Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-06

| tusks. He was hurriedly taken in
an automobile to the hospital, where
his injuries were dressed.
Chris Nicholson, fire policeman,
who was on duty at the Hedges fire at
Atlantic a few DAYS ago. has been ar
rested for assault. with intent to com
NIT great bodily injury and drunken
ness. w. w. Smith is the complaining
witness and he charges that Mickle'
| son assaulted him with heavy
wrench for no cause whatever, strik-
ing him on the head and infiicting
serious wound.
Fire of an unknown origin, but
| supposed to be the result of mice and
matches, completely destroyed the
beautiful farm house of Mr.. Miller,
| nine miles west of Atlantic. Scarcely
thing was saved, There was no
one in the house at the time the fire
was discovered by passerby, the boy
| being in the field and Mrs. Miller in
the garden. The loss is $4,000 with
insurance of $1,000.
Robert P. Flower, a fireman In the
| Milwaukee yards at Council Bluffs,
was run over and killed by a Great
Western train. He had to cross the
Great Western tracks in going to his
work and it is not known exactly how
the mishap occurred. A little girl
claims to have witnessed the accident
| but her story is rather confusing ana
unsatisfactory. Flower was 20 years
of age and unmarried.
Mrs. John W. Brewster, a middle
aged woman, the wife of farmer re
siding south of Iowa Falls, was killed
as the result Of a runaway accident
| Mrs. Brewster was driving in buggy
and when passing under the viaducl
crossing of the Illinois Central,
runaway team belonging to a farmer
crashed into the buggy. Mrs. Brew
ster was thrown violently against the
masonry work, striking her head with
such force that she was killed instant
| ly.
A sensational suit has just beef
filed in the district court at Clarinds
in which P. l. Peterson of Coin ask
$4,000 from the Coin Coal company
as damages for injuries received while
working in their mine. The plaintiff
charges that the coal company was
guilty of negligence through its fore
man, Neils Ellis, who was in charge
of the mine at the time Peterson wal
hurt, causing him to fall to the bottom
of the shaft, breaking his left thigh
and collar bone.
In one day at Atlantic recently
August Johnson had his foot badly
crushed while at work on the con
crete gang on the railroad: Dick
Reed had his hand badly injured in
trying to stop a runaway team OF
mules; Jas. Griffith had his big toe
smashed by a heavily loaded wagon
of corn running over his foot and
John Carlson tainted and fell from
the wagon, receiving bad bruises
about the head. None of the acct
dents, save the Johnson and Carlson
ones are expected to result seriously.
A peculiar chain of circumstances,
linking four people in possible blind
ness, sent quartette of Iowans, young
and old, into Mercy hospital at Iowa
City few days ago. All have danger.
ously injured eyes and none is Ger.
tain to recover his vision. An eXplou.
ing pop bottle cut a cash an inch and
! a half long in the right eye of ]. M.
Kelley of Malcolm. Homer Kern,
lad Of Belle PLANE, struck a railroad
spike with a hammer and the missile
struck him in the left eye. John Hora
gashed himself with a butcher knife,
cutting eyelids, cornea and nose. Ray
Smith, aged years, thrust a galvan.
lied iron wire into his right eye, at
North English. Iris and cornea were
pierced. 1t was necessary for the op'
orators to cut out part of the iris.
The Iowa district convention Of the
German Evangelical Lutheran synod
of Missouri, Ohio, and other states,
was in session in Dennison last week.
1t was one of the largest and best at.
tended conventions ever held in the
state, some 225 preachers, teachers,
and delegates being in attendance.
The report of the committee of mis-
sions showed that $4,000 had been ex-
pended during the past two years in
this work and they still had $500 on
hand. 1t was announced that mem
Der of the Iowa church had recently
donated to this fund the sum of
$4,000. The officers elected for the
ensuing year were; President, Rev,
c. Zusrer of Fort Dodge; first vice
president, Rev. A. d. Grief of Daven-
port; second vice president, Rev. Mr..
Grimm of Lyons. 1t was decided
that the next convention is to be held
at Lyons. Ia, Aug. % to 20, 1907.
Financially ruined and telling his
wife he would never return unless II
was rich man, e. J. Rosecrans,
brother of Mrs. G. G. Pritchard OF
Alden, is on his way home from Klon.
dixie where he has cleaned up 100000.
had been a successful business man,
found that he had lost all his worldly
goods. He had always been prosper.
Gus and the new conditions forced
him to make new bid for the smiles
of fortune. He notified his wife that
he was going to the Klondike to seek
his fortune and that he would either
return a rich man or not at all until
he was dead. With this farewell he
| dropped out of sight until few days
ago when he notified his relatives
| that he had sold his mining interests
| in the Klondike for 100000 and was
| on his way to the states. Mrs. Rose
Grams has started to meet her husband
at either Seattle or Nome.
Because farmer pulled his wagon
and team across a lane on his farm
and refused to let a thrashing outfit