Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
Southern Io,ua Items

gun. 1t is reported that ne trled 70
| kill himself earlier in the day but was
prevented. Domestic troubles and de-
spondency were the causes. About a
year ago Mr.. Heffner met with a pc
! culiar accident while working In the
| timber. He was struck by the branch
Of a falling tree, which did not in
! lure him except to render him speech
less. For several months thereafter
| he was unable to make any vocal
sound, but his speech came back il
him suddenly. He was married and
had one child. They lived on farm
belonging to his mother.
Davenport.
please see that my age is kept out
Of the papers. l do not care what else
is in but place do not give my age to
the reporters" That her exact age be
kept out of the newspapers and that
no reporters be allowed to learn it
was the last request Of Mrs. Catherine
Feeney. who died Tuesday morning at
the home Of her daughter, Mrs. Ed
ward Hart, S27 Iowa street, after an
illness Of over year All her life Mrs.
Feeney refused to divulge her age.
Even her daughters We're unable to
ulSCONcI HOW many ySSiS Aau pdoSSe
since her birth. She was thought to
be in the neighborhood Of 90 years Of
| age, but as she was very active until
/, taken sick, some attributed her age to
| be less than so. years.
Winterset.
| Edward Cook. who shot and killed
Charles Driscoll at Drlscoll's home
] fifteen miles northwest of Winterset
last Friday, has developed into a Isl
lent man" of the most confirmed sor.
since his Incarceration in the Madi-
son county jail After he had shot
Driscol. Cook telephoned the sheriff
to come and get him. Sheriff Breeding
complied with the request but after
he had been taken into custody Cooks
lips were scaled, and they have so re-
manned. Mrs. Drisccll, who witnessed
the shooting, and who, many believe
may b. able to furnish the key to the
affair, has been equally reticent, and
investigation by county officials so far
has failed to explain the case. 1t is
! claimed Drscoll attacked Cook when
he returned to his home after havins
been away. Cook is said to have
wrested a gun away from Driscoll anu
Z SilOt. NsooNS ~ Gazing w III
| be held next Monday.
/ Muscatine.
With over 500 signatures attached d
! petition asking for the pardon of Harry
Jensen, of this city, sent to prison foi
I life, when he plead guilty to charge
! of rape and refused to stand trial
will be forwarded to Governor Clark,
/ this week The case of Jensen has
attracted much attention and sympa =
thy in Muscatine. The man, who had
! been in America scarcely over year
| became involved in a case that bore
the earmarks of a wrong" Others
were also involved, but Jensen wa.
the only one hailed before the court. II,
was there by his own confession "a
the evidence in the other cases was
! impossible to obtain. He entered a pie
of guilty Judge Koran remonstrate{
with him and told him that the onlS
thing he could do was to give him a
! life sentence in the pen. This did not
deter Jensen. In broken English h.
said that he had wronged the girl and
that he was willing to suffer for It,
He was reluctantly sent to the per
for life while the others got away
without any punishment. The prose
cutting attorney and the Judge were
both reluctant to have sentence passed
ION him but he insisted.