Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-21

Brayton, small village in the south
part of the county.
The mayor of Extra, Frank Andrews
has resigned, and the councilmen at
a recent meeting elected the Rev. Mr..
Nichols, pastor of the local Christian
church to fill the vacancy.
Hans Johnson was killed by Mil
waukee freight near Carpenter. He
was a we'll known resident of New
Ulm, Mimi, and was As years old and
had a family. He was found lying
near the track He had drunk bot
bottles lay near him. He was a car
penter by trade. The body was sent
home.
Engineer Ed Flynn was caught in
the wreckage of an overturned engine
which collided head on wi / an en-
CINE of another freight at Buchanan,
Cedar county. Flynn's leg was badly
crushed and his arm badly scalded.
The hose from the cold water tank
broke and he was flooded with COLI
water or he would have been scalded
to death.
Jesse Williams of Percival was
brought to Sidney by Sheriff Kent, he
having been taken into custody at
Auburn, Neb. Williams was indicted
by the grand jury about a year ago
on the charge of breaking into a
freight car at Percival. He took him
self to parts unknown, and has up
until the present time managed to es-
cape arrest. He gave bonds in the
sum of $500, and his case was laid
over until next term of court. He re.
turned without requisition papers.
Fire broke out at Waterloo and
caused damage to, the sum Of be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 to the trans
fer house and stock of the Waterloo
Implement company. The fire was
discovered in the large warehouse
along the Chicago Great Western
railway tracks and before the depart
ment arrived it had done much dam
age to a large stock of fancy buggies
and some automobiles. The stock
was fully insured Good work by the
firemen saved the rest of the stock
and a loss of at least $4,000.
Claude A. Webster, eldest son of
A. L. Webster of Cresco township
was found lying beside the Milwaukee
railway track near Hobart, just west
of Algona, with his right leg man.
gled and his nose smashed and the
bones of his face broken so that he
breathes through hole in his cheek.
He had not regained consciousness
late in the day. He had been out in S.
Dakota and it is supposed he jumped
off freight train while in motion to
walk to his fathers place, mile and
a half distant, thinking to save the
walk from Algona. He suffered con-
siderable loss of blood, but will likely
live, though his face will be disfigured.
His leg has been amputed.
Upon promise that he would not
prosecute her son who had eloped
with his wife, Mrs. Cody of Fort
Dodge, agreed to locate the runaway
couple for John Clark of Sioux City
AS soon as Clark discovered that his
spouse had left him, he learned that
she was in company with man from
Fort Dodge. Arriving there, he loca'
ted the young mans family and en-
tered into the agreement with the
mother During the time that the
mother was engaged in locating her
missing son Clark became infatuated
with Mrs. Cody, who is several years
his senior. Cody, the husband of the
woman, sought out the local authori'
ties and informed them that Clark
had eloped with his wife and announc'
ed his intention of spending his bank
account in locating them. At last
accounts neither couple had been 10
Gated and the irate Cody is swearing
dire vegeance. Interesting develop
ments are promised when the guilty
couples are located.
One of the most peculiar deaths
ever recorded in Hardin county oc
Cured in the Jail at Eldora a few
days ago in the demise of Frank De.
lancey, alias Frank Howard, in prison
for burglary. The man. who was
twenty-three years of age, was com
mitted from Iowa Falls on the charge
of breaking and entering and had
been convicted and was to receive
penitentiary sentence on the day OF
the accident. He was infected with
lice. Physicians prescribed a disin
fectant, and Howard, not content with
nj ~
the poison all over his body, which
caused him to become delirious and
suffer terrible agony. He could moi
sleep for the pain and inconvenience
and died the next morning as the re
suit of the disinfectant. Howard had
no home and has been in several
prisons and pententiaries on various
| charges. Just before his death, How
ard, in thanking DR.. Morse for many
kindnesses rendered during his sick
ness, told the physician how to carry
| his watch and chain so that they
would be less liable to be stolen, and
remarked to Dr. Morse that he had
watched a chance to get the watch
| and chain since he first met the
doctor.
Burlington fast flyer No. s. leaving
Omaha at s o'clock p. m. for Chicago
ran into string of freight cars al
the Wabash crossing. in the eastern
part of the city of Council Bluffs {
few nights ago, and Engineer Nelson
H. Wood and Fireman E. e. Hosier
both of Creston, received burns from
which they died in a short time. The
train carries only mail and no pas
sengers were aboard. The engine
was demolished The train was sen
back to Omaha aid went to Chicago