Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-14
IOWA
NEWS
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about $4,000, partly covered by insur
ance. Mr.. Rodgers has operated the
mill for ten years, and unless 1T is re-
built the loss will be serious one to
the town. A large quantity OF flour
In an adjoining building was saved.
Deputy Fish Warden Gene Dyer and
a corps of assistants have been sein.
ing for game fish in the pools and
small ponds near Cedar Falls and II
is estimated that something like 25,-
COO fish have been poured into the
Cedar river above the dam. This Is
the largest number of fish that have
been emptied into the Cedar at that
| point in dozen years.
Jacob Waltemeyer, a we'll known
resident of MarshalItown and we'll
TODD retired farmer. was found dead
| in the hayloft Of his barn by his SON
! in-law. w. T. Pennett, a local attor'
| ney. The condition of the body
| showed that Waltemsyer had been
dead several days, probably ever since
| he was last seen. Rheumatism OF
| the heart was probably the cause.
When DR.. J. H. Gasson Of Council
| Eluffs was awakened at 3 O'Clock a.
IA, by a noise in his apartments in the
downtown district, he started TO In
/ vestigate and ran plump into a burg.
/ lar in the dining room. The doctor
! overpowered the istruder and turned
| him over to the police. He gave
fictitious name, but was recognized
| by the police as Charles Gallagher OF
Sioux City.
Joe Cabalka, a former employe OF
the Chicago Great Western railway
at Oslwein, and two companions, while
| on their way home at night, attacked
one Of the company's guards, and
Cabalka received two shots, one In
the leg and the other in the side. He
was taken to his home and the bull
let in the leg was extracted, but 1t
was thought best not to probe for the
| one In the side. 1t is thought that he
! will recover.
Mount Ayr suffered a $4,000 loss
! by the burning of the feed barn own
ed by n. G. Johnson. II was entirely
destroyed along with sheds attached
used as an auction yard. The general
store and stock of good of T. j..
Harden adjoining the barn immedi-
ately on the east were totally Destroy
ed and Mr.. Harden's residence in the
lot east of the store was practically
total loss, nothing but the frame
work badly damaged still standing.
The blacksmith shop of G. F. Olney
! adjoining the barn on the west was
also totally destroyed.
At meeting of the board Of trus-
tees of Iowa Wesleyan college, DR.. ].
w. Hancher formally presented his
resignation as president, which was
accepted. Dean A. C. Piersal was
elected acting president until a sue
! cessor can be secured to DR.. Hancher.
| This will probably be done at the
February meeting of the board. A
committee consisting of Messrs. Carl
Williams of Chicago, w. S. Withrow
of Mount Pleasant, J. C. Willis Of
Muscatine, Hugh A. Cole of Chicago,
T. J. Myers of Mount Pleasant Chris
Haw of Ottumwa, and l. B. Shrecken-
CAST of Burlington was appointed to
have in charge the work of securing
| new president.
Probably the biggest purchase Of
Iowa farm lands this year has just
been closed by Frank Brennecke Of
/ Marshalltown, in Winnebago county.
Mr.. Brennecke purchased of N. E.
| Isaacs, cashier of the First National
bank of Thompson, 1900 acres of
| Winneb ago county farm land for a
| consideration of $116,400, or $50 per
acre. The land is divided into ten
| farms, ranging in size from eighty to
800 acres. All of the land is improved
| and fenced, and seven of the fMms
are well improved. Mr.. Bt&f{cke
! gave IN trade for a value Oh V1,20O
land in Kitson county, Minnesota
near Hallock. He paid Sc 900 in
Dn5a, ~ nSlSa d' assumed
The c&NStSo3F the possession o.
a 300 acre tract of~cement rock lane
near MasUMatty will be transferred
to the supreme court of the state, &C
cording to notices of appeal filed BY
E. ]. Breen, a banker of Fort Dodge
against l.. A. and J. J. Mayne. The
plaintiffs claim that they had an op
ton on the land at the time the de
PENDANT optioned it to the Lehigh &c
ment company of Lehigh, Pa. TIL
latter option was secured at mid
night few minutes after the option
of Mr.. Breen is claimed to hav,
lapsed. The contest is really betweel
the Lehigh people and the North
western States Cement company
The lower courts found for the de
PENDANTS at a former trial.
To the sagacity and unusual instinc
Of their house dog do the -aembers O
the family of Daniel Lugsch of Glen
wood believe they owe their lives. !
few minute before midnight the fam
lily was awakened by the furious bark
ing of the dog and to find their hom
in flames. The children were aslee,
upstairs, and as the fire appeared I,
have originated in the roof, thei
danger was greater than the rest O
the members, who were asleep on tn
nrst floor The roof was about to fal
in, and the children and all had t
flee in their night clothes. 1t was ST.
blocks to the nearest hydrant an,
nothing could be done by the fremel
to extinguish the flames, which cor
sumed the building and practically
all Of their belongings.
, There is a rumor current at Char
ton that Mrs. Thayer, whose father
s. Fl. Mallory, was president of tn
First National bank of that city unit
his death a few days ago, has deter
: mined to have the bank reopenec
no matter what the present lossa
may be. The impression Is now gair
ing ground that the losses will b
r quite heavy, but Mrs. Thayer ind he
, mother, Mrs. Mallory, who are yet &
, Europe. are quite wealthy. ], woul
, not be impossible for them to put tn
bank on a sound hnsis agsm, an
: such an action would be the nslvatlo
of the county in the present sinancia
crisis.
d. A. Spooner. sikty-one years
resident of Centerville, the first Ma
son ever nc.de In Appanoose county
died at his vesidence in Centerville