Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-24
IOWA
NEWS

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Later a resolution was adopted re-
quiring clerks to wear badges and to
tie on duty from $3.50 a. m. uatil $3.50
Il. M, and appointing committee to
rass upon the qualifications of all can
iidates.
Mrs. Lottie Hicks, of Boone. widow
IL Robert II. Hicks, has sued the New
on &c Northwestern railway for $751;
900 damages for the loss of her hus-
band, who was killed while in the en-
ploy of the company.
Mrs. DR.. Blythe. a widow lies at the
roint of death at her home in Creston,
Es the result of being frightfully
scalded by boiling water. Mrs. Blythe
attempted TO lift the lid from bucket
Of boiling water and the contents
we're spilled over her.
A child apparently few hours old
was discovered in an clubhouse at Fort
Dodge and local physicians by careful
work resusciated it. The woman, who
gave her name as Shaw, claiming
Boone as her home, admitted to the
police she was the mother. The
mother is under guard at the hospital.
The child will probably die from ex-
posure.
Mike Wagner of Dubuque attempted
to hurry fire in the cook stove by
pouring what he supposed to be kero-
sene from dark bottle. The con-
tents proved to be powder. The ex-
plosion blew kettle from the stove,
the spout penetrating Wagner's left
eye. injuring 1t so badly that doctor
was compelled to remove 1t. The
house was set afire, but was quickly
extinguished.
Harold Ruff, clerk OF the October
grand jury turned over $3.50 to the
county treasurer as part payment Of
an overcharge made and collected for
services. Ruff put in bill of 100 days
for the session of the grand jury, col
lecting for thirty days. The present
grand Jury began investigating the
matter with the result that Run mast
ened to make good. He still owes
$40, the total amount collected being
$500.
A young man whose name is sup
posed to be Hiram Martin. is dying
at Griswold from uraemic poisoning
caused from exposure and lack of
nourishment Martin is stranger and
the case is shrouded in mystery. He
is eighteen years old and was ac-
companied by another stranger when
he came to Griswold on the 18th,
who has since disappeared. From
papers in his pockets, 1t is believed
he has been employed at Shenan-
doah. He has been delirious since
Sunday and nothing could be learned
from him.
An assault that may ultimately re-
suit in murder occurred recently at
Prairieburg. Pat Burns and his
daughter Polly Burns, engaged in a
| dispute concerning the daughters
conduct, and the father became so in
censed that he grabbed a convenient
chair and struck his daughter over
the head, fracturing the skull. Miss
Burns is still in precarious condi-
ton and the outcome of the assault
is being closely watched by the
| county authorities. The Burns for
merly lived at Anamosa, mc:ing to
Prairleburg but short time ago.
Too proud to ask for aid, and vita
her body distorted with dropsy, Mar
garet Sullivan, a widow with three
small children, was found dying In
miserable shack at Dubuque, her
emaciated body covered with rags.
The woman, 1t Is learned, actually
died of starvation, and had been suf-
ferlng with an attack of dropsy for
weeks. Her 14-year-c.d son appealed
TO the master mechanic of the Mil
waukee shops, and begged him for
cents with which to buy his mother
loaf Of bread. The man went with
the lad and found A terrible condition
OF affairs. Soon afterwards the wo-
man died.
John B. Hollenhors, former road
master of the Chicago Great Western
railroad, was indicted by the Black
Hawk county grand jury on four
counts, one for forgery, one for utter
Ing forged instrument, and two for
cheating by false pretenses. Hollen-
hors was arrested in Waterloo as he
| stepped from a Great Western train
from the south. His bonds were fix
ed at $4,000 or $1,000 on each count.
Holenhors was recently freed OF
charges by the grand jury at Mar
;halltown. He is accused of having
| padded the Great Western pay rolls
with fictitious names and then cash
ing checks made out to dummy en-
| ployes.
A stranger in Oskaloosa with
strange machine was arrested and
gave the name of Charles Dixon. He
said his invention" was a patent
stockfood cooker which he wished to
interest local capital in. The police in
investigated and Dixon delivered
lecture on the merits of the machine.
they asked to see it operated and Dix
On then confessed and told the real
purpose. Metal was heated and pour
ed into it, and genuine silver dollars
Of the coinage CT 1906 taken out. The
METAL ran into blind apartment and
he dollars that had probably been put
by Dixon were extracted. He could
cot be held as a co -nterfeiter. but
ne may be prosecuted for attempting
delude purchasers.
w. v. Sibert, Chicago Great West
srn agent at Cedar Falls, j. r. Hollen-
hors, roadmaster, and Claude John
son, section boss, at Reinbeck, were
indicted by the grand jury on the gen.
sral charge Of defrauding the railroad
Dy cashing checks issued to men not
employed on the road, and dividing
proceeds. All surrendered voluntar-
ly. Sitert was taken into custody
and bond Of $1,000 was furnished by
Guy and G. E. Sitert brother and cou.
sin of w. V. Sibert. Claude Johnson
came from Reinbeck and was placed
under arrest. His bond was fixed at
| $1,000.