Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-05-18

| lash railroad for the loss of both legs.
| He was brakeman on the Wabash
/ and his foot was caught in a frog.
| The engineer OF heavy freight train
was unable to stop and ran over Kith-
cart.
Alexander Hardness was drowned
in Tarkio creek, just east of Shenan-
doah. He was a bachelor, 81 years
! old, and subject to epileptic fits all
| his life. He went fishing along the
creek. which flows half a mile from
the home of Mrs. Lafferty, his half
sister, with whom he lived, and it is
supposed that he FELL into the water
while in fit Search was made in
the evening and his dead body found
| in a pool four feet deer.
The grand lodges, A. o. U. w. and
Degree of Honor, after interesting
conventions at Cedar Rapids, adjourn
ed to meet in 1907 at Muscatine. The
biennial plan was adopted, hence
there will be no convention next year.
| The Representatives elected for 1905
and 1906 will hold over until 1907.
Financiers of each lodge are to re-
ceive 3 cents per month for each
member. The new officers were in
stalled and the usual resolutions OF
thanks adopted.
The New York Life Insurance Com.
pany has brought suit against the
wholesale furniture firm of Chitten-
den & Eastmen of Burlington for
S2,700 life insurance paid to them as
benefciaries of William Jarvis, who
disappeared from Burlington many
years ago and was thought to be dead.
The case was paid on the representa-
ton that the missing man was dead.
At fire in Cincinnati last winter an
unknown man was injured. H. Z.
Jarvis OF Burlington discovered in
him his long lost and supposedly dead
brother and brought him home. The
Chittenden and Eastman company re-
fused to refund the insurance money,
claiming Jarvis is legally dead. The
case will be a celebrated one.
Edward Haley. a raw youth from
Garner, arrived in Omaha a few days
ago armed with gun of large dimen-
sions to hunt for Pat Grove, being
eager to secure the 5000 reward Of
fered by Chief Donahue. Haley drop
ped into the police station and asked
the officer in charge TO show him how
prisoners were cared for. While con-
Quoting him through the corridors be-
tween the cells Officer Shepherd no.
tived that Kaley's hip pocket bulged
and investigating, found a huge revol-
yer. The officer asked Haley why he
had brought the gun to Omaha and
then the tale of woe came out.
Chief Donahue said Grove was in
Omaha" said Haley, "and so !
thought | would come over, arrest
him. take him to the chief and get
the reward" Believing the man to
be harmless, Captain Haze took the
gun from him and allowed him TO go
home.
The Andersonville prison monument
commission met at the state house
few days ago and let the contract for
the erection of the monument TO the
Des Moines Marble and Mantel COM
pany in competition with contractors
from four of the big cities. The cost
Of the monument will be $3.50, which
Is under the figure which the COM
mission had estimated as measuring
the necessary expenditure. The mon
ument for the erection of which the
contract provides will be of the de-
sign selected several months ago but
the main part of the monument which
was expected to be 6X6xS will be. in
stead. 5X5x7, or one foot smaller each
way. II is on this massive rock that
| the inscriptions will be made. The
| the 210 Iowa soldiers who died at the
| prison The base and statue sur
| mounting the monument are to be
Barre, VT, granite, and the rest will
| be Montello. Wis, granite. The mon
ument is to be erected and ready for
dedication by November l.
Amid the chaos of struggling horses
and broken pieces of wagon, Martin
Scott, his wife and daughter, Walter
| McNeeley and his brother Charle2-
plunged off the East Ninth street
bridge at Des Moines few days ago.
| landing twenty-five feet below in the
mud. The two horses were killed,
Charles McNeeley was badly injured,
the other occupants were bruised and
| the wagon broken. The horses,
! lll5htCAIu Ny pdooihso lSdLlSy ucoICd
into the side railing on the bridge
and, breaking that, fell over with the
wagon and people following them.
Charles McNeeley was the most seri-
ously injured. He was found with
both of the dead horses on top of
him, burrowed into the Shiny and
sticky mud along the river bank. He
was lifted up by the crowd which col.
lected and taken to his home on
Franklin avenue. Martin Scott owned
the team He and the members Of his
family, living on Mitchell avenue, to-
gether with the McNeeleys. were go
ing across the bridge, bound for East
Des Moines. The wagon was almost
across when the horses plunged over
the side. Had the accident occurred
few feet further on the bridge the
entire outfit would have been precipi'
tated into ten feet of water and all
would have been drowned. All OF
the SCOTS were severely bruised.
Eugene Stack, boy residing at
Keokuk, has filed suit against the c..
B. & Q. railroad for the loss of an
arm by jumping from the Keokuk &
st. Louis line passenger train on the
early morning of April IL, last. The
amount claimed as damages i:
S25, 900.
Judge Apologize sentenced Ler
Richard at Winterset to fifteen months
in the penitentiary for forgery. Re
hard is a young man only about q
J years old and was raised in Madison
county, his parents and relatives be