Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-06-22

Burr Oak was destroyed by fire ct a
loss of $2.7o0.
Mrs. Henry Doty OF Carroll was SER
iously injured when she fell from the
back door of her home.
Mrs. Lois Randall, pioneer of Da-
Wis county, and one of the Oldest
women in Iowa, died at Bloomfield,
aged 1O3.
H. G. Putnam, of near Mt. Pleasant,
owns a Chester White brood SOW that
recently presented him with litter
of % pigs.
A marriage license was issued at
Creston. to Winfield Taylor Sharp,
aged 60, and Mary A. Duncan, aged IS,
of Red Oak. 49, -
The Iowa Southern Utilities COM
pany of Centerville has spent up
wards of 100000 in the past year in
improvements.
J. H. Meidell, of near Holstein,
trapped timber wolf measuring over
four and one-half feet from the tip OF
his tail to snout.
Geo. Wobeman, aged 40, Of Sioux
City, died as result of a blow struck
by John Piska, whom the police were
unable to locate.
Every student in Iowa Wesleyan
college at Mt. Pleasant must take
military training, according to the de-
cision of the executive committee.
Peter Quigley, of near Grinnell, was
seriously cut when an az with which
he was telling tree slipped and cut
an artery in the instep of his foot.
P. J. Christinger, grocer at Des
Moines, was beaten to death by three
negroes, two of whom were later cap
tured and confessed to the murder.
. Lawrence Richey, aged %, OF To-
ronto, ended his life by shooting him
self through the brain with revolver
while standing in front of mirror.
Earl Caddock of Anita won the
worlds wrestling championship over
Joe Stecher Of Dodge, Neb., thus
bringing the championship back to
Iowa.
The five-year-old grandson of Mrs.
Aaron Bussard of Imogene, found the
lifeless body of his grandmother
hanging to bedpost where she had
hung herself.
Bugler Ward, guard at one of the
bridges at FIT. Madison, was attacked
by three strangers and was found
early in the morning in an unconsc1-
GUS condition.
The extension department at Ames
has awarded highest honors for panel
of wall work to T. c. Nelson of Nc
Gregor, who won the contest recently
held at Ames.
A family row at Waterloo which
started when husband and wife dis
agreed over the location of dog ken
mel, resulted in the suicide of Mrs.
Mamie Atkins, colored.
The same six pail bearers who
few weeks ago carried her husband to
his grave, acted as the final escort to
the body of Mrs. Joseph Huber, OF
Muscatine, who died recently.
The highest price ever paid for hogs
on the Chicago market was paid when
H. B. Mckee of Webster City received
$2,SOO.2O for 81 head of hogs. or an
average of $3.50 per hundred.
Mike Killoran, aged SO, of Sioux
City, was sentenced to eight years at
#. Madison when he pleaded guilty to
the killing of his brother, Tom killo-
ran, near Monroe, about month ago.
C. O. Harker, farmer near Grand
Junction, has offered to the govern
ment all the wheat, oats, corn or hay
grown on his 1900 acre farm at just
what it costs him to raise these crops.
Mike Corse of Burlington has been
enlisted in the cavalry by special per-
mission from the war department. He
is said to be the smallest recruit in
the army, being five feet one inch In
height.
Passengers on Milwaukee train
at McGregor had the novel experience
Of waiting on the bank Of the Missis-
sippi while an ice jam was blown up
with dynamite before they would cross
over the railway bridge.
= According to the decision OF the
United States circuit court of appeals
Iowa is bone dry and the railroads
and express companies are prohibited
from accepting liquor shipments into
Iowa except to permit holders.
Geo. f. Clifton, aged %, of South
Omaha, confessed to Sheriff D. B. Hen
derson of Waterloo to the murder of
Rufus Elery, storekeeper at Webster
City, in August, 1915, for which Geo.
Fraser is now serving 4 twenty-year
sentence.
The Stars and Stripes floating from
the dome Of the historic old capitol
at Iowa City, which is now equipped
with four huge searchlights in addi-
ton TO hundreds of small electric
lights. may be seen for miles in the
country at night
Accumulation of daily newspapers
and other mail on the steps Of house
in Mason City led neighbors to think
that they had not seen light in John
Breckenridge's house for several
nights. Investigation proved that he
had been dead in his bed. for some
days.
An order announced by Adjutant
r>-o.oY H,,y provi6oo that