Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-06-14
IOWA
NEWS

| the unexpired term OF the first quar-
ter that they had paid In January be
fore being knocked out by decision
| OF the courts. Suit against the coun
ty to recover the amount is threat
ened by some of the saloon men.
AS was announced at Sioux City
some months ago, Miss Margaret Gay
Dolliver has been offered and has now
accepted position on the faculty of
Morning Side college, the fiourishing
Methodist school near Sioux City.
Miss Dolliyer is to be Jean of the
women's department of the school and
will fill one Of the most responsible
positions on the facuEy.
Several people were painfully hurt
and about $50, many Of whom were
visitors to the Masonic grand lodge
sessions, escaped serious injury in a
wreck on the Fort Des Moines line.
One of the trailers attached to
special Masonic excursion car was de-
rallied and thrown from the track at
South Eighth and jefferson streets.
The car was crowded to the rail and
1t was only by miracle that many
"Slc uOI ldldlly HuTl.
Bryant Biggs, arrested by Detec-
tive Ed Johnson on a charge of i'm
personating an officer and causing the
false arrests of six Kansas City resi-
dents who were on a Wabash excur-
sion, caused a big disturbance in po-
lice court by trying to whip officer
Charles Shafer, Detectives Jackson
and McKircher, Driver Skinner and
Wagonman DeFord. Biggs was quick
ly overpowered and taken back to
the city Jail. Later in the afternoon
charges of insanity was filed against
him.
The famous Jack and Jack will race
against the Lincoln fire team, the
champion team of Illinois, for the
worlds championship, at the twenty
eighth annual tournament of the
Iowa Firemen's State association to
be held in Clinton June 10 to %.
Black and Tan, the Des Moines team
which took second place in the meet
last year at Council Bluffs, will also
be in the race. The feature of the
meet is the free-for-all race, one-half
mile, bunk hitch, in which teams from
any city in the country can be en-
tered. Jack and Jack hold the record
with the exceptionally fast time Of
1852 rs.
An information was filed with JUS
tice Zimmerman at Dubuque charging
Joseph Woodhouse, rural mail car
rier, with assault with intent to COM
nit murder. The prosecuting witness
is Frank Schmitt, a resident Of Graft.
Graft, village short distance ABOVE
Dubuque, was the scene of the trou-
BILE. 1t is said Woodhouse was in the
postoffice sorting mail when Schmitt
entered. The two got into a dis
cussion and it was apparent a clash
was imminent. Suddenly Woodhouse
pulled a revolver from his belt and
fired at Schmitt. The bullet went
wide of its mark, but 1t succeeded
in frightening Schmitt, who ran away
as fast as his legs could carry him.
Several cases of Texas itch-a
dangerous and dreaded contagious
disease among horses--have been To-
Gated in Webster City. DR.. Baugh-
man of Fort Dodge, assistant state
veterinarian, has been notified and is
giving the animals special treatment
under quarantine. The Texas itch is
disease of peculiar symptoms and
action. First the horse begins to shed
its hair. After losing this, sores break
out all over his body, caused by some
sort of parasite working beneath the
skin. A number of cases IN webster
City are now in the latter stages and
the animals are almost a solid mass
of sores. Horse owners te>r the
disease greatly and every precaution
is being taken against the spread OF
1t. The disease is not always fatal,
but the ease with which it is con-
tractei by animals not affected causes
alarm among horse owners wherever
It breaks out.
With a capital stock of s1,100,000.
the Clinton Sugar Refining company
has filed articles of incorporation with
the county recorder, and will con.
struct a great factory on the bank OF
the Mississippi river in the lower
part of the city, occupying the site
of the former lumber mills of c. Lamb
& Sons. The new factory is to be
erected and operated with Chicago
capital, E. S. Rogers Of that city be-
ing president of the concern, H. X.
Allen vice president, and S. X. Will
liams secretary and treasury. These
gentlemen and the following, all OF
Chicago, are the directors: Ralph
Hoagland, F. B. Dyche, Warren Drake
]. w. Mitchell, r. U. Folose, and c. J.
Dick The original plant, which it is
said will employ 200 men and have a
consuming capacity of $500 bushels OF
corn daily, will be but unit of the
factory which will eventually be de-
veloped, and which will be added to :n
multiples as the business warrants
| The in iustry will make Clinton one
of the greatest corn markets in the
| middle west. There is at present but
one glucose factory in Iowa, located
at Marshalltown. Sugar, glucose
starch, and corn products will be
manufactured in the Clinton plant
the erection of which will cost about
| 100000.
A Jail delivery Of six criminals heio
in the Webster county Jail, located in
| the fourth story of the court house.
was narrowly frustrated by the chief
of police. A one-legged man was OBJ
served during the day talking to the
| prisoners from the street below. A,
| night an officer lid in stairway near
| him and hears plan concocted by
which the prisoners were to lower q
| thread from the top story at midnight
and pull up a bundle Of fine steeI
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