Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-01
IOWA
NEWS

In hay rake and the member was
badly broken.
Miss Lillian III. Bruce, now teach
Ing at Harvard university has been
appointed directo of physical train
ing for the women Of the state nor.
NAL school.
In the act of reaching for the lines
from the top OF load of hay, Willie
Robb, 8 years old, son of Frank I.
Robb, near Ventura, fell to the
ground A wagon wheel passed over
his head, crushing the back of the
skull fiat At last report the boy
was still alive but cannot recover.
Anzie Van Cleve is in a critical
condition at his home in Abba as the
result Of having tried to end his life
with revolver. Young Van Cleve
was married barely two weeks ago
and his young bride is Frustrated
over his act. Dependency over a..
health is the only cause that can be
given for the deed. Van Cleve shot
himself in the left side, having aimed
at his heart.
A big sum of money, jewelry, cloth
ing and other valuables were taken
! by a band of five housebreakers, who
| operated In Mason City few nights
ago, and who entered six private resi-
| dences, the Miller hotel, the Milwau-
kee baggage room and grocery
| store, rifling tills, trunks, boxes or
wherever valuables could be found.
| One was caught as he came from the
| grocery, but will not talk The gang
| had been hanging around for week,
begging and getting living by its
wits.
Frank Boggs, farmer living three
miles northwest Of Hancock, was ia
tally injured in peculiar and unusual
manner. He drove into field to
cut his wheat when he encountered
harrow which had been left in the
field last year He picked up Sec
ton of the harrow and started to
carry it from the field when he
stumbled and FELL the harrow falling
upon his back with teeth down. Sew
| eral of the teeth entered his back
several inches, penetrating the vital
organs.
What is believed to have been q
suicide pact between two young wo-
men in Burlington ended fatally to
one and will probably end so with the
| other. Miss Esther Taylor of Wa
pello, aged %, drank carbolic acid
| in a hotel at Burlington, dying the
next day. Mrs. Thomas Johnson OF
Burlington turned the gas on in her
room about the same time and is not
expected to live She also is %
years old. The two were friends, and
| it is believed that troubles that held
| them together also prompted their
| deeds.
Walter .Coulson, the 7-year-old son
of Louis Coulson, prosperous farmer
living near Oskaloosa, met death in
peculiar way. He was riding home
with the family and stoop up in the
carriage to get a better view of some
thing that attracted his attention on
the roadside. He lost his balance and
fell out of the rig. The rear wheel
of the carriage passed over his alb
| domen, rupturing a blood vessel. He
was picked up and hurriedly taken
to his home, but died before anyone
of the three doctors who were called
had arrived.
After having run block to catch
her pet dog, and then when she had
caught him and clasped him in her
arms, little Queena Rollins of Ottam-
wa. turned laughingly to her play
mates to tell them what naughty
dog she had, but instead dropped dead
on the sidewalk. The mother of the
little girl had watched her as she ran
along and when she dropped hurried
70, hor avs
the child had tainted, the mother car
ried the limp form home. When
physician was summoned it was found
that the child was dead. Heart fail
ure was the cause.
Twenty-seven sons of sunny Italy
we're taken to Manchester from
Oneida Junction, seven miles north,
and incarcerated in the county bas-
tile, charged with violating the game
laws of Iowa. The gang of foreigners
have been employed for several
weeks past on the section crew of,
the Chicago Great Western railroad,
and according to popular rumor have
| acquired an Unsuitable appetite for
| quail, pigeons, and other succulent
members of the feathered tribe.
| have been slaughtering by the whole
| sale without any regard whatever to
| the state laws, which makes the
shooting or killing of quail out of
season serious offense.
! BY a fall of large angle iron,
| Charles L. Smith, manager of the
| American Brick e. Tile company at
! Mason City, had the flesh torn from
! his side and hip and his arms LAGER
| ated seriously. The wound on the
! alp is dangerous. The flesh was torn
20 the bone and widely. Mr.. Smith
was Notwithstanding the construc-
! ion of a new building and workmen
| were in the act of raising the angle
! ron to the roof, when it slipped from
| their grasp. Mr.. Smith was standing
! directly beneath, and after hearing
! he warning of the men leaned over
| in the act of looking upward, and in
| loing so the iron missed his head
! " but an inch or two, striking his
in. The outcome of the injury is
still In doubt.
Getting into deep water and BE- ing
unable to swim. Maynard F. Mohler,
a bright IL year old Chicago lad. was
drowned in the Iowa river at Eldora.
Virgil Bowman, aged 20 years, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Bowman. who
reside about nine miles east Of
Charlton. near Lagrange, was struck
by lightning while milking a COW and
was instantly killed. Lightning also
struck the barn on the Penick farm,
in English township. occupied by
Harvey Query, burning 1t to the
ground. Six head Of horses persisted,
and 500 bushels OF corn. a quantity
If hay and oats and all Of his farm
In iTnleTents were destroyed.
George Davis, aged 90 years, was
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