Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-22

the territory of the Missouri Valley.
He held various civic and public
Offices in the thirty years of his
residence in Council Bluffs and was
most successful as a physician.
B. j. Miles was superintendent OF
Eldora when the board of control
took charge Of 1t in 1898. Following his
resignation, Colonel Drake, who had
built the Missouri institution at Boone
Vile, was elected, and his administra-
ton began in great enthusiasm. He
was assisted By Mr.. Kuser, effectively.
Early in the spring Superintendent
Drake resigned. and since then the
position has been held open.
Arthur Johnson, aged 10 of Mar
shalltown, is out of the amateur cir
Gus game for a while. He was nearly
killed in doing a slide for life" on
wire rope before an admiring crowd
of boy friends. Arthur is son OF G.
B. Johnson, who arranges juvenile
carnivals, and the boy has attained
some proficiency in tumbling, etc,
under his fathers direction. The ac-
cident was dreadful one, the lads
side being literally torn open, and fif-
teen stitches had to be taken In the
armpit
e. s. Blydenburgh, once convicted
of the atrocious murder OF his wife,
and soon to be retired, is thriving in
Jail and looking surprisingly well.
He Is cheerful and confident that at
his next trial he will be acquitted.
He has demanded, and will receive
his trial at the term which begins In
Eldora August 26, and Judge Wade
of Iowa City. assisted by Charles A.
Rogers Of Eldora, will defend. Bly,
denburgh weighs about 200 pounds
and is in the pink of condition and
best of health. He spends his time
reading and writing and comforting
with his attorneys and Sheriff Walsh
has placed him in the best ward in
the county jail which, barring the
prison features, Is an inviting place.
Everett Looney, the alleged assail-
ant of 13-year-old Lena Derby of
Keota, lies in the county iail at Sig
Quincy, having been captured in the
timber The circumstances of the as
sault are terrible. The girl, who lives
about two miles from Keota, had been
on visit to the home of her uncle
anu lldu SOUe W Tile htOId
Looney started to walk home with
her and the assault took place on the
way home in clump of timber. The
girl, who staggered into the nearest
farmhouse, told her story and party
started out at once to hunt for
Looney, whom the girl named as her
assailant. Looney was hiding under
a fallen tree when run down. The
girls life is despaired Of, for her con-
diton Is critical.
Judge w. P. Helscher Of Ackley
failed to find, on examination, suf-
ficient evidence to hold Joe Stone
breaker of Iowa Falls for stealing the
pocketbook of Miss Letta Sluter, a
pretty school maam Of Ackley. 1t is
stated that the couple had been keep
ing company for some time, and that
the young lady was in Iowa Falls
recently. She handed her companion,
Mr.. Stonebreaker, her pocketbook,
containing about $40, to carry until
she went home. When the time came
for the train to leave for Ackley
the pocketbook which had been plac-
ed in the young mans coat could
not be found. The young lady accus-
ed the young man of purloining the
purse and filed an information in
Judge Helscher's court to that effect,
and a warrant was issued Stone
breaker says he remembers nothing
of the purse after he placed it in his
pocket.
While sitting on the Burlington
track east of Fairfield doing, Flag
man z. S. McLaughry of Burlington,
was struck and killed by train No. /.
McLaughry was employed with a
working crew and his business was
to flag west bound trains approach
ing the construction work that is in
progress east of Fairfield. He had
just tagged a train, and he sat down
on the track and apparently fell into
a doZe. He was not aroused by the
coming of the east bound train No.
10, nor did the engineer see him
until too late, because Of curve at
that point. The train bore down up
on McLaughry and struck him with
out his making any effort to save
himself He was terribly bruised
| and unconscious when picked up,
and he did not regain consciousness
before his death, which occurred
| few hours later. McLaughry was
| a young man about % years old and
| had no family as far as learned.
After a long illness, the death OF
| George E. Clarke, of Algona, occurred
| on the 18th. Mr.. Clarke was probably
| the best known lawyer in northern
| Iowa. He went to Algona in the win
| ter Of 1869'70, and for nearly forty
| years had been a well known figure
| in every court room in the northeast
| ern counties. He was born in San
| gerville, Piscataquis county, Maine,
March 10, 1S45, being but 81 at the
time of his death. In 1866 he came
to Iowa and taught school in Red
| Oak, where he formed the acquaint-
ance of Smith Mcpherson, then like
him, just beginning his career. Read.
ing law while he taught he was ad-
mitted to the bar. In 1877 he be-
came the northern Iowa attorney Of
the Milwaukee railroad There are
five brothers of the family, lawyers
in Iowa at one time, Whiting S.
Clarke in Des Moines, Charles A.
Clarke in Cedar Rapids, George e.
Clarke in Algona, William G. Clarke
in Cedar Rapids and E. III. Clarke in
Algona Their father was considered
the leader at the bar in Piscataquis
county.
The Ottumwa police are investi'
eating the supposed incendiary origin
of a fire which destroyed the big
barns of the Ottumwa Horse Sales
company, located on Myrtle street.
near Church street, in South Ottum
wa, and also the fire which burned
two ba. rs In the west end. The fire
at the south side barns ragged fol-