Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-04
IOWA
NEWS


Boone, received injuries from which
he disd almost insanity.
The corpse of an unknown man. APP
parently steamboat roustabout, with
a bullet hole in the head, was found
floating in the river at Burlington.
1t is thought to be case of murder.
The supposed river mystery of the
floating corpse with bullet hole in
the head, found at Burlington, has
been cleared up by the discovery that
the body is that of Charles Lowell,
farmer living in Illinois, who was
probably accidentally drowned. The
wound in the head was evidently
made by a snag
Dying in intense agony, his throat
and mouth frightfully burned, Alvah
Thompson, aged 80, who had been
teacher for two years in the Aims
worth schools, committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid. He had been
working hard and it is believed he
was temporarily deranged, as no other
cause can be assigned for his act.
Suddenly seized with cramps, Dan
lei Connolly, aged 26 years, was
drowned while swimming in the Little
Sioux river near Cherokee. He had
! gone in bathing with his brother
| Henry and friend. His two compan-
{ ions had left the water and were
! dressing on the bank when they
heard him cry from midstream: I'm
done for" Before they could offer
any aid he had sunk and did not re-
appear.
Trying to start a fire with supposed
kerosene, but which was gasoline,
proved fatal to Mrs. Samuel Conn, an
old and respected citizen of Powe-
shiek county. Her cries aroused the
other members of the family and
when they reached her she was en-
veloped by the flames. All her clothes
were burned off, causing deep flesh
wounds. She died within four hours
but was only conscious an hour after
the accident.
William McKenna, livery stable
hand, is in the Clinton Jail charged
with assault with intent to commit
murder. The complainant is Claude
Hart, proprietor OF a Clinton livery
barn, for which McKenna worked.
! McKenna attacked Hart and cut him
| in the side with knife, when he was
| taken to, task for taking an auto left
in the stable by Clinton professional
man out into the street and injuring
1t. Hart was not seriously hurt.
Solomon Joy, aged 81, and Mrs.
Martha Holden, aged 50, of Straw
berry Point were married few days
ago. Mr.. Joy is one, of Clayton coun-
tvs pioneers, having settled on farm
near Strawberry Point over fifty years
ago, previous to which time he rah
a farm in Ohio where he was raised.
He retired from active farm life
about thirty-five years ago and has
always been a quiet and peaceful citi-
zen with many friends and lots of
relatives who object strenuously to
his marriage.
A career of crime entered into by
five youths, to 10 years of age, was
police. A grocery at Seventeenth
and Jackson streets was broken into
and later the lads were apprehended
through their distribution of candy.
! The police rounded up two and a
sweating process developed the names
of others. The outfit was let go after
having the life nearly scared out Of
them and after promising to reform
at once. All come of good families.
Too much dime novels is the cause.
Henry Lowe, young "man of Vim
yard, O., was struck by Northwest
ern freight train on a bridge below
Clinton, and killed. In company with
Ralph McCreery he had come from
Chicago to search for work on Iowa
farm for the summer. Reaching
Clinton they learned that they could
find work near Camanche, and started
| to walk along the railroad to that
town. The freight train - overlook
! the boys on the bridge. McCreery
| jumped from the structure and saved
his life, the locomotive striking Lowe,
who fell under the wheels. Both
legs and one arm were crushed and
he died from the shock and loss of
blood before the ambulance summon
ed from Clinton, reached his side.
It begins to look as though o. s.
Ketcham, formerly and for several
years agent of the Chicago Great
Western railroad at Melbourne, and
John Donegan, for many years Sec
ton foreman for the same company
at Melbourne, will never be tried for
completely in the gigantic steal from
the company by padding the pay
rolls. Ketcham and Donegan were
both arrested three months ago,
Ketcham being charged with issu-
ing and passing forged instrument,
and Donegan for obtaining money by
false pretenses. They were accused
with being interested in the scheme
promoed by John B. Hollenhors, form
erly division roadmaster Of Marshall
town, who is now serving a three
year sentence at Anamosa. Ketcham
and Donegan were to have had their
hearing a few days ago, but for no
apparent reason the case was con-
tinued for another month
Andrew Fiddler dropped dead while
eating breakfast at his home, four
miles south of Floris. His wife was
sitting opposite him and before she
could reach him he was dead. Apo
plexy caused his death.
Joseph Bennett and Fred Young,
Mount Vernon boys, made record
breaking trip in canoe on the Cedar
river last week, completing the dis
lance between Mount Vernon and New
Boston, at the mouth of the river, in
twenty hours 10 minutes. This is
the first time the trip has ever been
made in that time. The distance is
128 miles.
The two pretty Burlington girls
who ran away from home attired in