Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-03
Southern Ioua Items

house away when he heard his daugh-
ter scream, and rushed back to the
mouse to find the room ablaze. 1t had
come about by piece of the match
head flying off when he struck it, ig-
hitting the curtain and spreading into
the room. Ii burned hole in the wall
caught some of the baby's clothes on
fire and in the excitement Mrs. Law
renee grabbed some of the burning
clothes and rushed outdoors with them
badly burning her hands. The damage
was light, the greatest being done to
the hands of Mrs. Lawrence.
Des Mones.
Application for a new trial was filed
in the United States supreme court in
the Charley Thomas case. Thomas is
serving life sentence for the murder
of Mabel sehoield several years ago,
and which was the most sensational
and stubbornly fought cases in Polk
county criminal history. Thomas
counsel will allege that the fourteenth
amendment was violated when Judge
McVey charged the jury that the adj
nanistering of poison permitted no
other verdict than one of murder in
the first degree.
Burlington.
The river is overfowing the islands
and lowlands on both banks. and the
farmers are beginning to drive their
stock to higher ground DR.. j. w Dixon
with a party of friends cruised up 10
his inland farm, ten miles above the
city, and removed all of his stock by
barge TO the Joe Gibbs farm From
! present Indications the farmers in the
bottoms will have no crops this season,
the condition being the same as that of
last spring. Thousands of dollars will
! be lost to the land owners if the water
remains high. owing to inability 70
plant their crops.
Iowa City.
The entire Hutchinson tract on the
west side of the river portion OF
which is used for chautauqua pur-
poses is now owned by Mr.. Manville
of Chicago who first purchased tbs
west forty acres but since then has
bought the remaining forty-seve.l.
The price paid for the whole tract
was $4,000. Mr.. Manville is already
disposing of the west half and also in
lots, the ground having been plated
About thirty acres have been disposed
of so far, five acre tracts having been
purchased by Prof. z. a. Wilson, Sher-
if Rowland, ]. w Anderson and 9TH
ers. The east portion Of the tract Will
not be opened up at the present time
nor for some years, according to Mr..
Manville's present plan.
Oskaioosa.
j The Oldest married couple in Ma
haska county. it appears, have not con
, tended for the prize given by the Ole
. Settlers. Daniel and Mary Whitsell
who live on a farm about a mile south
of Givin, were married in Jackson, o.
just sixty nine years ago. The.
came to Iowa in the fall o.
1853, and have lived where they now
reside for nearly forty years. Theil
eight children, of whom the eldest il
SO and the youngest A, are all living
and there has not been a death in thu
. family for fifty years. Both old people
enjoy fair health. The old gentle.
mans eyesight is very poor, but hi,
, wife can see well enough for both an(
Mr.. Whitsell is 80 years old and hi
wife IS.
Council Bluffs.
Il Marion Hedgepeth, twice convicted
, here on the charge Of burglarizing tn
j building Of the Council Bluffs STOW,
Storage Company, was released on mo
l ton of County Attorney j. ]. Hess
4 Hedgepeth appealed his case to tn
e supreme court, which recently he'll,
r that the evidence upon which he wa
$ convicted and sentenced to prison wa
' insufficient and remanded his case 70
: hearing. Unable to secure additiona
t evidence. the county attorney moved t
I give Hedgepeth his freedom. w.
Jackson, who was convicted and sen
fenced to ten years in the penitentiar
t with Hedgepeth for the same offenst
!. failed to complete his appeal to tn
g supreme court, and Is now in For
h Madison. The evidence in both case
n was the same, and entirely circum
" stantiaL