Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-09
IOWA
NEWS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wilbur Remington was arrested a
Mason City by the sheriff of Turner
county, South Dakota, charged with
stealing a horse at Parker, which, Il
Is claimed, he took to Sioux Falls
and sold.
The baby son Of Ed Kirke, q
switchman of Boone, swallowed a bot
tie of carbolic acid and his mouth
and throat were terribly burned
Quick medical aid will probably save
the child, who Is now recovering.
A jury at Iowa City returned YER
dict of s13,106.2O against John Null
hall, real estate man. John Vaupel
of Freeport, Ill, bought the Fisher
farm in Monona county from Mulhall
and alleges that ,Mulhal's agent mis-,
represented the facts in the deal.
Mayor Schunk of Dubuque has
been served with notice of injunc,
tion in which Archbishop Keane him
self Is plaintiff. The mayor conducts
a wholesale liquor business und@
I'll firm name of Fl. A. SchCnk & Co.
The owners of the building are also
made defendants. The archbishop
and the mayor, who Is a spiritual
disciple Of the prelate, have hereto
fore been close friends.
Charles Zimmerman, the celebrated
monomaniac of the subject of cutting
telegraph and telephone wires, was
arrested by a detective and taken to
Dubuque. The fellow recently es-
caped from the independence asylum,
where he was placed after evading
the detectives for two years and de-
stroying thousands of dollars worth of
property. AS a reason he declared
the buzzing Of the wires destroyed
his rest.
The Commercial club Of Fort Dodge
at a special meeting passed resolu-
lions petitioning the council to delay
acting, looking toward ordering a
special election to extend the fran.
chise of the Newton & Northwestern.
The club desires more light on the
extension and the improve
ments to be made. The present fran
chise has twelve years more to run
and the company asks for an extern
sion of thirteen years more.
Helen, little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Tansey of Clinton, met
with serious accident. While play
ing in the yard near a bonfire her
caught fire. A neightor
rushed to her assistance, but
before the fire could be extinguished
the little girl was severely burned
on one thigh and on her back. A
physician was Immediately sum-
who dressed the burns and 1t
Is not thought that they will prove
fatal.
A tickling sensation in the throat,
by an involuntary fit of
startled Daze Maclaren of
Delta off his perch on high smoke
stack. He fell fifty feet, lighting on
his back on pile of brick, the acct
dent causing probably fatal paral-
ysis. Maclaren had recently come to
Delta from What Cheer ami was in
Sailing a brick yard. 1t was on the
for his kiln that he was
when he fell. The injured
man is AZ years old.
Royal G. Wood, the Illinois Gen.
trail fireman whom County Attorney
Mears of Black Hawk county re-
leased from the charge of placing
on railroad track, has
brought suit ag y. D. Cass, gen.
eral manager of the Waterloo. Cedar
Yol1 o. for c10 nnn 10
ages on account of malicious prose
cution and false Imprisonment. The
trouble grows out of the disturb
lnces during the street car strike on
the night of March 7. Agents of Cass
looked into the matter with the result
that information was filed. There
was no evidence introduced to sus-
tain the charge made against Wool.
Judge Evans in the district court
at Osceola overruled all motions by
the attorneys for Day Dunning to dis
miss the case and his trial for wreck
ing the Mount Ayr bank Is expected
TO procesd. Dunning's attorneys con-
tended that the grand jury had teen
Illegally drawn, basing the action
upon the celebrated Polk county case,
but the Judge held that Dunning had
slept on his rights too long and that
the position was not good. The at
also contended that there was
a previous adjudication in that Dun.
ming was cleared by a jury in the
trial at the February term. The
court held that as it was proposed to
try him under another indictment,
this does not hold.
In taking down lofty electric light
tower under orders from the city
council at Council Bluffs the discov-
cry was made that the Sower with its
immense weight has COR long time
been IN momentary danger of collaps-
Ing with all its possible attendant
dangers. The discovery was made
by the city electrician and as a re
suit all of the remaining ten towers
in various sections of the city will be
ordered removed. Some of the steel
tubing was found to be less than a
of an inch thick, being
rustei inside and outside, mostly in
sids, a fact that precludes possibility
Of ascertaining the condition of the
towers. Another discovery
was made that the tubing, owing to
the strain of high winds and the
weight. had lost all Of its tensile
by crystallization and is as
brittle as cast iron.
) T. u. Foster. head of the Morrell
Packing company at Ottumwa injured
his foot. Mr.. Foster was going
through the plant when he accident
ally stepped into hole in the floor.
AT first he thought little of the ac-
but as his foot continued to
pain him he called physician AMI
It was found that one Of the bones
had been broken.
Ida Grove suffered $4,000 fire.
the J. II. Hersman furniture store
aflame shortly after mid
night. The Williams store, "The
Fair" on the one size, and the Som
ers drug store on the other suffered