Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-02-21

YVES killed while stepping from the
caboose, his body being caught by
the journals of the car and Grawn
VI der the wheels. Death was instan-
! taneous. The bdoy was taken to
Lorimor for burial.
! e. S. Crossett, a wealthy lumber
man of this city, today offered $4,000
| for Young Mems Christian associa-
| ton building in Davenport, provided
another $4,000 is raised by other citi.
zens before July / for 100000
| structure. 1t is the largest offer ever
made in the state and will give Dav.
export one of the finest association
| buildings In Iowa.
Henry Blank, few miles north OF
this place, went hunting rabbits but
without success till he neared home
whel he freed one In brush heap.
He took his shotgun by the muzzle
and used 1t to poke the rabbit out.
The gun went off, Of course, and
sent the charge blowing through the
inside Of his hand and arm towards
| his breast, making an ugly wound.
He is GO years old.
7 Articles Of Incorporation OF the
Whitney Loan and Trust company,
with a paid up capital of $4,000,
have been filed In the office of the
Cass county recorder. James G.. Whit
ney appears as president, Il. II. Whit
ney as vice president and treasurer.
and Harry Cavanaugh as secretary.
All of the stock in the new company
is Owned by the organizers and their
families.
At the meeting of the house com.
mittee of public morals Monday after
noon a committee appointed by the
ministerial association of Des Moines
consisting of Rev. Rowland Hanson,
John w. Day. Rev. Van Horn, Rev.
David Helfenstein and Rev. Charles
Lyman Nye will appear in behalf of
the Sabbath observance bill which
has passed the senate and Is before
the house committee.
Leon Brown, state house reporter
for the Register-Leader and for 6
number of years a prominent news
paper man, may go to Washington to
become secretary to his brother, Sen.
ator Norris Brown, recently appointed
from Nebraska. Senator Brown has
announced his secretary to be Miss
Anna Rowland of Lincoln, Nebraska,
with the understanding that his broth
er would succeed her in December.
By fall down a fight of stairs at
midnight Tuesday night, Mrs. I. X.
Lorenzen, mother of Henry Lorenzen,
a grocer at Mason City, died from the
shock short time later. Her head
was badly lacerated. She got up in the
night and wandered off the stairs.
The family was ignorant of the fact
until some time afterwards. She was
sc years old.
A piece Of clothes lines scarcely
a yard long and two nails which he
founa in the window of his bedroom
made gallows for Joseph Cerney,
a market gardener Of Cedar Rapids,
who hanged himself Tuesday morn
ing. He tied the rope around his
neck then stood on the bed and put
it around the nails. Then he stepped
from the bed and hanged himself.
Wh,n found by his wife, two hours
later, he was dead and rigid. He suf-
fered sunstroke last summer and
had been ailing since that time.
The ice harvest in the city of Des
Moines is ended unless another heavy
freeze takes place, and even then the
ice would not be good for any but
immediate uses, the warm weather
having scanned and cracked the Ice
to such an extent that 1t would not
keep for a long time. A little ice
will continue to be cut, until the Ice
goes out of the river, but it will not
be stored. The ice houses of the
city are full and the supply of ices is
of the best quality in years.
After a three days. illness resulting
from worry over the sickness of his
wife of sixty-three years, who is suf-
fering from pneumonia, Patrick Welsh,
aged 80, died at his home, East Four
teeuth and Vine streets, Des Moines,
yesterday. Sorrow over her hus-
bands death has intensified Mrs.
Welsh's illness and last night 1t was
feared that she might not recover. She
is 81 years old. The celebration of
! the sixty-third anniversary of the
couples marriage a week ago yester-
dsy was postponed on account of the
| wife's illness. Although Mr.. and Mrs.
Welsh lived alone, relatives and
friends endeavored to assist them dur
ing Mrs. Welsh's Illness, but the aged
husband insisted upon personally car.
inc for her. Saturday, the strain and
worry proved too much for him and
he became i'll, death following at noon
Less than twenty miles away and
| in less than four hours after the acct
dent that killed Cyrus Kerr, Mike
Casper was killed in the Lost Creek
mines in exactly the same way.
| Casuer was alone at the time and no
| ore knows how the accident happen.
! ed. His head was mashed TO a pulp
! and most of it is gone. He is Hun
| garlan and leaves d wife and seven
| small children. Kerr met death in
! the Price mines at Eveland. His
body was caught between the cage
| and the shaft side as the cage started
| from the bottom of the mine and lifo
was crushed out instantly. The acct.
| dent happened when number of
miners were gathered about the foot
of the shaft. They witnessed the sig.
nal or the young man before he at
! tempted to get off the cage and the
next instant they saw his body
ground TO pieces against the roof of
the mine. He leaves young wife.
The two. big musical organizations
of the city, the Iowa State band and
the Letter Carrier band have united
INA will be known In the future as
the Letter Carriers Iowa State band
The organization will be corpora
ton with sixteen stockholders. eight