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

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Andrew Carnegie will donate $4,000
for a library building in Humboldt pro
vided the town will raise the usual
$l,OOO per year. The proposition will
probably be accepted.
Frank Saunders, barber OF Mar.
shaJ!town, who took a half ounce OF
cnloroform with suicidal intent, and
who was taken as a county charge to
the hospital, is fully recovered.
Inc Salter boys were saved from
watery grave at Allerton by Claude
Conklin, who, at the risk of his own
lie, pulled them from beneath the
thin ice under which they had gone.
Joe Hass was held UP and robbed of
gold watch and money at Dubuque.
Inc police apprehended Charlie Ham
/ llton, the latter having the gold watch.
NOW the police are having trouble in
hnding Hass that he may appear and
| prosecute.
Shoplifters got In their work in
Nevada during the holiday ruch. The
most important piece of work so far
was the lifting" Of a package of dia-
mond rings, valued at over $50, at the
Graves drug and jewelry store. There
Is no clue.
Believing that some one Is at large
who should be punished the relatives
and friends of Charles Neal, who is
thought to have been murdered near
Bagley In October, are subscribing lib
orally to fund with which to appre-
bend the assassin.
The Cooper elevator at Nicola was
destroyed by fire, together with 1900
bushels of grain, entailing a loss of
over $4,000, with only $4,000 insur-
ance. A strong wind was blowing,
and the town, or a portion Of 1t, was
saved with difficulty.
The Atlantic Umbrella company, an
| off-shot of a former Council Bluffs
! company, has filed in federal court a
petition in voluntary bankruptcy in
the name of w. e. Emerson and 9TH
ers. The liabilities of the company
are said to aggregate $1,000.
While the family was in the midst
| of their Christmas dinner, fire broke
| out in the residence of Ernest West
| of Knoxville. The table was deserted
| the male members fleeing to put out
| the blaze. The damage amounted to
! $3.50. A spark from the fiue was the
| cause.
The physicians In attendance on
the 16 months old child of George
Lewis, of Dubuque, which had his
brain penetrated by a spike two
inches long as a result of falling on a
Calls muzzle, announced that the
child would recover beyond doubt.
The case is the most remarkable on
record in local medical circles.
With the thermometer five degrees
below zero the home of Lawrence
Quinn, four miles north of Strawberry
Point, was destroyed by fire. The fire
was discovered In the partition in
time to clear the lower floor and one
upper floor with the assistance of
phone. The building was a frame
structure, valued at $4,000.
Clarke Williams, a well known
farmer has brought suit against Clark
county for $4,000 damages for per.
sonal injuries. Williams was driving
home Sept. Z, when his horse stuck a |
foot through Il rotten bridge near his |
home. Williams tried to rescue the |
animal and was thrown over the |
bridge railing to the rocks twenty feet |
below. A rib was broken, his right |
hip dislocated and his spine perman.
emily injured. He will be a cripple |
for life. The board of supervisors at |
the last session declined to settle the |
matter out of court.
Something of a sensation in relig- |
tous and social circles was occasioned |
at Dubuque when a suit was filed in |
the district court by Anna Rosemire,
soprano sulolst, against Westminster |
Presbyterian church for $3.50. In the |
petition the plaintiff declares that she |
entered into a contract with the |
church for choir work for a year at |
s35 month. The plaintiff AYERS that |
she was at all times ready and able
TO perform her part of the contract, |
but that she was barred by officers OF |
the church from fulfilling it. She |
claims damages as above stated, mas
much as she was unable to secure
other positions owing to the fact of
her contract with Westminster church
being common knowledge.
Signs are multiplying that the Man !
chester-Davenport interurban line will
soon be p reality. 1t developed that
Blood & Hale of Boston. who built the
line-Watertown electric line, have
been figuring on the new line. The
Manchester road would have the
unique feature of tapping six trunk
lines, inc Guiding the Illinois Central at
Manchester, from where the line is to
run to Monticello, then cross the Chi
cago G. Northwestern at Amber, the
Milwaukee at Olin, the Northwestern
at Stanwood, and the Rock Island at
Upton. So far it is an almost straight
north and south line, which If contin-
ued would take it directly through
Moscow to Muscatine. This fact prom
Uses to open up spirited rivalry be.
tween Davenport and Muscatine as to
which shall be the southern terminus
of the road. From Upton it is ex-
pected to turn southeast to Wilton,
Bluegrass and Davenport.
In fight in the ST.. Elmo hotel at
Sioux City, William Potter was shot
in the shoulder by Joseph Heron.
alias "Klondyke joe" Heron claims
Potter pulled a knife on him first.
James Morton, colored, died at Keo-
kuk from the effects of shots fired a
few days previous by Hazzle Hedge,
another negro. Morton was endeavor-
ing to prevent Hedge from shooting
man named Bert Bramble, with
whom he was quarreling. While act
ing the part of peacemaker four
shots were fired at Morton, three of
which entered his abdomen, punctur-