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

hours spent in vain efforts to arrive
at an agreement. 1t so reported and
, was discharged. 1t is understood that
the vote of the jury was eight for CON
viction and four for acquittal. The
case has been one of the most sensa.
tional and has aroused the most in.
terest of any tried in Poweshiek coun.
ty for years.
The wife of Prof. III. G. Holdings
worth was thrown from a buggy at
Abba and killed. Professor Holdings
worth was also seriously injured, his
jaw was broken, also both arms and
other injuries sustained. He has been
superintendent of the Abba city
schools 70 lrteen years and is very
popular They have three sons. They
came to Abba from Centerville. Mrs.
HollingswDrth was seriously hurt in
runaway three weeks ago and was
just able to be up. Their horse be-
came frightened at train.
The National Bank of the Republic
of Chicago has brought suits in the
Wapello county district court for
judgments and attachments TO secure
payment upon promissory notes held
by it against the Janney Manufactur
ing company, G. c. Janney, NJ. H.
Janney, Calvin Manning, w. r. Dag.
gett. l.. T. Kenney & Company, f. T.
kenney and X. L. Rhe. Two notes
form the basis of the suits. One is
for $3.50, due January %, 1905, and
the other, watch was issued October
20. 1904, and is due four months after
lot t. 20
asked upon real estate owned by the
defendants as security for the sums.
In the matter of Addison Oliver,
appellant from the decision Of the
board of supervisors of Monona and
Harrison counties. by agreement the
cases have been consolidated and Win
be tried together December IL at
Onawa by Judge Wakefield. Much
interest attaches to these cases. which
will involve decisions affecting the
drainage laws of Iowa passed last
winter. Authorities from seven or
eight counties in Iowa have been ia
attendance at Onawa to investigate
the cases started. as they were in
terested in similar proceedings. Judge
Oliver proposes to carry ~his case to
the supreme court of the United States
should the verdict in TIE lower court
be adverse to him.
H. J. Payne. chief civil engineer Of
the Pierre Marquette railroad and
owner of the little launch, Hazel, OF
Marquette, Mich, and his friends w.
l.. Spencer, a millionaire, and George
Gillate, an engineer, had very mar
row escape from drowning in the
launch at Burlington. They were on
their way south on pleasure cruise
and had anchored in the rear of the
Helen Blair. During the darkness OF
the night the Helen Blair. in chang
ing her position, struck the launch
and sank it. The three men were
rescued with difficulty. They lost six
months provisions and all their per
sonal property. The launch was
towed to Quincy, where it will be re-
paired and will continue its journey.
Detectives of the Northwestern
railroad have unearthed a systematic
practice of stealing coal at Tama by
the employees of the company. They
find that for months, perhaps years,
quite a number Of their employees
have been burning fuel at their ex-
pense. The habit was to leave from
half ton to a ton of soft coal in the
many cars urloaded at this division
point, which was later hauled out by
transfers to homes of the employees
or others in the deal 1t is claimed
that not less than 800 tons Of coal
have been thus stolen within the past
year. The exposure has created a
sensation, as a good number of citi.
zens are implicated, but whether any
OF them will be prosecuted Is not yet
known.
The supreme court Of Iowa faced
the dire necessity Of deciding that
property owners whose trees are
about to be ruined by the grading Of
parking for the construction of new
sidewal have no remedy against the
operation OF this discretion by city
authorities, If the latter observe the
law and do nothing unnecessarily.
ITO the person who has planted
trees" says Justice Weaver in rem
dering the decision, cared for them,
protected them against violence, and
has seen them grow and develop into
things OF beauty until he comes to
regard them with genuine affection,
this conclusion Is no doubt unwel-
come, but the court must administer
the law as 1t finds It, and the rule we
have stated is well settled
Two fur overcoats and one collarette
were stolen from farmers buggies that
were tied to a hitching rack at EN-.
metsburg a fed nights ago. Local of
ficers are doing their best to locate
the stolen property and land the
sneak-thieves behind the bars For
several weeks many reports have been
received by the authorities in Emmets-
burg and surrounding towns about
houses being broken into and the
rooms rifed of money and valuable
articles. A farmers residence. ten
miles from Emmetsburg, was broken
into during the day time. entrance
being obtained through a second-story
window. and 5000 in gold coin was
taken. No arrests have been made.
as the robbers left no clues that could
possibly lead to theff Identification.
Ralph Jepson, the owner of the
National Suit company. was arrested
at Independence by the Bankers as
ISOLATION, charged with passing worth
less checks at Walworth, Wis, and
Manhattan. Detective Beck states
that there are twenty other cases
against him throughout the western
states.
Because his mother would not give
him more than $3.50 a week spending
money out of his wages of $3.50, ].
Schmidt, l9-year-old Davenport boy,
went up stairs to his room, leaned
over loaded shotgun. pulled the trlg.
ger with his toe and blew the ton of