Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-24
Northern Ioaua Items

town. The boys father left Friday for
Kansas City and was with him until
death. The mother left Sunday eve
ming, but her son had passed away be-
fore her arrival.
Waterloo.
George J. Wood, arrested by Police
Chief J. d. Caldwell on a charge Of
operating an auto while intoxicated,
having two different numbers on his
| machine and for driving in careless
manner. is to have a hearing on
state charge before Justice u B. KEEP
| ford. Wood is said to have smashed
concrete mixing machine on Willis
ton avenue belonging to E. Lexington
when he hit it with his auto. Miss
Lola Moore, 101 Sunnyside avenue,
was injured about the face Saturday
evening when her car came into col
lison with a West Ninth street car at
Commercial street and Park avenue
west. The auto was badly damaged.
Paul Jensen, 317s GlenwOod street, was
injured at Fifth and Walnut streets
Saturday when he was struck by an
auto driven by +. A. Rosa, 5S3 COrt-
landt street.
AIgora.
Twins is one way OF aiding pre-
paredness against all kaisers, say the
friends of Col. r. H. Spencer, of this
city, in congratulatng him on the ar
rival at his home of the second pair of
twin sons in two years. Colonel Spen-
Ger is civil war veteran and is IS
years old. The mother and twins are
reported to be doing well. The other
pair. born Feb. 10, 1916, are in good
health. Colonel Spencer is one of the
four candidates for the republican
nomination for sheriff of Kossuth
county and was former county treas
ure1 and postmaster of Algona He
enlisted in the civil war from Madi-
son, Wis, as q private and was grad
ually promoted until breveted colonel
by President Johnson. He was cap
tured at Chickamauga and served
year in Libby prison, escaping when
being transferred by jumping off
train.
Fayette.
The West Union school board has
voted to dismiss T. p. F'iske from his
job as manual training teacher on the
charge of expressing pro German sem
timents. Mr.. Fiske had been sus-
pended from his job by the board on
Wednesday night Of last week had
gone to Abel and returned later for
the hearing. Just why he returned is
not clear for he had little more to say
than on the previous occasion. After
he left last week it was found that he
had contracted numerous bills around
town which he was paying Tuesday
with checks on an Adel bank. Mr.
Fske is only 10 years of age, and has
had but one year in college, He was
elected last fall after school had been
in progress for one month. the board
getting permission to employ him, tho
his qualifications were not up to the
standard because they had been I'M
able to secure a manual training
teacher as so many were called to
war.
Sioux City.
Fearing he would be sent back to
Germany, Joseph Krause, 10 years odl,
2115 West Third street, hanged him
self early Monday in a ravine at the
foot Of George street. Fellow workmen
of Krauses' at the Cudahy packing
plant, had i'csn haunting him about
his German birth and had threatened
to have him sent back to Germany,
members Of his family stated. These
ta1lnts drove him insane and caused
him to take his own life, they said.
Krause chose a lonely spot to kill him.
self. He selected the ravine which lies
between the tracks Of the Sioux City
Service Company and the Missouri
river. The same workers who had
tainted Krause over his German birth
found his body. They began the hunt
when members Of his family reported
that he had started toward the river
Krause had been employed at the
Cudahy plant for "a years. Besides his
widow. he Is survived by four chill
dren. They are Marie. Emma, Agnes
and Zeronica,,