Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-11-17
THE NEWS IN IOWA.

nights ago. Ebert Carroll was.
aroused and got up to investigate,
but was told to lie still or ne would,
/ be shot. The burglars. however,
made their escape without getting
anything. ~
Referee J. NJ. Helwick has declared
the Dixon Savings bank to be bank
rupt. The bank, 1t Is alleged, wa
wrecked sJme time ago by Arnold
Beuthien, it's cashier, who is now miss
ing Depositors at Dixon and New
Liberty, where Beuthien Is said to
shaverwreckeds another bank. will lose
about 100000. '''.n
.. Polk county was enriched in the
sum OF 3S,10l.97 during the month of
October, through the, work Of the tax
ferrets, Worthington and Boynton.
The greater part OF this amount came
from F. NJ. Hubbell, who paid back
taxes on half a million dollars worth
OF personal property. Pending claims
Will realize several more thousands
Of dollars during the next month.
While driving to corn field in be-
ginning his days work, Frank Brown,
aged Fl, of Cedar Falls. fell off his
wagon under the front wheel. The
team was going at good speed and
the wheel passed directly over his
face and upper lip beneath his nose.
He was unable to art!culate, his face
was so badly crushed, and the sur
geons found it necessary to remove
all his upper teeth.
The last wish of Mrs. Hannah Lig
gett, Of Alpha, H.. came to a sudden
and unexpected end a few nights ago
near Des Moines For years she had
hoped to visit her daughter. Mrs. =
II. Nibei, of Ames, and pass the few
remaining years OF her life with her
child. In the pathetic attempt to
attain her ambition, Mrs. Liggett died
on a Rock Island passenger train
while ridiag between Newton and Des
M0ines. O., -
An interurban line from Iowa City
to Chicago is regarded as practically
certain to be built The Iowa part OF
the line from Iowa City to Davenport
through Upton, was incorporated two
weeks ago by Steven Bradley, Milton
Remley, G. s. Ranch, and other prOmi-
nent men of Iowa City. Mr.. Bradley
says: The financial hackers OF the
DavenportIowa City line are thu
same men who are planning the line
from Rock Island to Dixon and who
are actually operating the interurban
from Dixon to DeKalb and Dekalb to
Aurora. The financial backing Is ex-
cellent and there IL no doubt of the
ultimate completion Of the line, now
built from Dixon to Chicago"
Charles Shradel. one of the most
prominent business men Of Kalona,
committed suicide. He had just eaten
breakfast. when he seemed to be in
his usual good spirits. and went down
into the cellar to get couple Of sacks
to take to feed store. The family
heard a shot and on going down stairs
found him lying dead on the floor.
No cause is known except that his
mind may have been affected By
business troubles, which were. how
ever. not at all serious About three
weeks ago he showed signs of mental
ailment, but it was thought he had
recovered" He was As years of age
and leaves a wife and several children.
No inquest was deemed necessary.
The board Of directors OF the LilloOet
company held a meeting at Iowa Falls
and adjourned without making a state
ment TO the public. President Han.
cock and Attorney l.. G. Hurd left for,
i. DUBUQUE. Matters have been placed
In the hands OF attorney Hurd. WIN
will make demands on those charged
with shortage and falling to make
good win call on the surety. company
| that Bonded the Lillooet officers. The
exact ,yAEurss ~. the wharfage Is nov
| known by the directors but are not
for, publication. Ohicers have been
asked repeatedly to make = statement
but have refused. II is thought by
some that the whole matter will be
closed up now and that the public
will never know what the real short.
age was.
The fight In Iowa Falls between allo-
pathic and homeopathic physicians
has eliminated in the institution Of
injunction proceedings, and the fight
will be transferred to the courts. The
trouble grows. out Of differences Of
opinion over the method of vaccira-
ton. following an order of compui-
sorry vaccination by the school board,
that body holding that only vaccina-
ton by scarification and incubation
Of, virus through abrasion would DE
recognized. The homeopaths insisted
on vaccihatioh" by internal applca-
ton, but the board refused to recog.
nize it or permit the pupils In schools
| to DO inoculated In this manner The
homeopathic physicians were denied
admission to the school houses or
| grounds under threat OF arrest. The
homeopathic will ask an Injunction re.
straining the board from prohibiting
pupils attending school who have
been vaccinated by homeopathic meth.
DDS. = The state board OF health and
the state homeopathic and allopathic
societies may be drawn into the legal
fight that will follow. A similar case
at Des Moines was decided in favor Of
the homeopathic physicians.
The sheriff Of Woodbury. County Is
looking for James b. Potter, a smooth
hotel swindler, who passed bad
check for SIS at the Hotel Mondamin.
He went from Sioux City to. Sioux
Falls, South Dakota. where he passed
a bogus check for the same amour.
at the Cataract He was accompanied
by MRS. Potter"
The supreme court Of Iowa has de
cidei that not only city street cal
lines but such portions Of interurban
railway lines as, occupy city streets
are not subject to the laws governing
railroads but are subject only to tine
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