Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-24
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IOWA
NEWS

had thirteen liquor sellers before
him at Usage. All pleaded guilty and
paid fines of $500.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Heisler, OF
Grundy county, are defendants in the
| twenty thousand dollar suit for al
legged alienation of the affections OF
the son from his wife, Mrs. William
Heisler.
Three young girls giving the names
of McKene and Lee, aged IL to 10,
were Ipprehended at Boone and held
in jail awaiting the arrival of con-
stable from Cambridge, VINO came
and took them home. The girls said
they were just out on a bum" and
for a good time.
After mourning at the grave of her
mother for hours, Mrs. Eta Runyan
of Kansas City who was called to
parent, was taken to st. Bernard
hospital. The woman's mind has
become affected By excessive grief
over her mothers death.
Conrad Bahr, so years old, met in
slant death at Muscatine, while
working at Roach G. Musser's
lumber plant. His body was
crushed by the collapse OF a
large pile and he was buried under
the heavy planks. 1t was some time
before the body was removed. His
skull was fractured and his bcGy was
badly bruised.
Mayor Kehoe's son, John, was pain.
fully injured in a runaway accident
at Farley. His father Is just recover
ing from injuries sustained in a SINH
lar accident a few days ago. A
peculiar feature of the accident is
that both son and father were injured
the most on the left leg and in each
case the wheels passed over the heel
Of the right foot, inflicting injury.
BY the wind blowing plate glass
door against Mrs. Jesse Keel of Mason
City as she was leaving her home,
she came near bleeding to death from
cuts received from the shatter glass
before assistance arrived. A large
piece of glass penetrated the shoulder,
which caused the most serious harm.
Her arms and side were badly LAGER
ated. When the physicians arrived
she was unable to rise from loss of
blood
Brakeman Charles Pierce OF the
Northwestern, while making up his
train at Sanborn. Mimi. was taken vio-
lently i'll from ptomaine poisoning and
found after an hours search in some
tall grass near the yards, where he
had fallen in a faint. He was missed
after the train had pulled down to the
station and though he had assisted in
making up the train his condition was
not noticed till the train was almost
ready to start
With a letter in his pocket an
nouncing the death of his mother
Charles Crissie was killed at Nicola
by a Milwaukee passenger train. His
body was discovered next morning
cut to pieces. He had evidently gone
to sleep on the track while walking
home In the night time. He was a
man about SO years old and was a
farm hand. The letter urged him to
| go to his home at Galena, H., im-
mediately because of his mothers
| death.
The prize mixer is Aaron Grimm,
a Clear Lake resident, who has forty
| cows, and with a milking machine
does the entire job of milking him
| self. His machine extracts the tactical
| fluid from two cows at the same time,
is operated by a gasoline engine,
which is placed some distance from
the barn, and a spout conveys the
milk as it Is taken from the COWS by
the snilker to the dairy house Only
few minutes are occupied in doing
| the job.
The fine new $4,000 residence of
J. B. Leicht of Belle PLANE, which is
nearly finished, had a close call from
being destroyed by fire through the
spontaneous combustion of a quantity
of oil soaked waste left by the paint
ers where the sun could shine upon
it, Mrs. Leicht accidentally discov-
ere the blaze in two piles of waste
at noon, half an hour after the work
men had left. With great presence
of mind she threw out of doors the
blazing waste, and telephoned for
help. 1t is fortunate that the blaze
was discovered so soon.
In a rear end collision on the Mil
waukee near Ossian, one engine was
wrecked and caboose and several
sides many cars mashed up. Inc
trains were east bound, leaving
Mason City few minutes apart, the
first train in charge of Conductor Co
we'll, the second in charge of Con-
ductor GODDARD. Cowell stopped at
Ossian to do switching, when the sec
ond train ran into him. Engineer
Gashel had Just been promoted to a
place on this engine. The second
train was only slightly injured.
H. B. Hallock, one of the proprie-
tors of the Eagle Grove Eagle, has
fled notice of suit against the city
of Eagle Grove for $500 fer the
drowning of his little 2-year-old boy
last May. The little fellow fell into
an open ditch in the alley at the rear
of his home and the city is alleged
20 be responsible. The ditch had be.
come filed up and allowed some two
feet of water to stand in the ditch
and neglect on the part of the city is
charged. 1t will likely come on for
rial at the December term OF dis,
Lrict court, unless the city makes set
Element before that time.
While at work cleaning out well
for James Walsh at Ida Grove, Ed
Howard lost his balance on the curb
ing and fell headlong a distance Of
thirty-five feet to the bottom of the
we'll. There was about eight feet o.
water in the bottom of the well, but
Walsh was able to fish the man out
pump the water out of him and save
his life Going headfirst in the mar
row well the graf problem was to get
the mans head out of the water be
II fore he drowned. Walsh does no
known just how he managed 10 turf
the man around and get him out, bu
he did.
Farmers around Max, Dion ant
tInr,lau have fled cnmnlaint with fhi