Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-02-01
THE NEWS IN IOWA.

between cars that his broken ribs
penetrated the lungs, is dead. He
was Sc years old.
st. Matthias church, the largest
| Catholic church in Muscatine, has
decided on $4,000 improvements.
| The congregation has outgrown- the
parochial school and church quarters,
and enlargement Is necessary.
| ]. G. Young, aged SO years, the only
man living in this century who was
cured of tuberculosis by Hahnneman,
the great French doctor, died at Clin-
ton few days ago. He had lived
n Iowa half century.
Water broke into the Beacon Min
ing company's mine near Oskaloosa,
| completely flooding 1t. Fifty men
made good their escape. The prop |
erty will likely be abandoned, as water
| has always been an annoyance.
]. A. Doogood, a brakeman on o
miners train at Buxton. was Instant
ly killed. In throwing the switch
he caught his foot and the entire train
| passed over him, terribly mangling his
| body. He was % years old and
formerly lived at Belle PLANE, where
| the body was taken for burial.
A southbound extra freight on the
| Rock Island struck a hand car on a
curve six miles north of Independence
in a fog. Philip Leyden was killed
outright, John Garfield Is dying, Jo-
seph Leyden and Fred Young are badly
injured. All were employed on the |
section and reside at independence.
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the Shell Rock doctor against whom
information was fled claiming that he
was practicing unlawfully by not hav-
Ing his certificate filed and recorded in
that county, was dismissed in the court
by Justice Mason by order of the
county attorney, Evans, on account OF
mo cause for action"
The Des Moines ice crop is woefully
short Various dealers state that |
| unless there is radical change In |
conditions there Is no possibility that
the ice harvest will exceed 10000 !
tons, as against the $4,000 to 10000 |
tons usually harvested.
A charter has been issued by the
secretary of state of Missouri to the |
Missouri, Iowa &c Nebraska railway |
company with capital stock of $780,
600. The road is to extend from |
Adair county, Missouri, to Sioux City, |
Ia, with a branch from Wayne county |
Iowa, to Des Moines.
Plans for the wedding of Theodore |
Klamath and Miss Ida Rehlirg, a |
popular young couple of Davenport, |
were interrupted By shocking trag- |
| edy. Mr.. Kamrath, who was shipping |
cleck in the Peterson department |
store of that city, fell down the ele- |
vator shaft from the third story to |
| the basement and was instantly |
| killed.
A gasoline lamp explosion at Wall |
| ingford, near Estherville, came near |
| resulting in the death of two Of the |
! leading citizens of that town. The |
| explosion occurred in the Waller bill |
| lard hall, and the whole front of the |
building was blown out. ]. s. west |
was severely burned about the head |
| and body, but not seriously. Peter |
Larson was severely injured. James |
| Rosa, son of Postmaster Rosa, was !
blown through the large glass front !
of the building and was seriously |
| hurt. The damage to the building |
is something about three hundred dol
| lars.
President Roosevelt intends to re-
appoint J. s. Clarkson, better known
so assured by Mr.. Roosevelt. On
New York when his term expires next |
spring. Senator Dolliver has been |
sa assured by Mr.. Roosevelt. On |
what seemed good authority 1t was
given out rs ethretarMaccountvbM |
given out here that Mr.. Clarkson |
would not be reappointed and the news |
\ excited much attention in New York |
and here Later Plat denied that |
| Clarkson was to go and Senator Dol |
llver's information, coming as 1t does
direct from the president, settles the |
matter definitely. 1t is said that MI. |
Garrison services have been en-
tirely acceptable.
| H. c. Thorn of Clinton, checker |
employed in the stockyards of the |
Chicago e. Northwestern Railroad |
company. has fallen heir to a fortune
of s252.000, bequeathed to him by an
| aged Ohio man whom he had be- |
friended twenty years ago. The !
Thorn family have Just come into the |
knowledge of the windfall which will |
make them independently rich. ]. w.
| Woodbridge is the donor Of the fortune |
which comes to the Clinton family. |
Woodbridge came to the state in a
canvas covered wagon twenty years
ago, and settled on small farm be-
tween Lawton and Massillon, near
where the Thorn family lived. An
other neighbor was John Sharp OF
Massillon, Iowa, who also comes In
for a large fortune, having been re-
membered by Mr.. Woodbridge. who
died recently in Ohio. The Thorn
and Sharp families befrfended the
new arrival in their section Of the
state. and performed many little acts
of blindness for him. He remained
in the neighborhood for five years,
then left, and nothing more was heard
of him until the other dav, when the
two families received tidings Of the
death Of their former friend, and the
requests he had made them.
Mrs. George Young, wife OF the
postmaster at Boyd, small town six
miles south Of New Hampton, was
burned to death at her home few
days ago. She had been deoderiz-
ing the house and threw the rags she
was using into the coal scuttle. The
cloth was later put into the stove and
| Aopoad nm and caught Mrs YOunk's