Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-07

Frank Adler, who was recently sen
fenced to thirty days in the county
| Jail at Fairfield for assault with intent
to commit great bodily injury on the
person of his little 11-year-old niece
Emma Adler, has appealed his case Il
the supreme court and on filing bond
was released 1t is understood thai
Adler is taking his means to go home
which he feared he would lose IL II
was not cared for.
A drastic anti-spit ordinance has
been passed by the council of Fort
Dodge and will be rigidly enforced
The measure makes it unlawful to
spit on sidewalks or In buildings, on
stairways, areas or openings, or In
public hacks, omnibuses or street
cars. Depositing gum, tobacco guilds
or cigar stubs are also forbidden and
a fine of s25 is provided for viola.
ton. Mayor Duncombe announces
that the new measure will Il en-
forced
Roy Stone, aged 10 years, employed
as a carpenter in the construction OF
the new coal chute in the Rock Island
yards at Atlantic, fell from the sur
face where he was working to the
bottom of the pit, striking upon few
inches of water that covered the ce-
ment foundation. The distance from
the top to the bottom of the pit meas
ures twenty feet. He sustained a
conclusion Of the brain and was Sc
verely injured about the shoulders
and back.
The third attempt at suicide among
young girls in Burlington was dis
closed when Miss Clara Miller, aged
90, was found unconscious in her
room at the residence oil S. H. Jones
on North Fifth street. Miss Miller
was a domestic, and had taken car
bolic acid because she was tired OF
life She will die. The other cases
which occurred within a few days are
Eva Peters and Miss Edith Beck, both
of whom will live, although in serious
condition. The motive of the three
attempts at suicide is believed to be
unrequited love.
Motorman R. G. Stollnecker Of the
Waterloo Cedar Falls interurban line.
was fatally injured in a crossing col
iision with an eastbound Illinois Gen.
trail train just outside Waterloo. Stoll-
necker was running a work car, head
ed for the barns and shops. The
Illinois Central train was late. The
electric car was on the crossing when
II was hit by the train. Other men
were on the electric car with the
motorman, but they Jumped; he could
not escape and received internal in
juries that are expected to prove fatal
The Illinois Central passenger train
was ditched, but no one was seriously
hurt. Traffic on both the Illinois Gen.
trail and the electric line was delayed
for the night.
When Henry Pallister, prominent
Ottumwa business man. quit fishing
in Peck's pond in South Ottumwa a
few days ago, and started through
the brush for home he was surprised
10 hear the report of shotgun and
few seconds later to feel the SEN
sation of having his face, head and
neck filed with shot. Unable to at
tract attention by calls, he returned
to the pond, bathed his wounds and
then managed to get to a nearby
the Office of DR.. S. A. Spillman. The
physician extracted three No. 6 shot.
but was unable to reach the other
eleven. Mr.. Pallister Is able to be
ataIt his business. Just who fired
the shot Is not known.
The fight to break the will of Mrs,
Overpecht, a widow who formerly
lived at Ackley, was successful and
the case will now probably go to the
supreme court on an appeal. The
contestants In the case were a
daughter of the old lady and other
heirs who maintained that in giving
the bulk of her property to a young
man by the name of Wolf, who was
of no kin, the aged mother dealt un
fairly. 1t was evidently the intent
of the old lady to remember the
young man for many kindnesses and
attentions shown the old lady during
her Illness and declining years. Vol
| sought to maintain his rights under
| the bequest and a fierce legal fgh
followed The jury returned a yer
dict holding that the will was not {
| just one and therefore could no
stand. Between $4,000 and s14,00t
is involved in the litigation.
The damage case of Lafayette Nil
lcr vs.. the Rock Island road has beer
settled out of court by the paymen
Of SITS to Miller by the railroad com
pany. The case involved the election
of Miller from one of the company
trains at Bows, a few months age
Miller's home is In Illinois and b.
had bought a return trip ticket L
Clarion. Having transacted his bus
ness in northern Iowa, he started +
return home, but the conductor declir
ed to accept the ticket offered b
Miller as transportation, claiming tina
there was a discrepancy between tn
signatures of the purchaser OF tn
ticket and the one on the return tri
certificate. Miller offered to prov
s identity to The conductor, but tn
oner or the ticket did not "go" wit
the man the uniform and Mile
was accordingly elected from tn
train when it reached Bows. Mile
Immediately returned to Clarion an
placed his case in the hands of a
attorney. 1t was to have been trie
at this term Of the Wright count
district court, but the company effec
ed settlement before the case wa
called. on the above basis.
A. G. Wood, who lives between low
Falls and Alden, is perfectly sati:
fed with the returns from twelv
acres of potatoes. From this acre
age he has just harvested ana MAJ
keted over 1000 bushels of Rura
New Yorker potatoes. He has dii
posed of all but 100 bushels at a
average of 55 cents per bushel. TIL
income from this twelve acres thi
year was over s1,100, or little owe
$50 an acre. Mr.. Wood has raise
potatoes successfully for severa
years, and finds the crop one of tn