Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-12-27

burlington train by the baggage
trucks on the platform and narrowl,
escaped death under the wheels which
cut off his overcoat. He escaped un
injured. He was seeing his class
mates off for Christmas.
| At banquet Of the faculty and stu
dents of Central university at Pella
/ President Garrison announced that he
had Just received $4,000 from resi-
dent of me- theastern Iowa for the ESQ,
| 600 Carnegie endowment find. Pres:
| dent Garrison said that the name Of
| the doner had to be withheld for the
present. He expects to renew the
campaign with additional vigor. Many
improvements are being made at the
| school.
John Wolfnger. one OF the best
Gown Webster county pioneers, drop
FED dead at his home at Fort Dodge
from a stroke of apoplexy. The de-
ceased was county treasurer several
terms and has been identified with all
public spirited movements since the
time of the stage coaches into the
city. He had returned from walk
downtown, complained of a stitch in
his back, and in few moments ex-
Fired In chair.
After lying unconscious for several
days, William d. McCrary, aged AZ
years, died at Mercy hospital in Clin-
ton from the effects of injuries re-
ceiyed in a local paper mill. and
which injuries, had he recovered.
would have left him deaf and dumb
imbecile. Mr.. McCrary was hurt in
the rag cutting machine, which crush
ed his skull, paralyzed his brain, tore
ont an eye, destroyed an ear and
broke nearly every bone in his face.
The Plymouth Gypsum company
of Fort Dodge is party to an organiza
ton of company with $l50,000 cap
ital to manufacture sewer pipe and
new plant will be built in the spring
The finest of clay is secured beneath
the strata of gypsum rock taken out
of the company's mine, and will be
used in the manufacture of vitrified
sewer pipe. The company will EN-
ploy seventy-fve men on the start
aud expect to increase the number to
$50.
The petition for rehearing OF the
famous case of Huggard VS.. Glucose
Sugar Refining comptny, in the Iowa
supreme court, shows that the glucose
trust is not yet ready to quit and pay
the record breaking Iowa judgment OF
S32,910 that was awarded Huggard by
a jury at Davenport. The defendants
base their fight for rehearing on the
allegation that If the latest decision of
the supreme court is allowed to stand
it will be to modify and override many
previous decisions of the court which
are supported by the decisions Of
courts of final resort in other states.
Samuel James, alleged to be one of
the smoothest confidence men who
have operated in this part of the
country, and who, on Oct. 10 last, is
charged with having induced Mrs.
Mamie Wilson of Keoluk to accept a
bogus check lor $4,000 in exchange
for property she owned, afterwards
securing $500 on the deed and getting
out of town before the trick was dis.
covered, was arrested few days ago
at Washington, la. He was taken to
Keokuk and identified beyond all
question of a doubt by Judge w. l..
Mcnamara of the Keokuk superior
court. He is said to be the same
fellow who swindled Mr. and Mrs
William Gillespie of 81 Fifteenth
street, Des Moines, out of $500 last
summer in a similar manner, negoti- |
ating the deed from the Security Saw.
ings bank. He is said to have worked
the same game in various parts of
the state.
Judge Smyth Of Mount Pleasant |
heard arguments in the tax cases
against the estate Of the late Cap
tain Beckwith and DR.. Mcclure, both
of whom were heavy stockholders in
the Austin Western Scraper company
at Aurora, ILL.,, but resided In Mount
Pleasant. The contention of the
county represented by Tax rerret
Judge Mccoy of Oskaloosa, is that
the Beckwith estate should pay a tax
on LOO shares of stock valued at
$256,500 for the past five years, |
amounting to about p4,UUU per year,
and that the Mcclure estate should
pay on $50 shares of both stocks val
ued at $4,000 for the same time,
about $3.50 per year. Judge Baby of
Aurora, one of the executors, repre-
scented the estates, his contention be-
ing that these stocks were not tax
able on the property in Illinois, where
it Is situated.
Signs are multiplying that the Man
chester-Davenport interurban line will |
soon be reality. 1t developed that |
Blood & Hale of Boston, who built the
Moline-Watertown electric line, have |
been figuring on the new line. The
Manchester road would have the
unique feature of tapping six trunk
lines, including the Illinois Central at
Manchester, from where the line is to |
run to Monticello, then cross the Chi |
cago e Northwestern at Amber, the |
Milwaukee at Olin, the Northwestern |
at Stanwood, and the Rock Island at |
Upton. So far 1t Is an almost straight |
north and south line, which II contin.
ued would take it directly through |
Moscow to Muscatine. This fact prom |
ises to open up spirited rivalry be.
tween Davenport and Muscatine as to
which shall be the southern terminus
of the road. From Upton 1t is ex.
pected to turn southeast to Wilton,
Bluegrass and Davenport.
Fire in the power house of the
Northwestern States Cement company
at Mason City destroyed the building