Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-22
Southern Iowa Items

nesses is made the basis in the Shafer
case, the names of the witnesses and
the amounts of money paid Is In each
instance set out in detail. All of the
ten charges grow out of the Shafer case
and the committee asks that Attorney
Davis be disbarred. As soon as the
report was filed Judge WillcockSon or
1ered citation issued. citing Mr. Davis
to appear on the first day Of the Feb
ruary term of court to answer the
Feb. ).
Muscatinc.
Battery c. crack national guard bat
terry of the United States. will be dis
solved and mustered out within the
immediate future. This was decided
pra Ctically beyond all question of doubt
when by heavy vote, the art!llerymen
decided against retention of thu bat
terry in MuScatinc under existing con-
ditions which includes subscribing to
the new federal oath. Such decision
BY the hattcrymen was not unexpected
as it had been widely reported for some
time thai the men would not he willing
to take the new oath which provides
for six years service. three years ac-
tive and three years on the reserve list.
subject TO any contingency.
Burlington.
Fire shortly after $50 O'Clock Friday
morning completely destroyed the fur
niturc on the lower floor of the home OF
Max Buchter 100 South Adams street.
and badly damaged the entire lower
portion Of the house. The cause of the
| blaze is said to have been n coal oil
explosion. Mrs. Buchter was attempt
ing to start fire In Neater in the
living room, the firemen say. when the
explosion occurred. The blaze proved
obstinate in starting and she resorted
to the use Of the coal oil can. A short
explosion followed. the flames spread to
the furniture and other intlammable
objects about the room. Mrs! Buchter
was uninjured and Immediately rushed
from the burning building with her
infant
Musoatins.
Shipment OF 200 cars OF live stock
thru Muscatine Thursday over the
Rock island lines and equally heavy
corsignments over other roads has
added to the freight tie-up and scar
city OF coal here. The high price OF
cattle on the Chicago market has also
been OF great influence in sending
heavy consignments eastward from
Iowa points. Live stock takes the right
of-way over many other kinds or
| freight and the present condition OF
| freight shipments in this locality suf-
| fered much for this reason. 1t Is ex-
pected that the heavy live stock ship
ments will break the Chicago market
and prices will fall off to such an ex-
tent that stock shippers will call a halt
to their exceedingly active business OF
the past week.
M":ce.;.e.
County Attorney c.. r Stafford
Thursday hled petitions in the district
court asking that injunctions be grant
! ed to restrain Albert Peterson and A
o. Grey from the illegal sale OF intox-
icatiug liquors. The action Is the re-
suit Of the recent efforts Of both men
on bootlesging charges. Grey Is now
| serving a sentence of two months In
the county inii as tie result .; his
pleading guilty to the charge and AL
bert Peterson. who was arrested the
hrst part of this week by Deputy
Sheriff Sardcrs and Constable Cooper
entered plea OF guilty In Judge Cos
ters court to be bound over to the
| grand jury on bonds of $500. in failure
of which he is being held in the county
Jail. He wishes to enter plea OF guilty
in the district court and 1t is probable
that he Will be brought before Judge
Doneeap this week.