Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-09-12
IOWA
NEWS

! ing ballots, many were cast ny
women, of whom 70 voted.
Mrs. John Suits, wife of wealthy
farmer near Tabor, literally slept on
bed of gold. One thousand dollars
in yellow coin was discovered sewed
up in the mattress Of her bed. Mrs.
Suits has become violently insane
and was taken to the hospital few
days ago.
John Pollock, an aged citizen OF
Cass county, is laid up at the home
of his son near Cumberland with
serious case of blood poison in one
| of his toes that may cause amputa-
/ ton. Some days ago he was pairing
his toe nails and cut one little
too deep, infiicting a wound that de-
veloped blood poison.
Ella c. Rice, half sister of Repre-
| Hawk county, was struck by an ILL
| nois Central engine at Waterloo at
| the Vinton street crossing and died
! of her injuries. She was not seen
| by the train crew at all. 1t is not
! known whether death was caused by
train or by an engine going to the
round house few minutes later.
Silk thieves broke into ]. S. Faa-
borg's store at Clinton during the
night and got away with silks col
| ored and taffeta, to the value OF
nearly $500. This was the second
silk robbery in Clinton within
! few days. The thieves broke into
the store through a rear door and
| carried away the most expensive
silks, using excellent judgment in
picking out only the best goods and
| rejecting the cheaper articles.
G. w. Williams, commercial
traveller for the Wolf Manufacturing
company of Quincy, H., was put off
| the train at Coin because he refused
to pay the extra 10 cents demanded
! by the conductor for not having a
! ticket He claims that he went to
the ticket window but the agent was
not in and he could not wait for one.
! The conductor stopped the train and
forced him off. He proposes to sue
the Wabash company for damages.
James Brewer, young married
man of about thirty years Of age and
salesman for the New York Wall
Paper and Stationery company of
| Des Mones, was drowned in the
Des Moines river at point just be-
! low the bath house near the foot Of
Washington street. At the point
where the body went down the water
| is about thirteen feet deep and the
| current swift Brewer and two COM
panions, II. F. Orwick and Pearl Col
Inns, were returning from a pleasure
trip up the river in Orwick's gasoline
launch when the accident happened.
A better pleased people than those
living along and whose property is
affected by the now nearly completed
Crescent drainage ditch, would be
hard to find, and the wonderful bene-
fits in the way of reclamation of
waste land was never more fully IL
I Illustrated than at Crescent. Hun
dreds of acres of land that hereto
! fore has not only never produced a
crop of anything but mosquitoes and
disease breeding germs. this year
! has been made to produce as fine
| crops of corn as are to be found any
where in the state. This land, for
merly absolutely valueless, cannot
now be bought for less than SIS an
acre, and much of it would bring
more than that.
Crushed fiat by the weight of his
own way car, Frank Mcclure, con-
ductor on the way freight between
Boone and Carroll, was instantly
killed at the gravel pit near Jeffer
son. McClures train, which con-
sisted of an engine, two or three
! cars, and a caboose had been to the
gravel pit and was just starting on
the run to jefferson. MECH was
standing, awaiting for his car % ap-
proach and pass, when he expected to
swing on the hind steps. The engine
struck a steer and went off the track,
the shock throwing the light way
car at the rear from the track and
causing it to tip over, catching Nc
Clure. His body was smashed abso-
lutely fiat, and he must have been
instantly killed.
Great anxiety is felt by the rela-
tives of Miss Ethel Wheelock of
Hartley, as to her whereabouts. Miss
Wheelock went to Estherville on the
goth of August to visit at the home
of Mrs. c. w. Hanson, remaining
until the 2Sth, when she started
home by the way of Sibley. Not
having arrived home, it was sup
posed she had gone to visit with an
aunt at Hardwick, but inquiry proved
to the contrary. Conductor Burt
Miller Of the Rock Island remembers
of her departure from the train at
Sibley. and this Is the last that has
been heard of the girl since she left
Estherville Miss Wheelock is about
20 years of age, and girl with a
quiet, retiring disposition. No mo-
tive can be given for her disappear
ance other than that she was feel
ing sick the day that she left but
could not be persuaded to stay
longer on that account. Her father
is a travelling mail clerk. Her
mother is at Hartley almost pros
trated with grief at the strange dis
appearance of her child.
A negro weighing $50 pounds
passed through Dubuque on his way
to the Plattevile fair, where he was
to be exhibited in one of the side
shows. The human monster was ac-
companied by four other negroes
who escort him on his pilgrimages
The exertion of walking from the
train was so great for the heavy
weight that when he was landed on
the platform it was impossible for
him to walk step, so that he was
bundled ont a truck and thence
taken by the baggage wagon to the
{ Milwaukee depot, where he changed
trains.
Judge Benson, after a weeks de
liberation in the hope that the war
ring factions might get together
overruled the petition of the Rev