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Davenport. The death by apoplexy of Alderman Bowden Sunday night takes the control of the city council from the republicans by the law of the Thirty-fifth general assembly, which allows the council to appoint a man to fill a vacancy in special charter cities. Des Moines. J. G. Raitt was arrested in Carl Smith's saloon Monday evening when the officer became suspicious of a subscription Raitt was taking up to send his wife to the hospital. At police headquarters Raitt was charged with obtaining money under false pretences. West Liberty. Mrs. Sarah Whitacre, 86 years of age, is confined to her home with a broken right hip, the result of a fall on the slippery sidewalk. Her son-inlaw, Ross Mountain, was assisting her home from church, and both fell. Mr. Mountain was uninjured, but could not prevent the full force of the aged lady's fall. West Liberty. After six months, the West Liberty Presbyterian church is to have a regular pastor, Rev. Robert McInturff, until recently the pastor of the church at Odebolt, has accepted a call to the local church and will begin his work here, the first Sunday in January. No regular services has been held in the church since the resignation of F. M. Dowlin last June. West Liberty. Shipments of live stock have been heavy from West Liberty, since the lifting of the quarantine a few days ago. Hogs have been especially strong although a large number of cattle. too, have gone toward Chicago. In spite of these shipments, however, many farmers still are feeding, in anticipation of a better market, following this first rush of stuff. Des Moines. Earl Kelso was slugged from behind, knocked off a wagon he was driving and robbed of $10 at 6:30 o'clock Monday night. A police surgeon was sent out when the first call came in that Kelso had been found lying unconscious beside the wagon. The police surgeon found there had been a spasm of the heart muscle and revived Kelso. Glidden. Because of the small dividend declared by the receivers of the Farmers' bank, which failed here last summer, a number of depositors in the First National Bank began a run on that institution yesterday. The dividend on the defunct bank was declared last week. All the depositors who demanded their money Tuesday were paid in full, and toward closing time the run ended, and some of those who had withdrawn their deposits began to reopen their accounts. Ottumwa. A petition entitled Mabel Fritchle vs. the Western Union Telegraph Company, has been filed with the clerk of the district court. In this petition the plaintiff seeks the sum of $2,000 as damages for the alleged negligence of the company in not sending a message dated at Ottumwa, Iowa, on Sept. 6, 1914, by the plaintiff to her sister,
