Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02

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The 12-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs
F. b. Spence, of Atlantic, narrowly es
capped death and is now laid up will
several bad bruises and cuts abou
his face and body as the result of be
ing trampled by runaway horse. TIL,
horse was ridden by two boys ant
before the Spence boy could get gu
of the way he was knocked down an(
seriously trampled upon.
The coroner's jury of West Union
returned verdict of murder against
young Whitbeck, charging him with
killing his aged father. The jurors
declare it is their belief the old
man was dubbed to death by his
son, who is now in Jail. The lock
| of hair mystery was exploded, il
being believed that it was not tori
from the murderer's scalp.
A report from New Boston, a town
| about ten miles west of Fort Madi.
son, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
| Fe railroad, states that a tornado
struck that place, blowing twelve
| freight cars from the tracks, demolish
ing church and injuring number
of people. No one is reported to
have been killed at that place. A
balloon shaped cloud was seen to pass
| from west TO east along the Santa Fe
| road.
| Benjamin Mckay, an old settler OF
Traer, aged 80 years, met with an
| accident which resulted in a broken
! rib, a broken wrist, and several
| severe bruises. He had hired a horse
| to drive to his farm at Buckingham.
AS he was getting into the buggy
| the horse started and ran several
rods, Mr.. Mckay being unable to get
| hold Of the lines to stop it, and was
| thrown to the ground in his endeavor
| to secure control of the animal. The
| full extent of his injuries are not now
known.
Following a quarrel over money
matters, George Stevens, foreman of
the Mason City cement works, is at
| deaths door with two bullets in his
body. T. A. Mcdonald, time keeper
of the plant, is charged with the
shooting and is under arrest. Accord
ing TO eyewitnesses Stevens upbraid'
ed Mcdonald about an item of money.
A quarrel started in the lobby of the
Plant hotel. Mcdonald left to go up
to his room and Stevens followed him.
Mcdonald fired two shots as Stevens
tried to burst open the door of the
timekeepers room.
A man giving the name of Frank
Morgan, representing himself to be a
horse buyer from Creston, passed
worthless checks on several Keokuk
hotels, leaving town before the dis
covery was made that the checks
were without value. He came to town
week ago, made a small deposit in
one of the banks, then raised the
amount of his balance as shown by
the pass book of 500. He then show
ed this book to his victim, giving a
check for few dollars more than his
bill amounted to, pocketing the
change and disappearing.
Jacob Belief, a prominent farmer
Hutson, charged with malicious
threats to extort money. The arrest
came as the result of an indictment
returned by the Marshal county grand
jury. H. F. Stouffer, cashier of the
Farmers Savings bank, filed the COM
plant before the grand jury, and it
was largely on his evidence that
Bolei was indicted. Mr.. Stouffer
claims that Bolei tried to force him
to pay $500 to prevent exposure of an
alleged crime of lewdness Bolei is
said to have accused Stouffer of being
intimate with a young woman school
teacher, and to have threatened Stout
fer with making the case public if
Stouffer did not turn over the money.
Stouffer refused to pay and instead
took the matter before the grand jury.
Little Lucy Robinson, daughter of
w. B. Robinson, of Ryan, is only 10
years old, but she is the three times
champion speller of Delaware and
Black Hawk counties. She won her
third honor a few days ago in the
intercounty contest which was held
at Shenandoah, between two teams
of ten picked spoilers each. Twice
before the little girl has won cham
pionship honors, the first time when
she was only years old. Educators
look on the child as a marvel. She
has always been able to spell cor
rectly, but how nobody undertakes to
explain. She spells with sort of
:ntuitive knowledge of words ana
their construction, and when in a
contest she attacks every puzzler that
10 given Will d Gel JdluIy anu
precision that is amazing. Delaware
county also won the intercounty
championship as we'll as furnishing
the individual champion.
Has ]. H. Standring, the fugitive
and defaultng cashier of the First
State bank of Corwith, made his
whereabouts known to his family and
relatives in Corwith? Certain mys-
| terious visits, always from evening
until the next morning, from a Des
| Moines relative of the missing cash.
| Ter with the same, have led people
| to believe that some sort of commune
| cation is now going on between Mrs.
| Standring and her husband. When
| Standring disappeared. his wife was
| greatly agitated and threatened with
| prostration, her fear and that of her
| children being that the husband had
| met with foul play. Later. when the
true reason of flight became known,
| her feelings suffered still more
through the taunts and slurs of those
who had no regard for the innocent
wife and children. But of late, since
| the mysterious visits of the Des
Moines relative, observing ones have
noted a new peace of mind, and the
absence of the old worried look that
once haunted Mrs. Standring.
Alleging that her husband deserted
her thirty-six years ago and has since
absented himself. Mary J. Aldrich, OF
Cedar Falls. has filed a petition In
the district court, asking for a de-
cree of divorce and the right to re-
sumo the use of her maiden name
| Maria j. Wells She was married IN
Ezra A. Aldrich in June, 1866.
Miss Clara A. Spencer dropped dead
near her home in Nora Springs OF