Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-10
IOWA
NEWS
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bolt driven entirely through the palm
of his hand. The pillow struck a
stone, reboundcd and drove the pro-
iecting bolt against Mr.. Fellows
| hand The wound is a Jagged one
| and was so painful that MIR. Fellows
had to have assistance to get to the
| house.
William Campbell and Victor Ander-
| son got into an alteration when
Campbell found Anderson shooting on
lis land near Sioux City. Anderson
vas shot twice, once in the shoulder
md once in the abdomen, and lies in
1 critical condition at the Samaritan
hospital. Campbell says that the
abdominal wound was self-inficted,
Anderson breaking lis shotgun over
Iampbell's shoulder aad shooting him
self accidentally.
A letter received recently by Chief
If Police Nicholson, of Marshalltown.
rom Secretary B. w. Garrett of the
tate board of paroles, Des Moines,
announces that the board is going to
consider at it's next session parole
or John B. Hollenhors, formerly of
hat city, at one time division road
railway, who is now serving three
year sentence in the Anamosa reform
atory for padding the company's pay
rolls.
Engineer VIM. Gibbons of Dubuque
met his death at Dyersville, on the
Chicago Great Western railroad. He
was in charge of freight engine No.
) which left the track and crashed
over an embankment. The balance
Of the trainmen escaped. The cause
Of the derailment is not known but
it is supposed that the switch was
tempered with. A pathetic incident
in connection with Mr.. Gibbons death
is that his wife is seriously Ill at
Mercy hospital in Dubuque and he
did not want to go ont on his run
the morning he was killed.
Chester Sampson, the 16-year-old
son of Mrs. Addie Sampson of Monte
yuma, was probably fatally injured by
4 revolver shot. He went to the
woods, taking the weapon with him
and in some unaccountable manner
the gun was discharged into his
breast. He made his way to nearby
house where medical aid was sum-
moned The ball was located in his
lungs, but 1t is impossible to remove
it. Sampson is member of the local
high school and one of the best
young men in the vicinity. There is
little hope for his recovery.
That officials of the Great Western
railroad are determined to win the
strike is evident in the fact that an
tV,i t,n or WI nj Indop
Reed in the federal court at Cedar
Rapids. 1t was placed in the hands
of United States Deputy Marshal
John Philipot, who went Immediately
to Oelwein to serve it on the strikers
in the Great Western shops. The in
junction enjoints the members of
dozens of unions comprising and as.
ISOLATED with the bolermakers and
nachinists from interfering in any
way with the work in the shops. The
hearing for a permanent injunc ion
is set for Sioux City, Oct. /.
Seventy-soven petition have been
filed at Keokuk against the saloons Of
Keokuk and Lee county, praying that
they be enjoined from selling intoxi-
eating liquors and declared a nuis-
ance. The petitions, which are said
70 have been instigated by the Iowa
Anti-Saloon league, are aimed at
every drink shop in the county. Keo-
kuk liquor interest are up in the air,
though they might have seen the
blow coming for, beginning with Du-
buque on the north, the anti-saloon
men have struck at practically every
river town of size and have been uni
formly successful in forcing the pro
prietors to toe the mark. The local
suits will come up in the November
term of the district court.
Mrs. John Gilbert, a woman aged
81 years, was run down and instantly
killed by a Rock Island freight train
at the Main street crossing at Grin
nell. The woman was carried half a
car length before the train could be
stopped. Her skull was fractured,
her left leg crushed and her right
leg practically severed below the
knee. The body was SO entangled in
the car trucks that it was necessary
to raise the car by jack screws. Mrs.
Gilbert's daughter, Mrs. Loss Crews,
and the latter's small daughter were
in the wagon, but escaped with Slight
switching train in charge OF Con-
ductor Tod Whitmarsh. 1t was back
ing on to siding to clear the main
track for another freight.
The case against George Mackown,
alleged embezzler and firebug, who is
charged with having embezzled some
$4,000 from the Northwestern Felt
Shoe company of Webster City and
then with deliberation and cold
blooded GOODNESS to have burned to
the ground the company's 100000
plant to hide the alleged embezzle-
ment, is now hung up in the district
court on a technicality. If a motion
which Mr.. Chase, attorney for Mack.
own, has filed attacking the grand
jury's validity is given the same rul
ing by Judge Lee that has been
given in the district court at Des
Moines the indictments against Mac
kown will be quashed, in which event
| it is likely the famous prisoner viii
walk forth from jail free man.
William Sloan, trapeze performer
at the county fair at Guthrie Center
was nearly killed in fall from his
| apparatus He fell about fifteen fee
| and a heavy iron pole that he was
holding struck him on the head. Il
was thought at first that he wal
fatally hurt, but he will probably n
| cover.
Or. w. B. Kimptot of Charles City
became violently insane in his apart
ments at the Hyde Park hotel at Chi
cago, and his wife summoned the pa
lice. The physician was taken to thu
Northwestern depot and was place,
on train for sanitarium il Keno
sha, Wis.
The home of President H. III. Seer
Ley of the State Normal School a
Cedar Falls was struck by lightning
The damage is very slight.
I IT,. II h;1nar DalIa D1a;n.