Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-07-25
IOWA
NEWS

ed by wife and several children.
AS the result of an extraordinary
case of bloodpoisoning Lawrence
Fritz a boy of 8 years, died at Du-
buuue. He had placed cartridge in
his mouth which he found in his
pocket the day after the fourth. The
cartridge had been used in q toy pis-
toll. The lads head swelled to twice
the normal size and he died in agony.
Doctors are puzzled.
Placing a shotgun against her side
and pulling the trigger, Miss Angie
| Nepper of Extra, committed suicide.
A fearful hole was torn In the girls
body and several ribs were blown in
by the discharge. The girl died two
hours after the deed was done. The
motive of suicide by Miss Nepper,
who is the daughter of Anton Neppsr,
is not certain, but an unhappy love
affair is believed by some to be the
cause.
Disguised as farm laborer, with
arms plainly tanned and sleeves rolled
up, wearing huge broad brimmed
straw hat, representative OF the
State Anti-saloon league, named Nc.
CURE, spent day in Marshalltown,
! looking up evidence which may be
used to prosecute saloons and drug
stores. Mcclure is said to live in
Marengo, and while in Marshalltown
spent considerable time hanging
about the saloons and drug stores.
Stepping from bed to the window
to close it against the rain, Mrs. Will
liam Hall of Silver City suddenly fell
to the floor Mr.. Hall spoke to her
as she was at the window, but get
ting no reply. he arose from bed and
found her lying on the floor dead. The
cause of death was not positively de.
veloped. The attending physician
said he was unable TO tell the cause,
though he thought death might have
resulted from fright. Mrs. Hall was
80 years old.
Judge j. NJ Parker Of the district
court at Marshalltown summoned G..
l.. Smith of State Center to appear
before him on the 23rd inst, and an
swer to contempt of court. Smith
is defendant in divorce proceedings
brought by his wife, Maria c. Smith.
The court granted temporary In
junction as result of the plaintif's
petition, which restrained Smith from
bothering or interfering with his wife
in any way. This injunction, the
court is satisfied has been violated.
The United States Gypsum company
of Chicago, known as the gypsum
trust has been made defendant in a
suit filed at Fort Dodge by local firms
of attorneys, asking the sum of $685.
600 for the death of John Pooler at
one of their mills in that city last
May. The suit is brought by Jay
Pooler, father of the boy. who was
sixteen at the time of the accident
which caused his death. Alleged
negligence on the part of the fore
man and machinery not operated ac-
! cording to law are the grounds on
which the suit is based.
| A miraculous escape occurred near
| Belmont on Great Western train
while the train was running about
forty miles an hour, when A. c. Ander-
son. a patient enroute under charge
of officers to the hospital at Cherokee,
jumped from the train and was not
injured in the least. Anderson asked
his attendant to go to the rear end of
the train for a drink and without hest
tation jumped through window, land
ing near the edge of the right of way
In the mud. The train sped on to the
station and the officer, after search,
found his man OH the streets of Bel.
mont, no worse for his flying leap.
Anderson is a graduate of Cornell,
but overstudy caused a nervous break
down.
John Greer of Ottumwa left home
! telling his wife that he was going to
the old Milwaukee round house IN
the east part of the city to play cards
with a few friends. Later his dead
| body was found by Mrs. Carrie Oh
strom, who was driving her cows to
pasture. The body laid just outside
the round house. The police were
at once notified and the body removed
to a local morgue. No marks of
| violence were found and 1t is sup
posed that Greer came to his death
from heart failure. Mrs. Greer, wife
| of the dead man, said: "Im so used
to his going away that I did not
worry when he failed to return home
| last evening He was often out very
| late"
The war department has made the
following allotments for Fort Des
Moines:
One double set of captains quar-
ters; two double sets of lieutenants'
quarters; one quartermasters' store
house. The amount OF money set
aside for these buildings is $81 900.
Construction will begin during the
fall and bids will be called for in
the course of few weeks. The de-
partment declined to allow money suf-
ficient for the construction of an
army chapel without special authori-
cation from congress. Congress will
be asked to authorize the expendi-
ture at its next session. Congress-
man Hulps efforts to secure the al.
lotments have been successful and
make the fort at Des Moines one of
the best and the most modern in the
entire countr..
Chris Wagler, prominent young
man of Pulaski, was drowned in the
Fox river near Bloomfield. He dived
from a bridge into deep water was
unable to swim and disappeared be
fore any one could reach him. The
body has not been recovered.
Ebenezer S. Blydenburgh, the Ell
dora man accused of having murdered
his wife, and who has spent three
ard more years at Anamosa peniten
tiary on life sentence for the crime
and who has been granted new
trial, is now fncarcerated in the Ell
dora Jail. The prisoner is feeling
in excellent spirits and believes thai
ne will be free at the second trial.
Fred Krocheski, the 11-year-old Du
! bLque boy, who was shot in the hant
, July from a toy pistol died of lock