Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-15

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| 2,111 to 757. What will be the mex
| on which no one has yet ventured {
suggestion. 1t is thought likely tha
those favoring municipal ownership
| will press the matter.
Because Tom Holland was hungry
and is accused of having stolen pc,
of red hot Irish stew he Is now behind
the bars in the city jail at Des
Moines. j. l.. Calkins, who conducts
| restaurant, filed the charges. He
claims that Holland cut the screen
door with his knife, picked the lock
on the kitchen door, broke into the
house and carried away a pot OF the
stew that was boiling on the stow
A ham and some utensils with which
to eat the meal were also take...
No free lunches, no women In sa'
looms, no wine rooms. no screens
close at midnight, are the compare
lively moderate demands which Dav'
export saloonkeepers will have to sub
scribe to or be closed up under the
mulct law, according to T. II. KEN
merer and Attorney G. w. Neal. AT
last account they were making out
injunction papers in their movement
to beat the anti-saloon league to the
good thing of tilt with Davenport
1913 saloons. Every saloon in the
county is to be served with injunction
papers.
Where were you Sunday night,
May" chorused the dining room girls
in the hotel where May lifts returned
70 all, FTn4,t -.
and insinuations followed until the
harassed girl went home In tears
with the intention of killing herself.
She achieved her purpose by hurting
herself into a well in the yard of her
fathers home before the eyes of her
younger sister. The unfortunate girl,
against whose character no serious
charge could have been brought, had
been falsely accused of unchastity by
other girls in the hotel, it is claimed,
and this drove her to kill herself.
Before she jumped into the well she
told her sister what the girls had
said about her and ended by declaring
that she could not stand 1t. The
younger girl at once screamed and aid
was summoned. The girl drowned
before help could arrive.
Acting on the report of engineers
who have just finished a survey of the
bottom lands north of Burlington, in
Des Moines county, the board of sup
ervisors decided to go ahead with an
extensive drainage project which will
add hundreds of thousands of dollars
to the wealth of the county. The dis
trict to be drained includes $4,000
acres Of low lands, but exceedingly
rich for agricultural purposes. The
Harmon Engineering company Of
Peoria, H., which had the survey in
charge. figure that the cost of drain
age will be $225,OOO or $9.12R per
acre. The increase in the value of
land will be from three to eight times
the cost of the Improvement, netting
the land owners from $1,000,000 to
$2,000,000. 1t will take two years to
finish the work, which will probably
begin next spring.
Father Luke Donlon of st. Pat.
ricks church, Cedar Falls, came near
being dubbed TO death at Greenwood
cemetery by First Lieut.. William II
Mcclure of the Third Iowa battery,
the oldest attorney in Black Hawk
county. Father Donlon had just com
pleted the last rites of the Catholic
church at the grave of Miss Mary
Morris of Ithaca, N. Y, and started
for his carriage when Lieutenant Nc
GUire came up behind him and made
a desperate attempt to hit him over
the head with the butt end of an old
army rife. The priest lodged and
the blow missed him entirely. Then
members of the funeral party took
charge of the assailant, who is serious
ly deranged and will be sent to a
hospital for treatment. During the
civil war he directed the Third Iowa
battery through many engagements
and he has brilliant war record. He
ran for congress on the democratic
ticket twice against the late Speaker
Henderson.
Upon the guilt or innocence Of
Erich Won Kutzleben, now serving time
on conviction of having caused the
wreck of Rock Island passenger
train near Homestead, in which l.. A.
Weber, mail agent, was injured, rests
the liability of the railway company
for damages, suit having been brought
by Weber in federal court at Council
Bluffs for $4,000. Dispositions in the
case taken by Carroll Wright, repre-
senting the railway company, and Pop
ham & Hayner, for the plaintiff, have
been filed. Acting on the advice of
his attorney, Kutzleben gave evasive
answers or did not answer at all,
questions pertinent to the case, re-
was put to reply. Among the more
important questions propounded to
him were: Did you pull the spikes
that wrecked the Rock Island train
near Homestead did you not
throw the bar with which the work
was done into the river?" did you
not take the crowbar from the tool
house of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad at Anona?" The
special charge upon which Kutzle.
ben was tried and convicted
was the murder of A. c. Hotchkiss
engineer of thew rocked train who
was killed in the wreck. Weber, the
plaintiff in this case, brought suit
engineer of the wrecked train who
in Council Bluffs. The allegation is
that the wreck was caused by poor
roadway and not by Kutzleben,. who
will be the power behind the defense
he case will be heard at the Septem
Der term.
Miss Bessie Emerson, Of Osceola
was killed in street car accident al
Los Angeles.
Fred Scnermerhorn of Des Moines
aged S3 years, died at Mercy hospi
tai. His death was due to tetanus
caused by running a rusty nail in his
foot about two weeks previous Al
the time Of the accident Mr.. Scher
merhorn treated the wound himself
and 1t rapidly healed, but later he was
taken sick and called physician, who
| discovered signs of tetanus.. The pa