenger trains
were seized at Sioux City by /. w. w.
gangs.
Floyd Smith, aged Fl, was drowned
in the Maquoketa river near Man
chester.
Camp Dodge is now deserted except
for a few regular army officers and
orderlies.
Anna Danielson of Harcourt died
near Seattle, Wash, while on her we'd
ding trip.
Six artesian wells are now opened
at Fl. Dodge, one of these being 1900
feet deep. S
About two-thirds of the crops in the
vicinity Of Bancroft were ruined BY .
hail storm.
Mrs. OConnor, widow at Eagle
Grove, was struck and instantly killed
by an auto.
l.: l. Thomas Illinois Central brake
man, was stabbed to death by fel-
low workman.
James Love, aged 60, dropped dead
at Waterloo, while planning picnic
with his wife.
A bold robber at Burlington entered
a street car and grabbed the fare box
containing $25.
An auto at FIT. Dodge struck and
demolished baby buggy, but left the
baby uninjured.
Geo. l.. Holt, q farmer near Altoona,
was killed when struck by street
car at Des Moines.
Mrs. Henry Brau of Oakville was
painfully injured by an Infatuated
COW, while milking.
Frank Wackernagel, Of Clearfield,
was badly bitten by a snake while
working in field.
August Trittien, near Marshalltown,
was terribly injured when he fell on
the tines of pitchfork.
Flames destroyed the large barn at
a monastery near Dubuque, and ESQ
tons of hay were burned.
Two daughters Of Mrs. Fred Hupt,
aged and Is, were killed when an
auto turned turtle at Manning.
Roy Anker, aged rs, Of Des Moines,
was killed between two cars on the
Great Western at Des Moines.
William C. Bishop, aged 80, Of Coun-
Gil Bluffs, died from blood poisoning,
after cutting his finger with saw.
DR.. Gable, a physician at New Albn,
was killed near WaukOn, when his
auto plunged over an embankment.
Junk dealers at Sioux City are
charged with encouraging children to