Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-16

the matter at the time for Inlay had
peen about the place several times be-
fore and accordingly they accepted her
statement when she said she recog-
nized Inlay As her assailant. Inlay
Was released r"
Ames.-Dr Jennie Christ while in a
| Des Moines store had her purse stolen
; ana she was the loser of over SIS.
While she was at the silk counter a
little woman stood next to her and ut
one time made an apology 10 Or
Christ and said the silk she was looking
at had caught on the bag. Later Dr.
Christ observed that her hand bag was
open and the purse gone. She immed-
latey reported 1t to headquarters and
they informed her that detectives had
peen Watching this woman at the time
of the robbery as they were suspicious
of her She escaped. however Several
people have been robbed in the store
past week. it was said, and in spite of
the detectives the person is able to
get by y
MISUNDERSTANDING" Trenchard, 10
years old. is dead at MS home here
He had the unusual record of having
served in both the Confederate and the
Union armies during the civil war. He
had the further record of having been
deserter and was proud Of it, When
the war began he was at Atlanta on
business and was forced into the Con-
Tolerate ranks at the point of a bayo-
net. While serving there he fought
against his brother Henry, a soldier
| IN the Union army, in one of the early
battles. He deserted from the Confed-
crate army at the first opportunity and
returned to his home here, and after
marrying Miss Mary Broadman on
Feb. 2l 1864, he enlisted in the fall OF
that year in Company /, Second Iowa
cavalry, and served until the end of
the war.
Sioux City-Membership in the Sioux
City board of trade was advanced from
$1,000 to $4,000 by the directors. When
the exchange was organized in 1907 the
nominal sum OF s25 was exacted as
the membership fee. Advances have
been made at irregular intervals, the
more notable increases having been
imposed since the granting of the pro-
portional grain rates to Sioux City in
1918 thus insuring the early develop
ment Of a great terminal grain market.
Including three applications favorably
acted upon yesterday, the board OF
trade now has membership of sixty
one. with two applications pending, in
GLIDING a transfer. The board of di-
rectCrs took the position that the in
crease was fully justified by the pres
ent conditions and the fair promises
of the future 1t was adopted by un-
animous vote.
Boone-Charles Merrick and John
Duncan employees Of the Iowa Railway
and Light Company are in the Eleanor
Moore hospital suffering from burns
which they received while cleaning out
a combustion chamber at the plant.
The fire was extinsuished In the boiler
and the ashes dampened. The two men
went into the chamber to clean out the
PLACE. when the crust gave way and
the men were caught in the hot ashes
underneath. Duncan was the more
seriously, burned Of the two. his limbs
back and hands being badly burned
and blistereds Merrick was caught in
such a maner that both legs are
burned from the shoe tops to above the
knees. He caught pipe overhead and
pulled himself out of the ashes. Dun
can was able to crawl out but in so do
Ing was badly burned on the limbs and
hands and when pulled out by resc'iers
was again burned on the back. Roth
were rushed to the Eleanor Moore hos
pital- by Manager Frank Linebausn OF
the Electric Company and reports from
there say that the condition Of both
was very satisfactory.