Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-09-01

his legs were severed. The switch
I engine was engaged in making a fly
ing switch and Falino escaped the
engine, but was caught by the box
car, both trucks passing over him. His
criesaof agony were heard for sew
eral squares. When he was taken to
the hospital physicians discovered q
bad fracture of the skull. He can not
live. aE.
Lightning struck the barn on the
farm of Fred Spangenberg near
| Hampton and set fire to it. The barn
was total loss, and it's contents,
which consisted of fifty tons of hay
large quantity OF oats and farm
machinery, Acre all burned. Mr.
! Spangenberg and his hired men had
barely time to remove the horses
from the building before it was in
flames. The barn was valued at
$1,000 and the grain and farm nipple.
ments at another thousand. He had
no insurance.
A sensation was sprung at Jefferson
| by the announcement that upon re.
quest of Sheriff Fred b. Anderson,
three of the four Jefferson druggists
turned in their permits for selling
liquor and voluntarily gave up the
license which granted them the priv.
ilege of dispensing booze for "medi.
cinal purposes only" This action was
advised upon the statement OF County
Attorney Alberts that the matter of
illegal selling would be brought to the
attention of the grand jury unless
tply
three druggists who are now running
dry shops are Davis & Merrill, E. G.
Freeman and J. F. Shuey. E. w. Foy
still holds his permit
Mrs. Albert Smith, young woman
about 20 years of age, attempted sui
eide at Oskaloosa by taking a dose OF
l.:udanum. The fact became known
Immediately and emetlcs were
promptly administered by g physician,
which defeated the young lady's
plans Mrs. Smith is a bride of but
three weeks Her union with the man
Of her choice was opposed by her par.
ents and resulted in an estrangement
that has so worked upon the girl that
it is thought to have unbalanced her
temporarily. In fit Of the blues and
| dependency the girl thought of TAX.
ing laudanum and swallowed two tea
spOonsful Of the poison. Immediately
she swallowed the drug she realized
what she had done and repented her
act.
The miracle of a runaway team and
five persons in buggy dashing over
the end of an unfinished bridge into
Ha boil - Ior
no person was killed or even serl-
VTsly injured was performed two
miles east of Jefferson a few days
ago. AS it was, the horses and buggy
were piled into an ineXtricable mass
in the bed of the stream; the 7-year.
old child was thrown thirty feet over
the horses heads, landing upon the
false work of the bridge at the other
approach, where the child was after.
ward found, crying. One horse was
impaled by the buggy pole and the
other injured. This accident happened
to man named Hutchinson and his
family and afterward they were all
able to walk home.
Newton Johnson, we'll known and
highly respected farmer while walk.
ing along the Burlington track near
Ottumwa, was struck by a freight
train and instantly killed. He was
going from his home to a neighboring
farm and on account of being deaf
could not hear the approaching train.
Mr.. Johnson always took the precau-
ton when walking on the railroad
track of facing the direction from
which trains usually approach on that
track and, being on the south track
which is generally used for east
bound trains he undoubtedly thought
he was safe. Unfortunately, how
ever, the west bound extra was using
the south track and Mr.. Johnson was
struck and killed before he was
aware of his danger.
Frank Seary of Walford struck
Michael Mognahan with piece of
gaspipe following a violent quarrel
over an alleged insult offered by Seary
to neces of Mognahan. Seary was
arrested He claims self-defense.
Michael Mognahan is a bachelor and
lives with his mother near Walford.
He went to Walford to get some
blacksmithing done. At the shop he
met Frank Seary with whom he had
had trouble, and the two at once be-
gan a quarrel. Mognahan charged
Seary with insulting his nieces, the
daughters of his brother, Maurice. In
the quarrel they came to blows. and
Seary struck Mognahan with a piece
of gaspipe After the assault Mogna
han seemed little hurt and attended
to his business. after which he went
to the home of his brother. who lives
over the line in Linn county. Later
he became unconscious and died
Seary was at once arrested and taken
to Cedar Rapids, where he Is in jail
The assault occurred near the county
line and the victim died in Linn
county, but under the law either
county would have jurisdiction. The
only witness to the affair is the Wal
ford banker, who says that Mognahar
first struck at Seary with pillow
share.
Dick Wilson. a negro. who claims
, Chicago as his home, was taken t.
Ottumwa from Cedar Rapids wher
, he was arrested while trying to casl
a check which he stole in Ottumwa.
The coroner's jury at Onawa ha!
, returned a verdict that James Han
, slip, who was reported as BEN,
choked to death by Art English. reall.
died Of heart disease and exoneratet
English from all blame. DR. Nesbi
>. of Tekamah conducted the autopsy
!. which showed that Hanslip had fatt
5 degeneration of the heart. The vel
dict is something of surprise. Ems
lish and Hanslip had been drinkin
and got into row over a horse trade