Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-07-06

THE NEWS IN IOWA


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badly mangled.
The first victim of the ante-Fourth
of July celebration occurred at Mason
City on the 9th, when Guy Cook, the
5-year-old son of MIR. and Mrs. Grant
Cook, lost the sight of n y by the
explosion of a f~irecracker which had
been placed in a bottle.
Swan W. Carlson and Frank john
son of Sioux City started out to Kill
a cat and Carlson fired a bullet into
his own head. He has been desponi-
ent, and it is generally believed that
he committed suicide. He was vice
president of the Sioux City Crockery
company. He had been complaining
of poor business.
Joseph Wheaton, an employe OF the
tow mill at New Hampton, aged n,
was struck by the noon passenger train
on the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway and badly injured. He was
going to the tow mills and reached the
railroad just as the passenger train
| arrived. He thought the train had
stopped, and attempted TO cross the
track. The train was moving slowly
and hit him. He has two ribs broken
and is injured internally. Considering
his age, his condition is critical.
Peter Remington. aged II, dropped
dead in Lou Wolfe's barber shop at
Cedar Falls Of heart failure. He had
Just left the Wagner Manufacturing
company, where he was regularly en-
ployed, and, in company with two fell
low workmen, started for the barber
! shop. When within a block of the
shop the boys started racing to see
who would reach the shop first.
Young Remington was second and
had just sat down to wait his turn
when he fell over and expired.
A terrific cyclone passed in a north
easterly direction three miles north
west from Unionvile on the afternoon
of the 30th. The twister was about
fifty yards wide and licked up every
object before it. Houses, barns,
fences and crops were lifted from the
earth and SEN whirling through the
air. Following the cyclone. came a
heavy downfall of water, which wash
ed out bridges, fences, etc. The storm
expended its fury in Wapello county.
The track of the storm was the same
as that Of 1894, when great damage
was done and two lives were lost.
Sudden wealth has come to G.. d.
Giffen, a poor drayman in the employ
of w. f. Clark at Milford. He left
a few days ago for Ogdensburg, \.
Y, expecting to receive about $780,
600 from his Observation-Disclosures es-
tate, which is said to be nearly 81
600 900 He received notice of his in
heritance from New York attorneys,
who represent the executor of the es-
tate. This was the first intimation OF
the possibility of his securing a large
inheritance hat he received. While
he new that he had wealthy rela-
tives, the bond of relationship, or
rather friendship, had not been such
that he had any hopes Of receiving a
portion of his great-grandfather's es,
tate.
Wapello county and Ottumwa were
swept by a small tornado on the af'
ternoon of the both. So far no cas-
ualti-S have been reported but the
damage to buildings and crops is con
siderable. The homes of Matt
Wright and John Hoover, in the east
end of Ottumwa were %unroofed, trees
were uprooted and a tent at the
Chautauqua grounds was blown down
and the women and children inside
were d%renched with the rain. The
home of Clayton Smith near Blakes
burg was demolished by the tornado
and his barn with several others in
the neighborhood were blown down
Several barns and outbuildings neal
Agency were blown down and the
crops damaged.
Fire estroyed property to the
amount of 100000 on the block or
the east side of the square at Mount
Pleasant, and it was only by the her
culean efforts of the fire department
together with the volunteer assist
ance that the loss was not multiplied
by hundreds. The fire broke out a
3:45 o'clock, a. m, and it was two
hours before the firemen had it I'm
der control. For a time it looked a!
if the entire north side, the Methods
church and the north side of MAR
street were doomed. Increasing fire
pressure. a change of the wind an
the everlasting aggressiveness of the
fremen alone stopped the fire before
it had burrowed into the substantial
brick buildings in the heart of thu
business district. The fire started il
an old livery barn on the east side o
the alley at the rear of the COngrega
tional church. This barn was ownet
by H. A. Higgins and for years hal
been used as a livery barn by Ros,
Bros. Recently it had been occupies
as a warehouse for rolling stock an,
horses and the only occupant was
young man named Riepe, a hors
trainer. The cause of the fire is
mystery. 1t is the superstition tha
it was started as a result of shootin
off large cannon firecrackers near tn
} old livery barn, as parties were see
there thus engaged at l o'clock a. n
This is the only fea-ible reason thu
far discovered and it is the genera
: opinion that firecrackers were the fata
Instruments.
The hardest fought legal battle
years terminated in the federal jur
> at Fort Dodge, rendering a verdict {
y 81, 500 in favor of the plaintiff in tn
| case of McDonough VS.. the Chicag
l. Great Western Railroad compan,
d for injuries sustained in a boiler e.
plosion while the plaintiff was firm
a stationary boiler at the company
O shops in Oelwein. McDonough elaine
It that he was rendered unfit for futui
work because of injuries from esca
# ing steam, and that he suffered tie
W rible agony. The suit was brougl
q for $25, 900 and the trial consume
nine days.
A case similar in some respects
d that of Virgil White is that of Arthl