Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-29

! THE NEWS IN IOWA. {


Mrs. Mary Gray, aged SO years, who
has been living On a farm southeast
OF Ida Grove, has been adjudged in
sane and committed to the asylum at
Cherokee by the county commission
ers.
The 5-year-old son of Jake Evils
mann, with two little sisters, were
swimming in a small creek near Bur
lington. whenn. the coy got beyond his
depth and was drowned in spite of
the efforts of his sisters to save him
Edna lnhelder, a ~9-year-old Daven,
port girl, was drowned in West DAY.
export Slough while trying to pick
lilies from a floating log. She fell
into the water, and although her body
was soon recovered efforts to resus-
citate her were in vain.
J. S. Woody, the Milwaukee agent
at Carpenter, is missing, as is 500
of the company's money. His father,
a wealthy farmer, has made good the
deficiency. His trouble is coming in
punches, as a few days previous he
visited a circus and had his pockets
picked of $500.
Thieves secured an entrance into
the Creston Hardware company
store at Creston and succeeded in
getting about 800 worth of goods.
They took rs knives, razors, and re-
vOlVers. The window was broken.
leaving it easy for them to get at the
lock. There is 10 clue, although the
police suspect several local parties.
A reward of $25 is offered for their
capture.
U. S. Jones, a colored miner at
work in No. /, Hooking, near Bussey,
received what will probably prove
fatal injuries. y s-ot explosion
knocked down a heavy prop which
hit upon the top Of his head, crush
ing the skull. Pieces were removed
larger than a silver dollar and every
attention possible given to the in
jured man, but his chances for life
are very few.
w. c. Spetman, a w~ell-knoWn resi-
dent Of Council Bluffs, was badly in
iured in a fall from a street car,
crossing the Missouri river bridge,
and he narrowly escaped death by
falling into the river. Passengers on
the car differ as to how the accident
happened. Some of them say Spet-
mar appeared to jump off, while
others declare he fell. He has been
in poor health.
Frank Champlin, president Of the
City bank of Boone and a prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow. died suddenly
of a bronchial h~emorrhage. He was
out in his flower garden in the best
of health when the attack seized
him. He managed to get into the
house and died a minute later in the
arms of his daughter. Mr.. Champlin
vas a pioneer railroad man of Boone
and was once chief conductor of the
National Order of Railway Conduc-
tors. He leaves a large fortune.
The university year which has just
closed at Iowa City. has been char
acterized by an entire absence of
class scraps. Outside of the annual
contest over the rag baby or milk
bottle Git was the latter this year,,
in September, there has not been a
single outbreak during the whole
school year. The September scrap,
which usually lasts for three hours,
was ended this time in less than half
IN hour, no one was hurt, and since
then peace and quiet have reigned.
This record has almost been equalled
by the Iowa City correspondents, for
only two fake stories of scraps have
been sent out during the year.
Carrying an infant in her arms,
Mrs. Maggie Brown, formerly of Sioux
City, was crossing the Missouri Paci-
fic tracks at st. LOUIS, en- route to the
morgue to identify the corpse of a
man named Brown as her husband,
who disappear ed two months ago,
when she saw her 5-year-old son.,
Merrill Brown, who had been walking
behind her, hurled 100 feet by a To-
connective. He was picked up uncon-
scious, with both legs broken and in
ternal injuries. He was removed to
the city hospital, Mrs. Brown riding
with him in the ambulance. She is
at his bedside, her vigil now being
the anxious n Of trying to bring
him back to life, while her thoughts
are still on the missing husband and
dead body in the morgue. Physi-
clans fear the boy cannot live.
Henry White, a negro, who killed
Charles Lewis. also a negro, as the
result of an old grudge, now occupies
a cell in the Lee county Jail, having
been captured by an armed posse..
White made his escape Immediately
affnr thn nnrrInr nnH hi1 IN thn
weeds. A number of armed posses in
the vicinity of Argyle were on the
trail Immediately after the killing was
known, and extreme efforts were made
to capture the slayer. The posses
surrounded the dense woods, where
White was known to have gone, and
finally came upon him. He immediate.
ly took to his heels and ran from his
pursuers. Refusing to halt, a shot
vas fired at him. He fell and was
Immediately covered with Winchester
rifles and at this he surrendered. The
killing was the result of a grudge over
money matters, White having bor-
rowed of Lewis. 1t was shown at the
coroner's inquest that White threat
ened to kill Lewis on previous oc-
casions. The %coroner's verdict did
not implicate White, only saying that
death resulted from a gunshot wound.
Verne Ballard of Eagle Grove. a
freight brakeman on the Northwest
ern, was killed at Alton. Young Bal
lard was the youngest boy of the
family, and a widowed mother, two
sisters and two brothers MOURN his
untimely death.
Henry Nelson, aged GO. a well-to-do