Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-15

The second accident within shorl
time occurred In the railroad yards
at Keokuk when Frank Black Of War
Black is said to have stepped immed
lately in front of the moving train,
which could not be stopped until the
mans body had been terribly man
/ gled.
| Church societies and charitable In
stitutions have been ordered by DR..
Grant ]. Ross, city physician Of Sioux
City, to stop rummage sale unless
the promoters disinfected the second.
hand clothing contributed by the
charitable people. The health depart
men has issued an order that rum
mage sales will not be permitted In
the future unless the goods have been
fumigated. DR.. Ross says several con-
tagious diseases have been traced di.
rectly to goods disposed Of at a rum.
mage sale.
Two people were badly hurt as the
| result of collision between a street
car on the Lake Manawa line and a
switch engine at the Wabash crossing
| near Council Bluffs. The injured are:
Joseph l.. Mehlhig, motorman; badly
cut by flying glass and injured intern
ally. Miss Grew, cut by glass; condi.
| ton not serious. The accident was
the result Of slippery rails. Neither
Motorman Mehlhig nor the engineer
| could bring their trains to a stop.
| The street car was knocked OF the
track and the engine was derailed.
Decatur county will have new
court house. The proposition carried
by the small margin of 200 votes
The court house proposition has twice
before been before the people of De
catrr county. Petty political conten.
tion and the bitterness between the
county, it Is said. was the cause OF
the previous defeats. The old court
house at Leon is an eye sore to
| southern Iowans, and Is In all but a
condemned condition. The work OF
tearing down the old fossil will be-
| gin at once.
Out near Helena, Montana, they
have recently opened two or three cop
per mines that have proved wonder
| fully rich. One of them is the Helena,
owned largely by Des Moines people.
| They commenced getting ore at a
depth of ten feet and are now in ore
| all the time. Mr.. Adams, banker at
| Scranton, Iowa, is one Of the men who
is also interested in the property. The
stock is being handled by the Pugh
Investment Company, $40 Croker
Bldg, Des Moines, and they are put
ting 1t on the market at ten (10) cents
per share They expect 1t to go to
one dollar per share very soon. Mon
tana copper is making men rich every
year.
Differences between white and ne
gros workmen on the addition to the
Dodd & StrUthers building at Des
Moines came to a head in a riot In
which a number Of men took sides.
| Two or three participants were" badly
cut and bruised, although no serious
| injuries we're reported. H. A. Routh
and Bert Fessler, white men, and viii
| Morton, negro, were arrested On a
complaint made by the foreman. 1t
is said that the trouble started in the
morning when one of the negroes EN-.
| ployed on the work overturned a
wheelbarrow full of brick from run.
way, narrowly missing one OF the
white men. The latter declared that
the negroes were attempting to kill
| them, and words lead to blows. Bricks
and other missiles were used as weap
| onS.
Hundreds Of former Perry people.
most of them now residents Of Des
Moines, were welcomed at the annual
| home coming celebration on the 9Th.
All day long the streets were crowd.
ed, old friendships were renewed and
the faith expressed that Perry, as the
principal town on the new Beaver
| Valley division of the Interurban rail.
road, would grow In population and
in commercial Importance. The
crowds began to come early and
since the home coming day was much
In the way of the celebration of the
| opening Of the new interurban ser
vice, as many as possible came by
that route. The first car reached the
city at about o'clock and was loaded
with former Perry people living in
Des Moines. Each successive car was
equally crowded and by nightfall 1t
was announced by the interurban
management that fully 500 people had
been carried over their line during
the day. Each car was met at the
depot by delegation Of citizens and
visitors were directed to the homes OF
friends and were escorted about the
city, the improvements shown and
the many points of interest explained
Each car brought nearly 100 from
along the line to the celebration. Al
noon the Iowa, the special interurbap
car, came UP from Des Moines carry.
ing a delegation of newspaper men
who were the guests of President H
H. Polk, General Superintendent F. c
Cummins and other interurbon of.
ficials. Hon. j. s. Polk of the Des
Moines City Railway company, and
heavily interested in the interurbar
system, was also a member Of the
party. Mayor O'Connor, Editors r. e
Zerwekh of the Advertiser and A. M
Harvey of the Daily Chief, and other
prominent citizens were the guests
Of the interurban company at ban
uuet given on the car shortly after
arrival. AT an afternoon meeting
Judge Nichols presided and addresses
were made by A. M. Harvey, Mayor
O'Connor, Harvey Ingham. e. A. Nye
Henry Wallace, and others.