Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-08
THE NEWS IN IOWA


freight at Graf, fourteen miles wes
of Dubuque, lost his balance and fel
| head foremost out of the car, striking
on the platform and fracturing his
skull. He was not rendered uncon
scious, and asked to be taken home
but he died within few minutes
thereafter. He was forty-five years
old and leaves a wife and three chill
| dren.
Mrs. P. J. Rock of Parnell, a patien
in the insane department of Mercy
hospital, suicided by hanging. She
made her preparations for the act
with all the cunning of the insane
securing a large towel, which she
tore and made into a moose. She
then climbed upon a table, and after
securely fastening the loop about her
neck, pushed the table from under
her body, and in this manner allowed
herself to be suspended until suffoca-
ton ended her life.
Judge Mcpherson of the federal
court has denied a new trial to the
Western Union Telegraph company in
the case in which the Bark of Gilbert
recovered money which had been ad-
vanced by it to business man whom
the telegraph company had allowed
to send a message to the bank signed,
not by himself but by another bank,
giving him a character The theory
was that the telegraph company knew
that the sender of the telegram was
~
In accordance with the prediction OF
a fortune teller made at Palisade
park, near Iowa Falls, some two years
ago, the reservoir at the park has
yielded a treasure of pearls. The
soothsayer, fixing a prophetic eye up
on the still waters, informed a trust.
ing ruralite that a valuable jewel was
right before him in the river, and
only awaited his search to be dis
covered Recently, when the water
was drawn out, the prophecy was re-
membered and the mud in the bottom
was carefully searched, with the re-
suit that not only one, but three,
round pearls, about as large as peas.
and several smaller ones were dis
closed.
Miss Brand, young lady of La
moni, walked off passenger car
while it was standing over bridge at
that place and fell twenty feet to the
wagon road beneath, breaking her
arm and receiving other injuries
which may prove serious. According
to the story of the trainmen, the
young lady got on the train at La
moni to say good-by to friend, and
while she was in the car the train
was backed down the track to put
car on the side track. When the traic
stopped Miss Brand jumped off, being
unable to see in the darkness that the
car was standing on a bridge twenty
feet above a wagon road. Tho
screams of the injured girl brought
the passengers to the door, and a
doctor was summoned at once.
firing Of the flatiron and soapsuds
and wishing to make his money a
little faster by farming and ,tilling the
soil than by standing all day long
and ironing collars and cuffs, Ii Hung
Chang, a full-blooded Chinaman from
somewhere in the Flowery kingdom,
has rented little farm in the vicinity
of Garden City, on the Des Moines
Short line, in Hardin county, and has
commenced the life of an honest
granger He is undoubtedly the only
ono of his race in the whole state of
Iowa or in the northwest, for that
mater, who ever adopted farming in
this country as an occupation, aud
takes to the work as naturally as a
duck takes to water He has some of
the best corn in the neighborhood.
1t was planted early and is away out
of the way of frost He raised plenty
of potatoes and cabbages and will live
like a king this coming winter.
The first official notifications to
stockholders in the First National
bank of Grinnell that they will be
called upon to pay an assessment OF
| 500 per share to meet the deficit in
| the defunct banks funds, have been
| sent out from Receiver Swords office
| These notices call for the payment OF
the amount of liability by September
=,
| troller of the treasury the receiver is
directed to proceed "by suit or other
wise to enforce" to the full extent the
liability of each stakeholder. But the
receiver is authorized ito grant ar
extension, without interest, to share
holders who pay % per cent of the as
sessment on or before September "a
| 1904, and who will give a written obi
cation, satisfactorily guaranteed, t
pay Is per cent additional on or be
fore October "a, 1904; 25 per cent OF
or before November "a, 1904, and the
remaining 25 per cent on or before
December "a, 1904" 1t is impossible
to estimate at this time how many o
the stockholders will be unable t
meet the whole assessment on &C
count of lack of means, but it is Ger
tain that this will be the case in SOM
instances where stockholders hal
their all in the broken bank. AS
result of this uncertainty it is for tn
present impossible to tell whether dc
posters will be paid in full or not
but the general feeling is that a
worst they will not lose heavily.
Mrs. w. H. Martin, whose huSban
operates a shooting gallery at Cola,
accidentally took an overdose of chic
reform to relieve pain from which sh
! was suffering, and narrowly escape
death as a result.
| Columbus Monohan, aged so year
was found dead on the milwaukee
tracks about four miles north of He,
rick. Monohan was last seen alive
Hedrick and it is claimed was the
, | updar tho iphupnca Of Hnuor II