Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-20

! and 8, 1906.
Fire in the farmers elevator at Pc
cahontas burned it to the ground The
| loss, including grain, is about $4,000
| nearly covered by insurance.
Beatrice Barrett, Tie 5-year-old
| daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Barrett
of Alden, is dead as the result OF
severe burns. The childs dress caught
fire from match she had lighted and
before assistance arrived and the1lamea
extinguished, the little one was so bad
ly burned that she died a few hours
later.
Believing her schild to be worth
more than gold to her, Mrs. Harriet
Thompson Of Des Moines waived her
right to alimony in the district court,
providing her husband, c. w. Thomp
son, gave her the custody Of her
little girl. The husband, it is under.
stood, shall pay for maintaining the
child.
A car loaded with ten barrels OF
gasoline and a lot OF merchandise
caught fire at Grundy Center and was
completely destroyed. The barrels OF
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fire before 1t reached the station,
1t was run under the watertank and
flooded with water, but 1t did moi
have any effect on the fire.
Joe Keck and LATE Sylvester wers
struck by the Rock Island California
flyer and instantly killed at Fairport
six miles east Of Muscatine. KecH
was a bachelor and a rich farmer
Sylvester, who leaves wife and one
child, was a shell digger. The men
were in a buggy and attempted to
cross the track in front of the train.
William Hyde, aged 80 years, was
killed at Fairfield by a fall while
working on the Carnegie library OF
Parsons college. A short time ago the
skull of a workman was crushed, two
stones each costing $3.50, fell and
broke and one of the bosses caused
temporary strike by the alleged whole
sale grating Of workmen's wages.
For the loss OF the second finger
on his right hand, Charles S. Rund
berg of Des Moines has commenced
suit for $4,000 in United States circuit
court against the Chicago Great West
ern Railway company. The accident
which caused him his loss he says oc
Cured Sept. II, 1905, while he was
an employe of the company and oc
Cured in the company's shops.
One death and four cattle killed il
the record of the electrical storm that
passed over Atlantic and vicinity
few days ago. James F. Baker, stu
dent at Grinnell college, who was
selling books to pay his way through
school, was almost instantly killed
near Griswold by a stroke Of light
ming. He was going out to provide
better shelter for his horse that was
left standing in the field when struck
by the lightning.
H. Claude Dye, the Tabor banker
who was tried on the charge of utter
ing forged instrument, escaped con
viction through the unwillingness OF
the witnesses to testify. The state
had great difficulty in getting testi
mOny, as the losses had been made w
by Dyes relatives. Several indict
ments still hang over Dye for forg
cry and the uttering of forged papers
Dye was found several thousand dol
lars short in his accounts about a yeal
ago and was arrested at his fathers
home in Council Bluffs for embezzle
ment and forgery.
The Des Moines police are search
ing for a negro, who in a fight some
time ago struck John Spriggs, another
negro, over the head with a blunt in
! strument, infiicting wounds from
which he died. Spriggs, upon being
taken to Mercy hospital after the fight
claimed that on the night of the fight
he was attacked by three negroes
one of whom struck him over the
head with a club. He dropped to the
| ground MORALLY injured. A few min
utes later he was picked up and taken
to the hospital. 1t was thought fol-
several days that he would recover
and even worked for few days, but
was taken worse and died.
After an absence from his home in
Burlington of fifty-one years, his
whereabouts unknown to his family
and supposed to be dead, Chris Bur
master came back to that city 6
few days ago and made himself
known to those of his family who
were still living. He is now 6S years
of age. When he was II years old
working on a farm near Burlington
| he became discouraged at the pros
poets, and without saying word to
! his family or anyone else he disap
| peared, going into the wilds of South
Dakota, where he took up farm. He
succeeded after a long struggle in
putting himself into comfortable cir
cumstances. He married and then
went to Los Angeles, Cal, where he
has since been living a retired life.
Chris Savener, a young farmer liv
ing few miles north of Nashua, had
$40 taken from his home a few days
ago. The money was in gold coin and
was secreted in trunk in an upstairs
room and during the forenoon while
! Mrs. Savener's mother was alone on
the place some one entered and TOOK
the money. Suspicion attached to a
stranger who was seen in that vicinity
during the early part Of the day,
and Marshal Kezar of Nashua took
this clue and tried to locate the man,
but a search of all afternoon and
night failed to find him. A reward
is offered for his arrest and the return
Of the money. Savener had been eau
toned about keeping his money in the
house, but no was afraid to trust the
banks.
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