Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-03-28
IOWA
NEWS

Iy appointed united states marSnal
for the southern Iowa district, has
been sworn in by Judge Mcpherson.
Clark announced the appointment OF
c. M. Hinsdale of Newton as chief
| deputy marshal. Hinsdale is a well
known travelling man. The other APP
pointments will be announced LATER.
The standing of the class of LOG
midshipmen graduated from Annapo-
lis have been announced. Lee Scott
Border of Cedar Falls is sixth in the
class; Ernest Swenson of Mason
| City, 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
hrst group sof ten.
Lottie Gregory, who testified In
court at Council Bluffs she was but
Is years of age last November when
| she married her Sunday School
teacher, Charles E. Gregory, who ad-
mitted to being "a years old at that
time, now wants to he divorced after
six weeks of married life. and onl y
portion of that spent with her hus-
band. Cruelty is charged.
AT a special election in Greenfield
franchise and a per cent tax were
voted the American Electric Railway
company, which is behind project
to build an interurban between Des
Moines and Council Bluffs. The fran
chise in Greenfield carried by vote
OF three to one, and the tax propo-
sition by vote of two to one. They
were voted upon by seDarate 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
head. He was unconscious for an
hour and is now suffering from an
ugly cash cut in his head by a rusty
spike in the pole.
General Manager Blake Of the Fort
Dodge. Des Moines G. Southern states
that cars on the new interurban will
| positively be running from Boone and
| Ames to Des Moines by Aug 1. George
NJ. Kepner of Oberlin. o.. who has
| just completed a 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-
tives have been shipped from Sche-
nectady for the companv's steam
line, the Newton & Northwestern.
C. L. Guin of Woodbine, was killed
near the outskirts of that place.
Guin. with his wife and adopted
daughter, were driving into town.
Their horses, a pair of bronchos, be-
came restless. Guin alighted from
the buggy hoping to quiet the ami
mails and had partially succeeded.
AS he regained his seat the horses
again became fractions and dashed
down n steep hill at top speed. Turn
ing a Shy corner at the foot of the
hill GUin was thrown against a tree.
His neck was broken, killing him in
stantly. Mrs. Guin and daughter
were not BADLY hurt.
Either worry over being caught
forging the name of his landlady or
an unsound condition of mind at the
time he committed the deed has re-
sulted in the placing of F G. Wright
an hmes 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
| OH Uyln 10 hD, n or mi n
the animal husbandry department OF
the college, will not be prosecuted
and even if he could be deer: ed tc
have been in a 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 Vintor
for breaking and entering and robbinG
Rock Island freight car, succeeded
in picking the lock TO the Jail room
in the Benton county Jail, in which
, he was confined, and in getting ava!
, in broad daylight from the officers
. No trace has been secured as to hi
whereabouts up to the present time
This is Boughton's third attempt a
getting away in the short time tina
he has been confined there. He wa
successful in February in gettin
away for a day and a night, but wa
; picked up the next day five mile
T north of Vinton half starved an
q frozen. About the first of this mont
he was discovered in the act of cut
ting the steel lining of the Jail wa
1 1 with a hack saw just before he ha
e completed his work. A reward of So
has been offered by the sheriff 70
his return. Boughton is about 2
wears old, five feet seven inches tai
blind in right eye, crooked mout
= turns to the left, light complexio
f and light hair. Was wearing blu
}. oyeralls, grey coat and black soft ha
:, This is the third delivery from tn
: county bastile within the last yea
and a half. In August, 1905, six
8 the prisoners escaped, but all but on
William Davy, were captured and r
turned.
It Marshal ]. H. Kincaid of Morav
s. arrested C. F. Myers on the charge
d. bigamy, under an indictment brougi
s. IN Putnam county, Mo. The are
10 was made at the order of Sheriff
~ A. Hayes, who, when wired, came f
the man. The prisoner returned wit
out requisition papers. He had BET
in Moravia about three weeks. +
,e says his first wife died, that the sc
ond left him and he thought that 81
- had procured divorce or was dea
On and needing a helpmate, he marie
Is No. 3, the present Mrs. c. F. Myel
IA. who Is in Missouri. He says he W
plead guilty. He was working on
farm.
- comnlete confession of his sha