Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

Bloomfield.
Walter Smith. young man. is
lodged in the Wapello county Jail. at
ter an exciting chase by bloodhounds.
Smith is charged with willful incendar-
ism for firing an unoccupied house in
Fix township, Davis county. The alleged
firing took place Saturday night.
Persia.
Ludwig Rumfort, AZ years Of age,
living near here, committed suicide
Sunday by hanging. Poor health is
assigned as the cause. He was bach
elor and owned a farm in Case town
ship besides other property. Rumfort
suicided in the barn on the farm OF
his brother, Charles Rumfort.
Davenport.
A call for an election OF coadjutor
bishop will be issued at the annual
Episcopal Diocesan convention to be
held in Des Moines May II and IS, ac-
cording to an announcement here by
Bishop Theodore n. Morrison, Of
Iowa Suffragan Bishop Harry S.
Longley, of Des Moines, will be named,
it is understood.
Davenport.
The $4,000 personal injury suit of
George 7. Kuhn VS.. Peter Do!se, pro-
prietor of the Dolse Brothers stone
quarry near Buffalo. was brought to
sudden termination in district court
Wednesday morning. The trial Of the
suit was started Tuesday afternoon. 1t
was resumed Wednesday morning. and
after a short time the attorneys got
together and agreed on a settlement.
This was $500.
Des Moines.
Joe Kelley, of Valley Junction, was
instantly killed at the coal mine of the
Des Moines Coal Company at Forty
sixth and Park avenue while engaged
in his work as mule driver in the mine.
The top of the mans head was crushed
when. thru some unknown cause, he
fell beneath the wheels of the car of
coal he was hauling out of the mine.
His widow and three children survive.
He was SO years of age,
Muscatine.
Dr. f. B. F'ulliam, Jr.. received a
hurried call Tuesday shortly after
o'clock in the afternoon to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. II. E. Temple, of Wis
consin street. South Muscatine, and on
arrival found their 6-weeks-old child
dead in bed at the side of the mother.
Coroner E. H. King was Immediately
notified and after an investigation
stated that the child was smothered to
death accidentally, and that an inquest
was not necessary. The mother is only
IS years old.
Ottun1wa.
An Iowa girl, Miss Eloise Vest, OF
Ottumwa, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. 5.
l.. vest was one of the ten members
Of the 1915 class of Swarthmore Col
lege to be honored with mem bership In
the exclusive Phi Beta Kappa society,
an honor given Miss Vest because of
her high position attained in school ac-
tivities of all kinds. Miss Vest was the
second girl to have won a Swarthmore
scholarship for the highest honors in
high school graduating class of the
high schools west of the Allegheny
mountains.
Fairfield.
Charles Gossick, the 12-year- son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John Gossick, who re-
ferson county hospital, suffering in
tensely from a leg fractured at the
thigh, while returning from school
i Ilc dCClucUL vas tIlC lCSull VI a o6 oh
in which he was coasting colliding with
an iron bar on small bridge at the
foot of Second street. An x-ray photo
graph showed that the lads leg was
badly fractured. He was remived to the
hospital, where he is resting as well az
can be expected.
Davenport.
Harry Kelley, arrested a month age
for bouncing a hammer on co-work-
ers head and who later jumped his
bond and left the city, was again APP
pretended and brought into police
court late Tuesday and sent up FOL
thirty days. Harry Du Chesne was the
complaining witness. The warrant
charged Kelley with assault with in.
tent to infiict bodily injury and to es.
cape the grand jury he agreed to en-
ter plea Of guilty to a lighter charge
Kelley was given the alternative OF 3
500 fine or thirty days in the coop
and being fundless he accepted the lat.
ter. Kelley and Du Chasne were work.