Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-24
IOWA
NEWS

years, Spicer Harris and Julla liar
ris of Jones county have been mar
ried again.
Fred, the 20-year-old son of G. /.
Smith of Bayard, was kicked In the
abdominal region by horse, and
died after suffering untold agony.
Officer w. A. Mckee of Creston sue
ceeded in landing quantity OF mer-
chandise, the value Of which VIII
probably aggregate over $500, and also
arrested John Price and James Brown,
supposed to be crooks, who had the
goods in their possession and were
endeavoring to dispose of the same
at the hardware store Of Henry Bull
One of the fellows had entered the
store in the morning and attempted
to sell quantity Of gloves and agreed
to return in the afternoon with more.
| This was agreed to by Mr.. Bull, ana
the latter notified the officers with the
result that both the men and the goods
were in custody of the authorities IN
short order.
Philip Wareham, one OF Council
Bluffs oldest and best know resident,
made a second unsuccessful attempt
at suicide by jumping into Indian
creek at a point where the water Is
fifteen feet deep. Wareham's mind has
been falling, and he has been at st.
Bernard hospital as a private patient,
but was taken out by his wife for a
walk. Without warning he rushed
down to the bank of the stream and
cast himself into the water. Mrs.
| W.
Wareham was fished out, little the
worse for the wetting. His first effort
to commit suicide was q year ago,
when he engaged a room at local
hotel and was later found unconscious
having gashed himself horribly with
razor.
Mrs. Lot Thomas, of Storm Lake,
wife of the late Judge Lot Thomas,
congressman from the Eleventh dis
trict, has received a letter from a
man living in Ashland, o. The let
ter contained II cents in coin, neatly
wrapped in tissue paper and put in
coin envelope. The letter of explana-
ton which accompanied this stated
that the enclosed II cents was sent to
her, because the writer ten years
d
farm, stole bushel of wheat, and she
being one of the five heirs was there
fore entitled to her share of the wheat
money. Each one of the heirs receiv-
ed a similar amount. The man added
that his conscience had troubled him
all this time, and that he took this
means of squaring himself.
Norman Rutledge, a habitue OF
saloons and sporting houses, was shot
and killed at Sioux City by Hardy
Thomas, fisherman. Thomas then
gave himself up to the police and went
to Jail without bond. Rutledges wife,
an inmate of a bawdy house, was in
the Thomas house and had been there
for weeks, trying to escape the life of
shame, by which she has supported
Ter husband. Rutledge came to the
house pounded on the door of the
shack and when refused admittance,
opened the door with an AK, and was
about to enter when a shot from
Thomas gun, an eight gauge shotgun,
penetrated through the door through
Rutledges left arm and into his heart.
He died a few minutes afterwards.
When the police arrived, Thomas con-
fessed to Tie shooting, saying Il had
to do it,"
At New Hampton Judge L. e. Eel
lows sentenced Robert Roethler to
one year in the penitentiary at Ana
mesa for breaking and entering a
building. On March 20 last, Roethler
and his wife were in New Hampton.
! They left their team in town, walked
out some two miles and broke into a
granary. They filled up twenty-one
boxes of seed oats, got the team, and
started to take it home, some ten miles
southeast. The load was too heavy
one horse bained, and they unloaded
about half of it. They took the part
home and then returned for the bal
ance BY that time it was daylight
and they were seen, followed, and ar
rested. Roethler pleaded guilty. Mrs.
Rotehler, who was also indicted.
pleaded not guilty, and her case is
continued until the October term OF
court.
The little town OF Ryan. six miles
south of Manchester, is all stirred up
over an alleged attack recently made
from his pulpit by Rev. Mr.. Culver,
who asserted that beer was being sold
contrary to law in several of the
restaurants of that town. He also
took occasion to call down the base
ball fans for indulging in Sunday
baseball, and scored the editor Of the
Ryan newspaper for not calling public
attention to the lawbreakers. The
editor re taliated by saying that his
columns were open to the minister If
he would assume the responsibility Of
his statements over his own signature.
Rev. Mr.. Culver took advantage of the
newspaper mans offer and frote a
scathing article, censuring the city
marshal and all other implicated in
the wide open" policy. The Ryan
editor publishes a lengthy article in
his paper in which he charges the
minister with a lack of backbone"
and says he accepted money from the
restaurant saloons" when he wa.
soliciting subscriptions to buy a new
bell for his church. The business men
are worked up over the affair and the
ministef seems to be getting the worst
of the unpleasant controversy.
While wading in a creek a couple
of miles west of Dubuque an S-year-old
boy LOST his balance and fell in head
foremost. He was evidently drowning
when Viola Schaeffer, who was COLI
sidered an excellent swimmer for a
child, swan out to him. In her efforts
| to save her companion, she lost her
strength and went down a couple of
| times, when the third of the little