Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-06-28

Judge John Murray Dowie departe
from his home at Essex a few day
ago for Chicago with his two grip
packed. He has important document
TO be presented in the Chicago court
to establish his identity and relation
ship with John Alexander Dowie, witt
repudiates his father. The old gentle
man has been very much wrought VI
over the stand his son has takeI
against him.
Glenn Blanchard of Boone, q
printer on the Daily News force, was
painfully but not seriously injured
by being shot in the left leg. Blanch.
ard had been shooting revolver
and one Of the bullets missed fire
and failed to explode when the trig.
ger was pulled He was taking the
shells out with a knife when the
bullet was discharged, entering the
muscles of the left leg between the
knee and hip and running down and
embedding itself in the muscles of
the back of the knee.
Sheriff George w. Binegar started
| Thursday morning with George
Mitchell for Fort Madison, where the
latter begins his long eight years
sentence for the murder of John
Parker about two years ago This
case was sensational and of much
interest TO the people of Poweshiek
county, it having been twice tried
In the district court, and appealed
once to the supreme court, which af-
firmed the Judgment of the lower
court and refused new trial recent
ly. ~.
Freddie Beardsley. aged years, of
Sioux City, was drowned in the Floyd
river while in swimming. A peculiar
incident Of the death was the fact
that the boys clothing was found in
the river, also, though his body was
entirely naked when he was found.
The water at that point in Leeds is
little more than three feet deep. The
boys body was found by his father,
who was fishing the river for the pur
pose with garden rake. The father
tainted when he pulled the body out
on the end of the rake.
George l.. Dobson in a demurrer
filed in district court to the suit of
Congressman Hull for $4,000 SLAM
der, declares that he did not mean
to accuse Hull OF crime, when he
said that Hull had received $4,000
from j. Pierpont Morgan for use in
his campaign. In his demurrer Dob
son says he did not charge the COM
mission of crime or with any act
not involving moral turpitude." He
also says that his speech was unam-
biguouS and that it does not appear
to have accused defendant with hav-
ing Illegally appropriated or GRIMM
ally converted money to mis- private
use which did not belong to him."
Warren Kisner, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. G. Kisner was found at the home
Of farmer near Rockwell, where he
had hired out for the season. He
refused to give any explanation for
his actions, though questioned by sew
eral parties and also his father. The
boy had been absent from home four
days. The father had travelled over
the entire county and sent the news
of his loss in all directions, but had
discovered no clue. 1t remained for
the farmer where the boy was stay
ing to notice the account of the lost
boy and his description in the news
papers, so Immediately got into COM
munication with the father at Wheel.
erwood.
Ray Anderson, the 16-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. r. Anderson of
Caledonia, died at st. Joseph, Mo-,
half an hour after an operation was
performed to relieve him from the
effects of an injury. The case is pc
culiar. Young Anderson was hit in
the abdomen by ball while playing
at school two weeks ago. Little was
thought Of the injury at the time,
and the young man continued to at
tend school, to do work about home
and to eat heartily for about a week
following the accident. Then fol-
lowing his taking a ride his abdomen
began to swell, and local surgeons
made an incision to remove a gallon
of pus which was causing him great
pain. Two days later he was taken
to hospital in st. Joseph, where he
died almost as soon as the operation
was performed.
The truck gardeners of Webster
City and vicinity are in panic. The
potato bugs are ravaging the patches
of this popular tuber, their depreda-
tions having reached serious stage.
And to make the situation worse the
merchants have not pound of either
Paris green or London purple on
hand. Within the past ten days the
bugs have been showing up In differ
ent localities and on account of the
rapidity with which the insects in
crease their number mas become leg.
ion. Potato patches all over this inn
mediate section show signs of their
depredations and few days ago the
dealers were deluged with calls for
Paris green and London purple. So
fast was the poison carried away that
yesterday the trade ran entirely GU.
Of the supply. The only alternative
now at hand Is to pick the bugs OF
the vines by hand and this comes
far from appealing favorably to gar
deners. Hurry up orders have been
sent in by the merchants for more
poison, but it will PROBABLY be sew.
eral days before they can get sup
ply. In the meantime vast amount
Of damage will have been done. Aside
from the bugs there has been every
prospect Of large and early crop OF
potatoes.
H. z. Robinson of Atlantic, who
boarded at the house where Ben
Wilkinson committed suicide by tax.