Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-10-04
IOWA
NEWS

IISlDlS.
Sheriff Youel of Vinton captured
Frank Howard and John Smith, two
Chicago bandits, who bound, gagged
and robbed julius Vcgdo of Anamosa
n box car on Rock Island freight
train between Laporte City and Mount
Auburn.
w. H. Booth of Mason City while
hunting received charge of shot in
his right arm at the elbow, breaking
The bone. There is some doubt as to
ability to save his arm. Booth was
n wagon with a friend when the
gun was accidentally discharged.
Melchoir & Schmiz's saloon at Day.
IMPORT was burg,arized and $1,000 TAX
EN-. Louis Colfenbach's saloon, oppo-
site the police headquarters, also was
entered and robbed of SIS. The latter
was the sixth burglary in a month
within half a block of police head
quarters.
While hunting near Florence, Colo,
William CAVITY of Oskaloosa, Ia, drop.
ped his rifle which was discharged,
the bullet SCATTERING a knee and cut
ting the arteries so that he bled to
death before his companions reached
him. He had vainly tried to stop the
flow of blood.
Mrs. Susan Mcguire Of Palo Alto
county has commenced action against
the Minneapolis & st. Louis and the
Great Northern railroad COMPANIES for
S25,O0O damages for the death of her
husband, p. F. Mcguire, who was
burned to death in a box car near
Fargo, N. D., last March. She has
elso commenced action for $4,000 for
tle loss of personal property. The
case viii undoubtedly be tried at the
October term of court in Emmetsburg.
A dastardly attempt to wreck train
No. 5, westbound on the Burlington,
by placing a stick of E I'm cordwood
on the track in such a manner as to
catch In the pilot of the approaching
train, was unsuccessful at Tyrone.
Fortunately the stick proved very
brittle and when it ran into the
ground was broken off by the impact
This is one of the Burlington's fast
trains and the loss of life would have
bCCA great Hdu luG GllOIJ 10 wreck
the train proved successful.
George w. Chaffee, the mail clerk
who was so badly injured some
months ago in an accident on the Sid
ney-Carson branch of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy, and who has
since teen confined to his home at
Sidney went to Chicago a few days
since for medical treatment. Word
has been received that the doctors
give him no encouragement and that
his chances for recovery are very
small. He was injured about the
head and at the base of the brain.
E. o. Ford of Conrad has brought
suit against Mr.. and Mrs. J. X. Bow
man of Marshalltown, asking $4,000
damages for alleged alienation of his
wife's affections. The Bowmans are
the parents Of Ford's wife and he
claims they succeeded in poisoning
her mind against him until they per-
suaded her to leave him. For the loss
Of her comDanionship, affection, ETC.,
he wants the above mentioned sum.
They lived together about one year
and he alleges she left him in Octob-
er, 1905.
Ed Mack. who was caught after
a long chase, pleaded guilty at Iowa
City to the charge OF assault with in
tent to commit murder. He was also
charged with murder but this was
dropped on his consent to Plead guilty
and save the expense of trial on the
other charge. Mack slashed his
with a razor and she
later died, but there was some ques-
ton as to whether she died from the
or from other causes, as death
did not occur until some days after
the assault.
J. w. Arganbright sustained serious
Injuries while working on the roof OF
his farm residence, about four miles
southwest Of Hedrick. The accident
occurred late in the afternoon when
he was about ready to quit for the
day. When he started down to get
get some shingles the foot gave way
and he fell TO the ground, a distance
of about twenty feet. One wrist was
dislocated and the other one severely
sprainet, and it is feared that some
internal injuries were sustained which
may prove serious.
A bold robbery was committed at
Waverly by highwaymen at the Him
DIS Central depot, but no trace of the
robbers has been discovered, and the
officers fear they have made a safe
getaway. The victim of the accident
was the night operator, George Kellar,
who was beaten over the head with a
club by two men who came to the de-
pot at 2:30 a. m. Everything was
quiet about the depot, Mr.. Kellar be-
ing alone. The night trains had gone
and the highwaymen were quite GER
tain that they would not be disturbed
in their work. They raped the oper-
ator over the head and as he lay on
the floor unconscious they leisurely
went through his pockets and the cash
drawer, securing something like $40
in all. The robberies were undis-
guised, and Kellar has a good descrip-
ton of them.
The twin babies found on the porch
Of the Bookmeister home at Parkers-
burg recently were committed to the
Iowa Children's Home at Des Moines
by order of Judge Smith.
George Percy Smith, for many
years head of the Western Grocery
company with headquarters in Mason
City, is seriously i'll with blood poison
at the Palmer house in Chicago
caused by an abrasion on his toe
caused by his shoe. He is reported in
a critical condition and his friends