Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28

freight car, Elmer Wallace, fifteen
years switchman for the Iowa Cen.
trail at Marshalltown, died horrible
death, the life being literally crushed
out Of him. The body was horribly
mangled and many bones were brok'
en-. Wallace leaves a wife and three
children.
Walter Heimers was accidentally
shot while in his room at home alone
at Council Bluffs and is at the hospital
In serious condition. Young Rel
mers, who recently returned from the
west, where he had been engaged In
civil engineering, was on the second
floor at home when the shot alarmed
the other members of the family who
fastened to his assistance. The bull
let entered at the shoulder and 1t Is
feared penetrated the lungs. 1t Is not
known how the shooting occurred.
James Gregg, aged %. giving Bur.
lington as his home. was picked up
alongside the Illinois Central track
south of Dubuque with both legs
crushed below the knees. Gregg had
been riding the bumpers when he fell
off the freight train. He is in Finley
hospital doing as well as could be ex-
pected. Gregg declared his father
protested against his leaving home
and the injured man expressed the
wish it had been his head instead OF
his legs that had been cut off by the
wheels.
A young man by the name of Hiram
Rogers gave what proved to be for
him costly exhibition with dyna-
mite at Seymour. While a number
of men and boys were standing in
front of the First National bank
young Rogers drew from his pocket
dynamite cap and remarking that
he would show them how to open it
began picking at it with the blade of
his knife. 1t exploded, badly shat
tering his left hand and severely
wounding the right. The doctor who
dressed his wounds amputated por-
lions of three fingers of the left hand
and believes farther amputations will
be necessary to prevent blood poison
ing.
Arrested as he was about to escape
through rear window at the hotel,
a man giving the name or J. d. Tate,
was taken on an information filed by
the proprietor of the Ogden house at
Council Bluffs charging him with Sc
curing cash on three worthless checks.
The checks were drawn upon the
Mills County National bank of Glen
wood. Nothing is known of Tate. He
was accompanied by his wife and two
children at the hotel, where they have
been staying for several days. Mrs.
Tate says she had telegraphed to
friends in Buffalo and Marion, H., for
financial assistance. Tate Is good
dresser and carries an impression OF
wealth.
Several solicitors for Chicago grain
commission houses have been for sew.
eral weeks holding meetings in var
ious towns of northwestern Iowa try.
ing to induce the formation of CO.
operative elevator companies, expect.
ing to obtain their commission bust
ness when established. At some
points these companies also incorpor.
ate to handle coal and staple mer'
chandise. Among towns that have
been visited by these solicitors are
Rembrandt, Sioux Rapids, Marathon,
Webb and Spencer. Owing to car
shortage large stocks of grain have
been accumulated and the advance In
price causes some elevators to show
large profits.
The case of Fox VS.. Fox, in which
Leonard Fox, the husband, caused to
issue habeas corpus proceeding
against the wife for the possession of
their S-year-old daughter, was settled
at Mason City and dismissed at the
motion of the plaintiff. Fox told the
court lnal, though he had Travelled
half over the United States for his
daughter, ne would not press the case
since his wife had promised to live
with him. He said they had rented a
little cottage on the outskirts of the
city and had agreed mutually to en-
ioy the society of the little fiaXer
haired girl rather than to quarrel ovel
her. Mrs. Fox came to Mason City
last fall and was found by the police
in straightened circumstances in the
CITY park. She was then in hiding
from her husband, who had followed
her from different points in Wisconsin
to Boston and thence to Iowa.
County Attorney Seneca Cornell ant
Sheriff w. w. Jackson of WapHll'
county were called to Eldon to ad
inst the row which has arisen ther'
as the result of whipping admins
tered to Clyde Hale. aged IA years
nv his teachers. AS result tn
county attorney filed an information
against Hale's father. deposed Cit
marshal. recurring him to give bon
to Teen the peace and charging hin
with assault with intent to do grea
bodily harm. The trouble starte
when one of the women teachers a.
temnted to punish young Hale an
encountered a fight. She then OF
dered him to go to the Office and Will
Miss Esther Nicholson and Mis-
Warren. two teachers. held the boy
PRINCIPAL Fulton applied the switch
Young Hale went hom' md reporte
the matter to his fat VINO wa
then Marshal w. F. Ha.s. Hale the
arrested Principal FultC7 and Mise
Nicholson and Warren. without
warrant, so members of the schot
board claim. That night the cit
council and the school hoard met
Joint session with a view OF adjus
ing the difficulty. PRINCIPAL Fulto
appeared and when he attempted
air his side of the story Marshal Hal
yelled, You're a liar!" and struc
Fulton, knocking him to the foo
Mayor Bradley jumped to the rescu
Of the fallen teacher and taking til
star from Hale deposed him as ma
shall and assumed that Office himsel
c. F. Wright, a Mateno, Illino
student at the Iowa State college 1
Ames, has been detected in the TO
gerry of over one hundred dollars fro
banks and merchants in Ames. tt
: plan he followed was to draw checl
ON the account of Mrs. Julia !