Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-12-06
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Iowa News items

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observation-disclosures Kelly. injured
in the wreck of a motor car on the
fMuscatine, Burlington and southern
railroad which caused the loss OF
three lives year age, was awarded
damages in the sum NJ $6o,OeU ny
Louisa county Jury. Kelly was mann
ed and disfigured. for life by flames
which followed an explosion Wheh
the car YVES derailed.
Nora Springs.--As Chris Wilson
was lighting some fire started by
passing train, he noticed suitcase
and ON examining it disco vered that
i, contained sorre ladies wearing APP
parel, jewelry and money. The case
had probably been there year as At
was badly rotted. There wa5 a letter
badly obliterated. that case some
name and address in q place III IeSas
My. wilson wrote there hut has no'
Vet heard from the letter. The sult
case probably was thrown from
passing train but whether Tor rop-
j berry or for come, other cause is ON!
conjecttred.
!. Waterloo - Frank +. Knapp, g.
pienecr of Black Hawk county, and
for many years justice of the peace
lin Waterloo, died shortly after noon
Yesterday at his home in Castle
Hill. Hardening of arteries was
aiyen as the cause of his death. he
was fS years old. Mr.. Knapp was
borsi July u. 1858. in Mount Vernon
township, being the son OF solomon
and Jane o. Knapp. His parents
! were born about 1927 in New fork
state. His father died in 1908 and
his mother in 1900. Decedent was
5. grandson of Rev. Solomon Knapp, an
& early day pastor of the Baptlst
church at Cedar Falls.
Macedonia-An epidemic of what
Veterinarians call plain old Spanish
influenza is prevalent among herds OF
hogs here now. and many stock rails
ers are losing from two to three anl-
llIeals from their pens. The malay
is not especially fatal. very few men
: losing more than four or five hogs
but 1T is striking nearly every herd
The animals lose weight. seem to
have fever and cough very much
Some of the worst stricken are the
quickest to recover, while some seem
ingly little affected die quickly. The
disease does not seem contagious to
persons, for no sickness from in
fluenza among persons is known here.
A Cedar Rapids-George Neff, candi-
date on the republican ticket. for
nomination for sheriff, dropped dead
near the Milwaukee station platform
at yParalta Mt p. m. Sunday at the
end OF a sprint to catch train to
Cedar Rapids. Heart trouble was
given as the cause of his death. Men
had been at Paralta visiting Mrs.
Nefrs parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
StToff. He was a little late starting
for the train and saw he would have
to run to make it. When twenty yards
from the platform he stumbled and
fell and when persons nearby reached
MIN. he was dead. Nef was for thir-
teen years conductor employed oSA
B the Cedar Rapids and Marion rail-,
WAY.
Davenport-Raymond Weeks, age
10, who in company with an older
brother, Vernon Weeks and friend,
Thomas Strange. stole three autonlo-
biles off the streets OF Davenport last
week, intending to sell them to a
fence" in Kansas City for 500 each
was sentenced to the state Industrial
school at Eidora by Judge f. d. Let's
i'm Juvenile court Saturday. ti
Jefferson.-The case of Joseph
Patrick against Elmer Kelley, for
personal damages alleged to have
been inflicted upon Patrick by Kelly
in am alteration concerning the di-
vision of oats last winter attracted
large audiences at the district court.
The evidence for the plaintiff was to
the effect that he was neighbor OF
Kelley's and that they. had some bust
ness dealings with reference to some
oats, and that Patrick went over t.
Kelly's one day last winter, to see
about the matter; that an alteration
followed in which, Kelly attacked him,
with q shovel or a spade, and that he
threw up his arms to ward off the
blow and that the blow with the SHOW
ell caught him on the elbow, fractur
ing the bone or I process an in in
jury from the effects Of which he has
since been suffering.