Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-03


its recent disastrous fire. For the
third time in eight years it's business
center has been burned, and each
time new business houses have sprung
up. Already the foundations for the
new buildings arc going on.
Charlie Dillon of Dubuque had a leg
broken and was otherwise painfully
injured by becoming entangled in a
shaft at the pumping station at Graf.
He was new man at the business
and while trying to start up the gaso-
line engine he was caught in the shaft
and whirled around until there was
scarcely a stitch of clothing left on
his body.
The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad company is made defendant
in a big personal injury suit COM
menced in United States circuit
court. r. E. Roberts as the admins
traitor of the estate of fourteen-year-
old Carl c. Roberts, has asked $4,000
for the death of the boy who was
killed August 80, 1906, on the East
Third street crossing. 1t is claimed
box cars so that they DISTRACTED the
view of approaching trains as one APP
preached the crossing.
The auditor of state has sent Ex-
aminer Dawson to Waterloo to exam
inc the Property Mutual of that city,
the company Of which E. A. Evans
was secretary. Mr.. Evans, it will be
recalled, killed himself after having
tried to recover certain legal papers
from an aged couple in Hampton.
1t was learned by the auditor that
GONE Of the people interested in the
Property Mutual had gone into court
TO ask for a receiver for the company.
This was without the notice which
gas required by law. The auditor
declined to join in the application for
& receiver until an examination could
be made.
The Rock Island Rocky Mountain
limited ran into freight train in the
yards at Iowa City few nights ago.
Several freight cars were smashed
and about a hundred feet of track
was torn up, but no one was injured.
one track to the other when the pas
senger came into the yards. 1t man.
aged to slow up some, but hit the rear
car with a good deal of force. The
trainmen ali saved themselves by
jumping. Owing to the fact that both
trains were going in the same direc-
ton the passenger engine was not in
pured much, only the pilot being
smashed. The wreckage was cleared
up in about four hours.
Claiming that j. P. Christensen, a
well to do Lost Nation man, was in
toxicated while he sat on the jury
that tried him on the larceny case in
the Clinton district court last week,
and which jury found him guilty of
the crime, Bernard McGoven has
filed, through his attorneys, motion
for a new trial. McGovern presents
affidavits from d. H. Sheppard, a
Clinton attorney, and James Sloppy,
an ex-policeman, signed before no.
tary public, to the effect that Chris
Hansen was intoxicated on the last
day of the introduction of testimony,
and during the period of instruction
to the jury and retirement thereof, in
such an advanced state as to have
been incapable of jury service, and
unable to give the case fair and just
consideration.
E. L. Morse died at the Eleanor
Moore hospital at Boone, where he
had been taken after being picked up
under the Sixth street Honey creek
sidewalk crossing. He never regain
ed consciousness and passed away
without giving any light on the sad
affair. Morse was found covered with
blood and unconscious. On his fore
head was bad wound, another one
on his cheek and one back of the
right ear which appeared to have been
made with a sharp instrument. When
picked up it was though that he was
dead, but he showed signs of life and
was taken to the hospital and treated
but he slowly failed. Morse, it seems,
started to have a good time. He was
with a dark complexioned companion
the night before he was found and it
is thought that this friend might be
able to throw some light on the mans
death.
The 12-year-old son of o. L. Brace,
engineer at the Jefferson Roller Mills,
was killed few days ago. The ma
chinery Of the mill had been in opera
ton a couple of hours, when Mr..
Rogers, the head miller, noticed that
the machinery did not seem to ue
running smoothly. He went from
room to room examining the shafting
and betting. finally going to the top
floor. Wedged in between two chutes
near the floor he found the naked
and mangled body of the boy, while
on a shaft twelve feet above him near
the ceiling the clothing of the un-
fortunate child revolved and twisted.
Mr.. Rogers went below and stopped
| the machinery, and was Immediately
approached by the engineer who in.
| quired the cause. The grief of the
father was pitiful when he fully
realized the awful accident. 1t is sup.
posed the boy was stepping about on
some beams near the shaft, probably
| losing his balance and accidentally
| touching the same. Every bone in his
body was broken, and one hand was
completely dismembered.
Mrs. Margaret Wilkinson, aged 81
years, of Fort Dodge, died without q
| moments warning as result of hear
failure. She had eaten. her dinner
and was in her usual health, when g
slight convulsion denoted something
Wong. BY the time the physician ar
rived death had ensued.
H. H. Dandy was brought to the