Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-13

| SeVeTal preston business houses
were burglarized few nights ago.
Very little was secured. The work ia
believed to have been done by three
men who broke jail the night previous.
They had been serving time on bread
and water for robbing Jennings cloth
Ing store.
Indictments to the number Of twen-
ty-one have been returned by the
grand jury at Cedar Rapids, and 1t
is known that true bills were return
ed against the Cedar Rapids Carnival
association, the Marion Fair associa-
ton, the Fairfax Fair association and
| others. 1t Is understood that there
| are two indictments each against
them for the sale of liquor and one
for gambling. 1t is stated the houses
of i'll fame will be ousted.
| The victim OF the Hotel Lund fire
at New Hampton has not yet been
identified, but the remains are now
believed to be those of j. w. Larsen
| of Dickens, who was piano and or
gan man. Sheriff Schurrer talked TO
a dentist of Ruthven and his descrip-
ton of dertal work he did for Larsen
exactly correspondent with that OF the
! dead man. One foot of the victim
was found among the debris; also
watch, ring and other items.
] While cross examining witness
in the case Of Mamie Taylor, on trial
at Abba for numbering her husband,
Attorney Woodson was suddenly seiz-
| ed by an epileptic fit and fell head
long in the court room. The judge
hastily adjourned the session and the
! stricken lawyer was removed to his
home. He was revived several hours
later. Lena Fender, the woman over
whom Mrs. Taylor is said to have
done the shooting, was being exam
ined when the session adjourned.
Roberts and Oake, who operate an
independent packing plant at the
Union stock yards in Chicago, desire
to install a western plant, and Sioux
City Is regarded as the most desir-
able site. John Roberts and Rich
ard w. Oake, who constitute the firm,
were in Sioux City few days ago
and attended a conference with a
score of the leading business men Of
City are controlled by Swift e Co.,
Armour & Co., and the Cudahy pack
ing company. This syndicate has not
desired the invasion Of Independent
packers. 1t Is said that If Roberts
and Oake shall be allowed to build a
plant at the Sioux City yards,
Schwarzchild & Sulsberger will fol-
low with mammoth plant.
That ducks are a valuable crop was
evidenced at Mason City last week
in the sale of over $4,000 pounds Of
that fowl by Phillip Nealis, farmer
living southwest of the city, who re-
ceived for his crop check from Ar
mour & Co. for s6SS.26. The ducks
were brought In In hay racks, three
wagons being employed In the deliv-
cry, hauling them distance of twelve
miles. On account of hog cholera
and the loss Of most of his hogs, Mr..
Nealis bought all the ducks he could
find in the entire country and let
them follow a car of cattle he was
feeding. The waste was sufficient to
fatten the ducks as we'll as a number
of turkeys and chickens. In the yard
were ] 200 ducks. 1t was the largest
delivery of ducks ever received from
any one farmer, and large CROWD
assembled to see them unloaded anC
placed in three freight cars for trans
portation.
Detectives of the American Express
company, who have been securing
the country in search of Will Me
servy, son of the Hon. S. T. Meservy
well known business man and politi
clan, now residing in Chicago, where
he is a director of the United State:
Gypsum company, for securing $685.
worth of diamond brooches from Roe
Bros, Chicago. The young man pre-
scented himself over phone as the
, father and ordered the firm to sent
selection to Fort Dodge by express
which they did. He followed the
, shipment to Fort Dodge and secured
them from the express Office on the
pretext of wrong initials. Since theI
all trace of the man and jewels wa:
lost. A bill for them was mailed t.
the father, who denied any know
edge of the order and the firm a
once called on the express compan!
to return the goods. A detective o
the company is now endeavoring Il
locate the property and the affair has
caused a sensation at Fort Dodge, a:
the young man belongs to one OF thu
first families of Fort Dodge.
BY the explosion of 100000 cubic
,, feet of gas, wrecking the plant, Cen
, teryille is In darkness and the stree
car system Is tied up. Two persons
were injured. They are: James Osey
! fireman, painfully burned; Georg'
Prov, engineer, slightly burned. Gas
{ maker Oral Ruggles was blown from
the building and escaped unhurt. III
was hurled distance Of perhaps f1ft.
feet and when picked up had barrel!
,, a scratch on his body. That he wa
not killed is a miracle. The plant o
the light and traction company wa
entirely wrecked, and nre, which
started shortly after. partially con
, sumed the power plant. The town 4
|. without light, either gas or electric
: ity, and the street cars have no pow
|, err. Business concerns depending Oh
! electricity were compelled to shu
;. down indefinitely. The explosion wa
, terrific, breaking windows for man
, blocks. The plant is located on
? block from the square. 1t will b
I some time before relief can be sc
. cured, as the machinery Is wrecks
/ beyond repair and new material mus
n be installed before power can b
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