Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-03

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has no relatives except one niece, Mrs
II. w. Van Derventer, to whom ne lief
his wealth.
With his satchel full of Christina,
presents for relatives and friends a
Wentworth, S. d., whence he wal
bound, J. ]. Bond was found asphyxi
ated In his room at the Chicago house
at Sioux City. He was found dead Oh
on his KIN es near a washstand.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George L. Halter
of Dubuque filed a suit against the c
M. & st. p. railway claiming damage.
OF $4,000 each. 1t Is claimed the com
pany failed to provide proper light a
the station of North McGregor, and b.
reason thereof in boarding the trait
the woman fell, injuring herself and &
babe In arms. The husband sues fol
the loss of his wife's society. A mo
ton for more specific statement was
filed by the railway attorneys.
Samuel Weisner, for forty years 9
farmer living near Eldora and a vet
eran of the civil war, died from the
enects of injuries received while ex
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raise the hammer of the gun, when
II was suddenly discharged. The force
OF the explosion was so great as to jar
MS intestines, the stock of the gun be
| ing held against the mans stomach
| as IL discharged. Weisner leaves con.
| siderable property.
AT banquet of the faculty and stu.
dents of Central university at Pella,
president Garrison announced that he
mad Just received $4,000 from resi-
dent OF northeastern Iowa for the $780,
900 Carnegie endowment fund. Presi'
deht Garrison said that the name OF
the doner had to be withheld for the
present. He expects to renew the
campaign with additional vigor. Many
improvements are being made at the
school.
An instrument signed by President
Andrew Johnson in 1866 and convey.
ing a tract of $3.50 acres OF swamp
and overflow land of Story county
from the United States government to
the state of Iowa, was filed for record
in the Office of the recorder of deeds
OF Story cornty recently. 1t Is the
largest tract of land ever conveyed by
one instrument In the records o.
Story county. The filing of this in.
strument will clear up the title of a
large number of tracts over which a
cloud rested in the past.
The petition for a rehearing OF the
famous case of Huggard VS.. Glucose
Sugar Refining comptny, In the Iowa
supreme court, shows that the glucose
trust is not yet ready to quit and pay
the record breaking Iowa judgment Of
s32,910 that was awarded Huggard by
a jury at Davenport. The defendants
base their fight for rehearing on the
allegation that II the latest decision OF
the supreme court Is allowed to stand
1t will be to modify and override many
previous decisions of the court which
are supported by the decisions oil
courts of final resort In other states.
Adolph Goldstein, former agent al
Council Bluffs for the Miller Brewing
company, has been heard from in
Mexico. He says he intends return
ing. In letter to a friend, a por
ton Of which has been given out
Goldstein says he first went to Kan
sas, where lie hoped to be able ia
procure funds with which to make
settlement with his company, failing
in which he went to Mexico, where hi
planned to remain until matters herd
had been adjusted. l.. Kruse, whd
was sent from Milwaukee by the COM
pany to adjust matters, says that
Goldstein's financial troubles were due
almost entirely to loose business
methods, he having found where COT
cases of beer had been sold and ship
ped without scratch of a pen beina
made to show for it. Neither had
Goldstein received payment for tho
beer. When the empty cases. which
had been charged up to Goldstein at
the rate of SIPS each, began to re,
turn, the sale was discovered by
Kruse. Kruse also states that travel
ing men employed by Goldstein made
collections and neglected to make re.
turns, one in particular, according to
Kruse, defraudipg Goldstein out OF
several hundred dollars in this way.
A Washington dispatch to the Reg.
lister and Leader says:
"Sixty thousand dollars a year, or
$4,000 more than the president OF
the United States receives, is under.
stood to be the salary Secretary Les,
lie M. Shaw has been proffered as
head of the Mutual Life Insurance
of New York.
Speculation is still active as to
Secretary Shaw will go to |
New York to become president of the |
Mutual Life. The belief here is that |
he will accept.
There can be no doubt that thd |
chief obstacle in his way is his ambi- |
ton to be president. The secretary |
came back to Washington from Iowa |
last August following the state con.
vention, discouraged in the hope that !
Iowa would support him for the presi- |
dency in 1908. The experience he |
passed through at that convention was |
yet he is still continuing |
to hope that some situation |
may develop which will give him the |
nomination. He Is re-
ceiving reports from many parts of |
the country, including Iowa. Could |
he find in these reports such encour. |
agement as would warrant him In do.
ing it, he would return to Iowa and |
pass by the Mutual presidency, accept |
ance of which would mean that he |
had concluded to forego hope of polit.
cal preferment for all time"
AS a result of hunting trip of sew
,ral small boys, Vern Bissell, son of |
he marshal of Fayette, was shot by
playmate named Hyatt The shooting |
was accidental and was caused by Hy. |
att letting down the hammer of
rife which slipped and the bullet was
discharged into Bissells brain at
distance Of five feet. He was found
, mile from town by Mail Carrier A.
D. Wilder who turned hack and