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A farmer near Moville bit off the nose of a neighbor. The ladies of Storm Lake have or ganized a boat club. Mrs. Martin was fatally injured in a runaway at Lehigh, May 19th. J. P. Lewis, city assessor of Musca tine, died of old age and la grippe, aged 72. Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Johnson cele brated their golden wedding at Osceola on the 14th. An incestuous brute was convicted at Rockwell City and sent to the pen for five years. , Boone's artesian well has reached a depth of 2,667 feet and is the deepest hole in the state. While boring a well near Pocahontas recently, a pine log was struck at a depth of 175 feet. Two young men paid $25 each for the privilege of scrapping on the streets of Danbury. The Willson House at Webster City was damaged by fire to the amount of $800 on the 16th. Only two of the stone piers of the Muscatine bridge remain to be com pleted and they will soon be finished. At Woodburn on the evening of the 15th a pusher engine struck a hand car, killing section foreman Lawson Morton. ‘Miss Ida Hinman, a Keokuk girl, is winning laurels as a reporter on the Washington Post and other eastern papers. ‘The other day at Des Moines the Supreme Court examined and ad mitted a class of 23 lawyers to practice in that court. A Marshalltowner suggests a monu ment to Father Clarkson on capitol hill, funds to be contributed by mem bers of the Farmers’ Alliance. The creamery at Rollins, Linn county, burned, with an adjacent resi dence, and 1,000 pounds of butter. Loss mostly covered by insurance. Granger Son and Miller Phelps at Fort Dodge, will each build 75,000 bushes .elevators this year. R. W. Crawford Co., will build a flax eleva tor. astt is assured that the census enamer Aude “will not find an old maid in Mapleton. Probably the spinsters in tend to hide under the bed’ when he calls. A new school building will be erect ed in Guthrie Center the present sum mer. The growth of school population makes an absolute demand for the new structure. Tho freight trains on the Illinois Central collided near Remsen on the 19th.The engines and several cars were wrecked. Engineer Gardner was badly injured. Miss Belle Crawford, a much - re spected and accomplished young lady of Miles, Jackson county, committed suicide by taking poison. No cause for the deed is known. Charles M. Powell, living east of Winterset, has been missing since May 8t. He is 46 years old and an old sol dier. His family are anxious for any information about him. The barn of Wendel Goet, near Ely, Linn county, burned May 16th, with seven horses and a large amount of grain and farm machinery. Loss $3,000; insurance $2,200. Incendiary. Mrs. Geo. Schafer, who was so badly burned at Muscatine while mating sonp May 1st, died after suffering in tensely. She leaves a husband and eight children. She was forty years of age. Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State by the Hawkeye Land and Investment company of Des Moines and the Farm ers’ Co-operative association of Grand Junction. Gust Liehn, an orphan at Boone, while attempting to crawl in an end door of a freight car to beat his way, slipped and fell, the train passing over his left leg and injuring his back. He will probably die. May Cox, a stenographer, while leaving the elevator in the Bolton block at Sioux City, was caught and badly bruised. The wonder is that she was not killed. Carelessness of the eleva tor bay was the cause. The city council of Cedar Rapids passed a resolution ordering the city lattormen to prepare ‘an ordinance for the collection of a license from the original packae establishments which are now or will be established in that city. Ed. Brown is under arrest at Council Bluffs, charged ‘with attempted out rage on Maggie Yancy, a waitress in a restaurant. Brown is of the tramp species, and took advantage of the girl while she was alone in the restau rant. During a storm which ,revailed at Cedar Rapids recently ‘thousands of birds which were migrating” to the north gathered around the electric lights and dropped ‘in the streets. Some very rare specimens were pick ed up. ‘Clinton lL. Bartlett, head cashier of the C., B. Q. freight office at Council Bluffs is a defaulter for $2,500. The deficiency has been suspected for some time, but was only proven when a detective who has been working on the case for months past secured a full confession from the young man. J. C. Tierce, proprietor of a flour mall at Fairfield, was caught in a fly wheel on the 14th and whirled through the pit, dropped under the driving rod and terribly crushed. He had just put in a patent roller process and was mark ing the first trial. He was about 30 years of age, and leaves a wife. 2M. L. Goodspeed, living near At lantic, has in his possession a rare relic in the shape of a liberty badge worn by his grandfather in Boston be fore the revolution. The badge is in the form of a rosette of white satin, edged with blue ribbon, across the face of which is printed the single word, ‘Liberty.” The city council of Sioux City sold to E. P. Stone and W. H. Manley, Sioux City, bankers, $125,000 of re funding bonds and $250,000 of funding bonds at a total premium of $16,000. The bonds will be used to pay the floating debt and to take up bonds paying 6 per cent, the new issue bear ing only 44 per cent. The case of Myron . Billings, charged with the murder of County Attorney Kingsley at Waverly, two and a half years ago, will come up at an early day at the present term of the supreme court. The defendant, who is in the penitentiary, has asked and will probably be granted permis sion to be present and speak in his own behalf. During a heavy wind storm near Waterloo, a freight conductor on the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas City rail road, named Wormwood, was blown from his train while trying to pass from one car to another. When fall ing he caught on a break-beam and was dragged some distance before the train could be stopped. His