Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1917-03-16
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Fire Of unknown origin damaged
the Baptist church at Logan.
J. D. Jamison, aged 6S, farmer near
'Wapello, committed suicide by shoot
Ing.
Prof. Hugh Boyd, former president
of Cornell college at Mt. Vernon, is
dead.
Nelson Fleming, farm hand near
Panora, was killed when he fell down
stairs.
Catholic children at Sioux City
raised $3.50 for the relief of children
Of Belgium.
Irwin Leach, only son of State Rep
resentative Elmer Leach, of Mt. Pleas
ant, is dead.
Charles Sommers, prominent farmer
near Iowa City. committed suicide by
taking poison.
Geo. Wulf, aged Al, of Grand Mound,
was instantly killed when thrown
from a wagon.
Guy E. Campbell, auto dealer at
Waterloo, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself with shot gun.
Captain W. A. Graham, of Co. B, Des
Moines national guards, rendered his
resignation to Governor Harding.
William Wignall, aged 60, miner at
Abba, was killed by being squeezed in
between a car and side of the wall.
The Iowa workmen's compensation
law has been upheld by the u. S. su-
preme court as being constitutional.
DR.. F. ]. Will of Des Moines, med
zeal director of the Bankers Life In
surance company, died in San Antonio.
Texas.
In holly contested election at Iowa
City, the city manager plan of govern
ment, was defeated by a vote of 899
to TAI.
The old wooden wagon bridge at
McGregor is being removed and a new
structure will be erected at a cost of
$4,000.
o. A. Rose of Red Oak, aged IS, the
Oldest rural mail carrier in that vi
cinity, has retired after 16 years
service.
A. Gerhard, prisoner at Fl. Madison,
was shot in the leg by deputy when
he and another prisoner attempted
mutiny.
; Ben Miller of Reinbeck was killed
when he attempted to board a freight
train bound for Vinton, to attend a
declamatory contest.
The nine months old baby of Chas.
Peiffer near Keota was smothered to
death by the bedding in the baby car
riage wrapped around it's head.
According to official returns from
the war department, Ames college
rife team took second place in the
shoot held among college teams.
Rita B. Wilson, wife of E. B. Will
son, of Iowa City, recently Johnson
county attorney, was killed when run
over and dragged by an automobile.
Monte Gibson of Detroit, Mich,
committed suicide at the home of his
wife's father, Joseph Collingwood, Of
Ottumwa, after he had had domestic
troubles.
Considerable excitement was caused
in Millville township, near North Nc
Gregor, when a 10-pound chunk OF
lead ore was found on the J. X. kauf-
man farm.
Carl Boxmann of Coon Rapids gave
up his lease March 1st on a farm that
he has rented for 20 years, which is
considered to be record for con-
tinued tenancy.
The court at Red Oak ruled that
Daniel Reifel, wealthy citizen, was in
sane at the time he married Ida
Blanche Doctor in October, 1916, and
the marriage was annulled.
Mrs. S. J. McGinnis of Blanchard
was dangerously injured and two
other persons seriously injured when
the auto in which they were riding
was struck by Wabash passenger
train.
Nearly 60 Iowa college men who at
tended the Y. NJ. c. A. conference at
Des Moines, will leave for the Euro
pean war trenches in the near future
to do Y. NJ. C. A. work among the
soldiers.
Dennis White, aged "a, of Detroit,
was sentenced at Marshalltown to
forty years at Ft. Madison, for shoot
ing and wounding E. R. Winslow and
Mrs. Winslow, while attempting to
rob their grocery store.
Neil Schneider, near Fl. Atkinson,
has received acknowledgment of the
receipt of an egg, upon which he wrote
his name year ago in shipment of
eggs consigned to England. The
answer came from Yorkshire, Eng
land.
Clinging to ice with one hand and
With the other holding aloft dozen
eggs which he was trying to save,
Martin Hermansen Of Lyons was res
cued from drowning in the Missis-
sippi. He managed to save five Of the
eggs.
Harry King, city marshal at Shells
burg, was found dead in the kitchen
Of his home. The coroner's verdict
was suicide, but later it was discov-
cred that the revolver, which was
found lying by his side, had not been
discharged
Tho proafost pain in hank dapocifc