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

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| Peosta. The man was of middle age
slight build and poorly dressed. Fou
| play Is suspected from bruises on the
| head,
A bed Of soft mud saved Gertrude
| Finch Of Muscatine from serious in
jury. The little girl, who is years
old, peered into the murky depths OF
| a well at her home and losing her
balance fell in. She was rescued un
hurt.
Theodore Martin, of Audubon won
race with death, passing away in a
suicidal attempt shortly before a
physician arrived in an auto. The
doctor had sent his machine along
for all 1t was worth, but the victim
Of a dose of strychnine had died
when he arrived. Martin was 55
years of age and well-to-do.
Erhart Holm, who was recently re-
lieved of $3.50 by Chicago confidence
men, has been identified as an en-
ploye of one Of the gypsum mills Of
Fort Dodge. The day before he left
he asked for all his money at the
Fort Dodge Savings Bank, but was
persuaded by the cashier to only
take part Of 1t and If more was needed
he could send for it. He has not re-
turned to work.
Notices were served on twenty-four
saloon keepers of Davenport few
days ago that application would be
made to the district court to close
them for violation of the mulct law.
Opinion is divided as to whether the
move is genuine or inspired by hope
to forestall by local action the
entrance of the anti-saloon league in
to Davenport. T. H. Kemmerer IS
plaintiff and c. w. Neal attorney in
each case.
Lets play DOCTOR" said Marvin
Herman, aged 6 years, to his 3-year-
old cousin, Johnnie Herman, son of
the cashier of the First National bank
of Boone. The younger boy did not
understand, but when his cousin
found a bottle of nux vomica he read
lily took the large dose which the
other measured out Immediately the
infant went into commissions and for
a time his life was despaired of The
physicians think they may possibly
save him.
The lighting of pipe in the John
Augustine barn at Nashua by a boy
of nine caused fire which destroyed
not only the barn but the house also.
Mr. Augustine's little boy and one Of
Ed Prudhon's, both aged about nine
years, were playing in the barn and
the Prudhon boy attempted to light
pipe with match. In doing so the
straw caught fire, the barn burned in
an incredibly short time and the
house, which stood just south of the
barn, caught fire, as the wind was
coming from the northwest.
State Senator Bryan Newberry,
father of the Iowa pure food law, who
was bitten on the ankle by a rattle
snake, is in critical condition. He
was bitten in an oats field on his
farm near Strawberry Point. The
snake was large one and poured
great deal of poison into the ankle.
The physicians worked hard to coun-
teract the effects of this, and it was
finally announced from the senator's
bedside that the poison was pretty
well eliminated from his system. He
was very weak, however, and his
hearts action was not strong.
Henry LANES rues the day he signed
a contract which was filed with the
county clerk, agreeing to meet Irene
Allen in Oskaloosa, July %, and then
and there marry her. According to
a petition for damages filed with the
clerk, Miss Allen declared that he did
meet her in the metropolis of Ma
haska, but that wild horses could not
have dragged him to the altar or the
justice shop. Miss Allen confesses
to 26 summers in her petition in
which she asks balm in the sum of
$4,000. Her lover is a little older.
Eighty-one years have whitened his
hair and bent his shoulders, though
the petition does not set all this forth.
1t does further recite that the sons
of her lover had temporary guardian
appointed over him and that this
guardianship was secured merely as
sham to prevent her from marrying
him.
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 G. Havner, 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-
fusing generally after each question
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. G. 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.
F. w. Whitney, a machinist in the
employ of the Northwestern at Coun-
ell Bluffs is said to have invented
spike-driving device for the use of
railroads in track laying that is likely
to meet with much favor and bring
to the inventor fortune, as it is
said to have proven a complete sue