Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1908 — Almost Had a Shooting. [ARTICLE]

Almost Had a Shooting.

A shooting affray was narrowly averted Friday evening shortly before 6 o’clock. The participants to the affair were Ed Ames and John A. Williams. Both are farmers Jiving southwest of town, and it is said they have been on the outs for some time, some difficulty about threshing having kept each angry at the other. Both were in town Friday and Ames alleges that Williams was following him around and that he had called him bad names. Just as Ames was near the Alfred Thompson ' property he pulled a revolver from his pocket and demanded that Williams follow him no farther. There were about 50 people in range of the revolver and they scattered at a lively rate. Harry Kipllnger and others succeeded in getting Ames to put up the gun and Williams went away. Amec was afterwards lodged tn jail, but no charge was filed against him, and he was later released. Luella, the five year old daughter of J. M. Penrod, living near Hartford City, was severely stung by bumblebees while playing in her father’s orchard. Mr. Penrod was severely hart in rescuing her, but the child was stung more than fifty times. She is in a serious condition.