Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-11-15
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NEWS

NEWS
The second accident within short
time occurred in the railroad yards
at keokuk when Frank Black of War
saw was crushed to death by train.
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
| Monroe suffered a $4,000 fire loss
in the burning down of the Monroe
house, two story brick building, and
leading hotel Of the place. Fire was
discovered in the attic, resulting from
a defective flue and owing to lack of
material to fight the fire the building.
went under. The hotel was managed
by Guy Clifton. None of the con-
tents were saved. Insurance on con-
tents is $500. The building is valued
at $4,000, and is owned by R. Wander
ploeg at Pella.
| Church societies and charitable in
situations have been ordered by DR..
Grant j. 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 d.
rectly to goods disposed of at 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 stop.
The street car was knocked OF the
track and the engine was derailed.
S. M. Bentley, clerk of courts Of
Black Hawk county was obliged to
! refuse Charles Hiram a license to
wed because the prospective bride
groom forgot the name of the young
lady he desired to wed. Hiram is "a
years old, of bashful, retiring ma
ture, and the confusion of securing
marriage license caused him to for
get whom he wished to make Mrs.
Hiram. He said her name was Ida
and she was 16 years old but was
unable to give further information.
| Differences between white and me-
gros workmen ON the addition to the
Dodd & Struthers building at Des
Moines came to head in riot in
which number of men took sides.
Two or three participants were badly
cut and bruised, although no serious
Injuries were reported. H. A. Routh
and Bert Fessler, white men, and Will
Morton, negro, were arrested on q
complaint made by the foreman 1t
is said that the trouble started in the
morning when one of the negroes en-
ployed on tn" 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
homo coming celebration on the 5th.
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
J 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 z o'clock and was loaded
, with former Perry people living in
, Des Moines. Each successive car was
equally crowded and by nightfall It
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 a 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
Bach car brought nearly 100 from
along the line to the celebration. Al
noon the Iowa, the special interurbar
! car, came UP from Des Moines carry
:, ing a delegation of newspaper mer
: who were the guests of President H
+ H. Polk, General Superintendent +. c
. Cummins and other interurbon of
fcials. Hon. j. s. Polk of the Del
\ Moines City Railway company, ant
!, heavily interested in the interurbar
/ system, was also member of tn,
# party Mayor O'Connor, Editors r. E
t zerwekh of the Advertiser and A. M
Harvey of the Daily Chief, and othe
q prominent citizens were the guests
:. of the interurban company at ban