Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-02
IOWA,
NEWS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. s.+.si.

Santa Claus did not bring pleas
ant gift for the Otter Creek Catholic
church. The tapestry in the church
caught fire from the burning candles
and caused a loss of $4,000.
Friends of Joseph Grue, aged 19
years, who three weeks ago began a
service of eighteen months in the
state penitentiary at Anamosa for lar
ceny, have already commenced actiy-
ity looking towards the securing Of a
/ pardon.
Fire destroyed good share Of the
| business portion of Whittemore. 1t
started in the butcher shop and
burned the harness shop, livery barn,
barber shop, millinery store and hotel
and their contents. The estimated
loss is $4,000.
BY a bursting water bottle, filed
with boiling hot water and used to
ease rheumatic limbs, Miss Nellie Hill
OF Mason City had her limbs and body
terribly scalded. She was In bed aud
the hot water saturated her clothing
while she was unable to move.
Forty men have already been put
at work clearing the ground for the
big plant of the Van Camp milk con-
densory at Perry. Every advantage
Will be taken of the favorable winter
weather to rush construction, and it
Is expected to have the plant ready
In May.
The state of Iowa was heavy in
weston in turkeys in Marshalltown In
order to provide the annual Christ
mas dinner for the veterans of the
Iowa Soldiers home. 1t required just
966 pounds of turkey for the dinner,
which was bought at 20 cents per
pound. or total of $199.20.
After twenty-nine strenuous days
in the court room, the case of the
Cedar Rapids Gaslight company VS..
the City of Cedar Rapids has been
submitted to Judge Ellison, the last
feature of the case was the five hour
speech of Senator Trewin, who closed
the case for the gas company.
At massmeeting held at the Sun
day tabernacle at Muscatine a civic
league was formed for the purpose of
abolishing saloons in the city. Eleven
hundred men Joined the association,
w. l.. Roah, prominent lumberman,
aad state politician, was elected
president. At present the league will
force saloons to live up to the mulct
law and later will take up prohibition.
The formation of the league is the
result of the work of Evangelist Billy
Sunday in that city. !.
A suit has been filed in the district
court of Clarke county by A. Nc
KnnUnr Of tIn
city council, treasurer and clerk, and
also w. B. Curnes, ex-alderman. The
plaintiff says that the city officers I'M
lawfully employed member of the
council, e. w. Bingham, upon city
work while he was a member of the
council. The suit asks that all or
any money paid out to a member of
the council shall be returned to the
city and no more such bills be allow
ed. The case will be tried at the
February term of court. The deci-
sion is awaited with intense interest.
A panic occurred at the Crystal
moving picture shows in Abba when
the film caught fire and the flames
were thrown out over the crowd in
attendance. II. G. Hammond, one of
the proprietors of the place and who
was operating the machine at the
time, was badly burned about the
face and hands. There were 200
people present at the time and in
the panic women and children were
trampled under foot There were no
serious injuries, though many women
and children were bruised in the
rush. All the machinery and a por-
ton of the building were destroyed.
The barn on the r. C. Akin farm
five miles west of Grundy Center was
totally destroyed by fire a few days
ago, together with $4,000 worth of
machinery, forty tons of hays, and 49,
600 feet of lumber. The origin of the
fire is unknown. The wind was in
the south and blowing directly to-
wards the house, which caught five
several times and was only saved by
hard work. The barn was a large
structure, 40x80, and had just been
erected. 1t contained a hog mouse III
the basement with cement floors. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, partly
covered by insurance.
Lucas county points with pride to
the lofty integrity and self-sacrifice
of Thomas Brandon, the venerable
banker of Russell, and his good wife,
who have offered to give all that they
have, even their homestead, that the
depositors in the Bank of Russell
which was wrecked by F. r. Crocker
may not lose cent. BY no act of
his, but by the rash speculation of his
partner, F. r. Crocker of the First
National bank of Charlton, Mr.. Bran
don became responsible for the $685.
900 or $4,000 shortage in the Russell
bank, caused by the defalcation of de-
posits. Mr.. Brandon did not try to
squirm out of it on 'it-wasn tiny
fault" plea, but manfully assigns all
his property to secure the depositors
whom another robbed Added to this
was the offer of Mrs. Brandon to re-
linquish any dover right she might
have in the real estate, which to-
gether they had secured, and they
both offered to list their home in the
assignment claim. All that they ask
ed II the loss was large enough to
take their homestead was to be per.
mitted to remain in it the few short
years they lived.
While Christmas shopping, Mrs.
Nellie Cowles of Burlington, died
from heart failure.
The honesty of a Fort Dodge. lad
Dollum Skinner, transferred the grief
of Miss Charlotte Lorenz. a school
teacher, into real Christmas joy and
cheer. Miss Lorenz had just drawn
her pay Of $50 and was planning her
Christmas purchases when she lost
her roll in the street Some time af-
forwards she discovered her loss, and
when her hope of finding it had all
gone, young Skinner. a delivery boy,
restored the money, having found it
fluttering about in the streets.
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