Audubon Republican., 1904-10-27
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THE NEWS IN IOWA.


outskirts of town and lost $3.50 and a
watch. A posse from Madrid hunted
all night but the thieves escaped.
good description of them was OBJ
tanned.
Conductor Clarence Cotant, extra
passenger conductor on the c., M. &
st. p, was caught by telephone wire
that crossed the track, at OsSlan, and
was thrown from his train, sustaining
internal injuries and breaking his
shoulder.
H. Esgen, a worlds fair visitor
from Oskaloosa, VINO was struck by
an Olive street car as he crossed at
Delrnar and Clarendon avenues, Is
hardly expected to recover. He SUI
fered a fracture of three ribs, scalp
wounds and internal injuries.
With his foot fast in a stirrup and
his head dragging on the ground, the
little son of Tom o. Christian, we'll
known farmer living near Nevada,
was dragged for nearly mile by d
galloping horse. He was badly
bruised bu. no bones were broken al
he will recover.
While walking down the railroad
track at Missouri Valley, stranger
giving the name of Jake LeaboWitZ
was shot and probably fatally injured
The bullet entered the right side ami
passed into the liver The police are
confident that the shooting was an ac-
cident, as some parties were sh0otln&
at a mark near where the shooting
Ocurred A farther investigation is
being made. LeabOwitZ. WHO is Rus
sian Jew about p wears of age, says
his home is in Milwaukee.
Suit has been commenced in the dis
trict court of Marshall county by
David Moore against the town OF LIS
comb for 81 Geo damages. Moore IS
salesman for the Atlantic and PACING
Tea company. and was arrested ar
Iisc0mb several months ago under
the puddlerS law. and in the petition
he alleges that his arrest was at the
instigatiOn of J. c. Myers and w. B
Myers, who, it is alleged, are in the
same business as plaintiff and who
are also made defendants in the ac'
ton.
John Thomas, employed in the
clinker pit at the C., B. & @. round
house at Creston, was run over by an
engine which backed over him. He,
with two other men, was in the pit
and when the engines were backed on
to the pit to be relieved of their fire
the men attempted to escape. Two
were successful but Thomas being
very heavy man stumbled and fell
II
TALLY drawn under the engine, which
ran over his abdomen, Lillng him in
stantly.
Charley Stackhouse, of Hampton, hit
Dick Arends over the head with a
club and seriously injured him. Stock
house and Arends are neighbors and
use the same well. They cannot
agree about it and have frequently
had trouble over the use of the water
StackhOuse told the neighbOrS he
was going to kill old Arends. Arends
waas taken to the hospital and Placed
under the doctors care. StackhOuSe
has been arrested, charged with as
sault with intent to commit great
bodily injury.
Doctor Thomas K Brewster, one OF
Oskaloosa's oldest citizens and a rio-
neer business man, died in that city
a few days ago of blood poisoning
caused by cutting corn on rs foot.
The wound, at first trivial, became
painful, involving the entire foot. and
when medical attention was callel the
entire lower limb was involved. Am.
putation below the knee was reSOrted
to, but with small result, as the poison
had infected the entire system. DR..
Brewster was one of the oldest resi-
dent members of the Congregational
church in the city and was universally
respected and his death causes wide
spread regret.
Passengers on the Chicago Great
Western passenger train that reached
RI Dodge from Chicago a few days
2SD. were treated to the excitement of
riding with a maniac. The demented
man was John McClain, who, with his
mother, was enroute from Bedford
Mass, to San Francisco. The man at
tracted no special attention until the
q reached point west of OelWein
made an effort to jump from the train.
1t required the united efforts of several
trainmen to keep him from getting
away from them and jumping over
board. A telegram sent from Hamp-
ton brought officers who took charge
of him, but found him very violent.
An interesting action in law is to be
tried in the district court at Allison
this term, involving the powers of tho
board of health. Isaac Hall of Jeffer-
son township, who Is a prominent
merchant of Norton's Corners, was
quarantined last spring during the epi.
demic of scarlet fever. He comes now
to test the right of the local board of
| health to keep him confined in his
| home for six weeks and to close his
! store during that time. He alleges in
his petition that it was chicken po,
which he and family had, and not
smallpox. The board of supervisors is
made defendant in the action to re
strain them from levying additiona
tax to meet the expense of the quaran
tine enforcement
DR.. H. B. Cragin Of Alexander, who
is wanted by the county officials, ha!
disappeared very mysteriously, leav
ing his clients and property. DR.. Cra
gin was wanted by the officers on al
information filed against him by tn,
marshal of Alexander, and the caus,
was charged as maintaining a nuis
ance in that he was selling liquor.
While making trapeze in the gal
ret of his home at Sioux City, Arthur
aged years, the son of Frank Haaren
became entangled in the ropes an
was strangled to death. Three year