Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-10-08
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showers on the 18th, IN the northeast /
ern counties, and on the 23d in the (
northwestern counties, there was no I
rain in Iowa from Aug 81 to Sept. 26. t
Jumping from his engine to escape 7
from a collision that didn't occur
Tom Callahan, Rock Island pas /
senger engineer, received injuries I
from which he died at Mercy hospital
in Des Mones.
Becoming annoyed by a man who
tried TO tlirt with her, Mrs. Frank b.
Clark of Ottumwa, called a patrolman
had the man arrested and Went TO
filed Information against the would
be masher
Rev T G. Sykes, pastor of the sixth
Presbyterian church. pes Moines
served three course dinner to the
nine deacons of his church al hie
home Because of the absence of his
wife, Rev. Sykes assisted by Harry
Hansen, prepared the dinner himself
Painfully romping with his dog Fred
Carlson, of Des Moines, hit the back
of his hand against a decayed tooth
OF the animal. His hand has swollen
TO twice its normal size A physician
was called in and it is feared that
bloodpoison will set in Every ef-
fort is being made to save the hand
but the poison of the dead tooth had
worked fairly well into the boys hand
it.
The town of Jewell came near be-
ing wiped out by fire on the 2nd The
Northwestern depot and a nearby
barn burned to the ground. A large
amount of freight, many sample
trunks and large part of the ticket
records. etc, We're totally destroyed.
The origin of the fire is unknown. The
| fire department worked heroically
else the whole town would have gone
up in smoke before a stiff south wind
Loss, $4,000.
The badly decomposed body of
man found in the Mississippi river
below Clinton proved to be of Charles
Gulash, a Chicago carpenter who was
drowned when the scaffoldng on
which he was at work on the new
Chicago & Northwestern bridge gave
way The widow, who lives in Chicago,
has brough suit in the Clinton dis
trict court to recover $4,000 because
of her husbands death.
Postal receipts at the Sioux City
postoftice show large increase for
the quarter ending Sept 80, the in
crease amounting to over $4,000. The
increase in September receipts over
the same month last year is over $500
In 1907 the receipts for the months
of July, August and September
amounted to 51,6S025 During the
! same period of time this year the re-
/ ceipts were $55,49269 September,
i, 1907, s1S,o37.20 was taken in, and this
year the amount is increased to $751;
. 42624
After being neighbors for fifty
t years, friends fer half century
, death removed Mrs. Emily Anderson
/ of Holy Cross, and on Sunday morn
ing grieved to death over the passing
: of her beloved friend, Mrs Andrew
g Steager, also of Holy Cross, passed
d in coed health on retiring and it i!
d believed the shock and subsequen
f grief over the death of Mrs Ander
O son caused her death. Il do not be
8 lieve will live long without her
= she said. That night she went HON,
:. and retired Tears were in her eye
/. when she said good night" to he
husband. Prayers We're on her lip
for her beloved dead friend when sh,
fell asleep. In the morning they triet
to waken her, but all efforts to arous,
' her We're unavalling and examination
proved her dead.
district court judgment that look
like whopper, but is in reality no
very large has been given by Judg
Roberts to the receiver of the Firs
\ National bank of Charlton. against tn
Croker estate. 1t will be remen
u bered that the receiver sued the es
tate for 100000, which Mr. Crocke
d took from the funds of the bank TO
d his gambling operations. The sui
9 came to trial before Judge Roberts an
O ne gave a judgment for the entir
~ amount. but as the available assets @
a the entire estate will not be niue
more than $4,000, the bank will nc
~ be enriched much by the judgment
$ judgment for an additional So 600, fo
J Che dividends, etc, received by Nj
Croker from the bank, will also b
d. given by Judge Roberts. The tots
90 amount OF the claims filed against tn
~ Croker estate is about $1,250.0 900, bu
as the only claims filed within tn
pa FIRST six months will be made prefe
red, none will be preferred but tn
=, claims by the bank receiver, and abol
. 100000 claimed by Thomas Brandon
- Mr.. Crocker's partner at Russell.
s' the First National bank depositors wi
ia get at least seveneighths of tt
Croker estate, or about $4,000 whic
40 Is much better than nothing, and
i more. than, was hoped for at first.
if v@'i1es working With the eonstr,sc. g
.u gann on ctaal watar tank at Trae