Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-18

had several ribs broken. He was on
the wagon with his brother, who got
| down to open a gate. The horses
started up and the little fellow tumb,
| led from the seat. His condition is
quite serious.
AS a result of runaway, John
Denell a farmer living north Of Du'
buque, lies at Mercy hospital with a
| broken neck and a wrenched spine.
| His spirited team took fright, over
turning the buggy, trdowing the occu'
pant out. Assistance arrived in few
minutes from a farm house and Den
| ell was taken to the hospital three
miles away. Little hope is expressed
| for his recovery.
The Bristow opera house was
| burned to the ground few days ago.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000. Ihe
| fire is supposed to have started from
lighted cigar stub carelessly thrown
| into a pie of rubbish. The residenc-
eS of DR.. Appleby and Mrs. Stodgell
were burned. Loss, $4,000. The bal
ance of the business part of the town
was saved by the heroic work of the
| firemen.
One day recently while the infant
child Of Frank Mclaughlin of Coon
Rapids was playing on the porch its
mother was attracted by it's gleefui
antics and supposed 1t was having a
high time with the pet cat. Finally
the mother went to it and found it
playing with a blue racer. The snake
disappeared on the approach Of Mrs.
Mclaughlin, but there was a badly
frightened mother until she found
that the child had not been bitten.
w. B. Bayles of Castana was found
dead in his bed at the Goodrich hotel
at Council Bluffs. The attending physi-
clan, after finding a bottle of choral
in the mans clothes, held that he had
died from on overdose of the drug.
Bayless went to Council Bluffs to
close up land deal He was prom
inent resident of his home town. He
had been in the habit of using choral
for nervousness resulting from a
shock during a fire few year ago.
Because at the direction of a school
director, a teacher in Penn township
refused to allow William Tudor's chi.
dren to drink out of the water pail
with the rest of the pupils, Mr. Tudor
has asked the county attorney to
bring a criminal action against them.
1t is customary for the pupils to take
turns in going to neighboring farm
to get water for the school, and the
Tudor children would not go because
they had been instructed not to go on
the highway after getting to school.
A petition asking pardon for
Charles Burns, convicted Of murder
ing his brother-in-law, Bartlett Stone,
at Cedar Fails, is being generally
signed in Waterloo and Cedar Falls.
The paper is being circulated blythe
aged father of the young man and In
Cedar Falls there was not a single
objection on the part of any to whom
the petition was presented. Burns
was convicted in September, 1904, OF
murder in the second degree. re.
volver was exploded during quarrel
between Burns and Stone, and the
bullet entered Stones body.
1t is not often that a man will sit
down and make an entry in his diary
on setting out to murder his wife and
mother-in-law, but that Is what Ed
Mack Of Iowa City did. He was taken
to Anamosa to commence nine
years term a couple of days ago, and
his diary has just come to light. He
evidently expected that he would be
hanged for the crime, as he told where
to get the money to pay for his fun
eral expenses. In his diary he refers
to a man who he claims has been
trXr IN 10
An explosion of Illuminating gas IN
a book vault in the conservatory of
music building at Drake university,
Des Moines, seriously injured four Of
the students. d. D. Baird of Redding;
rooms at 2S09 Brattleboro avenue;
face, neck and arms badly burned;
Miss Edna Berryhill of Adair; rooms
at 1914 Twenty-siXth street, burned
about the head and shoulders; Miss
Grace Harbo,d of Plano, slightly
burned about the head; Miss Mar
garet Brick of Red Oak; slightly
burned about the hands and face. Stu
dents in the building had noticed es-
Gaping gas. Mr.. Baird, who was prac-
ticing in one Of the rooms, started to
hunt for the leak with a lighted
match. He found it.
Dubuque is suffering an epidemic of
burglary. Not less than a dozen bust.
ness houses have been broken into in
the last month. One institution has
been entered four times in that perloo
and small amounts taken on each oc.
casion. A few nights ago the Cave
cigar store was visited, entrance hav.
ing been effected through a rear won.
dow. The cash register was rified OF
SO in change. The most important
robbery that has marked this latest
endemic was that of Hopkins &
Whites jewelry store, which occurred
last week. The large French plate
glass display window in the front OF
the store was smashed and a thous.
and dollars worth of jewelry which
could be reached by placing the hand
through the rent in the glass was
confiscated. Among other concerns
that have suffered lately are Pat Nc.
Aloon's sample room and the Post
office Exchange. A singular feature
in connection with the robberies, with
the single exception of the jewelry
store burglary, Is the fact that moth
ing but money has been taken al
though valuable goods have been at
hand in each case. The police have
thus far found no clue to any OF the
robberies. It is believed to be local
talent, though there are no marks of
the amateur manifest.
Iowa State college Is expecting a
slice of the $4,000 which ]. Ogden