Friday, 9 Aug 1912--EDITORS FIGHT DUEL; BYSTANDER SHOT--Editors Hamilton and Davis Empty Revolvers at Each Other In Post Office--Both Slightly Wounded--Huntsville, MO, August 4--Bitter personal quarrels over the Whitecotton-Rucker congressional campaign in Randolph county reached their climax when John N. Hamilton, 58 years old, editor of the Huntsville Herald, and Van Davis, 35 years old, editor of the Huntsville Times, became engaged in a sensational pistol duel which started in the Post Office here at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon and resulted in both men and Pearl Gunn, a bystander, being wounded. Several hundred persons returning from a Chautauqua lecture scattered as a fusillade of bullets whizzed over their heads and many narrowly escaped being wounded. The Post Office in Huntsville opens on Sunday afternoon for an hour or two to give out mail. Hamilton was seen to go into the Post Office about 4:30 p.m. Shortly afterwards Van Davis entered. Seven or eight men were lined up waiting for their mail. Hamilton was at the end of the line. When Davis entered he turned. Both men uttered an exclamation and both drew guns. Almost simultaneously two shots rang out. Neither shot took effect. Davis was armed with a .32 caliber revolver of a cheap make. Hamilton swung a large automatic revolver and took another step toward Davis. The automatic barked once again. Davis, who was about ten feet away, backed off, firing rapidly and emptying his gun. He was seen to stagger, then, steadying himself, he hurled the empty revolver, narrowly missing Hamilton's head. Then he turned and ran out of the Post Office, with Hamilton after him. During the last two shots Pearl Gunn, who was standing back of the two men in the narrow Post Office, staggered and fell against the wall. A bullet had entered his body just below the heart, making a serious wound. Davis ran from the Post Office and down the street. Several hundred persons returning from the Chautauqua lecture were coming down the street toward the Post Office. At their head was J. W. Morris, deputy sheriff. Hamilton sent several shots after the fleeing Davis, who was staggering and soon came to a stop. the crowd scattered as the bullets whizzed over the heads and sang about the cars of several persons. Morris grappled with Hamilton and took the revolver from him. Both men were placed under arrest. Davis was given emergency treatment at the Jail, where it was found that a bullet had entered his left hip. Hamilton was found to be suffering from a wound in his right arm. Both men will recover. Gunn, the bystander who was wounded, is in a serious condition. Hamilton and Davis were released on $1000 bond for their appearance at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning before a justice of the peace. The clothing of both men showed several holes made by the bullets. The shooting was the result of a quarrel between Hamilton and Davis over an article which Davis printed in the Times last Tuesday and in which Hamilton declares he have him the "lie." The article was in connection with the Whitecotton-Rucker race for the Democratic nomination for Congress in the Second District. Both papers are Democratic, the Herald supporting Whitecotton and the Times espousing the cause of Rucker. Considerable feeling has existed between the two men it is said since Davis left the employ of Hamilton over a year ago and became editor of the Huntsville Times. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--B. B. Pyle is here from Texas for a visit with his father, G. H. and other relatives. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Misses Cora and Mollie Williams of Ft. Worth, Texas, arrived yesterday for a visit with their father, Jake Williams, of near Myers. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--The shooting affray between John N. Hamilton, editor of the Huntsville Herald, and Van Davis, editor of the Huntsville Times, is a very unfortunate affair both for the principals as well as the town and the county, and it is to be hoped that the friends of each will do all in their power to have the gentlemen shake hands and forget past differences. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mr. Joe Lang, Jr, and Miss Rita Inman of Moberly were quietly married at the home of E. M. Whitmore here on August 4th by Rev. E. L. Mitchell. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. Earl Simpson and son returned to their home in Roundup, Montana, Tuesday, after an extended visit with her parents, Henry B. Cubbage and wife. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--T. L. Warford, who has been operating a bowling alley at Macon, was here Sunday and informed us that he had moved to Clarence, where he was enjoying a good business. He says Macon is a dead one. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. John Key is visiting her parents, F. C. Dodd and wife, at Clifton Hill. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--The Gem has been showing some extra good pictures this week. Some excellent views of the ill-fated Titanic were shown Monday night. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Thos. Evans and wife returned first of the week from a month's visit with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Thomas at Emporia, Kan. They were accompanied home by Miss Ester Thomas, who will spend a month or six weeks. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Born, on the 3rd, to Elmer Dennis and wife, a daughter. