Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-03-28
IOWA
NEWS

Frank Clark of Ottumwa, the recent.
ly appointed United States marshal
for the southern Iowa district, has
been sworn in by Judge Mcpherson.
Clark announced the appointment Of
G. M. Hinsdale Of Newton as chief
deputy marshal. Hinsdale is a we'll
known travelling man. The other ap-
polntments will be announced later.
The standing of the class of 1O6
mldshipmen graduated from Annapo-
us have been announced. Lee Scott
border of Cedar Falls is sixth in the
ciass; Ernest Swenson of Mason
Glty, is tenth, and w. L. Culberson,
Jr., OF Carroll, is sixty-seventh. Iowa
is the only state getting two star
members; that Is. members in the
nrst group of ten.
Lottie Gregory, who testified in
court at Council Bluffs she was but
10 years of age last November when
she married her Sunday School
teacher, Charles e. Gregory, who adj
United to being 81 years old at that
time, now wants to be divorced after
SIX weeks of married life. and only a
portion Of that spent with her hus-
pand. Cruelty is charged
At special election in Greenfield
franchise and per cent tax were
voted the American Electric Railway
company, which is behind a project
10 build an interurban between Des
Moines and Council Bluffs. The fran
chlse in Greenfield carried by vote
OF three to one. and the tax propo-
sltlon by vote of two to one. They
were voted upon by separate ballots
VIII Upton, prominent farmer
and stock raiser near Carson, is seri-
ously i'll from the effects of an acct
dent which befell him while unloading
stock. An unruly steer knocked a
long pole from his hands, the pole
striking Upton on the back of the
mead. He was unconscious for an
hour and is now suffering from an
ugly cash cut in his head by rusty
spike in the pole.
Because he knocked off the receiver
OF his telephone while struggling
with his wife in the front room of his
home. at Des Moines, o. B. Rivers
was arrested on charges of assault
with intent to do great bodily injury.
The shrieks and calls for assistance
of the thoroughly frightened woman
were heard and answered by an agent
which worked secretly in her behalf.
Within five minutes after Rivers
overturned his desk phone, the patrol
wagon had drawn up at the front door
OF his residence. He was hustled out.
/ mr. Is
General Manager Blake of the Fort
Dodge, Des Moines & Southern states
that cars on the new interurban will
positively be running from Boone and
Ames to Des Moines by Aug 1. George
M. Kepner of Oberlin o.. who has
Just completed big grading con.
tract on the Wabash. has been award.
ed the contract for finishing the grad
Ing on the new line. Work is now
under way between Ames and Kelley
and on Fraser hill Two new locomo.
lives have been shipDed from Sche-
nectady for the companv's steam
line, the Newton & Northwestern.
Either worry over being caught
forging the name of his landlady or
an unsoupd condition of mind at the
time he committed the deed has re-
suited in the placing of E G. Wright
an Ames student, under the care of a
physician. The second possibility
at once the more charitable and the
more likely-is argued in favor of the
young man by one of the bankers up
on whom Wright imposed and by the
physician now in charge of him.
Wright, who is a freshman student in
the animal husbandry department Of
the college, will not be prosecuted,
and even if he could be deemed to
have been in responsible mental es-
tate at the time of his forgeries, will
be given another chance Wright,
though the son of an Illinois banker,
has been earning his way in part
through college by selling newspapers.
! James e. Boughton, one of the pris-
/ oners who was being held at Vinton
for breaking and entering and robbing
a Rock Island freight car, succeeded
in picking the lock to the Jail room
In the Benton. county JAIL in which