Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-11
Southern Iolun Items

would have been Instantly killed. The
elder boy deceived his parents regard
!, ing the affair and the cause of the in
/ jury was not ascertained until several
| days Later, when a doctor was called,
! the wound not having healed.
Des Moines.
| The bodies of Dennis Sweeney. who
Killed his wife a New Saylor and then
committed suicide. and Mrs. Emma
Reese Sweeney, We're buried side by
side in st. Ambrose cemetery, at the
request of Roger. their son. Relatives
| OF Sweeney believe he was insane and
while they deplore the tragedy as
greatly as do the relatives of Mrs.
Sweeney, they say Sweeney's pas
sionate love for ihs little. girl kathe-
rine. who lived with her mother and
whom he could not see because of a
restraining order from the court issued
at time of the divorce, unbalanced his
mind.
Knoxville.
Glenn Butcher. son of Ocea Butcher.
of ORC Dell, cashed 172 pairs of gopher
claws at the county auditors office in
one day. receiving a check for $17.20.
Glenn Is the champion gopher catcher
of the county and has cleared an aver
! age OF 81 a day at the business since
April In order to keep the pay check
averaging s12 per week it has been
necessary for the boy to catch twenty
OF the little rodents each day; 100 per
week; 4S0 per month. Reckoning from
this basis, and taking his perdiem
statement as true, Glenn has captured
and declawed not less than $3.50 of the
pocketed pests during the past six
| months.
Red Oak.
Adrian Illingsworth. the 1S-year- old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. James 1llings-
worth. was badly injured by a twenty
two calibre rifle ball, and has been
taken to the hospital in Omaha for sur
gical treatmen Young Illingsworth
was one of a party practicing with a
| target rifle. One Of the boys would
throw up tin can and the other one
shoot at 1t. Illingsworth threw up the
can. and Semonin. in attempting to hit
it, turned the muzzle of the rifle toward
his friend just as he pulled the trigger
I and with a cry the lad fell to the
! ground, the bullet having penetrated
his back near the spinal column, and
\ it is feared lodged in the lungs.
Malvern. 1EY
i j. d. Robbins, of Malvern has flee
an appeal from the decision of Judge
Thornell of the district court of Glen
wood in the matter of his being en-
titled to his seat as county supervisor
A few months ago Judge Thornell, in
a lengthy decision gave a verdict
against Mr.. Robbins. "Grandpa
John Nixon, of Hamburg, got up before
breakfast the other morning and went
down to the creek where he fell over
the bank into the mud and water n dis
tance of thiyty feet below. He was
found several hours later by his family
in an almost unconscious condition, and
it was found that he had sustained
1 quite serious injuries.
laurens.
An incendiary made bold attempt
to burn Kings threshing machine, but
by heroic work 1t was saved. The boys
were threshing for DeYoung, south
west of Ware The help had worked on
the machine until late the evening be-
fore and a couple had gone out early
in the morning and fired the engine
and then lay down to sleep by it. About
$50 they discovered the stack and
front of the separator on fire. There
was strong smell of kerosene and an
empty kerosene can was left behind.
The engine was fastened to the ma
chine and 1t was pulled out and a full
water tank and help arrived In time
Twas almost totally destroyed.