Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-11-21

Mrs Nelson Nelson, who lives
north of Boone, shut her eyes when
she undertook to chop off chickens
| head. Now she Is nursing a badly
| cut set OF fingers. Mrs. Nelson had
| chased the chicken for some minutes
and was nervous, making her aim bad.
While attempting to get aboard a
| Milwaukee train at Wesley, a man
| named Jacob Dealmann fell under the
wheels of the train and his body was
| mangled. The man lived In Newark
| N. j. and was enroute from Dakota to
the east. His appearance was that
of businessman.
The first fine for splitting on the
| sidewalk under the new ordinance
passed by the Fort Dodge city council
| was levied few days ago, and the
victim was Mayor c. F. Duncombe
himself The Mayor was noticed ex-
pectorating on the sidewalk by the
chief Of police, who arrested him and
brought him before his own court
where he fined himself $500 and
costs.
Pledging themselves to earn dol
lar for the Methodist church, of which
they are members, four prominent
society women of Sutherland spent a
whole morning In corn field picking
corn at cents bushel. They picked
103 bushels, netting them $412. Mrs.
w. p. Davis, one of the most enthusi
! astic of the quartette, is the wife OF
the president of the Sutherland State
bank.
V. s. Sawville, former employee OF
the Illinois Central as sidewalk
builder, was arrested at Cherokee by
Deputy Sheriff Woolsey of Fort Dodge,
suspected of being one of the men
who attempted to rob the bank at
Barnum last week. His arrest was
due to his talking too much showing
familiarity with the affair and other
suspicious circumstances which mark
him as participant
A fine young horse of fine blood,
grandson of the famous $4,000 Axtel,
has to be shot as the result of a run
away at Iowa City, in which the ten
dons of both it's hind legs were
twisted and snapped. The men in
the buggy back of the horse, William
| Conigsky and James Withrow, both of
Dubuque, were pretty badly shaken up
and bruised. one of them being
! pitched through a picket fence.
Y. w. Johns, father of Bert Johns,
killed in sewer accident at Newton
| few days ago, did not wait long to
bring action for damages against
the contractors in charge of the work.
Early the next morning he and his
| lawyers applied for letters of admin
istration for the sons estate and with
in twenty-four hours of the time of the
| accident an original notice of suit
was filed, claiming $4,000 damages.
Crazed over the refusal of his
sweetheart's parents to accept him
as their daughters lover, Sam Sarber
of Stuart shot himself through the
abdomen with shot gun. The young
| man appeared at the Dermody home,
| and being refused an audience with
his former sweetheart secured a shot
| gun and shot himself In front of his
sweetheart's home. Although shot
through the abdominal cavity the at
tending physician says Sarber may
| live.
James Smith, who was found a
week ago alongside the Illinois Cen
! head badly battered and in an uncon-
! scious condition, came to his senses
at Finley hospital, and declared that
a companion, Joe Tracey, had at
| tempted to murder him, striking him
with heavy bar and leaving him for
dead. Smith and Tracey were Ioem-
bers of section gang housed below
Dubuque. Tracey disappeared the
| morning after the affair, leaving his
| baggage at shanty. He denied knowl
edge of Smiths whereabouts to com.
panions. but disappeared Immediately
| after. Both men had been drinking
! prior to the affair.
Railway circles are stirred up over
the discovery Of system of fraud by
which the Illinois Central has been
| the victim to the tune of large sum.
| Conductor Ed Curtin and Brakeman
Smith have been discharged, and for
mer Day Ticket Clerk Lee Ronayne
has departed for the Pacific coast.
| The system worked was this: Tickets
are sold passengers between Dubuque
and Chicago These were not punched
! by the conductor but taken I'D
by him and returned to the ticket
agent, who resold them. 1t is said
that thousands of dollars have been
lost to the road by this system. City
| Agent Hyde discovered the system
Curtin denies mis- guilt and In state
ment accuses Smith and Ronayne
Brakeman Smith took up the tickets
on the Pullman. No arrests have been
made, the road seeking to keep the
matter quiet.
Three young men from South Dako
ia are carefully guarding in an ole
factory building at Sioux City treas
ure that they believe will make then
| 100000 In cash for summers work
The treasure is a thrashing machine
built on the pattern of an automobile
which has already attracted the at
tention of capitalists. The inventor
is Herman Cook, who has been as
sisted by his two brothers. George
and William Cook The automobile
thrashing machine that stands in this
little shop is sounding the death knel
Of the huge pufing monster which
drags its big red separator over thu
grain fields OF the northwest. TIL,
traction engine as a part OF thrash
ing outfit will soon be thing of thu
past Tests already made have prov
cd the efficiency of the machine
which moves over the roads like
big auto and is ready to work as sool
as it stops In the wheat field. 1t cal
even keep on working as 1t move
from one place to another In tn
field They have already had offer
of 100000 for their rights.
In spite Of the fact that the pric
of hickory nuts is going up. there ar
great Quantities of them IN Southeast
ern Iowa. From Lockridge, for in
stance. two car loads of the nuts hav
been shipped TO market, and Their
| Is still an unlimited supply I'm tina