Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-29

broke l42 out of 100. j. u. Frye Oh the
local club was high amateur with lfV
out of $50. Five shooters tied for sec.
ond place. and Bennett Of Charlton
Gearhart of Des Moines. Coleman oil
Lacey and Powell of Ottumwa. In the
shoot off, Gearhart. won. The team
shoot between Charlton and Ottumwa
for the silver cup was won for the
third and final time by the Charlton
team The teams tied on $50 birds
and Ottumwa lost the shoot off.
| keokuk.
Thomas P. Gray, Of Keokuk. has been
appointed deputy United States mar
shall for the southern district OF Iowa.
! The appointment was made Tuesday
afternoon by Nicholas F. Reed. United
States marshal. Mr.. Gray succeeds the
| late Deputy D. c. Crowley. The APP
pointment was made from a large field
of candidates. Mr.. Gray is no stranger
lirf the marshal's Office. He was appoint
ed deputy marshal under Frank P.
Bradley in 1894 and served in that ca
Pacity for four years. He came 10 keo-
kuk in 1894 from Muscatine. For two
terms Mr.. Gray served the city Of Keo-
kuk as commissioner of public safety.
Both terms were under the Elder ad-
ministration.
West Liberty.
Mrs. Eliza c. Wesson, who died at
her home here at the age OF 10 years,
had on deposit in a local bank, spe-
cial fund with which her funeral ex-
penses are to be paid. according to d.
rections left by her. She was the widow
Of cival war veteran, who was twice
seriously wounded, suffered broken
legs in a wreck of the train which was
bringing him home from the war and
who later lost his 400 acres OF land
thru the extension OF security to false
friends. Embittered by these unkind-
nesses of the fates, Mrs. Wesson de-
veloped sarcastic philosophy which
made her locally famous. BY frugality
she reared her family and came to the
close Of her life, still independent
Essex.
c. ". Peterson. living near here, had
az exciting runaway experience and
one Of the horses came out OF the mix
UP in curious way. While driving
home from Shenandoah with load OF
coal, driving four horses. the horses
ran away on steep hill. Peterson
managed to get out Of the mixup at
the foot Of the hill with only few
slight bruises. and then he began to
hunt for his horses. One Of them was
not in sight, and he supposed It had
gotten lose and had gone on home. Ar
irving there. however. Mr.. Peterson
could not find the fourth horse. but
- No. ~ In
gather up the coal he found the miss
ing horse under the coal at the bottom
OF the ravine. The animal was not
much hurt, either. 1t was found when
| It had been rescued.
Davenport.
Alfred Hoffman, Harry Thomas and
Jerry Kostal met in the dark alley
back of the Black Hawk Hotel at 1880
o'clock Thursday morning. Hoffman
and Thomas had been friends for some
| time. but the latter remembered an old
grudge that remained unsettled.
| Friendly conversation led to hot
words and Thomas pulled a knife. Be
fore Hoffman could throw up his arms
to ward off the blows. Thomas had
slashed three times and the injured
MAJ f"n nnt~~t.--= :-:- 80 cA e.
Ger Graham heard the words and the
muffled thuds as the knife fell. They
ran into the alley and arrested Thomas
at the point of drawn revolvers. Of
fcer Moeller, who was also IN the
vicinity, helped Hoffman to the sta
ton. Dr.. F. Q. Burk was called. and
he ordered the man taken to Mercy
| hosD;tai where he lis resting fairly
easy He is stabbed In the right
breast the left side Of his abdomen and
his left hand is slashed. The wounds
were inflicted with a pocket knife, and
are about three inches deep. The blade
was driven home to the hilt at each
blow