Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-01-18

people Of Clayton county on opening
court upon the enviable condition OF
Affairs of not having person in jail,
cor out on bail awaiting trial.
A "plant" of stolen goods, which
had been secreted in the eastern por-
ton of the city of Creston was found
4 few days ago, the goods being the
fruit of recent plundering expeditions
In that locality. Three or four men
are already under arrest and are De-
ing held pending investigation.
The street car system, electric light
plant, and gas plant Of the Citizens
Railway and Light company OF Mus
catine have been sold by H. w. Hut
tig and Will Musner of that city to a
syndicate of eastern capitalists repre-
sented by j. II. Brown and George
Mayer of Chicago. The considera-
ton was $4,000.
Chris Madsen, 10 years Of age, a
Danish farm hand working for Iona
Pfffer, five miles west of Cedar Falls,
struck a dynamite cap with hammer
five times just to see what would be
the result. He will lose the sight OF
both eyes. The lad had been In
America nine months and was just
becoming acquainted with the English
language.
General Manager Blake and Judge
Dyer, counsel for the Newton az
Northwestern railway, were in Fort
Dodge a few days ago In connection
with the roads entrance into Fort
Dodge 1t is understood that the con-
tract has been closed for steel rails
to the amount of $4,000 in anticipa-
ton of track laying in the spring.
The Rev. w. A. Shaw of lndianap-
oils, Ind, at the First Congregational
church at Sioux City opened a cam
paign to secure an anti-cigarette law
in Iowa. He has been prominently
identified with similar successful
movements i'll Indiana, Wisconsin and
Nebraska, and is pushing a bill in
the legislature Of Missouri.
Agnes Hasson, a 5-year-old girl of
Davenport, was left at home alone
by her mother and soon afterward
run out of the house with her cloth
ing aflame. They pursued and caught
the agonized child and rolled her in
the snow till they extinguished the
flames. 1t is thought that her burns
are fatal.
Robert Miller, a 16-year-old boy,
the son of Geurge Miller, residing
near Nicola shot himself through the
left wrist by the careless handling
Of a 80 revolver. Both bones of the
forearm were pierced by the ball
and both were badly shattered and it
is thought that permanent injury may
result from the accident.
Samuel Marks, an auctioneer en-
ployed by the Interstate Auction
company, was committed to Jail at
Fort Dodge as a result of alleged at
tempt to defraud the city of fines as
sessed against him. Moses Gross,
the supposed owner, decamped a few
days ago and was located at Coving-
ton, Neb. The goods of the COM
pany were boxed ready for shipment.
Burglars stole ladder from Grace
Episcopal church at Clinton and with
its assistance entered the upstair
apartments of Rev. T. d. Jones, d. D.,
rector of the church. The minister
heard the thieves upstairs and rush
ing in their direction put them to
fight, the thieves sliding down the
ladder and escaping in the darkness.
Nothing was taken from the house.
Jack Morgan, employed at Griswold
as a windmill repairer, was arrested
on a charge of embezzlement and
forgery at Seward. Neb., 1t is
claimed Morgan while in the cattle
buying business there signed his
the money to gamble. He has made
statement practically admitting his
guilt and says that he will go back
without requisition.
A warrant was issued for the ar
rest of N. r. Cottrell Of Waterloo,
alleged to have sold 100000 worth of
worthless stock in a hydro-carbon
gas manufacturing company to bust
ness men of Iowa and Nebraska. Fe
went to Omaha two weeks ago and
represented that his company, of
which he was vice president and gen.
eral manager. had bought $4,000
plant at Rockford. ILL.,, and was turn
ing out machines at rapid rate,
with orders far ahead Of the capacity
Investigation developed that Cottrell
had sold his Waterloo home, resigned
from the company without making
any accounting, and decamped, and
that the plant at Rockford consisted
Of one rented room.
In a saloon brawl at Creston In
which the principals were supposed
to be under the influence of. liquor
Frank Wilson was terribly cut and
bruised about the head, his injuries
being such that 1t can not vet be de
termined whether he will recover OIL
not. Thirteen stitches were necess
airy to bring his fractured scalp to
gether. The man who did the work
Is j. w. Rodgers Of Emerson, Iowa
He used an empty beer bottle. Aftel
the commission of the deed he went
to the Summit house and went to bed
and when summoned by the officers
refused to leave his room without 9
warrant. He is held pending the
outcome Of Wilson's injuries.
Mrs. Mary Babcock, an employee o
the New Hampton Tribune Office, go
her right hand caught In large jol
press and 1t was frightfully crushed
At first It was thought 1t would BIZ
necessary to amputate the hand, but
the member was saved.
In rummaging through an old DO,