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IOWA NEWS ITEMS Madrid. The board of trustees of the M. E. church had a meeting this week and decided to wire the M. E. church for electric lights. Moulton. Miss Nora A. Severs, a student in the Moulton high school, died this week from the effects of a frozen toe, in which gangrene appeared. Ottumwa. The case against William Heaton, a young boy charged with stealing coal, was tried Monday and the defendant was committed to the reform school. Cedar Falls. The Gazette of the 13th says: "Not much change is noted in Mr. F. N. Chase's condition. The hiccoughing has continued for nine days and his strength seems to be waning." Mason City. A new hot water pump is being installed in the hot water heating plant of the Brice Gas and Electric Company, having a capacity of 3,600 pounds. This pump will act as an auxiliary for the other two now doing service. lowa City. Miss Louisa Evans has sued the city for $8,000 because of injuries she claims to have received from a fall Nov. 30, 1901, on a defective sidewalk on the south side of Sheridan avenue between Summit and Clark streets. The injuries sustained from this fall she claims, will affect her permanently. Burlington. Reports from the board of health in regard to smallpox are encouraging Two patients were discharged Monday, and one new case reported-the total number being thirty-six. A hospital for female patients has been secured in the northern part of town. There was some indignation among the people residing in the neighborhood, altho there are but very few houses near. Sioux City. The clerks of the county auditor's office are now engaged in entering up the certificates of the recent delinquent tax sale. The work is much lighter than for many years and about half as heavy as last year. In 1900 the treasurer's office prepared about 3,000 certificates of sale, while this year it prepared only about 1,600. There is practically no property left for scavenger sale. Oskaloosa. The board of supervisors have made a settlement with Sheriff Crickett for his bill on account of the keeping of the old jail. The sheriff claimed $2,130, and the board allowed $1,700. The bill reaches back over a period of four years. The law requires of the sheriff that he shall keep but one place and that he has to pay $40 extra wages monthly on account of the second place. Waterloo. According to the Reporter, the tax ferrets expect to begin sending out their bills during the present week and there are doubtless a number of Waterloo men who will receive Christmas presents that are not particularly desirable. They do not expect to make collections of any great amount before January 1st. They expect to collect in all about $200,000 of Blackhawk county's back taxes. Carroll. Carroll county oranges in December. Strange, isn't it? But P. J. Hamill has a dwarf orange tree that produced a couple of oranges that taste very much like the California or Florida variety. The tree is one he secured from R. Summerville several years ago and this is the first fruit it has borne. An orange tree in Carroll county, bearing fruit in December, is indeed a novelty, says the Sentinel. Webster City. Hugo Carl, who was sentenced to the reform school Saturday by Justice Bonner, was, upon recommendation of County Attorney Boeye, given another chance and sentence was suspended during good behavior. The boy is thirteen years of age and keeps house and does the cooking for the family. His mother is a bed-ridden paralytic. Under these circumstances leniency was considered prudent. Mt. Pleasant. John Bicksler, the banker at Salem, Henry county, has decided to wind up his banking business the last of the year. He has been conducting a private bank there for a good while and has done well. He assigns as the principal reasons for going out of banking that he considers banking on a small scale a dangerous business, owing to burglaries, and he does not wish to put in a larger and better outfit at this time. Cedar Rapids. Just at the time when he was most needed by the poor people of the city, misfortune struck Rev. F. K. Ward, of the Sunshine Mission. He now lies at St. Luke's hospital with a broken leg and a severe cut over the right eye, the result of an accident on South Third street Monday afternoon. Mr. Ward was driving down Third street with the wag-