Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-20

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grain. Some fields of rye have been
plowed and will be sown to late grass
or planted to corn.
The recent heavy rains are again
causing the Chicago q Northwestern
Company considerable trouble with the
dump at the Coon river bridge, west of
Jefferson, as the grade commenced to
slide away. Work trains were immedi
ately summoned to the place to make
necessary repairs to prevent accidents
The Webster County Coal and Land
company is preparing to open their
new mine at Lehigh with negro miners
as the other men have been OH strike
all spring. Friday night incendiaries
burned two of the company's tene-
ments, and it was intended that all
should be destroyed. The Great
Northern railway company owns the
mine and is determined to operate it.
Mrs. William Bradshaw, residing
one mile east of Fairfield was probably
fatally injured in a runaway Friday
evening She had just started to town
when dogs scared the horse, which ran
away and ran into wire clothes line.
The top of the buggy was torn off and
Mrs. Bradshaw thrown to the ground.
She was unconscious all night. Her
back and spine were injured and severe
internal injuries are feared.
Asa Pearce, janitor at the Young
Mems Christian association rooms at
Malvern, met with a severe accident
Friday. He was standing on the side
walk in front of the building when a
team came tearing down the street at
a fearful pace. Pearce rushed out and
caught the lines, which were dragging,
and in doing so he was thrown down,
the wheels Of the wagon passing over
his legs, crushing and bruising the
flesh in a frightful manner.
Peter Hanson, postmaster at Oak
Grove, six miles south of Grinnell and
John Rutherford, a prominent farmer
of that place, got into an altercatiOL in
RutherfOrd'S house. The trouble Origi-
mated over letter received by Han
son, rejecting upon his honesty, sup
posed to have been inspired by Ruther-
ford. Hanson shot Rutherford in the
face and in the stomach. He at once
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self up. A surgeon found Rutherford
wounds not necessarily dangerous. The
second ball struck II button and
changed its course, thus preventing
more serious injury. The bad feeling
is of long standing.
John Tucker, prominent and we'll
to- do citizen of Crescent, is in Omaha
searching for his wife, whom he has
lost all trace of. About two months
ago Mrs. Tucker disappeared from her
pleasant home and has not been seen
since, although Tucker has made Wig
Orous search for her, as he is nearly
distracted over her sudden disappear
ance, without any apparent reason for
so doing. He has traced her to Omaha
by the means of letter from Mrs.
Tucker to a friend and post marked
Omaha" but what part of that city
she is in he cannot as yet ascertain, rs
she gave no clue in the letter as to
where she was, what she was doing or
giving any reasons for leaving her
home. Mr.. Tucker is in Omaha and is
having the police try to locate his wife
, Mrs. Jennie Wilson Manning, OF
Charlton, who was last year adjudged
insane and sent to the hospital at Clar-
india, and afterwards released as cured
and went out west to lecture, returned
) to her home in Charlton few weeks
, ago and was comparatively sane, but
the other day her old mania began to
show itself and she was deemed un.
safe to be on the streets, and was
=, placed in the custody of the sheriff and
ordered by the board of insanity to be
reincarcerated in the hospital. She
=, took an appeal to the district court
, however, and it will necesSitate tria
to beside her sanity. She protests that
she is as sane as any person alive anG
that is part of plot to have her sent
back to Clarinda. The spiritualisti(
mania is the one thing that bothers
: her, she believing in spirits and hypnO
= tism. On all other subjects she appears
sane enough and it Will be hard mat
ter to prove her insane.
1 The grand jury of Crawford county
g after thorough investigation of the
g condition of the county funds, have
f prepared and sent to the county board
of supervisors report stating that the
o funds are in very bad shape and are
! not receiving proper attention from
. the board. The report says some OF
, the funds have been leaned out with
out sufficient protection; that money
, is loaned on town lots which should be
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