Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-25
IOWA
NEWS

diameter were twisted off, uprooted
and blown over the tops of houses
Much damage was done to property
and crops. There were no lives lost,
Theodore Grove, farmer living
/ just back of the Inn hotel at Arnold s
Park was struck by lightning and IN
| SANITY killed. Mr.. Grove had just
| gone to the corn crib and stepped in
| side when the flash come. He was
quite badly burned and his clothes
partly torn from him. Mr. Grove
was man about so years old and
leaves family.
Slot machines can't be touched by
the police department if they run ac-
cording to the proposition submitted
by the cigar dealers to suSerinten-
dent Hamery according to City So
licitor Robert .. Brennan of Des
! Moines. When the element of chance
is eliminated Brennan says that the
machines are not unlawful and that
the dealers may run them in their
front windows if they choose.
DR.. Paul o. Koto, state veterinary
surgeon, has refused to make an
early inspection of Sioux City cattle
which are suspected of being effected
with tuberculosis. He was asked to
come to Sioux City by the city coun-
Gil but it neglected to give the names
of the owners of herds under sus-
piston. On that account and because
of the exhausting of his appropria-
ton, DR.. Koto said his visit would
I've to be postponed.
Of the $4,000 or more which it is
expected the primary election cost
Iowa, Cerro Gordo county will pay
| $1062.S2, The bills as they have
been filed in the office of the county
auditor are: Publishing notices,
$1S5; ballots, 5000; booths and
transportation of ballots, $39.42;
books and supplies, s2G9.20; judges
$2S5.75; clerks. $1725O; rental, $67.75
There were 179 democratic votes cast
in the county; two socialists and nine
prohibitionists.
Six persons have claimed the two
rewards of SIS offered by the city OF
| DSo NIOiLlSo LOl LllS lSNONSAy VI ShS
bodies of Edwin Ebersole and Will
liam Jennings, drowned recently.
The reward for the Jennings body is
claimed by A. Mardis, Ben Jackson
and T. A. Canterbury. The first
claims only half of the reward, and
the two latter all of it. Two boys,
Sam Denim and viii Clouse, claim
two-thirds of the reward FOR the Eber.
sole body, and w. T. Graham, who
was ent by the boys to get the body
claims half of the $25.
Coroner James Mckee Of Creston
has summoned a jury to hold an in
quest over the remains of Ben Vein
burg, who was found dead in his
room at that place with bottle half
full of carbolic acid near by. WeIm-
burg has been a resident of Creston
for a number of years and had be.
! come familiar character. About a
year ago he attempted to hang hirl.
self and was only saved by parties
cutting him down after he was black
in the face. 1t is the surposition that
he did the work himself this time,
but the case is being Investigated.
The big Ward dredge boat in Rose
Grove township, Webster City, and
It's crew, engaged in digging the
Knickerbocker drainage ditch, are
still under quarantine for black diph.
iberia. This little inconvience, how,
ever, is not interfering with the con,
-trnntiny1 IF tho ditch Tho
chatting under the restraint of the
quarantine, is continuing its work
and every day the big dredge moves
up a notch, just the same as before
the yellow quarantine card was tack,
ed upon it. The cook is the person
stricken with the disease. She was
removed to the Pearl Radcliffe home
in Williams, which also is noe quar-
antined. The woman's condition Is
satisfactory and her recovery is look
ed for. The G. j. Knickerbocker home
which the dredge crew were making
their headquarters, is of course also
under quarantine.
With over $4,000 in his pocket
Martin Knittle of Mountain Home
Idaho, attempted to get off Bur
lington train at Ottumwa by climb
ing through the window He wa.
taken in charge by the police and Ii
being held pending word from hi:
relatives. Knittle imagines that hi
is still in his old home at New Lon
don, N. Y, and says he wants to see
) Dave Mowers, with whom he wishes
to settle business account
Knittle's condition is pitiful. Whel
searched at the police station
ticket to Mountain Home, Idaho, wa
found and S1,060.S3 in cash and
$4,000 check on the Bank of Noun
tain Home, Idaho. Knittle claims t
be a gold miner He says he is 6
years old and has been visiting
brother and sister in New London n
Y. The police have notified his rela
: tives and are awaiting a reply from
them.
People in northern Iowa are inter
ested in the announcement of the az
pointment of the Hon. J. Z. Rowan
: of Wright county, TO the America
!, consulate of Punta Arenas, the mos
! southern city in the world This ney
g station is about six hundred mile
west of Port Stanley, Falklan
. Islands, where Mr.. Rowan has bee
y stationed as the American represents
live for several years. Mr.. Rowan |
= expected home this fall, and it is no
: known by his Iowa friends whethe
n or not he will accept the new al
continent.
II During her regency the matter wa