Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
Northern Io,Oa Items

Charles Harvey. arrested on May II.
and Knute Dennis, arrested several
weeks ago. Both were being held to
the grand jury on larceny charges. Tho
jail delivery was accomplished by saw
Ing two bars from the cell and forcing
back other bars. which left an opening
large enough for the men TO pass thru.
Going thru the opening. the nen
reached a hallway next to the sheriff's
quarters. From this hallway they
were able to proceed down the back
stairs Of the county building.
Storm lake--Storm Lake will be the
headquarters for a new highway dis
trict OF tho state recently formed by
the state highway commission. and
Mai George X. McCollough, recently
returned from overseas, will he district
engineer according 10 an announce
ment which has Just been made. The
district will be composed OF eleven
counties and all road building projects
for these counties will be handled thru
, the. Storm Lake district office. Major
Mccullough was engineer for Buena
Vista county prior TO his enlistment
and this county was the first one in
the state TO complete the draining and
grading the county highway system,
now called the primary road system.
pentine cost Il. ]. whistler. of Scran-
ton, the sight of one eye. A customer
came to the drug store for horse lint
ment. composed Of the above ingredi-
ents, and Whistler. who is not a regis
tered pharmacist, proceeded TO I'LL the
order. pouring the mixture into bot
tie. While holding tho bottle in his
hand the contents exploded, the acid
burning Chester Cain, the customer.
quite badly. while whistler received a
piece of glass about half an inch In
length and half as wide. In the eye. He
was taken to the hospital at Carroll.
where the eye was removed. Whistler
had lost partially the use Of one hand
and one leg In an accident short
time ago.
Neutrality-suspicious. Young, line
man employed by the Delaware Coun-
ty Telephone Company. was instantly
killed about eight miles south Of here
while repairing broken wire at the
top of pole. In some fashion an cleo
trio light wire was crossed with
phone wire and the powerful current
passed thru YounS's body. He hung to
the pole 'and live wire. unable to re-
lease himself. Other workmen for the
company recognized the tragedy and
telephoned to the power station at
Central City to have the current shut
off. Young was dead, however, when
released and his body badly burned.
Young made his home in Manchester
and had been employed by the tele-
phone company for some time.
Ames-An addition of three more
men has been made to the police force
of the city of Ames. The Northwestern
has resolved to see that there are no
more injuries and deaths at the Grand
aysdue crossing and they have select
ed three returned soldiers for the po-
sitions. Each Of the men Is to work
eight hours. The men will be stationed
at the Grand avenue crossing where
most of the serious accidents have oc-
Cured in the past and the greatest
danger exists. Their special duty is to
guard this crossing but they are auth
orized to make any other arrests that
may be necessary. They were sworn
into office by Mayor Graves and so
are under the mayors direction, while
the railway company foots the bills.
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