Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09

head was crushed beyond recog
milton.
The safe Of the Duluth Lumbe
company of Iowa City was robbed O
about $50 by burglars, who opened
the same and tore out the drawer.
and doors on the inside. A number
Of very valuable papers are also mis-
sing. The robbery is thought to b
the work Of amateurs.
Joseph Calm, musician of Council
Bluffs, who went to Germany this
spring, neglecting to secure his frs
tapers, writes friend that he has
teen compelled to shoulder a musket
He dolefClly recites he will have to
remain In the army two years before
he can secure his release.
Mrs. T. r. Shurlock has sued the
city of Boone for $500. She claim;
that a board in the sidewalk flew ur
ami that a rusty nail entered hei
| groin, causing bad wound. The
husband sued for $1,000 for mental
stress and anxiety. Counsel for the
| plaintiff, under the new law, have
garnishei the city for $500 fees in
case of settlement.
BY the fall of pile Of ties Jame7
Tobin, an employe of the Northwest
ern road at Mason C:sy. was danger.
ously hurt. He had several ribs
broken besides other injuries. 1,
was several minutes before he was
able TO be freed from the ties, which
pinned him to the ground, by fellow
| workmen. He was carried to neigh
boring house and resuscitated.
| Hans Larsen, aged IS years, a sec
ton foreman who had accumulated
| $4,000 while working as a section
boss. was drowned in three feet of
| water at Dry Run creek. small
| body OF water, short distance from
the Cedar Falls pumping station. He
was found by Thomas Mckee and
James Kerr. two old men returning
from fishing expedition. He had
been Ill with heart trouble and was
just able to get out. He is thought
to have been seized with an attack
while standing on the bank and to
have fallen in.
1t has remained for a Creston boy,
Mr. Sherry e. Fry. to win high hon
ors and most favorable mention at
the spring salon of the society of
French arists in the Grand Palais,
which was inaugurated at Paris a
few days ago by President Fallieres.
The people of Creston are glad to
note in the dispatches concerning the
big art exhibit that Mr.. Fry's Indian
Chief" executed for the city of Os-
kaloosa, Iowa, Is named as among
the best rieces of sculpture which
were admitted to the salon. But one
other piece Of sculpture is mentioned
in the dispatches, that of the IDOL"
by Herbert Ward. Mr.. Fry, who has
been studying in Italy and France for
several years, visited with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Fry, in
Creston last summer.
Although her home is within twenty
miles of Mason City, and she is the
sister of two of the wealthiest farm.
ers of the county, Miss Naomi Quin.
cey, living near Rockwell, has Just
made her first visit to Mason City
in twenty-seven years. Not only was
it the rst time she visited the city in
that length of time, bu 1t was the
first tine she has ridden on a rail-
way train during that period. Miss
Quincy is a woman of wealth in her
own right is talented and a woman
OF deep religious experience. She is
a poet of more than average ability
and many volumes Of her poems are
to be found in the homes of friends
and acquaintances over this section
of the state. Her brothers are
wealthy and are among the leading
stock raisers of the county.
The order of the postmaster gen.
eral raising the salaries of all the
rural carriers of the country will re-
suit in an annual addition of about
100000 to the pay of the 2,307 rural
carriers of Iowa This money will
be added to the $1,644S76 which was
handled last year by the Des Moines
Office, the distributing agent for the
rural service of the state. The order
has not reached the Des Moines Of
fee, but Authentic information has
been received of the issuance of the
order and preparations are already
being made to handle the increased
sum. 1t is stated that this action on
the part of the department marks the
successful end of a fight for more
pay that the rural carriers have been
waging ever since the service was
inaugurated at the low wages of $50
per month
The nine criminal cases against H.
o. Hughes. former president of the
defunct Farmers State bank of
Clearfield, which were set for trial
at the term of tae district court last
week, have been continued on ac-
count of the serious illness of the
defendant. The next term of court
will convene in October, but Judge
Evans, who will preside, is a near
neighbor and old friend of the &C.
eused, and for that reason has .ex.
pressed reluctance to preside at
the trial The attorneys will prob.
ably not insist, and If they do no!
Hughes can not be tried before De
cember, when the next term will con
vene, ct which Judge Towner will
preside. Hughes is an old man, long
past the three score and ten mark
and has always borne spleniil
reputation. Ferrin, the abscondne
cashier. is his stepson and in him
the old man had the utmost conf.
dence. The shock to his nervous sys.
tenn when he learned of Ferren's
perfdy and found himself charged
with grave crimes was severe and
has so undermined his health that II
is question whether or not he will
live to be brought to trial
While section men were working
one mile east of Stanton they stepped
aside for an eastbound freight train
c. j. Swanson stepped on the north
main line and was struck by west
bound train. His skull was fractured,
his arm and three ribs broken and
he sustained internal bruises. He is
unconscious and may die.
Fire completely destroyed the livery