Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-12-26
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
IOWA
NEWS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

From present indications the stu
dents of Cornell college will have
their coveted gymnasium building
within year. Last week final re-
port was made on the growth of the
funds for the new building. The sum
so far raised is $500, which is lack
ing only s1,400 Of the required
amount
]. NJ Knapp, who was the center
&c shooting affair at his home at
Council Bluffs one year ago, and who
has been a fugitive since, was ar
rested a few days ago in Omaha.
Knapp tried to shoot his son and
terrorized the family and neighbor-
hood. 1t was thought for a time that
Knapp had committed suicide.
The trial of Charles Hodges VS.. the
Colfax Consolidated company is on at
Newton. Hodges claims that he sus-
| tanned permanent injuries to his right
arm while driving mule in the mine
last April. He is suing the company
for $4,000. The company in defense
alleges that there is contributory neg
ligence on the part of the plaintiff.
Charles H. Brannberg, who was ter
ribly scalded in the overturning Of
! Northwestern wrecker near Belle
PLANE, died at the hospital at Boone
In great agony. He was kept In
bath tub of cold water all night in
the hope of giving him relief, but he
succumbed. The three other men in
jured in the same accident will re-
cover.
Two strangers giving their names
as Crawford and Boyd were arrested
| by Sheriff Qualley and lodged in Jail
at DEBORAH charged with passing
| bogus money at Calmar. Some coun-
terfeit silver was found in their pos
session. Their past record will be in
vestigated and if sufficient proof is
found they will be prosecuted for
their crime.
A new phase In the reform move
men that has struck the various larger
cities in Iowa was the filing Of a suit
| for $4,000 against A. w. Geng, a sa-
loon proprietor of Burlington, by Mrs.
Minnie Hartman, accusing Geng with
selling liquor to her husband while he
! was intoxicated. The law is plain in
such cases and Mrs. Hartman will
probably win. The case Is the first
one of the kind IN Burlington for
years.
Charles Bagsley, shot tirer in mine
No. 8 of the Hooking Coal company,
near Abba, was found dead in the
mine. He had been making the
| rounds of the rooms and after he set
the fuse afire in one and came into
another room, separated by the entry,
the hole blew through and there was
sufficient gas and smoke to kill him.
He was the second shot firer to be
killed in the Monroe county mines
within the week.
Fire which threatened to wipe out
the business district of Teeds Grove,
in Clinton county, was put out only
! by the heroic efforts of hundreds OF
townspeople and farmers from the
surrounding community. The Schultz
implement warehouse was destroyed
with most of its contents, and the
residence of Mrs. Henry Hass burned
to the ground before the fire was con.
trolled. The loss in the warehouse
is $4,000, and that in the dwelling
house about $1,000. Both were in
| sured.
A startling condition is revealed by
the specialists examining the child.
rem in the public schools of Sioux
City. 1t is discovered that 80 per
| cent of them are afflicted with dis,
eases of the eye, ear, nose or throat
In some cases the ailments impair
the mental faculties of the children
some of whom had been regarded as
dull-witted Investigations were be-
gun over a month ago in the Arm
strong school, which contains nearly
800 students. Every morning of each
school day a doctor examines as
many pupils as possible within an
hour. These tests at his one institu
ton will not be completed until Jan
/.
A feature of the corn exhibit in
Abel was the most remarkable ear OF
corn ever grown in that vicinity. Al
about the middle of one side of the
ear little sprig came out, extending
about four inches long. At first glance
1t looked like a portion of the tassel
bearing grains of corn. But it is no,
tassel. 1t is a head like that OF
any small grain, having little cups, in
some of which perfect grains of corn
have formed. 1t is claimed that corn
was originally in this form and with
centuries of culture has come down
to the modern forms of ears. The
specimen suggested that nature had
stepped back a thousand years of two
and produced the original article.
H. E. Skeels, shot firer in the Hite
man mines, seven mnes northwest oil
Abba, was killed by a fall of slate
He was making his rounds examining
the shots and had stepped into an en-
try when the fall came. Two other
young men were just in advance OF
him. The death is one in which II
seems fate was waiting for Skeels
The others had passed beneath the
faulty roof and as Skeels paused fol
q moment a huge chunk fell and
crushed his life out. A coroner's
jury held that the Wapello Coal com
pany was negligent in not having the
roof properly propped. This is the
third trip the Monroe county coroner
has made to the same mining town
within week.
Former Sheriff J. H. Cremer of OF
tumwa, who held Office from 1902 tc
1906, has commenced suit in the dis
trict court against Wapello county
for the recovery of fees alleged to be
due him for mileage in serving pro
cesses, etc., in civil cases amounting
to $43505.
r. F. Benham Of Minneapolis, re
presenting the Dan Patch Air Line,
which is surveyed through DEBORAH
has been at DEBORAH for several days
checking up the right of way in that
Vicinity and he gives assurance that
the road will surely come, something
that the people of DEBORAH have been
doubtful of.
The Interstate Shooting association