Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-04

| his trousers pockets. The gun was
accidentally discharged, the bullet
penetrating the boys thigh. His young
| companions examined the wound and
attempted to dig out the bullet with
therropocket knives. with the result
! that the boy nearly bled to death be-
fore he received the care of n physician.
! The annual state convention of the
! Christian churches in Iowa will be held
in Des Moines beginning August 16,
instead of August %, as at first decid-
! ed. The meetings will be held in
| University Place Christian church,
! The preachers who will attend this
one fare rate on railroads made be-
| cause of the race meeting held here at
that time. 1t is expected that fully
500 people will attend.
A bad wreck occurred on the Des
Moines & Northwestern two miles east
of Kennedy. The west bound passen-
ger coach was thrown over and down
an embankment, SCATTERING the car.
The engine, baggage car and last coach
al. left the track and are badly
wrecked. Forty people were on board.
The Dexter people in the wreck were:
J. 5. Downie, severely cut in the arm;
Prof. w. II. Barr, injured about the
head; C. II. Lyon and c. G.. Pugh, both
uninjured. Fast running on poor
roadbed caused the nc ident. Mr..
Downie's injuries were the worst re-
ported. 1t was narrow escape from
a terrible death to many.
A street enhancement gave way at
Sioux City before great volume OF
water gathered back of it from the
rains, and caused the water to flood
the big round house of the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis 4 Omaha com
pany, covering the floors with mud
and doing fully SIS, 900 damages to
buildings, machinery and stores The
oil in the three cisterns under the
store house was flooded up and carried
away. The same company's track and
that of the Illinois Central were washed
out for a distance of 500 feet north ot
the city, and all trains are delayed,
Fully $4,000 damage was done tc
streets in the city. Lightning struck
a dozen places in the city, and Mrs. ii.
G. Ford was dangerously injured.
In speaking of the coming races at
Des Mones, the American Trotter
says: 1t is fitting that at the capital OF
the great state of Iowa, whose giant
strides in the breeding of the light har.
ness horse are the wonder of the world,
there should be an association which
has the courage and enterprise to offer
as large an amount IN stakes and purses
as was ever before offered by any asso'
cation in the world; in fact, the first
meeting at which the enormous sum oil
one hundred thousand dollars is hung
up takes place at Des Moines, Iowa
August Is to 20 inclusive. In addition
to the stakes closed and such specia
attractions as the. race between Del
march and Allerton and the conflict be
tween the trio of great PAGERS, Roy
Wilkes, 2:0s14, Manager, 2:1l]s anc
Guy, 2:11M, there are purses of one
thousand dollars each for free for-all
2:19, 2:22, 2:29, 2:32, 2:35, las trot ant
free. for-all and a:25 pace, entries t.
which close Monday, August /.
A head-end collision between two
heavily loaded freight trains took plac,
at Logan. The west bound tram was
taking water at the tank when tho
| o,St-bound +roin duSbad into IL roi
at about ten miles an hour. The east
bound train had attempted to stop anC
switch off, as per orders, but the all
brakes completely failed to work, re
sulting in the collision. Both engines
were but slightly damaged. The
bumpers on the cars were all broken,
Two braliemen were somewhat bruised
but no bones broken. man named
Harry Thompson, who had been a.
Work at Wheatland, Iowa, and who
had been stealing a ride from Boone il
a car of coal, had both legs caught
between plate of steel which was in
the end of the car, crushing the bones
of the legs in shocking manner. One
leg has been amputated by DIR. j. C
wood, railroad surgeon at Logan, who
to be taken off also. Thompson say!
he was on his way to Sioux City to ge
work. He is about 81 years old anC
has S14 in money and therefore is not {
tramp.
A day of reckoning is at hand anC
trouble is about to begin among a gang
of mlscreants near State Center. Fol
years depredations of various kinds
have been committed in the town anc
vicinity, farmers generally being thu
victims. Almost every conceivable ar
ticle that could be carried off has beer
stolen, and other acts of lawlessnes
have been committed, and heretofor,
no definite clue to the perpetrators ha
been obtained. A farmer named w. f
Crawford. southeast of town, has beer
one of the principal sufferers, and hi
especial efforts to ferret out the gang
have been rewarded. Recently tn,
ton of Mr.. Crawford, went out ant
searched the place worked by Joe ant
Frank Bale, young men, and founC
nearly every article that had beef
stolen from Mr.. Crawford and others il
the community. The boys were arrest
ed and agreed to turn states evidence
duplicating some half dozen othe
young fellows, all sons of prominen
and well-to-do farmers. Interesting
developments are expected, and it i
hoped that the thieying gang will a
last he effectually broken up
At the residence of Mr.. Will Par
melee, foreman of the Davenport pain
works, the servant in the household i
Miss Belle Buckingham and she has
complaint to make against Jack tn,
Barber. Retiring one night recent,
she saw that the screen was fastened
and the blinds closed. Miss Buck;ng
ham Is a sound sleeper and does no
remember of hearing anything excep