Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-09-27
IOWA
NEWS

burlington train NO. was Dduly
wreacked near Dean. Five cars, in
Guiding the mail car, were burned. No
One was injured.
Chester Palmer, IL years old, was
drowned in the Nishnabotna river at
Harlan. a large crowd tried to find
the body but failed. The boy went
swimming after school, dived and was
seized with cramps.
During a severe electrical storm
large barn on the premises of William
Duff near Nicola was struck by light
ming and set on fire and burned to the
ground. In the barn were stored elgn-
ty tons of tame hay and almost all the
farming implements used on the farm.
The barn was a large one and was
Insured for $1,000, but there was no
insurance on the contents. The loss
on this will reach nearly $4,000.
At special election held in WEEP
Ster City, the Boone, Webster City
1nterurban Railroad company was
granted the right to operate cars on
the streets and to maintain an inter
urban lervice between Boone ana
Webster City. A five year remission
of taxes was also granted. Ihere
was no OPPOSITION to the franchise de-
spite the fact that Webster City Is
a strong municipal ownership town
Ira Phillips Of Newton, 16 years
Of age, was run over by a train ana
killed in the Rock Island yards at
Council Bluffs. Young Phillips, In
company with a companion, Willie
Neal, ran away from Newton Sunday
with the intention of seeing wild life
in the west" The boys beat their
way into Council Bluffs on freight
and were trying to make train to
get out when Phillips slipped and fell
the dead boy arrived and took
the body back to Newton. Neal is
thoroughly tanned by his companions
sad fate and expressed a desire to
return home and go to school.
The Osceola grand jury upon al
journing returned five true bills. w.
w. Rarick and e. E. Rarick, promin-
ent liverymen. are indicted on the
charge of keeping a gambling house,
and e. E. Rarick, Gus Eggleston and
Mat Harrison are indicted on the
charge of gambling. Bonds were fur
nished In the sum of $500. Floyd
Twombly was indicted on the charge
of rape and Clarence Fletcher on the
charge of seduction. Fletcher is said
to have Jumped his bonds AMI left
the country. o. E. TWombly of La
celle was indicted on the charge OF
adultery. This indictment is in con-
nection with the sensational Francis
Twombly $4,000 damage suit.
Harry Berry, who was injured by
falling on the broken handle of
pitchfork in the Schermerhorne livery
barn at Newton, is in a critical conli-
ton at the Lambert house. Harry IS
fifteen years of age. He was visiting
at the home of his grandfather, Elijah
Hackley, who lives five and one-haH
miles north of Newton. Harry and his
grandfather went to Newton to attend
a horse sale and after the sale, Harry
went up in the hay NOW to help one
of the Schermerhorne boys push back
some hay. When through, he threw
the broken handled pitchfork down,
the tines sticking in the floor. Then
he climbed about half way down the
ladder and jumped, landing on the
broken handle, which penetrated his
body six inches. His physicians say
that his recovery is very doubtful.
The American Express company is
made defendant in suit now being
tried in the district court at Fort
Dodge for the death of hog valued
at $1,000 by the owners, Swiney Bros.
Of Webster City. The animal was
prize winner at all of the fairs where
he had been exhibited and had taken
first prize at the Iowa state fair and
first prize at the Minnesota state fair.
At the ,.me of the alleged accident
which resulted in his Leath he was
being transported by the American Ex-
press company from fair at Milwau-
kee. Three days after he arrived
home he died suddenly and his death
aroused the suspicious that he had
met some accident en- route. The
plaintiffs claim he was dropped from
the rear Of a wagon and sustained in
jUries causing his death. Suit is
brought for his value, which is placed
at 81 600.
The litigation brought by A. N. Bort,
former head banker of the Modern
Woodmen Of America, against the de-
funct McCutchen bank OF Holstein,
which involves a sum of 100000, was
again thrown out of the federal court
at Sioux City on a demurrer filed by
the attorneys for the banking institu-
ton. Judge Henry j. Reed sustained
the defendants demurrer on the
ground that at the time suit was
brought Bort had retired as head
banker for the society and was, there
fore, not a real party at interest in
action. The litigation thus far ex-
tends through four years, during
which time plaintiff has made several
attempts to get into court. Each time
he has failed. The suit of A. N. Bort
was brought on a bond of 100000
given by Z. H. McCTtchen & Co, to
secure a deposit of 100000 from the
Modern Woodmen of America. It's
filing followed the death of McCutchen
and the subsequent failure of the Hol-
stein bank.
Fire destroyed the William Lawther
company candy factory at Dubuque.
Loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Alleging to have sustained injuries
in a fight in the bar room Of the Mon
DAMN hotel at Sioux City last spring,
G. E. Fogtman of Milwaukee has in
stituted $4,000 damage suit against
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