Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-22

by an exp osion of gun powder cap
caused by holding a match to it..
The city water tank at New mart
ford. 100 feet high, burned to tn,
ground a few days ago. The fire wa
caused by the explosion of gasoline
lamp. ine loss is 1000.
The first of the week Willis Nc
Carly of Emmetsburg, one of the mos
prominent business men in northwest
ern Iowa. had one finger shot of ant
two 80 badly mutllated that 1t is fear
ed amputation of the hand will bt
necessary. Mr.. McCarty was hunting
near Whittemore and while in the &C
of shooting at some game the gun wa!
discharged with the results stated.
While the mother was absent from
the room two children of William
Sanders, a farmer four miles east Of
| Steamboat Rock, set fire to the era
die in which 10-months-old baby
was sleeping, causing its death. Mrs
Sanders left the baby in the cradle
in charge of the two children, both
very young. She was gone only a
the clothing in the cradle in flames
and the little one terribly burned.
The accident happened in the morn
ing and the child fingered until late
! in the afternoon. Just how the chill
dren set fire to the cradle is not
| known, but 1t is supposed it was &C
| cidental.
In the district court at Marshall
| town Judge Burnham made a ruling
in the case of John Ward VS.. The
Marshalltown Light, Power & Rail
way company that raised a new law
point for the supreme court to de-
eide as a precedent Ward sued the
street railway company for $40 600
for being hit by a car. The jury did
not agree on any amount, but each
set down his estimate of the proper
sum for recovery. added the different
! items, divided the total by twelve and
returned a verdict of only $67. This,
! the court held irregular. and set the
| verdict aside. The defendant will ap
| peal and the case will not be tried
! again until a decision is obtained from
| the supreme court on the point.
Predicatng his demand for $4,000
damages upon the right of religious
| liberty and free speech guaranteed by
tate priest of the Roman Catholic
church, appeared in the district court
at Grundy Center as plaintlrf in what
! promises to be one of the most inter
esting trials that has ever taken place
in central Iowa. The defendants are
sixteen citizens of Grant township,
mostly farmers. by whom Seguin al
! ieges that he was attacked after a lee
ture delivered at the town OF Dixie
and claims that he sustained a broken
! arm and a ruptured ear drum. lost
! three teeth and received permanent
/ nervous injuries.
What in all probability will be
! fatal accident occurred near Murray
/ a few days ago. Reuben Huff, while
hunting rabbits with a sort of blum
derbus rife, shot himself in the right
side through the liver. He crawled
! distance OF nearly a mile to the
house Of a MIR. Root, who took him
| to his home in Murray. Huff's gun
was 22-Calibre rife sawed off to
/ length of about twelve inches anC
set in a stock made by himself. He
carried this in his pocket while hum
| ing rabbits II jumping off wire
| fence it fe.- out and discharged witt
! the above results. There is but lit
! tie chance of him surviving. He hai
! a family in almost destitute circum
stances.
In his annual report of the tota
/ crop harvested by the farmers of lows
! in the year 1904, J. R. Sage, director
| OF the Iowa crop and weather service
shows a total of 323,S53,33O bushels
| OF corn, or nearly 100000 bushels
! in excess of the fOndest predictions
of those presumed to be in possession
! of facts as to the crop planted anG
! the quantity
The next largest crop is that OF
! oats, of which there were approx
mately 11S,500,000 bushels harvested
| The total croD for the state is valued
at 1921 .207,258. as compared with
$3.50 413,i04 for the year 1909 Mr.
/ Sage makes this report in spite Of the
fact that he believes that the cOndi
tons of crop growing have been rath
er adverse throughout tie wear The
average value per bnsh"l of the farm
products OF the state is about s.
cents.
! Whether William TitteringtOn. an
/ insane man who recently died in the
asylum at independence, was a resi-
dent of Iowa or Illinois. is a question
| that was tried all the past week in
/ the district court at Emmetsburg, and
on the answer to which hangs the
| distribution of the personal property
belonging to the dead man, worth
! $4,000 in cash. TitteringtDn is a
nephew of, William Braithwaite of
Davenport If Titterington was a resi-.
| dent of Iowa, English heirs will in.
! herit five-sixths of his estate. II his
| legal residence was in Illinois, the
! English heirs will be shut out by the
laws of that state and Braithwaite
will get it all. Titterington had been
in the asylum for two years and prior
to that time had lived near Emmets.
burg for six years. There are con.
Hicting statements, however as to
where he considered his legal resi-
! dence to be. and a hard fight is being
made on behalf of the English heirs.
Carr Mcdowell and Miss Nina
! Hayes, two well known young peo-
| pie of Iowa Falls were skating on the
river and in the dim light of the
moon did not notice that some one
had been cutting ice during the day
and the couple skated into the open
water. Before they realized what had
happened, Miss Hayes was completely
immersed in the icy bath and Mr.. Nc
Dowell was in the water up to his
neck. having grasped some firm ice as
he went down. Mcdowell managed to