Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-08-29

| uIcS VI 4lSf,oUV lOT the cOIHpIeles
structure. Only three bids were sub
mitted by contractors.
| Franklin j. Cole, an Iowa boy, rear
ed In Mason City, and graduate
from the State university law schoo
| four years ago, has recently found
honor in his adopted state, Califor
mia, by his election to the position OF
district judge.
| Despondent over the departure OF
his sister to her native country
Sweden, and because his sweetheart
Linquist, a car oiler at the Des Moines
railway company's car barn, commit
| ted suicide at his boarding house by
| drinking carbolic acid.
Joseph Ludmila young man who
| has been employed at the packing
house at Cedar Rapids during the
past three years, committed suicide
| by hanging himself to rafter in the
garrett of his boarding house. The
body was discovered by Joseph Nell,
char and three other men, who board
at the same place. ,
A protest has been filed with the
state railroad commission by cream
cry and dairy interests of the state
against a new schedule of rates
adopted by railroads and express
charges on cream are increased
about 30 per cent The protest ask,
the commission for a hearing ant
prohibtive order which has been Is
sued. The rates Will not be effective
until there is a decision of the com
mission
That Blydenburgh, the alleged wife
murderer, is accused Of rObbing an
invalid woman while praying at hel
bedside, is the sensational charge
brought out in the legal war which
has risen between the present anc
former attorneys for the Eldora man
Incidentally Wade and butcher, who
now represent Blydenburgh, are &C
cused of first having undermined the
former attorneys and then attempted
to secure the fees for the work the
others did.
DR.. BENJAMIN. Kittleman, formerly
assistant instructor of pathology in
the Drake university medical school,
Des Moines, is lying at the point OF
death at his home, 52S Fourteenth
street and his physicians say he can.
not live more than few hours. Fol
the past few days the patient has
been kept alive by injections OF
strychnine, but the drug is beginning
to lose its effect and all hope OF his
recovery has been abandoned.
While sitting on the Burlington
t,ooI, of Eoir6aId dpzinu Fla
man E. S. McLaughry of Burlington
was struck and killed by train No. l.
| McLaughry was employed with s
working crew and his business was
to flag west bound trains approach.
ing the construction work that Is IL
progress east of Fairfield. He haG
just tagged train, and he sat down
on the track and apparently fell into
a doZe. He was not aroused by the
coming of the east bound train No.
10, nor did the engineer see him
until too late, because OF curve al
that point. The train bore down up
on McLaughry and struck him with
out his making any effort to save
| himself. He was terribly bruised
and unconscious when picked up
and he did not regain consciousness
before his death, which occurred a
few hours later. McLaughry was
young man about % years old and
had no family as far as learned
George Wesner, aged seven years.
and Charles Wesner. aged five years
sons of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Yves
mes, died at the Jennie Edmundson
hospital from the burns sustained in
kerosene explosion at their home
The death of the two boys took place
only ten minutes apart, Charles dying
at 1890 and George at 1910. In
each case, shock was the cause OF
death 1t had been thought at first
by the attending physician that the
! lads would recover, but they began
| to sink rapidly last evening and hope
! for their recovery was given up.
| The accident which resulted in the
| boys death was caused by Georges
| pouring coal oil upon the fire. in q
| cook stove about 6 o'clock Monday
morning. The flames leaped up at
| once and enveloped the two lads in
sheet of fire. Both were seriously
! burned, but the older boy proved
himself real hero by not mention.
| ing the character of his injuries until
| his brothers wounds had been dress.
! ed.
One of the biggest liquor seizures
ever made in Marshall county, if not
the biggest, was secured at Laurel
a few days ago by Constable Walter
| Wilson, who raided Henry Willis
! place on search warrant and took
| charge of twenty-seven cases OF
! beer and a large quantity of whisky
! w. Fl. Austin, veterinary surgeon
! of LAUREL swore out the warrant
Most of the beer was marked with
the original labels, instead of being
called "hop ale" or some other fan
ciful name. Some of the whisky was
also labeled as it came from the dis
| tillery. Willis was not placed un
der arrest, as the grand jury will
meet next week and his case will &C
| directly before that body. Laurel is
small town in the southern part
of the county and is supposed TO be
dry" town. A crowd of about
fifty or seventy-five men, just from
the ball grounds, where Baxter an6
Laurel had been playing, was very
disappointed in not being able to line
up for the brew" Had the con
stable been fifteen minutes later
with his raid he would have doubt
less not secured the quantity he did
1t required two wagons to transport
the liquor to Marshalltown.
William Miller, 20 years old, fel
under Chicago & Great Western
freight train at Sumner. His head
arms and legs were cut off.
Mrs. M. Green, sewing woman
employed by Mms. Kern, of De.
Moines, has fallen heir to fortune
The first intimation Mrs. Greene hat