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--MISS KATHRYN BURKE DEAD--The relatives, friends and acquaintances of Miss Kathryn Burke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Burke of this place were shocked beyond measure when a message was received from Colorado Springs last Sunday night conveying the sad intelligence of her death there that day at Glackner Sanitarium, where she was taken on the 20th of last May in the hope of restoring her health, which began to fail last September. Her death was a terrible blow to her family, as she was supposed to be improving and a letter had been received from her only the day before stating that she was feeling better, and that she could hardly wait for her mother and sister, who were to have left for Colorado Springs Wednesday, to arrive. The particulars of her death have not yet been received but it is thought that it may have been caused from hemorrhage or heart trouble. The body arrived Wednesday and was taken to the home of the heartbroken family, and the constant stream of sorrowing friends who called at the home to extend sympathy and to take a last look at one they knew so well, spoke more eloquently than words of the esteem in which she was held. Deceased was born in Salisbury, Mo. on July 8, 1888, and died on August 4, 1912. She came to Higbee with her parents in infancy, where she grew to womanhood, and it can be truthfully said of her that a more gentle, sympathetic or refined spirit never lived among us. She was popular with all of her acquaintance and will be sadly missed. In her death her parents have lost a loving and dutiful daughter and the town one of its sweetest characters. The body will be taken to Salisbury today and laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery, after services at the church there. Besides her fond parents she is survived by three brothers and five sisters, and the sympathy of all go out to them in their great sorrow. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Born, on the 4th, to Rev. S. Quick and wife, a son. (This child is Ray Quick, son of Hattie Mae Atkins Quick, Harvey Jacks first cousin). Friday, 9 Aug 1912--AFTER BIG FORTUNE---There was a meeting in Higbee Saturday at the home of Mr.and Mrs. A. G. Atkins which may eventually mean the bringing of several barrels of money, and then some, into this community, the meeting being of those who believe themselves heirs to a vast estate in the city of New York--160 acres, in fact, situated in the heart of the city and covered with skyscrapers and costly buildings of all kinds. The property in question is known as the Enyart estate and land in question was leased several generations ago for 99 years. The lease expired last year, we learn, and heirs in different parts of the country have put in claims for the property. The heirs here, among whom are Mrs. Atkins and some sixty or seventy others, can prove beyond a doubt, we learn, that they are the direct descendants of the original owners of the property. This vast estate, we learn, is not on paper or in the imagination of some scheming lawyer, as generally happens in such cases, but really exists. If the heirs here can ever get their part of it they will have more money than they will know what to do with, for the estate is estimated to be worth 500 million dollars. At the meeting here Saturday, at which were other heirs from Kansas City, Keytesville, Salisbury and Macon county--about 100 in all--it was decided to get in correspondence with other heirs in Pennsylvania who are to hold a similar meeting some time next week, that an understanding may be reached and all act in harmony in taking proper steps to get a division of the property. Here's hoping that the anticipation's of each will be realized. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Thos. Lessley of Salisbury is here visiting his brother, Joseph. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--JAS. R. LYON--In the death of Jas. R. Lyon, who died on July 31, 1912, brief mention of which was made in our issue of last week, the county has lost a mighty good citizen and his wife and children a kind and indulgent father. Mr. Lyon was a native of Kentucky, being born in that state August 20, 1840. When the Civil War came on he naturally took up the cause of the South, and saw some very hard service in the Confederate army, being engaged in some of the biggest and fiercest battles. After the war he returned home, and in 1874 moved to this state, locating at Clifton Hill, from which place he removed shortly afterward to his late home west of town, where he had since resided. he had been married three times. His first wife was Marry Wood, whom he married in 1866. To this union five children were born. His wife dying in 1879, he married Miss Emma Hayden, in 1884. Two children were born to this union, both dying in infancy, and were followed by the mother in 1903. In 1907 he was married to Mrs. Annie Hersman, who with the children by the first marriage, survives him. Mr. Lyon was converted in 1875 and joined the Salem Baptist church, and so far as we were able to judge lived a truly consistent christian life. Funeral services were held at Mt. Salem by Rev. D. B. Clifton, his old pastor and friend, and the body laid to rest by the side of his first wife. All who knew Uncle Jim, as he was familiarly called, liked him, and all who had dealings with him knew him to be a man whose word was as good as his bond. peace to his ashes! Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. J. M. Meck and children of Moberly, are the guests of her sister, Mrs. O. L. Farris. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Mrs. John T. Dougherty of near Myers, is spending a few days at Moberly with her son, Edward. Friday, 9 Aug 1912--Porter B. Stamper, a prominent Moberly citizen, was found dead in bed at his home Monday afternoon, Bright's disease being the cause of death. He had been an invalid for years. Kathy Bowlin