Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-21
IOWA
NEWS

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Mrs. Matilda Powell. Mrs. Cross is
SO years old and death was probably
due to her advanced age and general
debility. The coroner is inquiring
into the case.
e. N. wentworth of State Center
won the SIS prize offered by the sever
literary societies of the Iowa State
college for a college song Mr. Went
worth is senior and is member OF
the s. A. e. fraternity. The song is
to he sung to an air similar to Fair
Harvard"
The second trial of Mamie Taylor,
colored of Buxton, is being held here.
The state has rested its case anc wit
nesses for the defense are being ex,
amined. She killed her husband last
May in a drunken family quarrel.
Tho defense claims accidental shoot
ing in selfdefense.
William Chitty a business man OF
Gravity, tried to commit suicide FRI
day by drinking poison. He will pro-
badly recover, but declares he Will
make another attempt. He took the
contents Of two ounce bottle oil
strychnine. No cause Is known for
the deed, as his accounts are said to
be in good shape, and it Is not known
that he has had any family troubles.
Al Krantz, keeper of the general
store at Gilbertville. was severely
injured Thursday night. Mr.. Krantz
was enroute home from Waterl 70
with load of groceries, and the wag.
on overturned, pinioning him under.
meath. He sustained fractured
skull and rib and numerous lacera-
lions of the face and body. He was
brought to Waterloo for medical treat
ment.
Three Buffalo capitalists and Mr..
w. s. White of Oskaloosa Friday pur-
chased the two mines of the Norwood
Coal Company for 100000. Tie
Norwood-White Coal company was
yesterday incorporated for $l5O,OOO
to take over the property of the Nor
woodville completely. They were
formerly owned by Joshua Norwooi
of 1917 East Grand avenue, w. B. Kef-
fer and C. p. Ke.fer, both Of Oskar
loosa.
The jury in the srit of Levi H. Hunt
against the Burlington Railroad cora
pany, in which $4,000 is asked for
injuries inflicted by a falling trunk
in a baggage car in Lincoln, Neb., had
not agreed at neon today after being
out 26 hours. They are reported 20
stand ten to two for the plaintiff. The
suit involves the question whether
the fellow servant law of Iowa or Ne
braska should apply. Judge Thor
mel ruled that the Nebraska law
should govern.
BY a majority of 1919, the people
at Winterset voted Tuesday to grant
a franchise to the Des Moines, Win
terset & Creston Electric Railway
company. The total vote cast was
$50. The same question was up Last
spring but was defeated owing to
the decided opposition. The election
created considerable excitement then,
due to the fact that the franchise to
be voted on contained too many re-
strictions. The present franchise is
more liberal.
A deal which means the opening OF
new coal mine near Des Moines
was closed yesterday. Messrs. S. H.
Blount, Isaac Evans and G. M. Holmes
closed options on 500 acres of coal
land in the northern part of Polk
county near the line of the Perry in.
terurban. 1t was stated yesterday
that drilling operations on the land
disclosed the presence of a vein OF
coal four and one-half feet thick at a
depth of nearly 200 feet.
Geo. McElroy, an old employee of the
Dupont. Powder works, met his death
in one of the mills at Mooar, Friday
morning, being caught in shaft
How the accident happened or al
what time, is not known, for the man
was not found until some time after
he had been killed, and there were no
witnesses to the affair. He was miss.
ed at dinner time. but nothing was
thought of it at the time. In the
afternoon his body was found caught
In the machinery and hanging in the
air up near the ceiling of the room
showing he had been caught in the
shaft and whirled to his death.
Completely swamped by the work
of her office, which she says has been
greatly increased by the new certifi
cate law, Mrs. Jennie Steele Huegle
county superintendent of Polk County
this morning asked the board of sup
ervisors for funds to secure additional
help. Mrs. Huegle declared that she
is utterly unable alone to keep up heI
work, especially the numerous reports
and mailing devices that State Super
tntendent Riggs Demands under the
new Law. The board has taken the
matter under advisement. 1t was
found that the code fixes the salary
of the office at $3.50 and to this the
board has added $3.50 in Polk county
In addition the board allows the Office
| $40 per month for expenses. 1t is
believed that the board will not au
thorize any more additional funds
Count Superintendent Thornburg
utilized the institute fund as part pay
ment for his stenographer, and Mrs
Huegle may he so permitted.
| A thick column Of smoke was ris
ing from the building and the MAJ
wasted no time in getting to a DO,
and turning in an alarm. This wa!
at J:29 a. m, early, but too late tt
save anything of the building. Som,
valuable papers were consumed. Thu
loss of $4,000 is fully covered by 81
Paul underwriting company.
t has been learned that Des Nome
coal is excellent for manufactures
and for railroad purposes and bi
demand is made upon the output t
ill orders from these sources.
While returning home in carriag
from the depot, where he had gon
To wish his prandnpnheW and hrid