Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-09-07
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THE NEWS IN IOWA.


County, Kan, group of cattle on Asa
Hull's farm backed up against a
barbed-wire fence for protection. A
bolt of lightning ran along one of the
wires and killed eight of the cattle.
Gollmar Bros circus brought a
large crowd of people to New Hamp-
ton and when the street was full of
people young man driving 2 horse
buggy ran into Andrew Erickson.
knocked him down and broke two Of
his ribs. The young man with the
buggy got away.
Roy l.. Igo of Indianola, who was
second in the judging contest at the
state fair last year, secured first hon.
ors and the 5000 scholarship at Ames
college in the competition Monday.
William r. Gross of Avoca scored
second this year and Murl Mcdonald
of Shenandoah third. There were
twenty-six contestants from various
parts Of the state.
At Tonopah, New, r. d. Chase,
alias Russell, formerly of Cherokee,
Ia, shot and killed Allie Watson and
then fired a bullet into his own brain,
indicting a fatal wound. He left a
note saying that he was brother Of
0. l.. Chase, the head Of a mercan-
tile company in st. Louis, and that he
leaves a wife and two children at
Englewood, suburb of Chicago
The town of Earring. Shelby coun-
ty, has been sued for $10,250 damages
by w. H. VAIL a laboring man resid-
ing there. In his petition he alleges
that the town failed to keep in re-
pair certain steps leading from one
sidewalk to another and that one
dark night he fell and was seriously
and permanently injured. He asks
for $4,000 actual damages, $4,000 for
pain and suffering, and $3.50 for medi-
cal services, nursing and medicine.
Carl Roberts, IA years old, OF Dur
ham, Ia, was thrown under a Rock
Island train at East Third and Vine
streets at Des Moines Wednesday
morning, and died at o'clock that
night at Mercy rospital from the eff
fects of the wounds received in the
accident. The boy had been in the
city but two weeks, the guest of his
brother-in-law, H. c. Groves of 300
Raccoon street. His parents were
notified as soon as possible after the
accident.
The people Of Ackley found them
selves Thursday without water The
deep. we'll from which the city has
been drawing it's supply went COM
pletely dry. It was not unexpected,
and the council short time ago pro-
vided for the sinking of new well.
Work has been begun on this, but
no water found yet. The tank Is
leaving the town without
fire protection and greatly inconven-
fencing those depending upon the city
for water supply.
Milroy G Johson's hardware store
at Hopkinton was broken into and a
quantity Of razors and silverware VAL
ued at $50 stolen. The thieves pro-
cured enough tools from a blacksmith
shop to effect an entrance to the
store, and it is supposed the work
was done by parties living in the
town. The authorities sent to Ana
mosa for the prison bloodhounds in
the hope that the guilty parties might
be brought to bay, but the dogs are
no longer kept at the penitentiary,
and the scheme had to be abandoned.
Joseph M. Richard of Union City,
Mich, 19-year-old boy who was run
over by freight train at West Lib
erty, died two hours after being taken
to the university hospital in Iowa
City. Richard was travelling with two
one of them from his
home city. They had been in South
Dakota and were going east looking
for work. Richard is the son of we'll
TODD parents, but was beating his
way to save expenses. He started to
get on an eastbound train which was
pulling out of the yards, when his foot
slipped and he fell beneath the car.
George Mannagh. prominent
Johnson county farmer, was found
hanging to a crossbeam in his car
riage shed by his children, who had
been away for the afternoon. So
far as known he had had no troubles,
either domestic or financial, and a
as the cause. His wife was in Iowa
City with a sick relative at the time.
Mrs. Mannagh states that she had no.
ticed that he had been talking queer
ly for about ten days and had made
unusual assertions on trivial matters,
but she had not supposed him to be
insane.
ppnrnCitinr IN n hn
million or a million dollars of the
states funds in building Irvine fac
tory at one Of the prisons is all moon
shine and an idle dream" says August
Post of Moulton. There is no neces-
sity for Iowa to make twine to COM
pete with the International Harvester
company. The talk about the Interna-
uonal having monopoly on the
Irvine business and having the farm
ers at its mercy is all bosh. There
are a numbes of independent plants
in America. I represent one of the
factories and / sold more Irvine than
you could meausre in four years, last
year. There is no occasion for the
Iowa farmer paying tribute to the
International Harvester trust unless
he really likes it and wants to do it,"
The annual convention of the Con-
gregational churches of the Webster
City district will be held in Iowa Falls
Sept. 10 and 20.
In a runaway accident in Webster
City Thursday Clyde Merit sustain
ed three broken ribs and his 10-year-
old brother, Albert, was hurled out Of
the buggy into the iron stays of the
Bank street bridge over the Boone
river, MASKING his skull and laying
it omen over the left eve so deem as