Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-08-11
Fred Ehler OF Persia Loot five COWS

| iowa Will De organized at hnOXV1lle.
Three persons were injured at Lo
gan when a can of gasoline exploded
| Mumpford Holland, aged 108, col
! ored, died at Grinnell from excessiv,
heat.
Miss Gertrude Baldwin of Thurman
was robbed of $50 in street car a
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Nearly $50 bee keepers from Wis
consin, Iowa and Illinois gathered a
Dubuque.
The state board of control will es
tablish a new prison camp at Rock.
well City.
Frank Culp Of Fl. Madison entered
his bedroom and found it swarmeG
with bees.
Andrew Lane. wealthy farmer neal
Prescott, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
A $40 acre tract of land near Gid
den was sold to Oliver Conner, for
5000 per acre.
Fred M. Hansen, Y. M. c. A. secre-
tary at Ames college, has been called
to the border.
Mrs. P. H. Mackin, who conducts a
small store at Dubuque, has fallen
heir to $4,000.
Frank Amato, aged 1S, was drowned
at Des Moines while swimming In the
Des Moines river.
John Wilson,, and sister Martha,
were injured at Oakville, when thrown
from motorcycle.
August H. Bloomer, retired farmer
at Muscatine, hung himself while in
sane with the heat.
Little Arnold Fahrenkrog of Dono-
hue was severely bitten when he tried
to stop dog fight.
Miss Hazel Turner, aged 9, of Oak
VILE was seriously cut when team
Of horses ran away.
James Heidi, aged 10, of Clinton,
had both arms broken when he fell
from telephone pole.
John Nichancky, near Traer, Is dead
from injuries received in runaway
accident some time ago.
A 5000 acre tract, for a convict
farm, is the desire Of Warden ]. c.
Sanders, of Fl. Madison.
Eddie Campbell, small boy at
Spencer, was drowned while swim
ming in the Little Sioux.
Hundreds Of men, women and chill
dren are patronizing the new NUM-
cipal beach at Charles City.
Marjorie Woodward, aged 10, of
Shenandoah, was seriously injured
while driving at Lake Okoboji.
Chicken thieves are active In the
vicinity of Waterloo, and bloodhounds
are being used to track them.
Joe Watchee, laborer near Cedar
Rapids, was seriously injured when
struck on the head by q big rock.
Fenton Whitman, aged 40, Of Cla-
rinda, was killed when tree, which
he was cutting down, fell on him.
Eta Garon, and his brother Ernest,
formerly Of Iowa Falls, are being
sought, they being heirs to $4,000.
A broken tooth, resulting in blood
poisoning, caused the death Of 1slea
Ruth Lendgren, aged 16, Of Musca-
tine.
Geo. M. Netzer, deputy collector at
Mason City, announced that he will
sell confiscated booze" at public
auction.
Herman Cruise, aged 40, wealthy
merchant at Cedar Rapids, was
drowned while attempting to rescue
an employe.
J. E. O'dell of Waterloo has the dis
tinction Of starting the first aeroplane
garage in Waterloo and one of the
first in Iowa.
Over $4,000 worth of property has
been destroyed in the past few weeks
at Storm Lake, by what is believed to
be fre-bug.
Farmers can have their soil tested
free by bringing sample to the Iowa
State college building at the Iowa
State Fair this year.
A swindler at Grinnell, who was
passing off as deaf mute was ar
rested when he "panhandled" real
mute, and was apprehended.
Caspar Lost, from Houston, ran
in the business district of
Council Bluffs, throwing bricks
through six plate glass windows.
Miss Selma NARROW and Walter
OF State Center,
we're seriously injured when their
auto went through the railing of a
bridge.
During one week, the pastor of the
church in Waverly has
had the pleasure Of marrying two
sisters and a brother from the same
family.
Harley House and Wesley Cook,
near Oakville, were harvesting dur
ng an electrical storm when lightning
struck the pitchorks of both men,
them.
Mrs. Henry Sunderman, Of Locust
Grove, was painfully injured when
he tongue in front of a rake broke
while going down hill, being kicked
oy one of the horses.
Local authorities at Fl Madison re- ?
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