Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-31
IOWA
NEWS

a large majority.
Nearly one hundred northwestern
Iowa bankers were in attendance at
the convention Of Group l OF the
Iowa Bankers association, at Sioux
City. Alfred Morton of Sibley was
elected chairman for the coming year
and +. p. Barker was chosen secre-
tary. Next years meeting will PROB
ably be held at Rock Rapids
John L. Brown, who was state au.
ditor from 1883 to 1887, died a few
days ago at his farm home in Cedar
township, Lucas county, aged 6S years,
after only four days illness from
pneumonia. He leaves wife and
zine children, nearly all grown. He
was editor Of the Charlton Herald for
twelve years. His death is widely
mourned. .
Peter Murphy, AZ years of age, a
,arlner living five miles south of lie
Mars, took a dose of paris green
and died after twelve hours of fearful
suffering. 1t was undoubtedly a case
of suicide, as he told his wife and
children, who were out milking when
be swallowed the poison, what he had
done when they returned. Murphy
vas fairly prosperous. He had been
hard drinker for years.
Mrs Lot Thomas, of Storm Lake,
wife of the late Judge Lot Thomas,
congressman from the Eleventh dis
trict, has received a letter from a
man living in Ashland. o. The let
ter contained II cents in coin, neatly
wrapped in tissue paper and put in
coin envelope. The letter of explana-
ton which accompanied this stated
that the enclosed II cents was sent to
her, because the writer ten years
ago, when a tenant of her fathers
farm, stole bushel of wheat, and she
being one of the five heirs was there
fore entitled to her share of the wheat
money. Each one of the heirs receiv-
ed similar amount. The man added
that his conscience had troubled him
All this time, and that he took THIS
means of squaring himself.
Robert Duncan's Fifth ward saloon
at Boone was badly damaged few
mornings since by fire, which is sup
posed to have been started by women
whose husbands had been frequenting
The place. The police are now investi-
eating the matter and have discovered
lnmistakable evidence that the fire
was of incendiary origin. The fire was
discovered early in the morning and
was eXtingushed before the place had
been entirely Quilted. In removing the
fixtures near the wall, it was found
that large quantity of oil had been
poured on the wood. Several times a
number of women have appealed to
Duncan to cease the sale of liquor to
their husbands, but it seems that the
men have been frequenung the place
as of yore. The police are working
IN the theory that the women, becom-
ng incensed because their husbands
we're intoxicated again, set fire to the
place. Arrests may follow soon.
The family of Mrs. Wilmer, of Ma
son City, which consists of her daugh-
ter, aged Is, and her mother, an aged
ady, were resuscitated with difficulty
from the effects OF gas which had
Deen escaping from a gasoline can
during the night. Mrs. Wilmer was
able to get from her bed when she
Tell suffering from severe nausea and
splitting pains in her head, but after
time reached the door and attracted
nelp, who came to the rescue and
summoned physicians. The other
members of the family wera then
aroused but found to be suffering in a
similar manner. At first it was
thought their illness was due to some
thing they had eaten, but this is I'M
founded, according to the report Of tie
physician. The ladies run a restau-
rant occupying a small building, which
had been tightly closed during the
night on account of the threatening
weather. The gasoline, which was il
the room with gas. The sufferers are
still in serious state from the effects
of the fumes.
The little town of Ryan, six miles
south of Manchester, is all stirred up
over an alleged attack recently made
from his pulpit by Rev. Mr.. Culver,
who asserted that beer was being sold
contrary to law in several of the
restaurants of that town. He also
took occasion to call down the base
ball fans for indulging in Sunday
baseball, and scored the editor of the
Ryan newspaper for not calling public
attention to the lawbreakers. The
editor re taliated by saying that his
columns were open to the minister IL
he would assume the responsibility of
his statements over his own signature.
Rev. Mr.. Culver took advantage of the
newspaper mans offer and frote a
Scathing article, censuring the city
marshal and all other implicated in
the wide open" policy. The Ryan
editor publishes a lengthy article in
his paper in which he charges the
minister with a lack of backbone"
and says he accepted money from the
restaurant saloons" when he wa,
soliciting subscriptions to buy a new
bell for his church. The business men
are worked up over the affair and the
minister seems to be getting the worst
of the unpleasant controversy.
Jeanette Olmstead, the 17-year old
daughter of rich farmer of Eagle
Grove, Ia, ran away from a board.
ing school at Lincoln, Neb., Nav a
and her father and sister, who have
| been searching for her ever since
found her at Denver, Col. She was
| clerking in candy store and fell in
love with her employer and hearing
her father was in the city, went to
| Golden and was married there to the
man of her choice.