Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-15
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THE NEWS IN IOWA.

suits have been on the docket for a
year and were pushed by Messrs.
Abrams and Acers.
Ira s. Meyer, a bigamist who was
convicted in the district court at
Keokuk on that charge, has been SEN
fenced to term Of two years and
five months in the penitentiary at
Fort Madison. In case of appeal his
bond was fixed at $1,000
The council Of onawa has let the
contract for a deep well to j. III.
Hams of Sioux City. The well will
be 400 feet in depth and twelve inches
In diameter. 1t will be sunk to the
sand rock, where an unlimited supply
of pure water is expected to be
found.
S. S. Smith of Usage, while en-
gagged in cutting wire nails with a
chisel, was painfully injured by hav-
ing the nail fly and strike him in the
left eye, penetrating the eyeball, and
It was removed with considerable
difficulty. He was taken to Charles
City and the eye was operated on in
hopes of saving the member. A por-
ton of the eyeball was removed. He
may lose the sight of the eye entirely,
but it is too early to determine the
final outcome.
Indictments have been returned
against five men supposed to be i'm
plicated in the theft of 1880 pounds
of leaC from freight cars of the Wa
no 81
They are Grant Booten, Joseph Bad
gett, George Lattimer Sylvester
Sucker and Harry, alias Dutch"
Hall. Lattimer has made a confes-
sion duplicating all the men. The
lead was valued at 5000. 1t was buried
in the ground at different places and
part of it has been recovered.
Receiver G. w. Swords a few days
ago announced the payment of diVi-
dend of 10 per cent to depositors in
the broken First National bank of
Grinnell who had their claims ap-
proved prior to May 6. The checks
have been received from the comp
troller, and the payment Of the divi-
dend has begun. AS 10 per cent of
the deposits amounts to about $685.
900, this makes a total of SIS per cent,
or about 100000 which has been
paid off so far to the depositors.
With the aid of the detective force,
Sheriff George Evans of Nodaway
coG1ty, Mo-, succeeded in locating in
Mercy hospital at Des Moines, Dom
mic Spare, an Italian wanted at
Marysville, Mo-, in connection with
shooting scrape in which six or sew
en- people were either fatally or SER
iously injured The affair for which
Spare is wanted occurred at Parnell,
Mo. He was a member of a steel
gang at work on repairs on the
Chicago Great Western road at that
place. According to Sheriff Evans,
Spare had a fight with an American,
by whom he was badly beaten up.
He attempted to retaliate the follow
ing day by securing a position behind
tree and opening fire on the labor
ers with a shotgun, injuring six of
them before he could be driven from
his position.
The Iowa Child Labor committee,
which was selected a few weeks ago
by the officers of the national COM
mittee, has held an election to choose
the members of directory board.
This board, or executive committee
as it is to be called, is composed of
seven persons receiving the greatest
number of votes. The result was an
nounced in a letter received in Des
Moines a few days ago from Dr. S.
NJ. Lindsey of New York secretary
of the committee, the seven who
were elected being Mrs. 4 B. Cum
Minis, Des Moines; T. d. Brigham,
Des Moines; Professor |. A. LoOs,
Iowa City; DR.. A. B. Storms, Ames;
Mrs. T. J. Fletcher Marshalltown;
Mrs. Julia Clark Hallam, Sioux City,
and A. l.. Urick, Des Moines. Mrs.
Cummins, by virtue of receiving the
largest number of votes, is temper
airy chairman of the committee. A
meeting for the purpose of organic
ing will be held in few days. The
committee will assume active charge
of the child labor movement in the
state.
Because the Western Union de-
livered a telegram addressed to "E.
E. Bauyer" to f. G. Bowyer at Algona
peal in the supreme court of suit
for $500 damages, which he lost in
the lower court. The message was
from Balfour, N. D., and stated,
Your brother is sick. Come at
once. (Signed) Pioneer hotel"
Bower claims that he thought his
name had been misspelled and con-
cluded the message was for him, as
he had a brother-in-law in North Da-
kota at the time. He accordingly took
the first train for Balfour, but on
arriving there found the sick man,
who had just died, to be an entire
stranger to him. Bowyer claims that
he spent $475O in making this trip,
besides having had to sleep in a de-
pot chair one night. He sued fnr
$500 damages but the district court
declared that he had not taken proper
precaution to verify the message and
was not entitled to any damages.
Now the supreme court will have to
solve the problem.
The loss on stock and building in
the incendiary fire in the Williams
general store at Sheldon, is now es-
timated at $4,000. The store was
one of the largest in northwestern
Iowa, and the stock, which will in
voice about $4,000, is about total
loss.
At a Sunday school picnic of the
boys from the First Congregational
church at Sioux City. Clyde Cox, aged
II, was drowned in the big Sioux
river near Talmot's farm. One of his
comrades was nearly drowned in
trying to save him. They were bath.