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was drowned.
! Charles City will open municipal
bathing beach.
F. The river to river road picnic Will
be held at Newton.
w. Olive Of Delta was injured in q
fall from scaffold.
Henry H. Cotterell of Council Bluffs
died from overhead.
| The main business section OF New
hall was destroyed by fire.
! Governor Capper Of Kansas has pur-
chased the Sioux City News.
Frank Storm. a farmer near Lone
! Tree, was killed by lightning.
! Iowa University dentists this year
led the state in scholarships.
Five people near Fl. Madison were
| poisoned by eating dried beef.
The Muscatine county potato crop
suffered badly from the blight.
Anderson Moody. of Shellsburg, was
severely injured in runaway.
Thirteen, cows near Strawberry
Point were killed by lightning.
J. Patton, aged 20, was drowned at
Fl. Madison in the Cedar river.
| Joel R. Gardner, aged 20, of Cedar
Rapids, accidently shot himself.
| Publishers in Iowa are facing 9
great shortage OF printing paper.
Harris Verb, age 10, of Dubuque,
fell out Of skiff and was drowneds
Mrs. Martha Smith, resident Of Linn
county for over sixty years, is dead.
Carl Nicholson. aged IA. Of Council
Bluffs, was killed in an auto accident
Mrs. Rita Woodrick and Mrs. Lizzie
Lovett, pioneers Of Duncan, are dead.
Joe Thompson. age AZ, Of Elliott,
was killed in fall from load OF hay.
Charles Horn OF Grinnell had both
legs broken when tree fell on him.
The annual encampment for camp.
fire gArls will be held at Lake Oko-
boil.
Two children at Ft. Dodge were
burned to death when an oil stove ex-
ploded.
The mummified bodies of an Indian
woman and child were unearthed near
Clinton.
Mrs. Eta Cook Of Osceola, the sew
enth wife of Samuel Cook, sues for q
divorce.
The big hotel at Fl Dodge will have
! 226 rooms when the new addition is
finished.
t Gustave Stoltenberg, aged So, OF
Walcott, died after being stricken with
the heat.
Mary Schickentantz, aged 10, was
drowned in the Missouri river at Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
A large labor shortage is found at
Sioux City, caused by the loss OF 300
guardsmen.
The hot sun at Dubuque caused the
asphalt paving to raise three feet In
, some places.
| An unidentified body Of man was
| found on the bank Of the river near
Belle PLANE. ~
| o. w. Tim of Grinnell who takes the
place of Billy Robinson, will fly in q
new aeroplane.
Rev. ]. T. Marvin, Congregational
minister at Grinnell, died following a
serious operation.
Frank Meighan, age q, of Dubuque,
was killed while attempting to board
a passenger train.
A new case of infantile paralysis
developed at Denison, bringing the
Iowa total up to six.
Archie Scott, near Britt, had his two
babies burned to death when his home
/ was destroed by fire.
Julia Bodish. aged 10, of Dubuque,
made an unsuccessful attempt at sui
eide by taking poison.
Philip Jones, aged u, of Dubuque.
was struck in the eye by an arrow,
while playing Indian
The daughter of Woodrow Strong OF
| Sigourney was killed in an auto acct :
dent near What Cheer.
| Three persons We're killed at Sioux
City when an auto crashed over the
rail Of 40-foot bridge.
Fern Schurbon, aged 3. of Dubuque,
died from burns received when she
fell in tub of hot water.
A score of families at Muscatine are
Ill as result of eating ice cream that
contained ptomaine poisoning
Tom Ryan, prisoner in the Sioux
City Jail, was seriously injured when
attacked by fellow prisoner.
Ira Marsh, farmer near Shenan-
doah, was injured when he fell from
hay stack, striking pitch fork
Elsie Nutting, daughter Of Ralph
Nutting of ST. Louis. is detained in
Davenport with irfantile paralysis.
Miss Bsulah Ellis. age 20. of Ottum-
wa. committed suicide after her ii
ancee was poisoned on their wedding
day.
Arnold Seitz. aged IA, Of Dubuque,
had his back broken when a large
wooden canopy in Union park fell on
bin.
VII Penrod of Sioux City had his
arm amputated as result Of having
a tattoo removed so he could join the
army.
Mrs. Fannie 0lney, aged so, OF FIT.
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