Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-01-05

THE NEWS IN IOWA.

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ference to them.
Jerry Parsons, an employe Of tn
Kemp Manufacturing company II
Waterloo, dropped dead while at hi!
work. He had just started to worl
for the concern. Heart failure wa:
the cause of death.
John Geiger, an old soldier, whose
home is in Muscatine, was run over
and instantly killed by a switch en-
CINE in the Rock Island yards at
Bucklin, Kas. He did not see the en-
CINE, and walked behind 1t In cross
ing the tracks with his wife. He was
spending the winter with his sister
In Bucklin.
A gift of rare value to the Iowa
State college is that of the engine
Iowa." by Miss Jessie Mallory Thayer
the estate of G. III. Mallory, a pioneer
railroad an, and is considered a Valu'
able gift = the institution. 1t Is one
of the oldest type of engine or the G.,
3. & Q. railroad.
From careful figures, compiled by
:wenty-one fire insurance agencies in
Sioux City, which includes practically
Ill of them, It is shown that the III
mrance companies doing business in
Sioux City will have to pay out total
If 81 ,160,350 for the losses, total and
partial, in Sioux City's big contiagra-
ion on December %.
Another bad freight wreck occurred
on the Burlington at Russell, eight
miles east of Charlton. Twenty-three
cars, coal and empty, went off the
rack. Three or four men were in
ured, among whom was Trainmaster
Nose Robinson. The others We're
members of the freight crew. The
wreck was caused by broken wheel.
The injured men were taken to Abba.
The preachers and temperance p.o-
ole of Estherville and Emmett county
are not content with having defeated
The petition for mulct saloons, but will
carry on tho war against the many
Doot,eggers. 1t has the appearance
Of being finish fight. The Anti
Saloon league has raised $4,000 fund
20 carry the matter INTO the courts
and more monev Is ava. able II needed.
Fire damaged the Gates & Smith
aundry, in the Sherman block, at
Fort Dodge, to the extent Of $4,000.
rhe block is three stories In height
md the two upper stories are devoted
sleeping rooms. which were occn-
bed The fire department confined
he blaze to the engine and boiler
'ooms. and the roomers were not dis
mrbed. The fire is supposed to have
originated in the coal room, due to
nontaneous combustion The insur-
,nce is $4,000.
While assisting her grandchildren
% celebrate Christmas, Mrs. julia
Bartlett of Cedar Falls, dropped dead
: If heart failure Christmas noon, at
| he home of her son, William Bart
EFT in Winona, MINI. She was the
Sife of Professor NJ. w. Bartlett, who
las been prominent in educatlolal cir
lies in Iowa for the past forty years,
md who retired from the faculty 81
he state normal last June because or
| II health, after twenty-eiSht years OF
aitbful service. The body will he
brought to Cedar Falls for interment.
| The last of 100000 pounds Of bar
'eled beef has been sent from the
.udahy Packing company plant at
Sioux City, to the besieged Russians
It Port Arthur. All four Of the Cud-
ihy plants have been working over
time to fill the rush order The prop
lem of getting the meat to the be-
/ sieged army is left to the Russians
to solve. The last shipment OF 1,O00,-
! 300 was captured by Japanese mos
quito feet just as it was rounding an
sland off Japan, and was delivered to
he besiegers instead of the be-
ieged.
In clearing away the ground for
!he stand pipe on the big hill just
vest of Humboldt the worKmen uncov-
fred a very ancient Indian buriel
ground. The graves were at the crest
If the hill, about three feet deep. and,
.hough the soil was hard and almost
| mpervious, the bodies had been SO
ong buried that the earth had filtered
INTO the skulls and packed so hard as
make a perfect brain cast, which
showed all the large Irregularities
,gainst the skull. The bones were ~
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ion. Even the teeth were all in
;lace wherever an ordinary interment
vas found.
A. w. Head, of Marshalltown by
his attorneys, has filed a petition in
attachment in the district court
against the Quaker Mining company of
Aurora. Mo, for $4,000. Head claims
that ~ February 2. 1904, he pur-
chaseI $4,000 worth of stock in a cor
rOration to be formed. called the
'Nickle-Plate Mining company" and
that the company was never formed
or his money refunded. on account of
which ne claims to have suffered $500
additional damages. c. A. Billings,
secretary of the Quaker company, hap.
pened to be passing through this state,
and petition for attachment resulted
The right was granted. and the money
Of the concern in Marshalltown State
bank was attacAed. There was but
500 in the local bank. .rs-.-
Sarah Rowley, of Charles City, who
was injured and severely burned three
weeks ago by the explosion of a gaso
line stove in a restaurant of which
she was proprietor, is dead. She had
suffered intensely during the time
since the accident.
Farmers around Creston are com
planning that the hunters are exceed
mgly careless wnen after game, and
often bring down their stock. The
complaint is universal, and unless the
sportsmen are more careful in the use
Of their weapons, the farmers intend
to take strenuous measures to prevent
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