Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-06
Southern Io1ua Items

groes We're playing ball and shooting
raps' at Seventh ard Ellen streets
yesterday afternoon. Williams and
Powell quarreled, it is said. over the
game and Powell pulled a revolver from
his pocket Williams started TO run and
received two bullets in the back, one
entering his body just below the right
shoulder blade and the other near the
base of the spine.
Des Mones.
Laying the blame for an ALI winters
toothache to the alleged carelessness of
c. H Harmon. a dentist. Jennie Sch
molling yesterday brought suit in the
district court to recover the sum of
81, 900 for personal injuries. In her
petition Miss Scfmoning states that
the doctor carelessl$- left a piece of
cotton in d tooth and then proceeded
to put filling on top of it, She al
leges that the cotton caused her con-
slant pain and remained there all win
ter and that she found no relief until
she consulted another dentist. who
found the seat of the alleged trouble.
keota.
B. L. Sanders barn burned down
during a hard rain storm Saturday af
ternoon about o'clock in keota.
Lightning struck and fired it and about
the same time every phone in the
neighborhood nearly went dead so that
the fire gained good Roadway before
the department arrived. About all that
could be done was 10 keep the blaze
from spreading to the adjoining barns
and houses and this they were able to
do by hard work. assisted by the
| heavy downpour Of the rain. The wind
was from the east ana it is likely Mr..
i Sanders house would have caught
also if it had not been for the water
system and there is no question about
| some OF the barns that were in close
| proximity.
| Mt. Pleasant.
| Clarence Faulkner the 9year old
son of w. E. Faulkner was the victim
of strange accident He was over at
| his grandmother's Mrs McCune, who
| lives just north of the railroad, and was
out near the tracks when some one
threw a stone which struck him in the
| right eye. and which VIII result in the
| loss of the sight Of that optic. Just
| who threw the stone or from what di-
! rection it came the boy is unable to
! tell He was alone at the time and
was struck with such a suddenness
| that he was rendered almost uncon-
scions. He was able. however. to ma ke
| his way to the house where he told his
grandmother what had happened. A
search about the premises failed to re-
veal anything and the manner in which
the accident occurred is still mystery
Des Moines.
I Frank Gilbert, employed by John
Johnson, grading contractor, was
| held up on East Court avenue yester-
| day afternoon by four thugs and rob-
bed of s42 and railway ticket which
he had bought to take him to his wife
| in Memphis, Tenn. d. Palmer, Patrick
| OTHara, Tom Evans and Richard Rraf-
for We're arrested soon afterward by
Detective James Macdonald and a
squad Of police and lodged in the city
Jail. They have been identified by Gill
|, bert as the men who held him up. Gill
| bert came to Des Moines several
m onths ago from Memphis and secured
work with Johnson as laborer. Re-
Gently he received word from his wife
that his child was i'll. He drew all OF
his money from the bank, where he had
been keeping it and prepared to go tc
his wife and sick child.