Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07
IOWA
NEWS

ers was badly Injured by being KICK
ed by a mule. Some of his ribs were
broken and his breast was terribly
crushed. 1t is thought he viii re-
cover.
Four indictments against Joseph IL.
Grue, the lad who confessed to whole
sale thefts Of merchandise, sealskins,
coats, bolts of silk, ribbons, etc, from
his employers, Rohsek Bros, Of Du-
buque was made public as well as in
dictments against his mother and sis
ter, charged with receiving and con-
ceaIing stolen goods. All are in GUS
tody.
A wrecking train on the Illinois
Central crashed into an eastbound
| freight at Williams. telescoping the
caboose and piling. up eight freight
cars. A half dozen stock men in the
caboose, seeing the wrecker bearing
down upon them, escaped death by
| jumping. Engineer Owens Of Water
| loo, who was on the wrecker engine,
escaped with slight injuries.
After a delay of several months
| spent in giving the shale found near
| Grant City a thorough test, negotiat-
ing for the purchase of ten acre
! plat of hand adjoining Auburn, and Sc
| curing the right of way, Messrs.
| Straight brothers Of Fonda have clos
| ed their deal and will commence work
next week on a $4,000 brick and tile
plant to be erected at Auburn.
John Kearns of st. Paul was the
victim of a peculiar accident, while
| 90 hn rNlo M a
! waukee train. AS the train passed
| Specht's Ferry the car on which
| Kearns stood lurched heavily. He
was hurled from the cars, landing In
tree growing at the foot of the en-
| bankment twenty feet down, and mar
rowly escaping with few bruises. The
train backed up and got him.
The Wapello county grand jury has
returned a true bill against Ed Hog
! an, young negro, charging him with
| criminal assault on the person OF
| Miss Mary Mahoney on the night of
September %. Hogan was arraigned
| in the district court and pleaded not
| guilty. His bond was fixed at $4,000.
| Hogan has been in Jail for some time.
He was arrested shortly after the
assault of Miss Mahoney. The as
sault was one of the most vicious
imaginable, and the victim is still
in the Ottumwa hospital.
One grain firm in Murray has ship
ped twenty-seven cars of timothy
seed this fall, or about $4,000 bushels.
The farmers received from s1.50 to
$1.75 per bushel for the seed and
for the threshed timothy hay they
had left, within 81 per tor OF the
price of straight hay. Many fields
of timothy turned out eight bushels
of seed per acre. This seed has been
shipped to Ohio, Nebraska, Missouri,
Maryland, New York, Illinois and
Michigan. Southern Iowa timothy
seed is considered the best grown
anywhere.
Through the means of tramp who
was sleeping in a country school
house, one of the worst gangs OF
horse thieves that ever infested Guth-
RE and Carroll counties have been
brought to conviction. The tramp
| was awakened by the approach of
| men and team. He looked out, saw
two men preparing to load stolen
hogs into wagons. He aroused the
neighbors, the whole outfit was cap
tured and later the community was
| startled by the arrest, for the men
proved to be Harry Renslow and FL
lott Hood of Guthrie county. They
were we'll known, had much influence
| and they made a hard fight on their
trial. However, they were convicted
and sentenced TO eighteen months
each at Anamosa.
What win doubtless prove 10 be
an echo of the sensational Hollen-
hors case developed at Marshalltown
in the announcement of an indictment
against the Chicago Great Western
Railway company for nuisance, In
selling and keeping for sale within
Mirshall county, intoxicating liquors
Notice of the indictment was served
upon ]. r. Harding, the company's
local agent, and it is the first time
within the history of the county thai
a grand jury has returned an indict
ment against corporation. WheI
John B. Hollenhors, formerly division
roadmaster at Marshalltown, was ar
rested on a charge of padding thu
company's pay rolls and defraudin!
the company out of large sum o
money, his attorney and other inter
ested in the defense of the case pre-
missed that there would be develop
ments", II Hollenhors was prosecuted
These developments now prove to b
I for prosecution against the compan
for selling liquor. Two counts ar
returned In the indictment, and tn
, testimony before the grand jury show
, ed clearly that the witnesses had sc
, about systematically to secure thei
information. Each of the witnesse
: knew just what combination parlo
and buffet car he occupied, by nun
c ber also the conductor of the trair
s The witnesses were also careful t
J. see that the liquor they purchase
, was bought within the county. Thos
r who secured the information agains
the company and acted as witnesse
before the grand jury were: OFT
| Bigelow Of Marshalltown, w. A. Siz'
a local detective, and H. II. Morris
Of Melbourne, who acted as bondsme
, for Hollenhors.
. Engineer Charles Beebe, ore Of tn
!, veterans of the Milwaukee read. is a
. deaths door in a sanitarium ct Battl
], Creek, Mich. where he underwear
d the unusual opration of having tn
Q lower end of his stomach CIT ava.
The operation was made niece ssary b
long years of indigestion. ,fhe al
r. mentary canal was reunited afte
n the operation The outcome of tn
& operation is in doubt.
II Thomas A. Armstrong. brakema
;, on the Great Western, was killed 8
Dyersville, while making couplin,
his head being crushed between tn
bumpers.
q A. B. Cooper dropped dead at tn
= home of his daughter, Mrs. T. A. lie
ter, of Webster City. He was 70 year
of age, and one of the earliest Sc
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