Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-17
IOWA
NEWS


cost 100000.
Dale Carroll, son OF S. e. Carroll,
editor of the Iowa City Press, was
severely burned by putting wet metal
in a linotype pot The metal splash
ed over his face, eyes and scalp. but
his eyesight was not injured.
Tom Murray Of Ionia was badly In.
jured by an enraged bull which at
tackled him while in the pasture. His
collar bone was broken and he was
badly bruised before help arrived. He
was nearly killed as it was and it will
be some days before he will be able to
work.
M. H. Gahenegan, one Of the lead
ing business men of West Burlington,
was fatally burned by an explosion
of gasoline in the rear of his general
store. The flesh was burned from his
face and the bones exposed He had
gone to an outdoor tank to inspect 1t
with candle when the explosion
took place.
Roy Drake, son Of Postmaster
Drake, received jagged wound 6
inches deep in the bowels while as
sisting in grading the roads near
Radcliffe and using wheel scraper.
He had tipped the scraper to take a
load when the team jumped forward,
throwing him onto the catch used to
hold the scraper for carrying.
A $4,000 fire at Greene destroyed
McCraven's livery stable, the Hub
beler wagon shop and an adjoining
building. The wind blew the flames
into the business district, but heroic
work on the part Of the volunteer
fire company prevented the destruc-
ton of this section of the town. Five
horses were burned in the livery
stable.
The jury, after celebrating for Six
teen hours in the case of assault and
battery in which Homer Holcomb OF
Mason City is defendant in an appeal
case for assaulting his hired girl, dis
agreed. Holcomb had quarreled with
the girl, and she had gone to her room
to pack her belongings preparatory
to leaving, when he is alleged to have
struck her.
A $4,000 fire destroyed two barns
and corn cribs at the Trappist Mon
astery near Dubuque few days ago.
Eighteen thousand bushels of corn
were lost. There was no insurance.
1t is believed that the fire resulted
from a spark from a thrashing ma
chine. The monks formed a fireman's
brigade to put out the fire. The loss
is unusually severe to the monks,
who have just been freed from an
enormous debt.
Brakeman Charles Pierce of the
Northwestern, while making up his
train at Sanborn, Mimi, was taken vio-
lently i'll from ptomaine poisoning and
found after an hours search in some
tall grass near the yards, where he
had fallen in faint. He was missed
after the train had pulled down to the
station and though he had assisted in
making up the train his condition was
not noticed till the train was almost
ready to start.
Mrs. George Hoover, wife OF the
Baptist minister at Plainfield, seven
miles south of Nashua, is suffering
from a peculiar accident, which Llay
cost her the sight of one of her eyes.
While opening a can of syrup she had
striking her in the face, shattering
one of the lenses in her spectacles,
particles of the broken glass entering
the eyebalL The injury is exceed
ingly painful and it is feared the sight
of the eye will be destroyed.
Three young men, students OF
harrisburg seminary OF Dubuque, were
lost nearly all night in one of the
lead mines near that city as the re-
suit of bit Of foolish bravado. The
three young men ran away from the
party of which they were members
and when their small candles had
burned low they were unable to find
their way out of the mine. They wan
dered about, seeking vainly for an
exit until midnight, when rescuing
party discovered them, badly fright
ened.
Frank B. Pesch, indicted by the
Clinton county grand jury on the
charge of the larceny Of $500 by EN-
beZz!ement from the United States
Express company, and the Prudential
Insurance company, has just been
acquitted of the charge, the jury
WHICH lEiSu Till IcuuClluS a NCAuiSs
Of acluittal. The circumstances OF
Peschs arrest were peculiar. On
the night of June 10 the Clinton police
were called to his home, finding him
seated in a chair covered with blood
that flowed from a pistol wound In
his hand. He said that thieves had
entered the house, and had shot him
liking nearly $500 of the companies
funds. Pesch's own revolver was
found in the house, with one cham.
Der empty. This and other circum.
stances aroused the suspicion OF the
police and the companies agents at
Clinton, and convinced them that
Pesch had shot himself, and had told
the story to conceal his default OF
the sum. His arrest followed, and
the grand jury indicted him. His trial
which occupied last week in the
Clinton district court, was concluded
by the jury's generating the defend
ant, whose wife and little children
were in the court room during the
trial, and were said to have been q
potent factor in the result.
Judge c. P. Smith of Mason City
has issued a writ of habeas corpus
for the return to her adopted parents
of lima Sophia Thake, who is alleged
to have been stolen from. them by
her natural mother, Mrs. Alice Thake
of Corwith, Hancock sounty. The
allegations say that while Mrs. Alvina
Thake, adopted mother of the child
who is / year old, was wheeling hel
charge in carriage on the streets Of
Corwith, the real mother darted from
an alley, snatched the babe and fed
| She was followed, but she soon dis
tanced her pursuers. The adopted
| parents say they have not seen the
child since.
A second dividend was recently de
clared in the defunct Bank Of Thorn
| ton affairs, and its creditors were pait
10 per cent. This is the second divi
dend declared since the failure OF thu