Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-19
IOWA
NEWS

parachute jump at Lake Manawa, 6
resort four miles south of Council
Bluffs. He came down In the lake anC
was drowned before help could reach
him. His body was recovered. 1t was
his first experience in balloonlng.
Harvey Church, a young lad who
has been working for the Arnett &
Lesher ditching outfit near Esther
vile for several weeks past, was
killed by the accidental breaking OF
q piece Of machinery on large 125
horse power capstan. He was struck
in the stomach and received internal
injuries from which he died few
hours later.
The farm belonging to Herman
Tostlebe, four miles west of Cedar
Falls, was struck by lightning and
burned TO the ground. Forty tons OF
hay, three hundred bushels of corn
and some fine farm implements were
consumed. The outstanding buildings
and home were saved with difficulty.
The loss is about $4,000 and the in.
| surance $500.
While driving to Burlington to at.
tend circus, Mrs. E. H. VanAtten
suddenly expired of heart disease.
The horses which her husband was
driving became restless, and she APP
peared frightened. Mr.. Van Atten as
sured her there was no danger, but
soon he noticed that she had appar.
emily tainted, and then made the dis.
| covery that she was dead. She was
S8 years of age.
The little child of William Scholl
of Anita is in a serious from drink.
ing kerosene from the spout Of can
and may die as a result. Mr.. School
was on his way to Chicago when the
accident occurred, but was caught
by a telegram and returned. The
little child of Mr.. and Mrs. Nelse
Johnson of the same place upset a
pan of boiling water and was serious.
ly burned about the feet and legs.
Glen Mettler of Charles City, agea
II, a water boy with force Of bridge
repairers on the railroad near Red
Oak, was drowned while bathing in
the Nishnabotna river near the can
ming factory. While diving off a
springboard he in some way struck
his head and sank to the bottom. The
body was recovered in a short time,
but the neck was found to be frac-
tured and all efforts to restore life
were unavailing.
The end of a sensational divorce
suit in which a well known farmer by
the name of E. W. Glew, residing
near Farley, was involved, came to a
close by the granting of a divorce
from his wife, Mrs. Jennie Glew. She
received 1900 alimony and Mr.. Glew
had to pay the attorneys fees and
costs. The couple were married last
August in Illinois, having become ac-
quainted through matrimonial
agency. The bride was a widow with
two grown up children, and 1t was on
live Together in peace.
Ten years after he killed her mother
while he was almost a wreck from
the use of drugs, w. P. Royce, an en-
ploye of the Sioux City Gas and Elec-
trio company, was married few days
ago to Miss Loretta Hendrickson.
Miss Hendrickson is the daughter OF
Nellie Patton, whom Royce murdered
in a fit of jealousy, Nov "a, 1895.
Rev. w. G. Moore, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of LeMars, per-
formed the ceremony at LeMars.
Royce was sentenced to twenty years
in the penitentiary at Anamosa after
the murder, but was parolled, and
later was pardoned. Since then he
has led the life of model citizen.
Joseph Woodhouse, rural mail
carrier at Graf, who has been bound
over to appear before the grand jury
on a charge of having attempted to
murder Postmaster Schmitt, and who
is out on heavy bail, is said to have
received notice from the postoffice de-
| partment to resume his duties as a
rural carrier. 1t is said that while
Mr.. Schmitt practically acknowledges
| that Mr.. Woodhouse has instructions
from the proper authorities to again
carry mail, he has forbidden the car
| rier to take the mail from the post
office. There is considerable specula-
! ton as to what the outcome of this
last move will result in, as it is inter
! fering with a United States employee
!
! federal authorities may take hand
in the case.
Railroad men believe that the
freight terminus of the Chicago &
| Northwestern road is to be located
in Clinton in the near future, instead
of Chicago. The new proviso freight
yards of the company are located
twelve miles from Chicago, between
Melrose park and Elmhurst, and their
situation is such that the trainmen
cannot find homes within practical
distance from their work. The diff.
Guilty has confronted the company for
some time and has been under serious
consideration. 1t is now said that the
company proposes to reverse the
freight division and make Clinton the
terminus instead of Chicago, which
action on the part of the company
will bring about $50 families from
Chicago to Clinton. Numbers of the
trainmen have been in the city the
past two lays looking for dwellings,
which gives strength to the belief.
Accused Of being too familiar with
others husbands Cornelia Shay at
Buxton cut Mrs. Willis with a razor
She gave her twenty slashes on the
face, neck and breast, but none OF
them were fatal.
Mrs. Alice Slower of Guthrie Center
has been granted a patent on a re
yolving dining table. The table is
made in any architecture but with NJ
legs. The table board revolves on {