Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-27
IOWA
NEWS
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| The Salter boys were saved from
Q watery grave at Allerton by Claude
Conklin, who, at the risk of his own
life, pulled them from beneath the
thin Ice under which they had gone
! Phflo J. Brockway, an old soldier
and inmate of the soldiers home al
Marshalltown was found insane and
committed to the hospital at Inde-
pendence. Brockway imagines him
self president of the United States.
He was arraigning the members OF
his cabinet when he was taken before
the commission.
!. w. Trauman, arrested by revenue
agents for conducting q masked still
In bis house near Burlington, was ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Glynn at Keokuk, pleading not
guilty and waving preliminary exam
nation. He was bound over in the
sum OF $500 to await the action OF
the federal grand jury.
| While employed with construction
crew in the railroad yards at Cres-
ton, j. l.. Roby, married man, aged
40 years, was struck by a switch en-
CINE and ground to pieces. the body
being terribly mutilated. The acct
dent was witnessed by scores of per-
sons on a passing passenger train.
hobys home was at Thayer.
AS 2. t. Funk STEPPED onto North
western train No. at Council Bluffs,
enroute east, he fell over lifeless.
The train got in motion before he
was noticed and the body was carried
| 70 Missouri Valley. Deceased was
about 80 years of age, and was trav-
cling salesman for the Ohio Falls
WOODEN mills of Louisville, KY.
The mayor of Dubuque, acting un-
der the pressure of the ministers, has
instructed Chief Of Police Pickley to
| notify the patrolman to arrest all
saloonkeepers selling liquor to minors.
II means that children will be barred
from rushing the can for their par
ents. This is the first time in the
history Of Dubuque that such an
order has been issued.
A warrant has been issued for the
arrest of j. B. Hollenhors, former
roadmaster of the Great Western, for
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Hollenhors is charged with
completely in the defrauding case of
w. V. Sibert and Joseph Bridges, who
are out on bonds in Marshalltown on
the charge Of conspiracy to defraud
the railroad by padding the pay roll
with fictitious names.
Miss Grace Aimee Reed, teacher
In the Boone high school and coach of
the girls basketball team, who was
robbed of pocketbook containing S35,
has recovered the stolen property.
The guilty party had taken the purse
and placed 1t In the pocket of another
girls cloak. Eleven dollars had been
spent. The l-.her of the girl who
owned the coat and Superintendent
King will make thorough investiga-
tin. The affair has caused sensa-
ton.
Mrs. Leo Meyer, living in Muscatine
county, near the Johnson county line,
has filed contest of the will Of her
father asking that his estate, valued
at $4,000, be divided among the wife
and six children. In his will she was
the only child not provided for. She
sets out in her petition that the other
children continually infamed her
father against her and her husband,
and that she was not even allowed to
enter the house when her father met
with his last sickness.
Among the occupants Of the chair
car in Wabash passenger train No.
Is from nes MONIES, overturned in
the collision with a switch engine al
st. Louis, was ]. F. Frazier of Des
Moines. Frazier, who was on his way
to Collinsville, H., saw the impending
collision and started from the chair
car. The impact threw him to the
floor before he could reach the door.
He soon recovered from the snocK,
and smashing a window crawled
through to the ground unhurt. No
one was seriously hurt in the wreck.
1t seems to be admitted on all
hands that the Iowa Falls G. Northern
road will not get into Hampton by
the first Of January. The big bridge
across Maynes creek is unfinished
and 1t is reported that the lack of
the necessary timt ers has caused the
delay, and even If it was done il
would be practically impossible to
surface UP the track so as to lay the
rails into town. The disappointment
felt at the failure of the road to
reach town by the time mentioned
Is mitigated by the fact that the
three per cent tax will not have to
be paid, the conditions being that It
was only payable If the road reached
Hampton by December 81.
Landing in Iowa with ten cents and
now worth 100000 tells the POSSIBLE
tiles of Iowa land in right hands.
Hans Knoop is the man who has DEM
onstrated this possibility In western
finance. Arriving in this state from
Holland some years ago with TO
worldly goods save the ten cents, he
went to work with win at SIS
month. His Dutch training stood him
in good stead and he had soon saved
enough to buy 120 acres of Iowa land
In Tama county. Mr.. Knoop and his
wife farmed carefully, reared a family
of eight children and today are the
proud possessors of eleven hundred
acres of good Iowa soil, estimated as
worth 100000.
William Powers, a farm hand near
Fort Dodge, had his nose bitten off
by vicious horse during a public
sale In the presence Of hundreds Of
people. His jaw boneFwas rushed and
the flesh badly mangled Blood poison
may result.
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