injuries are severe, but not necessarily fatal. The Town Plaster company of Fort Dodge has cut the price on calcined land plaster to $2.25 per ton, the cheap est price at which plaster has ever been sold in the United States. This is the latest development in a war which has been on ever since the dis solution of the pool which controlled every mill in the country last fall. The price has fallen from $6 per ton. The diocesan convention of the Iowa Episcopal church finished its work at Dubuque and adjourned to meet in Davenport next year. Rev. W. B Walker was elected a member of the board of trustees of Griswold college to fill the vacancy. Bishop Perry thinks the diocese is becoming too large for one bishop and believes it will soon be divided, with Dubuque like ly to be selected for the new site. Stormy Jordan, the eccentric saloon keeper at Ottumwa, who, years ago, labeled his saloon ‘The Road to Hell,” has opened up his saloon again in full blast, and is selling anything that is wanted in the “original package” line without any attempt at concealment. He was worth $20,000 or more before the prohibitory law went into effect, but lost it all fighting prohibition, and for the last two years has not sold any liquor. Johannes Williams, a sharp schemer was arrested at Fort Dodge and bound over to appear before the United States grand jury next month on a charge of personating a federal officer. Wil liams collected $27.40 from a Mallard liquor dealer, who holds a government license, representing himself as a col lector of internal revenue. The swin dle was discovered before Williams got away, and he will probably suffer for his smartness. 2 Scranton City is threatened with a novel damage suit. A well-to-do far mer named Calder visited the city on business and after cracking several “originals” found himself behind the bars of the city lockup, where he re mained all night. He awoke next morning with a severe cold, caught, he claims, through the negligence of the city to furnish comfortable accom modations to guests, and thinks he'‘has been injured to the extent of $5,000 or thereabouts. Covington, the saloon town across the river from Sioux City, about which so much has been written, was entire ly consumed by fire between 21 and 8 o'clock on the evening of the 16th. Last January all the buildings on the west side of the only street were burn ed and this blaze took all those on the east side. Nine buildings were burned, six of which were occupied by saloons. Very little of the contents were saved. The loss is about $16 000, insured for less than half. There is no possibility that the town will be rebuilt. A man giving the name of J. B. Battegot was found wandering around the streets of Burlington, in an insane condition and was arrested by the police. He insisted that‘his wife was in the city and asked the police to find her for him. ° He had all the appear ances of acmay of means and was evi dently on his way to Paris, France. Upon his person was found $142.25 in money, a gold watch, a railway ticket from San Francisco to New York and a passage ticket on an Inman liner from New York to Paris. The com missioners of insanity decided to send him to Mt. Pleasant until his relatives could be heard from. Little Earie, aged four years, son of Dr. Thomas, and Anna, aged two and a half years, youngest daughter of Wallace Allen, at Rhodes, wandered away from home and reached the rail road track just before the gravel train backed in at noon. No one saw the children until the train reached them. The engineer did all in his power to stop the train, but did not succeed in doing so till Earle’s right foot was crushed, requiring amputation above the ankle, and little Annie’s just at the heel. She would have been killed but for the bravery of one of the train men who swung around, caught her and jumped. Both are doing as well as could be expected. John Sorlien, a farmer living near Boda, Humboldt county, returned from Chicago with the proceeds of the sale of several carloads of cattle. That night a little before midnight, he ob served a couple of tramps skulking about his barn. He drove them off, firing several shots in the air to fright en them. He then went a short dis tance and got a constable to assist him in the watch. They were followed by the tramps, and were again confronted at the stable door, when Mr. Sorlion called on them to halt, and in his ex citement fired a heavy load of goose shot into one of the prowlers. He then halted at once. The other fellow quit the premises speedily, and no trace of him has been seen since. The fellow downed was badly hurt. Both eyes were cut out, half of the lower jaw was missing, the meat all gone on one side of his face, and he was otherwise badly mutilated. He died on the 13th and the coroner’s jury said that Sor lien did right. At Waverly on the night of May 13, J. W. Robinson, who travels for B. F. Norris Co., wholesale jewelers of Chicago, arrived on the Chicago, St. Paul Kansas City train from the west, and in the absence of an express wagon left his trunks in the depot with instructions that they be sent to his hotel in the morning. During the night burglars effected an entrance to the depot and rifled both of the trunks, which contained $20,000 worth of watches, jewelry and diamonds. One of the trunks was carried into a field adjoining the depot which is situated on the outskirts of the city where it was found, together with the less valuable portion of its contents. All of the dia monds, about 250 gold and silver watches, hundreds of chains, pins and charms are missing, estimated in value at $15,000. Searching parties are scouring the country in all directions, and though several tramps who have lately been seen about the depot have been arrested nothing has been found upon their persons to indicate that they are the robbers.
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Pocahontas County Sun
Laurens, Iowa, US
Thu, May 22, 1890
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