Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-01-10
IOWA
NEWS

committed suicide at Independence by
drinking carbolic acid. He was sew
snty-ive years old.
! City Marshal Wood of vinton, while
| attempting to arrest George Kennedy,
1 local party who is supposed to have
partaken Of more liquor than his
,hare, shot him In the leg with a 3S-
:alibre revolver, seriously wounding
Kennedy.
The Dubuque police are looking for
/ Dutch Kaufman, local character,
wanted in a charge of assault. The
affair occurred in downtown saloon,
! where Kaufman and John Spooler en-
| gagged in an alteration. Kaufman
drew knife, slashing Spoilers coat
ana inflicting a flesh wound. kauf'
man has not been seen since the ar
fray.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Smith. former
residents of Sheldon, began quarrel
At Council Bluffs and in scuffle over
The possession of revolver the gun
was discharged grazing Smiths ear.
Both were arrested. The woman was
held under charge of shooting with
Intent to kill. Both tell conflicting
stories. jealousy is the alleged
cause.
Believing she had killed her Saby,
whom she cut with the scissors while
putting it to bed, Mrs. Alex Bellamy,
living near Leon, swallowed a large
dose of carbolic acid, dying shortly
after. She cried to her husband that
she had slain the infant, and before
be could prevent, drank the poison.
Doctors claim emotional insanity was
the cause.
While working on the lower land
ing in the colliery of the Big Jim
mine at Seymour, George Jones, Jr.
the son of Superintendent Jones, fell
to the bottom of the shaft and was
crushed to death. He had been work
Ing on the upper level and in some
manner lost his balance, and before
he could recover, slipped off the stage
to horrible fate $50 feet below. The
body was picked up at the bottom of
the mine a mass of broken bones and
flesh. Death must have been instan-
taneous as he was quite dead when
found He was only 10 years old
Ross Henderson and Will Porter,
two young fellows of Alton who shout
ed whoa" at az animal, were arrest
ed and fined $3.50 each. 1t seems that
George w. Kelley, a local dairyman
has his horse trained so that it will
stop and start at the command of
some one on the sidewalk, and Mr..
Kelley has thus been enabled to de-
liver bottles of milk at successive
houses without returning each time to
his wagon. The boys found out the ami
NAL would stop at command, so
have made a habit of yelling whoa"
All the employees of the Wilson ho-
tel at Mason City went out on
strike taking with them the women
cooks, solutions, and bell hops. The
trouble arose over some disagr cement
between the walters and the head
waiter, the former thinking she was
too overbearing. To make the tie-up
complete the strikers wired two girls
that were members of the force who
we're out of the city not to- come back
to work until the matter had been ad-
iusted. The bell strike caused some
lnconvience, but Landlord Byers is
filling the vacancies with other girls.
The dairy building of the State Col
lege at Ames was formally dedicated
in the presence of 125 people Hon.
w. D. Dimson of Sac City delivered
the keys to the president of the board
of trustees, Hon. j. B. Hungerford Of
Carroll. Mr.. Hungerford turned them
over to DR.. Storms, who in turn deliv-
cred them to Pro, c. F. Curtis, dean
Of agriculture. Ex-Governor w. d.
Hoard, perhaps the greatest American
dairyman, gave a brief address then,
and longer one In the evening at the
college chapel. The building dedicat-
ed was erected in 1904 by H. w.
Schlerter of Chicago. 1t is Ill feet
long by 81 feet wide, of lime and
Beaford stone, and pressed and
enamel brick. 1t was the fourth fire
proof building to be erected at the col.
lege and cost $4,000.
Judge John Murray Dowie will
leave Essex soon to live the balance
of his days with hrs. John Alexander
Dowie In a spendtd mansion awarded
her by TIE court, situated across Lake
Michigan opposite Zion City. She
sent him special request to come
and he accepts. Four years and a half
ago when he was divorced from his
wife he bought a little property in
Essex and engaged Mrs. Rosa Mccall,
a widow, to keep house for him under
the agreement that she should have
the property when he was through
with it. He was about to go without
fUlflling his agreement and she en-
ployed Attorney w. p. Ferguson of
Shenandoah to prosecute her case.
Before Judge Dowie was aware of it
which brought him to terms. The
matter was settled amicably by the
Judge paying her $500 in addition to
about 5000 he had already paid her in
small sums. She is to retain possess
sion of the house and furniture till
next spring. He Is selling off his val
liable library. Mrs. Dowie's invitation
to give him a permanent home is con-
firmation that he Is the father of the
prophet, which the latter strenuously
denied.
Eli Kaufman, proprietor Of one Of
the largest gents furnishing houses
in Knoxville, failed for $4,000. The
assets are worth from 75 to 80 per
cent. The assignment was Lie in
favor of C. C. Cunningham for the ben
eft of the creditors. Mr.. Kaufman
had been in business In Knoxville for
q number o, years
Because Mr.. and Mrs. r. T Davis
of Tama were the first couple TO have
twins they will receive prize of S100
from the father of their mother, j. j.
Seabert. He made the standing offer
to his children and the Tama daugh-
ter won.
Though the affair has been kept
quiet, it developed that John Spoo,
the victim of cutting affrav at