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

| The $4,000 home of T. J. Davis, OF
Cedar Rapids, was destroyed by fire.
| Henry Fanaman, of New Hampton,
killed a large female wolf and ton
cubs.
Fred Fink, of Holland, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the heart.
Mrs. Harve Bundy, wife of prom
inent farmer near Perry, was killed
| by lightning.
Mr. and Mrs. John Carmichael, of
Richland, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary.
Pensions granted: Laura E. Devin,
Creston, $12; Deborah H. Harsh
barger, Lake City, $12.
Rural letter carriers appointed: Fl.
! Dodge, ,Orville G. Fishel; MaQuoketa,
Edward Veach; Washta, ]. Ford Raj
ston.
William Haefle, near Beaver, was
seriously injured when thrown In
front of a disc and dragged about
forty rods.
The 4-year-old son of Lou Eller, Of
Hubbard, was seriously injured while
attempting to ride on the hood Of an
automobile.
Geo. Little, night Waterman on the
| U. S. dredge boat Mayor at LIE Claire,
was drowned in the Mississippi river,
falling overheard.
While working on a telephone pole
at Mason City Walter A. Beard, line
man, came in contact with wire and
was seriously burned.
A tall medium-built man, so years
of age, was found near the Milwaukee
depot at Sheldon. He had been dead
for three or four days.
According to the annual report Of
Fire Chief Peter Denger, of Daven-
were due to carelessness.
Guards at the Des Moines water
works were doubled when it was re-
ported that one of the soldiers had
been fired on from ambush.
Ray Schneider, wanted in Des
Moines for the murder of J. F. Ford,
street car conductor, in 1912, was
brought back from Omaha.
Oskaloosa intends to utilize any
tramps who show up in that city by
using them in the municipal gardens,
planting corn, potatoes, etc.
John T. Burke, coal contractor of
the Northwestern at Mason City, was
killed when work train collided with
q north-bound freight train.
J. A. Isakson Of Alta sold $500
bushels of corn for $3,25O and the next
day the price went up 10 cents a
bushel, making the price s1.40.
Capt. J. E. Brandt, formerly head of
Clinton Battery A, I. N. G., has been
appointed major following the resig-
nation of Major R. S. Whitley.
Lucille Vincent, aged 10, was held
at Red Oak, accused Of having poured
scarbolic acid into the mouth of her
week-old baby and hiding the body.
The Automatic Washer company Of
Newton leased small farm near New
ton and is furnishing lots 132x66 feet
to all employees with free potota seed.
Fourteen cars loaded with automo-
biles, wheat, coal, and general freight
were derailed at Nashua on the North
western, and considerable damage was
done.
D. c.. Bradley, banker at Centerville,
has offered % lots furnished free of
rent for gardening purposes and
planted 1000 acres of corn on his
farms.
A representative from the Tama In
dams called on Mayor White at Grin
nell and made arrangements for the
city to turn over all unclaimed dogs
to the tribe.
Hoyt wilkins, aged 80, of Des
Moines, stabbed six members of his
family with knife as a result o;
domestic quarrel, and they were al
taken to a hospital.
Forty-two senior engineers of Iowa
State college have asked for examina-
tons for appointments to positions as
lieutenants in the engineering corps
of the United States Army.
Mrs. Gertrude McCone, negress at
Sioux City, was shot dead by Mrs
Josie Smith, a negress, when the lat
ter mistook her for another woman OF
whom she was insanely jealous.
Eight hundred vacant lots have been
listed in the garden movement at
Waterloo and 800 pounds of seeds
were received from the National
Emergency Food Garden commission.
Ray Ellet, Boyd Shanks, and Ernest
Mahannah, of North English, have
constructed an immense kite that car
ries a flag which can be seen for miles
around. At night Jap lanterns are at
tached to It.
The business men of North English
erected a 90-foot Flagstaff on the main
street from which an immense Amer
lean flag that is visible for miles
around in the country, floats from
sunrise to sunset.
Torbet Willette of Sabula made ap-
plication to join the navy 20 minutes
after President Wilson had signed the
| war declaration. This makes his
second enlistment, having served
seven years already.
A Mexican who refused to salute the