Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-06-13

from Polk county for assault with in.
tent to commit murder, has been par.
doned by Governor Cummins. His
sentence was suspended June 22
1905, and he has been at libert. si1ce
that time.
While working at the top of THU
ty-foot telephone pole, Thursday az
ternoon, Audley Crouch, a linemar,
was thrown to the ground by the
breaking of his belt, receiving serious
injuries about his head and body,
though no bones were broken 1t is
feared internal complications will
result.
The preliminary hearing of Cal
Moore and Charles Conner. the men
arrested on the charge of assailing
Miss Thulin and Lorense Saestrom
near Griswold week ago, was held
at Griswold June 8. Moore was held
to the grand jury on the charge Of
assault with intent to do great bodily
injury, and his bond, which he fur
nished, placed at $3.50. Conner was
released.
During the Memorial day ceremon-
les Of decorating the graves Of the
departed, Harry Scroggs, of Denison,
a member of the G. A. R., past sixty
years, was stricken down with apo
plexy and died almost at once. The
stroke came as he with his wife, was
laying a wreath on the grave of one
Of his comrades.
William Thaller of Bagley is minus
one ear as the result of runaway
Monday. He was driving colt
Mitchell to a cart when the animal
became manageable and ran close
to barb wire fence. One wheel of
the behicle broke, throwing Mr..
Thaller into the fence. One of his
ears was torn off and a cash four
inches long was cut in the back OF
hrs head.
Fifty dollars reward is offered to the
person finding Peter Gluckstadt, the
feeble-minded man who left Aspinwall
driving a sorrel horse. The reward is
offered by a brother of the missing
man, J. H. Gluckstadt. The former
has disappeared most completely and
the strangest part of it is that while
he was seen to drive off, apparently
no one on the road that day noticed
him after he had gone a few miles.
Inquiry in all the neighboring towns
has proved fruitless and no word can
be had of either the man or the horse.
The question of the constitutional
ity of the mulct law is to be decided
by the supreme court. 1t has been
raised. directly, in case at Water.
loo. Dunshee & Dorm of Des Moines
have charge of the case for the tenn
perance forces. ]. III. Campbell,
member of the prohibition party
state central committee will repre-
sent the Temperatures forces, and the
Commonwealth. the temperance news
paper at Waterloo, has guaranteed
financial backing to complete the
test Of the law.
Ole Simmons part owner of con-
fectionery store in Omaha, but who
made his home at Council Bluffs,
committed suicide by shooting him.,
self in the head. Simmons was AZ
years old and married. He arose
from bed and taking a revolver from
a dresser drawer fired the shot. No
cause for the act is known.
Three members of the Jewell family
o
probably be sent to the state indus
trial school for robbing little boy
named Frank Spencer of $40 which
his father had sent him out to
change. The young Jewels set upon
the boy and took the bill away, spend
ing the money before they could be
found and arrested.
The authorities are investigating
an alleged robbery in Clinton of which
Frank Pesch, city superintendent or
the Prudential Insurance company,
claims to have been the victim.
Pesch summoned the police and told
them that he had caught some rob-
bers in his room, who upon his get
ting out of bed had shot him through
the hand, and had escaped with $500.
His hand was wounded with pistol
bullet, and physician was summon
ed to attend him. The police exam
ined the room, and found Pesch's own
revolver on the floor. with one cham
Der discharged. The officers are
working on the theory that the gun
was discharged by Pesch himself.
The sum of 5000 was found in a
bureau drawer. Pesch had charge OF
the Prudential's business in Clinton,
and in Morrison. Sterling and Erie,
III. He also handled money orders
for the United States Express COM
pany. An investigation of the alleg-
ed robbery Is being made.
Allen Barker of Boone is hero, IL
averting train wreck constitutes
heroism. Barker is, however, wear.
ing his laurels modestly because he
was the altogether unconscious shut.
tlecock of fate in the matter. Mon
day afternoon he was riding his bi-
cycle at top speed along the right OF
way of the Moingona line of the
Northwestern. He approached street
crossing where boards laid between
the tracks afforded even footing for
the pedestrian. 1t Is possible to ride
a wheel between the last board and
the rail--if there is nothing in the
groove This time there was. Small
boys, presumably, had wedged In a
large rock so tightly that later it was
necessary to pound the rock to pieces
to get it out. When aBrker's wheel
hit the rock, he went sailing through
space for some distance and lit, so
1t is claimed, on the nape OF his
neck After gathering himself to
gether he looked in the groove. Then
he bethought himself that the Moin
mona train was due along in a few
minutes. Trainmen say that the
rock would unquestionably have
raused a derailment had it not been
discovered.
The Crescent Foundry company OF
Des Moines. Of which Jesse ID. Grit.
fifth is president, is arranging to manu-,
facture on a large scale this fall a
patent tongue truck which they re
Gently perfected. The truck Is so ar