Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-12-01

was instantly killed.
Charles w. Bryan, one of the most
widely known wholesale grocery
travelling statesmen in the country,
was taken from Chicago to Newton
to stand trial on the charge of EN-
bezzling $1.500 from the grocery job
bling house of Mcneil & Higgins com
pany of Chicago, and for alleged ex'
tensive fOrgeries Of mortgages IN
Iowa.
Ada, the 15-year-old daughter o, 6.
w. Seimbleman, living five niles
southwest of Marathon, attempted sui
eide by shooting herself with %
calibre rife. The girl had been dehied
the privilege of keeping company
with a neighboring young man. and
| quietly went up stairs and cOmmitted
the act. The ball pierced her right
| side, lung and liver, and 1t is Thought
that she will die.
John Schnoebclen, prominent
young farmer living near Riverside,
was killed by the breaking OF a cul-
vert over which he was driving. The
front wheels went down into the ditch,
pitching him forward. The horses
plunged, dragging the heavy wagon
over him and crushing his skull. He
was found unconscious and taken to
his home, but death came before he
recovered consciousness.
The building occupied by the Fair
field Steam laundry and the Elmwood
creamery was totally destroyed by
fire. This leaves Fairfield with only
one creamery and no laundry, TEN
porarily at least The cOntlaSration
threatened to spread to the entire
district Immediately surrounding the
building, but its spread was checked
after a <aighboring barn, occupied by
S. A. Power, had been destroyed.
Wandering in the woods while de-
mented with a CHASTITY wound made
with his pocket knife in his throat,
Martin Hanselik finally reached
farm house near Cedar Rapids and
terrified the occupants by his APP
pearance. He had cut his throat to
the CLOTHS and the trachea and was
covered with blood. The Ambulance
from Cedar Rapids was sent five
miles into the country for him and
he was taken to Mercy hospital,
where he lies with faint hopes of re-
covery.
After a trial lasting several days, in
which a large number of witnesses
We're examined, the jury returned a
verdict of 500 in favor of the plaintiff
in the case of John Ward against the
Marshalltown Light Power and Rail-
way company. Ward sued the COM
= fSr uIlnUpS in inrV
received by being run down by a
street car last summer. The costs of
| the case amount to considerable more
than the verdict. 1t is believed that
the company will appeal the case to
the supreme court.
Jerome V. Brown was married at
Allison to Miss Clara Belle tleek
| The ceremony was performed by
Mayor Hazlet at the office of the clerk
of the district court. Brown is one OF
the parties who was indicted at the
last term of the district court of the
county charged with throwing lye in
| the fact of Mrs. Parnie Ramsey, and
has been in the county jail ever since,
! but is trying to get bail Brown is "a
widower 46 years old and Miss Fleek's
age is %. 1t seems tIey were en-
gagged before his indictment.
Wallace Hubbard of Albany, Mo-,
who is vice-president of the proposed
| St Joe, Albany & DeS MOines rail
| coad, has been in Madison county for
week, holding meetings in the diff
terent townships and asking them to
vote a per cent tax for his road.
Hubbard 10 alcn aSginO fnr a
GER cent tax in Winterset and Macks-
burg He insists that the road will
oe built next year, and that outside
Of Madison county the farmers and
people in the towns through which
he road is to go, are enthusiastically
In favor of the tax and the road.
| J. NJ. Rankin, a well-known farmer
and stockman, living near Iowa Falls,
has been lately granted letters patent
On corn crusher that is pronounced
by those who have seen the model
machine at work as an admirable
equipment for any farmer. 1t crush
as the corn on the cob. so that it
makes an admirable feed for stock.
and does away with big percentage
IF waste incident to feeding cattle
he corn an the cob, and at the same
lime utilizes the rutriment of the en-
tire cob The machine weighs about
100 pounds, and has a crushing ca
pacity of 200 bushels daily.
On farm in Grove township, Shell
| by county, is a unique family, the
like of which cannot, perhaps, be
duplicated in the state of Iowa. The
! family consists of five stalwart men,
The eldest about As years of age and
the youngest about 20. Not one Of
this family is married, and all live
| in the same house. They own in
| Shelby county over 500 acres of land,
and altogether $50 acres. They have
in their feed lots 800 fat hogs and 100
head of steers fattening. They do
their own work, and have often five
teams engaged in performing various
tasks on the big farm owned in com
mon by them. The men are named
Weber. Their father, who died about
seven years ago, came from France.
His father had served Under Napol-
con, and was a membSr of the ILL
fated expedition to Moscow.
A record breaking run was made
by Burlington fast mail No. Is. From
Burlington to erosion, a distance of
1873 miles, it required just 200 min
utes. This included the time neces-
sary for five stops and seven slow
downs. The train left Burlington late
and was late into Creston. Between
Creston and the u. P. transfer 1t
made up 20 minutes, although it suf.
fered ten minute delay and was
compelled to slow down four times on
account of receiving orders. The av.
erage of the actual running time was
over a mile a minute for the entire
distance, which Is one of the fastest