Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-03-03
"A bricklayer named Rainwater vas

Instantly killed at Ames by falling
from scaffold at the new state COL
lege. Frank Ballou. a !aborer, was
saved from death by falliag o. top "
Rainwater.
AS the result of the 1915 state CEN
sus. ia county officers Of Iowa will
receive advances in salary and twelve
officers wiz suffer reduction in pay.
The average increase is 500 per year
for each man.
John Landlord, oldest undertaken
and Odd Fellow in Iowa. died at Cen
terville, aged SO years. He made .
practice of wearing straw hat
throughout the year except when at
tending funerals.
A suit asking judgment for $4,000
has been commenced in United States
court against The Mauro & Wilson
company of Burlington for having
failed to report it's income for the
year ending December 81, 1914.
For the protection in transit Of $4,000
horses from Los Angeles to New York,
bought for the French government, a
Des Moines insurance company has
written a policy for $10,S00.0OO. 1t is
the largest policy ever issued on live
stock.
During 1915 Emmetsburg spent
$1O5,OOO in paving and $250,00O in
other improvements, total of $685.
900. Thirty-six blocks of paving will
be laid this year, and local business
men are spending $4,000 in improving
Medium Lake.
Franz Anderson, 20 years old, was
killed, and Frank Spencer, 26, was
seriously hurt in the premature ex-
plosion of a dynamite charge at the
gypsum mines near Fl. Dodge. Ander-
son was married and was the father
of four children.
A man giving his name as George
Fay swindled the State National bank
at Iowa Falls by depositing check
for $277.0O and drawing out $177.O0.
The check proved worthless. He pre-
tended to be about to open a wall
paper and painting business.
The executive council Of the state,
having ascertained by the 1915 census
that Mason City has a population of
1882, has officially declared it to be
city of the first class, under the laws
of Iowa. A population of $4,000 or
more is necessary for this rank.
At the public sale at Vinton, by Clint
Ferguson, the grandstand, which ac-
commodated 400 men, collapsed while
the sale was at it's height. One man
was seriously hurt. James w. Burton
received broken leg and numerous
bruises. Scarcely a man escaped
without some mark.
An oil stove left burning in her Gel
lar to thaw out water faucet exploded
in the home of j. H. Walters at Rock
we'll City and set it on fire. At the
same time the faucet melted from the
hot water tank and let the steam es-
cape which held the fire in check un-
til the fire department arrived.
Phillip Nickel, former saloonkeeper,
Of Keokuk. has been found guilty of
selling intoxicating liquor after the
mulct law repeal became effective.
Nickel sold glass of beer as test
of the repeal of the law. He will ap-
peal from the decision of the district
court jury, according to his attorney.
The loss of hand while firing an
engine on the Burlington road is made
the basis of the suit for 100000
brought by Francis NJ. Wise, railroad
fireman, against the company. Wise
fell from an engine year ago and his
hand caught under the wheel. He says
the fall was due to defective parts on
the engine.
Every road leading into Des Moines
for fifty miles around will be marked
with signs II by "a inches in size,
bearing the word "Des Moines" in g.
inch letters, a red arrow pointing into
the city, and figures showing in tenths
Of miles how far the tourist has to go
to reach there. There will be $500 Of
the highway markers used.
A strike started by about one hun
bred butchers in the Cudahy packing
plant at Sioux City has spread to other
departments, as we'll as to the Armour
company's plant, and there are now
about 1900 men idle. Both plants are
tied up completely, but there is as yet
no check in receipts Of livestock nor
disposition on the part of traders to
push prices lower.
The Iowa & Omaha Short Line, four
teen miles long and owned by farmers
near Sioux City, has been sold by the
receiver to the Lana Construction
company Of Council Bluffs for $4,000.
The road was built by Col. George W.
Adams at cost Of 100000. Several
one-time wealthy farmers have gone
bankrupt in backing the road. The
line occasionally has done good bus
mess but of late has been handicapped
by big debt. The purchasing COM
pany was one of the heavy creditors.
Iowa patents granted: w. E. Will
son, Mason City, tireproof building
wall; H. c. Brown, Morning Sun, sup
port for silo ladders; VIM. Cave New
ell surface cultivator; c. p. Cook,