Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-11-24
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
THE NEWS IN IOWA

been laid off. The track in section
adjacent to Creston is now In fine
condition. During the East few
months hundreds of trains of gravel
from the Des Mooines pit have been
hauled to harden the track bed.
A jury trial in the case of Mrs. Fl.
l. Hacker VS.. City of Osceola for
personal damages was ended by a
verdict for plaintiff for $3.50. 1t was
a compromise verde, after the
Jury had been out twenty hours. Mrs.
Hacker fell on defective sidewalk
and sustained a bone fracture OF the
ankls joint She has not been able
to use her leg since.
While Mrs. Joseph Scoville Of AL
coma, was visiting at a neighbor's
her house took fire from some un'
known cause and two and half
year old boy was burned to death.
The body was taken from the burn.
ing building before it fell. Another
child was in the house at the time;
a girl or years of age, and when
her mother, but help came too late
10 save lnS younger cHiIu.
In the belief that they know some
thing about the recent postofiice rob-
berry at st. Charles, the Winterset
police are holding Dick James and
Frank Smith, both we'll known char
acters Of that part OF the country.
The men are being kept in Jail on
charge Of intoxication, but it Is gener-
ally understood that the officers are
endeavoring to secure evidence war
ranting their detention as being con-
nected with the st. Charles robbery.
Edward Ray Johnson of Iowa City,
Casper Schenck Of Waterloo and Will
F. Hellburg Of Anamosa, are the
three Iowa university students who
have this year been hOnOred by the
United States government for excel
lence in military tactics and drill
during their university course. The
names of these three young men APP
pear in the United Sta.s5 army regis
ter for 1904. Three men were also
elected from the universities OF MIN
nesota and Wisconsin and the Shat
tuck Military school.
FoL oNtk tHo LlohA Ap'sb' '$DS'' ~
prominent cigar dealer, Of Oskaloosa,
dressed as q poor street musician,
went about the business part Of town
playing dilapidated fiddle and beg
ging aims. delegation OF ladies In
terested in the OskalOOsa hospital
accompanied him and acted as cash.
iers. Over one hundred dollars was
NntI
suit of an election bet on New York,
and Mr.. Loeb had to settle. George
Cooks, scion OF the well-knnWn
family Of contractors and society
| favOrite, carried a sandwich adVer'
tisement strapped about him, be-
cause he agreed to do 50 II Indiana
went republican.
An accident that might have proved
! fatal to l,ev. Father Brennan or st.
Marys mission at Fonda, occurred a
few days ago. He was driving one OF
his fancy drivers with new bit. The
horse did not take kindly to the new
mouth-piece and began kicking. He
kicked viciousIy, broke the dash
board and hit the legs Of Father
Bremen just below the knees. Both
legs were broken. The left one re
ceived a compound fracture about
three inches above the ;:lkle and
the right one was broken three inches
below the knee. After the bore: were
broken Father Bremen jumped from
the buggy. Doctors Whitney anC
Dover were called. They set the
homes and report tho patient resting
easy.
Harry Raymond, a welI-known tray
cling man living in Pittsburg, Pa.
was severely injured at Elmira willie
en- route from Cedar Rapids to lows
City. With several others he wa!
travelling in the caDoose or frelgn
train. In switching at Elmira the
train was cut in two, and when I
was connected again the impact wa!
so terrific mat Mr.. l-LymOuu, who wa!
sitting down, was thrown .ne Who'll
length of the cabOose. sustaining Sc
we're bruises in the abdomen. He wa
taken to Iowa CITY. and seemed t
get better, leaving that city for Ceda
Rapids. but wnen he arrived there h.
was compelled to 60 to st. Luke
hospital AS he was travelling In
regular way a suit for damages ma.
be instituted against the Rock Island
While visiting the worlds fair
Mrs. Matt McDermott OF TT. Dodge
discovered her husband, who myster
iously disappeared over year and
half ago and was mourned as dead
On May 10, 1908, McDermott, VIII
was a prosperous farmer, left hi
home in Glare for Fl. Dodge, when. a.
trace of him, was lost. Fields an
woods were searched and ponds an
streams dragged for the body of tn
missing man under the theory tina
: he had committed suicide or had bee
murdered. No clue being found
was generally supposed he was deat
The family gave up hopes an
, mourned him as dead. McDermOi
, returned with his wife and is now q
|, his home. His memory is blank a
, to the past and it is supposed tina
he left in fit of temporary il
> sanity.
Howard D. Daugherty is lying yer
= low in the hotel at Benton from burn
y received on election night Daughe
. ty Is foreman of a gang which Is la.
:. ing steel on the Chicago Great Yves
. ern railroad in Ringgold county, an
went election night to Knowlton I
get the returns. The results suite
him so well that he proceeded
celebrate, and he was arrested fc
: intoxication. Shortly after bein
Y placed in the town calabOose he a
: tempted to light cigarette, and a
b cidently set fire to the Jail. by til