Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-11-29

EOIiHS COTuHeIu anu cared IOT ny ueI
husband and other relatives.
Alec Boag of Centerville is lying
In hospital across the river from
Davenport his throat badly gashed.
The young man attempted to cut his
own jugular vein In the presence of
his father in the Vendome hotel, sud-
denly jumping under the bed clothes
though not undressed and pabbing at
his throat with penknife.
Keota residents are busy agitating
the construction of an electric line to
Fairfield. AS soon as the plans of the
Keosauqua line promoters assumed
definite form the citizens Of Keota be-
came busy with proposition to have
the line extended to their town. Sub
scriptions to the amount of $500 have
already been raised. This fund Is to
pay for preliminary survey or re.
port as to the advisatility OF a road
from Fairfield to Keota.
telephone saved the life Of Mrs
NJ F. Gillispie, from asphyxiation
Just returned from visit to New
York she rang up c. c. Redtield, a
neighbor, and incidentally mentioned
that her stove was working badly.
Next morning he rang up Mrs. ellis.
pie and receiving no answer thought
of the stove and it's workings, and at
once went over to the house. He
found her lying on the floor uncon.
scious, overcome by coal gas. She was
revived with much difficulty.
VIII N. Robinson, former salesman
for the Waterloo Carriage company
now a Waterloo real estate agent
was killed In the Windsor hotel fire a.
Regina, Man., few days ago. His
His death was particularly pathetic
on account OF Robinson's approaching
wedding to Robina Galloway of Wa
terloo, to have been solemnized In o
few months. Robinson had been With
a land party In Canada several weeks
and was about ready to return to
Waterloo. He was "a years old and
well known In the business world.
Plans for promising Jail delivery
were discovered and thwarted at Du.
buque by Sheriff Dunn. The pri.
soners had sawed through one bar OF
the window and were half through
the second when the discovery was
made. A search Of the cells revealed
twenty saw blades. Work had been
in progress evidently for fortnight,
and three days more would have
completed 1t. An unusual amount OF
singing, now known to have been
made to cover up the sounds Of the
saving, attracted the sheriff's atten-
ton. There are thirty-five prisoners
in the jail.
Jack Whitney, young man en-
ployed on the big steam dredge which
is digging the Purgatory slough canal
was drowned shortly after midnight
few nights ago in the channel at a
point about eight miles southwest OF
Manson. Whitney, In company with
the night fireman, was on his way
from the boarding house boat to the
dredge in a scow, which capsized in
nine feet of water. Whitney could
not swim and was drowned, and his
companion had great difficulty In get
ting out. The noise Of the dredge,
which was only a few yards away,
drowned their cries for help. Whit
ney was about 81 years old and was
a stranger in that section.
Farmers in Hamilton county are
searching for an unknown insane
Scandinavian, who entered the Nc
Donald home where Mrs. Mcdonald
lay cold in death, and attempted to re-
store her to life. The man was In
Duncombe and hearing the undertaken
was making preparations for the fun
eral declared he would resurrect the
dead. Making his way to the Nc
Donald home he entered unanounced
and proceeded to the side Of the
corpse where he took hold of her hand
and commanded her In a loud voice
to arise. The mourners were dunn
founded and for a moment sat bewild-
cred at the unusual scene. The in
truder was forcibly elected while pro-
claiming his power to raise the dead.
Prospects seem bright for an inter
urban system with Marshalltown as
the center. Hamilton Browne, pro-
moter and representative of eastern
capitalists, with whom local boost
ers" and capitalists have been con-
ferring at different times during che
past months, went to independence
to close a deal with Jones & Hovey,
owners of the Marshalltown l.. P. &c
r. r. company, for the purchase of
the line and plant. If Mr.. Browne
succeeds in buying the property he
will ask a special tax of 8 per cent
in two annual installments from the
city and the canvass to secure sigma
lures to a petition for a special cleo
ton will be Immediately begun.
There is not much doubt that such a
tax would carry easily.
Self convicted and with a look Of
shame and penitence on every feature
of his face, Swan w. Johnson, post.
master at Slater, pleaded guilty to the
charge of embezzling government
money before Judge Mcpherson in the
federal court at Des Moines. Short in
his accounts 1884 Johnson pleaded to
the charge without even consulting a
lawyer, as he himself admitted, and
apparently with full knowledge Of
what conviction meant. The court d.
rected that the prisoner be allowed to
sign up bond, his bondsman having
come with him to Des Moines. The
bond was fixed in the sum of $500.
Johnson has always borne a good rep
utation at Slater. He comes from a
good family and his lived In Story
county for eighteen years.
At the meeting of the board of sup
ervisors of Ida county that body
instructed Treasurer p. N. Shearer.
by a resolution passed by the board,