Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-18
IOWA
NEWS

| from the hOSpltal supposed 10 De wen
and was suddenly taken violently i'll
with lockjaw. Hope for recovery is
remote.
Tom Arnold, aged about 40, was ia
tally injured while attempting to beat
! his way at Waterloo on the Chicago
! Great Western freight train and died
in the hospital His right leg was
cut off and the left one broken above
! the knee.
Charles Bossen, who has been night
clerk at the Dutton hotel in Jewell
for the past seven years, has just
fallen heir to fortune through the
death of brother in Trenton, New
Jersey. The estate is valued at some
S125,000.
Suit has been filed at Centerville
for IS, 200 damages for SANDER against
N W. Smoot, Brazil merchant
Smoot is accused by Dole Thomas of
Lineville with falsely accusing him
of connection with a robbery of
Shoots store.
Conductor Nick Cooper of the Mil
waukee was killed at Rose Creek,
near Mason City, in the act of coupl-
ing cars, when he fell. The wheels
passed over his chest. He resided at
Austin, Mimi, but had run into Ma
son City for years and was popular.
A writ of habeas corpus has been
asked at Iowa City in the Elmer Pratt
case, to have the man charged with
the murder of w. +. Cornell released
on bail. The defense asserts that the
testimony does not warrant holding
Draft pifa1 nffnnca which Ia
the only thing unbailable under the
constitution OF the state.
Cora Turner, aged II, OF Moulton,
was frightfully burned and is not ex-
pected to live. She threw coal oil in.
to the stove to start fire and live
Goals caused an explosion, the girls
clothes catching on fire. When what
clothing that remained unburned was
taken off, the skin came off from the
neck down Her mother received
burns on both hands in putting out
the flames.
Mrs. William Shuts, who had lived
in the vicinity of Sumner. for many
years, but who lately moved to Tri-
poll, was burned to death at her home
at that place. She had filled the cook
stove with .kindling and poured over
! it kerosene oil. Striking a match, she
sndeavored to light the kindling, but
as she thought, it did not catch. AS
she was pouring more oil from the
can the flames shot up, the can ex-
ploded and she was fatally burned.
George Kendall, night operatoW for
the Chicago & Northwestern at
Wheatland, in Clinton county was
drowned in the Wapsipinicon river in
which he went to battle. No one saw
the accident, but it is believed that
the young man stepped into one of
the deep holes which abound in the
bottom of the treacherous Wapsie,
and was drowned. His clothing was
found on the bank of the river, and
after long search friends found the
body below the railroad bridge.
Representing residents in the vicini-
ty of the Sioux City College of Medi-
cine, who have been annoyed by the
aroma of decaying bodies, Paul King
filed information against the presi-
dent of the board of trustees charg.
ing him with maintaining nuisance.
He alleges he searched the college,
and found skeletons and decaying
corpses that had been left by opera
tors. 1t is probable that the case will
be settled without an arrest. The
city health department has taken
hand in the matter.
The striking employees of the Metz
Manufacturing company Of Dubuque
returned to work in body after hav
ing been out nearly three months.
Accessions to the ranks of the other
sash and door factories continue.
Fifteen other union men returned to
work in two factories and ninety
strikers have returned to work in the
| Farley-Loetcher and Carr, Ryder &
| Adams companies. The Metz factory
mems act is viewed as a death blow
| to the strike. Business men are re-
! joicing at the prospects of resump-
| ton of former prosperity.
! While the old line elevator men
who compose the Iowa Grain Dealers
association have been at swords
! points with the co-operatives for
years, the contest had not reached
| the crucial point that is evidently
now at hand Mr.. Wells in his report
scored C. G. Messerole of Gowrie,
who is considered one of the leading
representatives of the co-operatives,
and declared that the evidence sub
mitted by the co-operatives at the re-
| cent interstate commerce commission
in Des Moines which was derogatory
| to the association was false.
j. P. Clark, representing the Sage
estate, and L. H. Holt, banker and
| capitalist, of New York, were in Cen
terville a few days ago, in confer
ence with the representative of the
Drake heirs, DR.. ]. L. Sawyer, re-
garding the talking over of the Abba
! & Centerville railroad as a part of a
big electric line between Centerville,
Abba, Oskaloosa and Des Moines and
intervening points. The Drake heirs
own one-third of the capital stock of
the Abba & Centerville road. Sage
owns controlling interest and the
balance, a few shares only, is owned
by scattering capitalists.
Leon Springsion, the 7-year-old
son of Andrew Springston, fell into
the river at Burlington while fishing
and could not be rescued. His father
found his remains shortly afterwards
Former Congressman Thomas Hedge
having had his attention called to the
statement that large number of Lee
county republicans were favoring him
for governor said that he was not a
candidate and would not be. II de
sire to see my friend, Col David j
Palmer, of Washington county, be
come our next governor, and | would
ask any friend of mine to give him
their support in preference to me,
said Hedge.
Horse thieves made bold attemp
at midnight to steal large team O
uroy bprsac m Tom TIT,