Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-06-28
RHEyITIES.

E. r. Vanvolenburgh, of Muscatine,
an old soldier who fought in the Four
teenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, while
on his way fishing, fell from street
car, receiving injuries from which he
died.
One day last week the people of
| Ottumwa voted to accept the propo-
sition of Andrew Carnegie to give $780,
600 for the erection of free public
! library, providing $1,000 a year was
pledged to support it. The vote was
! light, but was carried by the women
by majority OF 240.
| The contract for the iron work of the
new auditorium, now being rebuilt,
has been let to the Des Moines Bridge
and Iron Works. The contract of the
iron work was taken by the Crellin
company for $3.50, while it originally
cost 81, 100. The work will be done in
Des Moines and will be hustled with
the true spirit of energy which has
prevailed in the city of late.
The Iowa delegates, while at Phila-
delphia. selected the following Of
ficers: president, c. NJ. Hinsdale;
credentials, NJ. j. Tobin; permanent
organization, w. M. Mcfarland; rules,
j. c. Maberry; resolutions, G. w.
French; to notify president, c. f.
| Albrook; to notify vice-president, X.
j. Marsh; member national committee.
E. L. Hart; to present name of Dol
liver, LATE Young.
At Sioux City recently, during a ter
rife thunder storm, lightning killed
boy named Clarence Whistler and set
fire to a barn in which were a number
of valuable breeding horses, all of
which were burned. Young Whistler
had gone into the barn to seek shelter
from the storm and while there he was
killed by the lightning stroke that set
the barn ablaze. The horses burned
were valued at Sl5,0 900; one of them,
! Grand Sultan, was alone considered
worth $4,000, being a high grade trot-
ting stallion with mark of 2:104.
The horses were the property of w. p.
Keefe.
Ira Hustled, of Cedar Rapids, was
recently arrested on charge of max
ing and passing counterfeit money.
He waived the preliminary examina-
ton and was held to await the action
of the federal grand jury. Hustled
formerly lived at Belle PLANE and has
been the most persistent violator" of
the liquor laws that the state has
known. He has spent at least two
thirds of the last twenty years in Jail.
Some time ago he came to Cedar
Rapids and has been living in one of
the most aristocratic parts of the
town. When arrested, counterfeit
money was found on his person and a
search of his rooms disclosed the pres
ence of metal and a complete counter
feiting outfit with the exception of the
dies
Clear Lake dispatch: Lewis Burns,
the sixteen-year old son of Thomas
Burns, living at Wheelerwood, small
town north of Clear Lake, met his
death in gravel pit on the outskirts
Of town. He had gone with wagon
and team to get a load Of gravel,
when, while he was shovelling down
in the pit, the walls, without the
slightest warning, gave way and COM
pletely buried him. Half an hour later
his mother wondered at his absence
and went in search of him. She was
Mortified on approaching the pit to see
the team and partly filled wagon
standing on the edge but no trace of
the boy She Immediately went for
aid and he was discovered under eight
feet of dirt and gravel, his body still
warm but life extinct.
At Washington recently Mrs. Nina
Webb and 3-year-old son George were
badly burned. Mrs. Webb was can
ming fruit and was in the act of tight
ening the lid of the can in her hand
when it bursted. the hot contents run
ming down her left arm and hand,
scalding it badly. 1t also ran down
over the head and shoulders of her
little son at her feet. Both were
badly burned and scalded and the fruit
on their persons made the burned
places look frightful. The mother
tainted and did not recover until the
arrival of physician. The burns of
the child cover more space, and the
little ones body is badly blistered.
The mothers burns are deeper. They
are doing well. but it will be long
time before the burned places are
healed.
Des Moines dispatch: The big plant
of the Des Moines and Liverpool Pack
ing Company, which has been closed
for the last two years, will be put in
operation within the next few months.
The preliminary negotiations have
been concluded and Harry West, who
has been manager of the house since it
was opened by the Des Moines and
Liverpool company, has gone east to
close contract with parties who will
interest themselves with him for the
organization of stock company to
operate the house. Up to the time the
house was closed all but $4,000 of the
capital stock of the company was held
by John Whitworth, of Liverpool,
England. Mr.. Whitworth was one of
the largest meat brokers in Europe
and besides finding market for the
product of the house abroad, he
. handled the output of number of
other American houses. Three years
ago he died and the property went to
his seven heirs. They were not all in
favor of continuing the house in opera
ton. despite the fact that the business
had always been a profitable one, and
the result was that it was closed.