Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-07-19

from Denver to Chicago, died on q
Rock Island train just as it was pull!
ing into the station at Davenport.
An auto frightened the horse Of
Henry Uahnke, prominent farmer,
near Iowa City, anu the young man
was hurled out of the buggy. He land
| ed on the tracks of the Rock Island.
and lay long unconscious, cut in the
head and otherwise severely injured.
He will recover. His fanny will bring
suit, his brother announces
The injunction asked by twenty-five
Creston taxpayers to prevent the
holding of special election at that
pace on July IL was denied by Judge
| II. M. Towner. The hearing was at.
tended by large crowd of citizens,
who were deeply interested in the
outcome. The court held that the
assessed and taxable values were one
and the same, 1t being impossible tC
tax property at its full value.
Mrs. Frances Turek of Iowa City,
was sent to the insane hospital at
| Independence. She has a mania for
cats. 1t went beyond the proverbial
fondness. Mrs. Turek was in the
habit Of selling every cat she could
get, and on one occasion she had a
fight with the owner of fine Nal.
tese pussy, using her finger nails in
a decidedly feline manner on him and
later on the sheriff, when he tried
to arrest her.
Charles Nelson and G. X. Harker
a nj nI nt he 1yfxr IA
at Waverly and driven from the races.
Harker was struck over the head with
a bicycle and severely cut and
bruised. The three pool sellers were
arrested, which angered the racing
| sports. Nelson and Harker are church
men, and were suspected as spies.
The mob pursued them to the park
gates. This is the second mob vio-
lence in Waverly within SIX months.
Although trouble has been feared at
the Catholic church services at North
Fonda, Rev. Francis X Wrenne, the
belligerent priest who had refused to!
accept dismissal at the hands of
Bishop Garrigan of Sioux City, SUBJ
mitted gracefully to the order in!
Judge divers injunction and offered
no resistance when Rev. #. B. Sulli-
van, his successor, appeared at the
church in company with Sheriff KEEL
leher Of Focahontas, prepared to say
mass under guard. Father Wrenne
went to Fort Dodge.
The Methodists at Williams are to
have one Of the finest church edifces
of any town If the same size in the
ctpfA Nj h. III o., h. loo
of the ediflce will probably be let July
Ia. The new structure will be brick
veneer and wi. cost in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000 The auditorium will
be 40x40 feet in size, with choir and
organ loft 16x16, a lecture room COX
81 and a study 13x16 feet. The base
ment will have Sunday school room
of the same size as the auditorium,
a kitchen and other church equip
ment.
Fire destroyed one of the large
barns on the Ole Christian farm three
miles south of Roland. Farmers for
help save what they could, but the
barn and large crib were burned ia
the ground in the course of a few
minutes. No cause for the fire car
be found. The barn, which was one
of the largest in the county, contained
several hundred bushels of oats, be
sides about thirty tons of hay. Thu
corncrib contained about 5000 BUSH
els of corn. 1t Is hard to estimate the
loss, but it will be in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000. The barn and con-
tents were insured.
The little town of Chickasaw, few
miles north of Nashua, is greatly ex-
cited over the mysterious disappear
ance on the 9th Of Grace Vanderhay-
den, the 13-year-old granddaughter of
Mrs. M. C. Vanderhayden, with whom
the girl made her home. The girl was
around the house during the evening
doing her work as usual, and about 9
o'clock the grandmother asked her
son to look after her, but he was I'M
able to find her. Neighbors were called
to assist in the search, which has
been continued up to this time with
out success. 1t is hardly thought She
has run away, as her relations with
the family were pleasant and none
of her clothes are gone, even her
shoes being left, as she was in the
habit of going farefooted. Not the first
trace of her has been found and no
one has seen her since dusk Of that
evening Her relations are nearly
wild with anxiety over her mysterious
disappearance. Her mother is dead
and her father lives at lola, Kas.
By DETECTING the waters of the &C.
dar river into a canal ten miles long,
connecting with the Mississippi at
Muscatine, $4,000 horse power can be
generated, according to the estimates
and plans of several expert engineers,
who have been investigating what is
known as the Moscow canal project.
George Meyer of Chicago, a capitalist.
who is heavily interested in the Citi-
zens' Light and Railway company of
Muscatine, is behind the scheme,
and is on his way east where he ex-
| poets to interest capital to finance
the scheme. If such a canal Is built,
power will be transmitted to all the
surrounding towns and cities, and
Muscatine made the center Of the
greatest power station on the Missis-
sippi river. Inasmuch as competent
engineers have reported that the
scheme is feasible, the funds will be
| forthcoming and the work started in
short time. Local enthusiasts have
worked on the scheme for years, but
the prospects for it's being carried out
were never as bright as now.
A faithful old morse belonging to