Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-21
IOWA
NEWS


Burlington switching crew in the Keo-
kuk yards, was instantly killed, being
crushed to death by getting caught
between two cars.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of Iowa college the resignation
of ]. S. MCGOWAN as secretary to the
president was accepted. The action
comes as a surprise TO every student
of the college. Mr.. MCGOWAN de.
clined to state his reasons for the
resignation except that his work was
not of as congenial a type as he had
hoped.
A farmer named Graves was run
into and instantly killed by passen-
ger train at a crossing on the c., st.
p, M. & o. railway near Bigelow, the
first station north of Sibley. Graves
was riding on a load of oats and the
collar to his fur coat was turned up
about his ears so he did not hear the
approaching train. His body was
crushed into an unacceptable mass
A Milwaukee passenger train col
lided with railroad bicycle run by
Operator Allen of the road near
Mason City, knocking the machine
and rider from the track down an en-
bankment thirty feet on the ice OF
Pickerel creek, which Is situated
north of Mason City.The operator was
terribly injured. but from reports OF
physicians will live.
Fire at Rolfe destroyed an imple-
ment building, causing a loss Of $5,-
600. The building was stored full OF
baled hay, seven or eight cars, and
made a very persistent fire, keeping
the fire company at work all night.
The building was the end of wooden
row block long and had the fire not
been confined to it a considerable por-
ton Of the town would have gone up
In smoke.
A soft, purring cat was found on
the draw bar of an engine which had
pulled a fast train to Burlington from
Fairfield. The engineer when leaving
the Jefferson county seat saw a cat
cross in front of the train and thought
the animal was killed. While the
machine was being cleaned the feline
was found curled up in a narrow
space under the pilot and after rub
lbing against the legs of the stokers,
yawned once and disappeared.
A cigarette stub which had been
| thrown into a waste paper basket in
the stairway of the Wilson hotel
| at Mason City created a panic at the
hostelry. The closing act of the play
! in the opera house which is part of
the same building was on when the
cry of fire was heard by the audience
and general stampede followed.
Many people left the rooms Of the no.
| tel in their night clothes, and added
much to the general confusion.
President Storms called a special
chapel at Ames college at noon and
discussed very frankly with the stu
dents the question which has been
uppermost in the gossip of the college
for sev~"al days. According to the
statements made by DR.. Storms Iowa
City will not be the only school to
expel students for drunkenness. The
practice of n great many students
| going to Boone and securing intoxi.
eating liquors has become so common
that a check had to be placed upon
II in some manner.
| Detected over the failure to secure
the ambition of his life. in securing
the establishment of an old folks
home, Herman Helmuth, a prominent
Burlington citizen, committed suicide.
He fired a bullet through his heart
with 3S-caliber revolver and death
was instantaneous. For years Mr.
Helmuth had sought to promote the
| founding of home for the aged in
that city. His efforts, carried to the
| oic 1af IN,
| futile, and the old man could not
withstand the defeat of his pet hobby.
By the provisions of the will of
Susan w. Steddon. just made public,
Penn college is bequeathed the sum
of $45CO. The sum is left without
conditions to be expended as the col.
lege sees fit. Besides $4,000 each to
| Horace Steddon and Miss Steddon in
California, the residue of the estate
goes to the school. Miss Sheldon
died last January, following an opera,
ton in a Denver hospital. Her home
was Oskaloosa and she was a gradu.
ate of the local college. She was in
terested in literary work, having
made that her life study. Penn col
lege Is building a new $4,000 gym
nasium, which is said to be one of the
finest in the state. Work on the
building will be begun at once.
After trial lasting over a week al
Corydon the jury in the case of Ed
win Jenkins and Tressy Rounds 70,
the murder of Milo Cravens, returned
verdict of not guilty. Cravens
who was relative of the famous out
law, was found dead early Christina.
! morning near Lineville. The evidenc,
I showed he had been drinking ant
that following a quarrel between Jen
kins and Cravens during which tn,
latter is said to have insuited tn,
woman, Cravens was attacked and Sc
verely beaten. He was left lying OF
the roadside and his body was discov
cred some time after. The coupl,
were afterwards caught and brough
to Corydon for trial on the charge O
muder.
John Kennedy. an old and vel
known citizen of Poweshiek county
committed suicide by taking strych
; nine. No causes are known.
Hundreds of people called at tn
county Jail at Mt. Pleasant to Sc
Grimes and thinner, convicted mul
derers of John Gavin. To one O
these Grimes admitted they had use
Q a hedge club, which has never bee
discovered by anyone. This indicate
they expected trouble, taking the clu
? along, as no hedge is near, and tina
the story told about going right t
the scene Of the murder was not col
rect.
BY a fall from scaffolding cause
by slippery planks at Mason Cit,
o Elmer Il. Brown, a workman, had hi
d shoulder crushed and received intel
. | nal ininrips The force of the 10