Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-16

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home. Her parents fear murder, as
bloodstained handkerchief has
| been founded
| The Farmers Mutual Telephone
| company, a franchise for which was
| granted by the people of Griswold at
| the city election in that city this
| spring, is to take over the Musson
| company's lines there June !, paying
| for the business $500. This will
| eliminate the second company in
| Griswoli.
The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
| Mrs. A. H. House, living seven miles
southwest of Estherville, was burned
to death few days ago She AMI
a younger brother had gone to the
| field where the father was blowing.
He was burning slough grass, and in
a distant part of the field the child's
| dress caught fire, the burns proving
fatal In a few hours.
The debating societies of the Uni
versity of Iowa are up in arms over
the action of the board of regents in
refusing to provide a permanent
coach. The Zetagathians and Irvings
In particular claim that the action Is
breach of faith, for they claim the
faculty guaranteed them coach
when they consented to open up inter-
collegiate debating to the whole
school. 1t is thought possible that at
| its next meeting the board may re-
scind its former action.
The General Congregational asso-
citation of Iowa will hold its sixty
eighth annual session in Grinnell, be-
ginning May 81 and continuing four
| days. Delegates from majority OF
| the Congregational churches of the
! state will be present, and added i'm
| portance is attached to the conven-
ton because of the agitation of the
question of the consolidation of SINH
| lar denominations of the country.
| The general theme of the convention
will be The Church of Today"
Mrs. w. II. Scott of Riverside left
her husband at home to care for the
children, while she went to club
affair Mr.. Scott was reading in the
| library when he heard a slight noise
| in the children's bed room. He went
| to see what was the matter and found
the room in flames. A lamp had ex-
| ploded and the oil was burning. He
threw the lamp through the window
and set the curtains on fire. Then
| after a strenuous effort he beat the
fire out, but burned his hands sew
| erely.
Two men were arrested in Traer
by United States officials and taken
to Cedar Rapids to answer to the
charge of bootlegging. They are w.
! c. Werner, tailor by trade, who
went there a few weeks ago from
| Waterloo, and Clinton Hines, farm
hand. The guilt of both was proved
AMI both were bound over to the
| federal grand jury. That body does
not meet again till fall, and as
neither has been able to give bonds
| 1t is likely both will have to remain
in Jail through the summer.
The old starch building located at
the foot of Wapello street at Ottumwa
collapsed a few days ago. The struc.
ture was of brick and three stories
| high. All fell in except one wall,
| part Of which remains standing. A
moment after the building fell in two
| dust-covered tramps crawled through
| window and hurriedly started up
| the railroad track. 1t is possible
that one of the men was injured, as
he was helped along by his partner.
| Evidently the men were to frightened
| to understand what happened, nor.
once out of the building, did they lii
! ger to investigate.
Hunt for the gold left by Mr..
Honora Mcknight, the aged recluse
| who burned to death at Marshalltown,
| proves to be futile. Those who are
in a position to know say that the old
woman did have a large quantity OF
yellow money in her possession, but
relatives and officers fail signally to
find it. The house has been ran
sacked from the embers in the kitchen
fire to the caves of the garnet, but
never a trace of money. Frequently
in life Mrs. Mcknight would show to
confidants the golden hoard she
owned, and would pour the money out
| into her lap and let it run through
! her hands. She always declared thai
it was hidden where no thief could
find it, and it now looks as IL she had
hid 1t altogether too well for anyone
else.
Ida Golden, young woman who
has been living at Farragut, si1
miles south of Shenandoah, committed
suicide few days ago by taking
strychnine. She had been making
her home at the residence of Charles
Hastings, and as she and Mrs. Hast
ings were sitting at the table talking
to each other, she asked what wa
in bottle which she had reached
up to the shelf for. When Mrs
Tasting told her it was strychnine
she poured out some in her hand ant
before Mrs. Hastings could stop her
she had swallowed 1t. Mrs. Tasting
tainted and it was some time befor'
she came to. She then began t.
scream for help and a doctor wa
called, but when he got to the seem
he found he did not have the RICH
medicine and before he could go t
his office and back again the cir
was dead. She lived about fort.
minutes after she took the dose. /
is not definitely known what cause'
her to commit the act. 1t is sue
gested that she was not very stronj
mentally, as her father had died II
the insane asylum, and 1t is though
that other troubles were weighing Of
her mind. Two young men hav
been arrested as being possibly cor
nected with the suicide.
Mrs. Theodore Gurrish, wife of
government engineer working on tn
Mississippi river at Muscatine, see
ing her husband fall into the rive
went into violent Mysteries. Doctor
are unable to calm her and 1t
feared that she will lose her mind.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Smiley, livin
fya and a half miles northwest q