Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-09
Southern Io1un Items

larry origin and offers a reward Of $50
for any Information which will lead to
the arrest and conviction of the guilty
parties. It was eight weeks ago that
Mr.. Flindts saloon, dance hall. barn,
Ice houses, ETC., were destroyed by fire.
At the time only the adjoining resi-
dence was saved and this was the ono
which burned to the ground Thursday
morning. a.
Mscatine.
Mrs. Mary Shoemaker is the pos
SCISSOR of rare relic of the civil war.
It is an original copy of tho Daily
Citizen" the newspaper printed during
the siege Of VicksbEg on July 2. 1863.
There is at least one copy of this
original paper in the city but the relic
belonging to Mrs. Shoemaker Is one
Of the papers actually printed during
the war on the back Of a piece of wall
paper. The paper is very unusual
relic and is priced highly by the family.
Davenport. '
A fire Of incendiary origin broke out
on the rear porch Of q store building
at the corner Of Sixth and Division
streets shortly after midnight, but the
blaze was put out by some Of the
neighbours who threw several pals Of
water on the flames before the wagons
arrived. That the cause of the fire was
incendiarism is shown by the fact that
Chief Peter Denger, upon his arrival,
found a stick saturated with kerosene.
This had been placed under the stair
way of the building where the fire
started.
Dss Moines.
because be stole one OF my water
melons. shot him. was the justication
offered by Louis Renda, italian fruit
vender, for sending a bullet from a
3s-caliber revolver thru the body of
Frank Baker, Chicago Great Western
brakeman, after the wounded man had
denied stealing the melon. Police Of
ficer Ed Hunt witnessed the shooting
from a distance. AS the bullet tore
thru his body Baker grappled with the
enraged Italian. Two stdpts were fired.
One took effect. Baker believes that
the foreigner would have emptied his
gun had he not seized 1t. Baker will
probably recover.
Council Bluffs.
The preliminary hearing OF William
Vincent and c. A. Cook on the charge
OF assault with attempt to kill, was held
before Justice l.. S. Jones, Of Love-
land Wednesday afternoon and the men
were bound over to the grand jury on
the charge Of assault with intent to
commit great bodily injury. c. A.
Cook furnished bondsman for $500 at
which the amount was fixed. and
he was released Vincent was I'M
able to furnish his bond of $1,000
and was returned to the county jail
in Council Bluffs. The men are charged
with shooting William Woods in a
quarrel which arose In a dispute over
fishing.
keokuk.
Rev. E. G. Boyer has accepted the
invitation of the Second Presbyterian
church to become their minister and
has entered upon his labors. He Is
quite wen known over the state as a
prominent Sunday school and Chris
tan Endeavor worker, has been a fire.
quent speaker at state and district
conventions and at various times prom
inently connected with those associa-
tious. He was a delegate from this
state to the worlds first Sunday school
coUvention held in London July. 1889,
and made quite an extended tour Of
England and the continent at that
time. In 1893 he was again q delegate
to the world convention in St. Lou&
and was also delegate to the worlds
convention at Jerusalem In 1904 when
Palestine. Egypt, Turkey and various
parts OF Europe. He was born and
reared and spent the whole Of his min
:st..- Z. Z. .hie state end has heen verv
successful In getting weak and strug-
~, hat hot HoA