Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-19

Ou &C COUNT OF ulp0LHeTld Jne cory
don public schools, with the excep-
ton of the high school, have been
closed. A sudden death disclosed the
| fact that this disease was the cause
and stringent measures are now en-
ployed to prevent it spreading.
Elmer Lingle, a prominent young
| farmer living south of Osceola, who
a short time ago eloped with Miss
! Winnie Montgomery of the same part
of the county, leaving at home wife
and three children, has returned TO
| his family. Miss Montgomery has
not yet returned and is supposed to
be staying with all uncle of Lingle's.
The coroner, who has been invest
| iSating the death of Loren Phenis,
in Tama county, has returned YER
dict that death was the result of nat
ural causes of heart failure. The
body was discovered near Deer
creek and wounds about the head and
shoulders at first were thought to
| indicate murder. Phenis was about
26 years old and had been drinking
heavily of late.
The jury in the suit for $4,000
damages brought by Myrtle Seagreen
of Pilot Mound against DR.. c. v.
Canoe of Ogden. returned a sealed
verdict, after being out eighteen
hours, awarding her $3.50 damages.
The attorney for the defense will
make a motion for a new trial, and
in case this is denied an appeal to
the supreme court will be taken. The
case was hard fought, both sides in
Producing great deal of testimony.
The United States Gypsum COM
pany in Fort Dodge has been made
defendant in a suit filed for $4,000
personal injuries. The injury neces-
STATED the amputation of a foot
which was caught in an unlocked cog
wheel. The case involves the ques
ton of whether the company should
encase the cog wheels. The boy is
not of age and the suit is brought by
his mother.
The first actual step in the con-
struction of the Sioux City & Ireton
lnterurban railroad has been taken
in the letting of the contract for the
survey 10 Wakefield & McCrory,
civil engineers, who will put party
of engineers in the field this week.
The new line is to connect with the
Leads line into Sioux City. The
Perry creek valley will be followed
for considerable distance. The
farmers between Sioux City and Ire.
ton are principally interested in the
construction of the line.
A permanent injunction has been
issued by Judge o. D. Wheeler to res.
train the school board of Glenwood
from enumerating $50 inmates of the
Iowa. institution for feeble minded
children in the school census. The
injunction was granted on the appli.
cation of A. B. Judson and other citi.
zens of Mills county living outside
Glenwood. The real issue in the case
was the share of liquor license tax,
fines and state school apportionment
funds which Glenwood shall be allow.
ed to draw. 1t is claimed that the
city has been getting more than it's
share by including the feeble minded
as children of school age, while other
parts of the county have been cores
pondingly cut down. About 500 in
school revenues for the year 1905 will
be distributed among schools through.
out the county, which would have
gone to Glenwood had the injunction
order not been made. The citizens
who bought this suit are talking of
commencing another action to COM
pei repayment by the Glenwood
school district of excess school mon.
eys it has received in past years. The
amount would aggregate several
thousand dollars.
An Iowa Central freight double
header went into a ditch inside the
limits of the town of Seaton, H., a
few days ago. The train struck a
COW lying upon the track while run
ming twenty miles an hour. After
dragging the animal $50 feet the head
of the engine left the rails and plung
ed down an embankment, puiiing the
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grain and lumber after it. The wreck
age was piled into a space of three
car lengths. The dead are as follows:
George A. Cafall, engineer, Oskaloosa;
Harry Summers, engineer, OskalooSa;
Harry Barr, fireman, Oskaloosa; l..
H. Briley, fireman, Monmouth, Ill.,;
P. T. Morgan, head brakeman, Oska-
loose. Three men were killed in
stantly. The engineers, fatally hurt,
pulled themselves out from under the
debris. Summers was cooked by
steam till the flesh fell from the
body when his clothing was removed.
He died after few hours of suffer
ing. Calall, with skull wound. his
legs broken and Cisemboweled, dug
himself out of grain pile alive, but
was soon unconscious. He died in
short time. A relief train, with ply
sicians, was sent out Immediately.
Relatives Of the dead men were taken
to the scene of the wreck by spec
ial train from Osl,aloosa. All were
dead before the train arrived. The
wreck was the worst in recent his
tory of the road. All the victims ex-
cepting Briley wee married. Fire,
man Barr was a son of Marquis Barr,
general claim agent for the Ioy~e Cen
trail and Minneapolis & st. Louis.
Conductor Ed Mable, who had charge
of the train, was also conductor of
the wrecked train at Richmond three
months ago, when four men were kill.
| ed.