Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-08-23
IOWA:
NEWS

taken from the cash register, and
$o.S5 was stolen from r. NicholsOn's
store, presumably by the same
thieves.
The little 6-year-old daughter of
Mrs. Hoop Straw, a market gardener
of Sheldon, fell under the wheels of
a threshing machine separator and
one of its legs was crushed. The
doctors have hopes of saving the in
jured member
Fire broke out in McGrew's restau-
rant in Primghar, destroying the
building and grocery stock, and burn
ing Mrs. McGrew so badly that she
cannot live. Mr.. McGrew is also bad
ly burned. The fire was caused by
gasoline explosion.
Earl Lay, the 16-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Lay. residing at Burl-
ingtOn, was instantly killed by fall
ing under a Rock Island freight train
below the old Harmer mills. He at
tempted to jump on the train and fell
beneath the wheels
A man, name unknown, was killed
by train on the Omaha road seven
miles south of Sheldon. His head
was cut off completely, and his
limbs were badly crushed. 1t could
not be learned who the man was or
how he came to be caught under the
train.
The government building which has
been under process of erection for so
long, is rapidly nearing completion
and will be ready for occupancy no
later than Sept. 10. The interior fix
lures and arrangements of the build
ing are the finest to be found in the
southwestern part of the state.
Mrs. Rose Anderson known
throughout Jasper county as Cocaine
Rose" who was arrested in Newton
on a charge of inebriacy, was arraign.
ed before Judge Clements and SEN
fenced to two years in the hospital
at Mount Pleasant. When arrested
she had two bottles of morphine and
a pint Of alcohol on ner person, ana
begged to be allowed to take some of
the drug while waiting for her SEN
tence to be pronounced.
John Cone, an employee of the Par
sons Bandcutter and Self Feeder
company, of .;ewton, while walking
through the factory fell over a pile
of machinery containing an iron bar
set with sharp teeth One of the
teeth entered the fleshy part of his
hip, tearing cash nearly three inches
long and penetrating two inches to
the bone. His condition is serious,
but it is too early to tell how the in
jury will result.
The surgeons are now in hopes of
saving both feet of the little 8 1-2
year-Old boy of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
j. Johnson, living near Williams. The
little fellow ran in front of a NOW
ing machine and was so badly cut
about the legs that it was at first
thought both feet would have to be
amputated The latest reports state
that one foot can be saved and that
the chances for saving the other are
good. While it was nearly severed
from the body, it is uniting nicely,
and fears of blood poison are almost
past With no unforeseen symptoms
developing, the chances are that both
feet will be saved.
A. J. Norton was engaged in filing
soda fountain tank in the basement
of his restaurant at Traer, when the
tank exploded, splitting open from
one end to the other. The pieces
struck Mr.. Norton both above and
below the knee, tearing the flesh al
most to the bone. While the injuries
are of a very painful nature they are
not necessarily dangerous and no SER
iOuS results are anticipated unleess
some unexpected complication arises.
The accident was caused by the fail
ure of the pressure indicator on the
charging machine to work 1t shove
ed only so pounds pressure while the
, fountain tanks are tested up to 300
pounds.
No clue has been found as yet to
the mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of J. H. Smith of Stanley,
whose clothes, with various letters
indicating he was on his way to Dako-
| ia to buy land, were found in a clump
of woods near Marshalltown two or
three weeks ago A letter has been
received from w. II. Stout at Ocean
Park, Cal, which says Smith was for
. merly in his employ and was trust
worthy and capable. At the time of
his disappearance, Smith had charge
/ of a stallion owned Wy stout, which
Smith was to sell for him. The own.
er has received no word of the dis
position made of the animal. Stout
asks that any information concerning
Smith be telegraphed to William Will
sonberger, Marlborough. Pa, where
Smith formerly resided. No informa-
ton has as yet been received from
Miss Stella Hall Of Oelwein, to whom
letters were addressed by Smith, but
which had not been mailed. Smith
was known to have received a large
sum of money from the east shortly
before his disappearance, and he had
told friends at Stanley he would in
vest in Dakota land. His friends fear
he has been murdered, but search
of the surroundings where the
clothes were found reveals no clue
as to the whereabouts of his body.
For shooting down with a shotgun
loaded with duck shot two young
boys who were taking grapes from
his vineyard, Thomas Stevenson, who
lives near Easton boulevard and
Twenty-ninth street, Des Moines,
: was arrested for assault with intent t
do great bodily injury. Information
was sworn out in the court of Justice
Fritz Hinze. The two boys shot were
Alexander Ferry and Earl Murphy,
who live at East Twenty-ffth and