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Northern Iowa Items idence in Ottumwa, for after Jan. 1. buque. 1912, J. A. Phillips of the large store obert Alderson, of Dubuque, who bearing that name- will no longer be a charged with horse stealing at business factor in Ottumwa, and his ppewa Falls, Wis., was acquitted of residence will terminate here shortly charge at Eau Claire, Wis., after afterward. jury had been out one hour. Grove. Wyoming. 'hree persons in Ida Grove suffered Chris Anderson, a farmer living five bones and bruises by slipping miles north of Wyoming, was terribly the frozen sleeted pavements. They burned yesterday by the explosion of Mrs. John Scott, broken leg; Mrs. a five-gallon gasoline can. He was Stauffer, bad bruises, and Bert getting ready to start his gasoline enthree broken ribs. gine and during the cold weather used a torch to warm it. In some manner City. overdose of laudanum and the torch came within reach of the can and the explosion followed which proform, which was taken in an efto relieve a sudden attack of pain, covered Mr. Anderson with gasoline and Hazel Simpson, a high school fire. aged 17, in a serious condition Manchester. home in this city. Mrs. Mary Tripp. who left here recently for Chicago en route to the Oberton on last Monday pursouth, where she expected to remain of Mrs. I. H. King, thirteen during the winter, WaS taken suddenly of land in the southeast part of ill as her train neared Chicago and was just south of the Rock Island removed from the station there to an paying $2,000, or about $154 emergency hospital. The Chicago auacre. thorities communicated with her relatives, several of whom are now at her Lake, bedside. Friends in her wide acquaintrank Harker has purchased the ance here and elsewhere in this couningston 160-acre farm in Lakeville of Charles Mauss, of Milford, ty deeply regret to learn that her condition is considered extremely grave. sideration $11,000, possession to be March 1, 1913. Mr. Harker has Correctionville. Beck place rented for another year The first automobile funeral ever held will remain on it. in northwest Iowa was that of Roland Schneckloth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Mars. Ernest Schneckloth, of Correctionville. Roberts, of the Star livery barn, The funeral was held at the home and the victim of a painful accident. the body was taken in an automobile working around a horse the anito Holstein, the former home of the made a grab at him and caught family for interment. There were lip in its teeth. The lip was badly thirty-four autos in the funeral proand hung down below his chin. cession. The death of young Schnechwent to Dr. Mammen, who sewed in loth was an unusually sad affair. he back place. lip having been fatally injured in a footmpton. ball game at Correctionville several harles Lease, who bought the J. weeks ago. Switzer farm of 229 acres, located Corwith. the Bridge street road. seven miles The last case in regard to the Corof town, less than two years ago with State Bank failure has been dis$86 an acre. sold recently on conposed of and now as soon as the red for $127.50. or $9,500 in round tape in court procedure has run its more than he paid. In 1860 course another 30 per cent dividend H. Talhelm bought 149 acres and will be declared. In the case of Has1879 it changed hands again at less acre. well against the bank, the state su$15 per preme court has decided that he has a quoketa, valid claim against the court but not a 'he Joe Tracy farm east of Iron Hill. preferred one. His general claim will the scene of a terrible accident. entitle him to about 7 per cent on Siegel, the present tenant on the $18,865.31. The bank and creditors in went out to the field to the haul general will get over 90 per cent of corn and was accompanied by his their claims, which lets most all of 3-year-old son, who in some manthem out practically whole. fell from the moving load and the Waterloo. wheel passed over his head, killRecent, deaths of several Waterloo the child instantly. The horrified people from typhoid fever has led to immediately rushed to and the belief in some quarters that an epiup the body, but life was extinct. demic of this dangerous disease exists umwa. here. Owing to the laxity of the state 'he advent of the year 1912 will be board of health laws it is not rewith changes of more than unquired that typhoid fever cases be regmoment in the local retail world istered as is the case with other disaffect some of the largest of Oteases in the contagious class. Inquiries ships for retail merchandising of a number of local physicians as to the removal of familiar signs from the number of typhoid cases in their where they have hung long and care developed the fact that not one ame fixed landmarks. to new sites considered an epidemic of the disease occupied by other concerns. It in progress. One prominent physician also mark the passing of one of stated he did not believe more than most noted of Ottumwa's busitwenty real typhoid fever cases existed men from active business and res- in Waterloo.