Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-01-04
TIE NEWS IN IOWA.

Shultz, or rockwell, accidentally ais
charged a 22-caliber rife, the ball
| taking effect above the right eye,
penetrating the brain. He was car
| ried to physicians Office, where he
expire dfifteen minutes later. The boy
with his brsther, Willie Longcady,
and Elmer Sawyer were hunting near
the edge VI town when the accident
occurred.
Disheartened by i'll health. and still
mourning the death OF her baby
daughter, which occurred year ago,
Mrs. Florence Evans, aged 80 years,
turned on the gas in her home in
Sioux City and lying down on a couch
peacefully died. Before doing so
she carefully placed her pet canary
In another room that the gas might
not reach it. When her husband,
Madison Evans, arrived home from
his work at the National Biscuit COM
pany's factory he discovered his wife
dead beyond recall. She leaves q
son Of Is years.
The secret service Of the Iowa Gen.
trail railway is seeking to locate the
parties back of a mysterious fire
that occurred recently in Latimer.
A stock of drugs and fixtures had
been shipped from Iowa Falls to Lat
inner, and while in the car on the
companys side track the car took
fire and the contents were total
loss. The fact that the seal on the
car was broken, that hay from a
nearby stack had been strewn over
the contents of the car and kerosene
applied. indicates the fire was OF
incendiary origin, and every enorr
is being made to locate the guilty
parties.
r. J. Mcintyre, who says ne In Il
stone mason from New Jersey, is at
Agatha hospital in Clinton suffering
from serious and perhaps fatal
wounds in the skull. Mcintyre was
picked up in the Northwestern rail-
road yards in semi-conscious condi-
ton. Later in the day he declared
that he had been thrown from a pas
senger train on which he had ridden
from Cedar Rapids by two tramps,
who had shared his quarters on the
head end of the baggage car. The
train was moving at rapid rate and
the man received cut on the scalp,
which, it is believed, penetrated the
skull.
BY an almost miraculous occur
renee the life of w. ]. Davis, pris-
oner in the city Jail at Hamilton,
was saved when the building was al
most totally wrecked by dynamite
explosion a few nights ago. Davis
escaped with only an injury to his
heel and number of bruises caused
by Goals and ashes from stove fly.
ing over him. Curiously enough ne
himself was under arrest on suspi-
cion Of having blown up restaurant
building a week ago. He was the
only prisoner in Jail at the time of
the explosion there. The work is
credited either to friends Of Davis,
who wished to prove him innocent
Of the first outrage, or to some one
having mania for such exploits.
At the international live stock ex-
position at Chicago, c. F. Coverdale
of the Iowa Agricultural college car
ried off the individual honors for
Judging cattle, sheep and swine, wmle
j. A. Main Of Ohio was first In judg-
ing horses. Ia the all around judy
ing Iowa came third, Kansas fourth,
Texas fifth and Michigan sixth. First
prize for the Hereford breed went to
z. A. Nave, Attica, Ia. William ID.
McCavish, Coggan, Ia, took four
prizes in the Berkshire class. In the
exhibition of Chester Whites, Iowa
Agricultural college took four firsts.
In the corn judging contest, the stu.
dents Of Iowa Agricultural college
won first prize, Nebraska Agricultural
college won second honors and the
students of the Kansas Agricultural
college third pace.
The body Of Asa Jones, living north
Of Webster City, was found by the
roadside four miles from home. He
had frozen to death. Jones. who was
prominent and not in the habit of
drinking, had spent the day In Dun
combe, where he got drunk. The
body was taken to Webster City where
Coroner o. A. Hall and jury listened
to the evidence pertaining to the
mans death. On the body were three
bottles Of whiskey, two half pints and
a pint bottle almost drained. The
bottles bore the stamp of e. d. Dyer's
Duncombe saloon. The evidence taken
points to the facts as given and the
verdict states that the man came to
his death from exposure while under
the influence Of liquor. Charles Nell
SON found the body in the road near
his barn. Jones had driven a single
horse hitehed to buggy. The animal
went on home after its unconscious
master had fallen out Of the buggy,
and one Of Jones' sons put 1t in the
barn. Neither horse nor buggy was
injured. A search was started for
Jones at once, but not until the next
afternoon as the body found. The
family knew he had gone to Dun
combe and the roads leading there
were searched. Jones, however, had
started home over a road a mile out
Of the way, which accounts for the In
ability OF the family to find him. A
wife and six children survive.
Ora Barnard of Corydon committed
suicide by drinking strychnine, dying
one hour after taking the poison.
She was respondent because her
husband, Dick Barnard. drank occa-
sionally. She was % years Of age
and the couple had been married
about one year.
William Colvert, Jr., Of Duluth.
Mimi. is in Muscatine investigating
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