Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-30
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NEWS

Dubuque, slipped down a steep en-
bankment into the high water at the
foot Of Eleventh street and was
drowned. The body was recovered.
Harry Sawyer, the 10-year-old son
of j. w. Sawyer, was killed in hay
field near Delta. The colt he was
riding became tangled upin a guy
rope and pulled the hay pole over.
The pole struck the boy on the head,
killing him instantly.
John Rogers, prisoner in the
Dubuque city jail, incarcerated for
intoxication, attempted suicide by
setting fire to his clothing. He was
rescued, badly burned, and is now in
Mercy hospital. Ten minutes more
would have ended his life.
After paying fine for drawing
revolver on Oscar Stephenson because
he paid court to his 16-year-Sld daugh-
ter without consent, Robert Caldwell
OF Mason City went home and pro-
ceeded to discipline his wife with a
severe beating because she upheld
the girl. The police were called but
Caldwell escaped.
While playing on the banks of the
Little Sioux river near Spencer, z
year-old Jesse Abely, son of Henry
Abely Of Spencer, accidentally fell in
to the water and was drowned. He
was with other children and bis body
had disappeared beneath the surface
wher the alarm reached adults who
| were SOma distance away
Prostration as the result OF heat,
while fishing, may prove fatal to j. B.
Sweet, postmaster at Liscomb, and a
well known old resident of the coun-
ty. Mr.. Sweet is very critically Ill
at his home, suffering from congestion
of the bowels, due to becoming over
heated while fishing in the Iowa river
a few days ago. Mr.. Sweet has had
several hemorrhages and the out
come of his case is in doubt
Did Rufus King, 9 years old, drown
at Davenport as result of being
ducked and held under the water by
his playmates? This was the CUES
ton the coroner's jury was called up
on to answer. About fifteen boys who
were enjoying a frolic with the Xii. G
boy in pond in the Schmidt quarry
were held by the police until the re-
suit of the inquest was known. The
verdict was that the boys death was
accidental and his playmates were re-
leased
Carl Madison, the 19-year-old son
of James Mattison, retired business
man, drowned in the Skunk river at
Oskaloosa. With three companions
he went in bathing, stepped into a
deep hole and being unable to swim
became helpless. His companions
rushed to his rescue and kept him up
a while, but the current was so swift
that they were soon exhausted and
had to drop him. Young Madison
was a graduate of the high school
class of this spring and had gained a
reputation as football player.
j. A. Mertz, of Webster City, while
returning home at $50 a. m, was at
tackled in the rear of the First Nation
al bank by two men, who beat him Sc
verely and left him lying in the grass.
They boarded passing freight and
made their escape. From Merits story
of the affair it seems certain that the
men were surprised and interrupted
by him just as they were about to at
tempt a robbery of the bank. Merits
cries for help brought the police, and
at it's next stop, at Jewell, the freight
was searched. No trace of the assail-
ants and would-be robbers could be
found, however.
Covering a period of less than two
years, the work of exterminating the
gophers of Shelby county has cost the
the county the sum of $5,234.50. The
board of supervisors, acting under the
Iowa law providing for gopher
bounty, have arranged for bounty OF
cents per head, the officer taking the
affidavit Of the trapper, getting :
cents per head. The figures would in
dictate that last year 1876 gopher:
were trapped, and this year 32,609
= Shelby county has comparatively NJ
low land, and hence the gopher hat
many haunts where he stands little
danger OF being drowned or driver
out by floods. Most of the gophe,
trappers are boys from to 16 year,
:, of sse, but occasionally a man hand,
with the traps is engaged in The bust
:. ness. Now ard then a prosperous
= farmer bothered with the gopher
gives the trapper an additional boun
Il fields, particularly timothy meadows
: the gopher has done very great dam
age. Many farmers, however, regart
r the gopher in the cultivated fields a
v very useful fellow regarding him a
first class "subsoiler." The bSgges
n 'string" of gopher claws brought il
j. at any one time by one person wa
e that of Bert McFadden of Shelby. H
y had evidence of having landed 229
John Burcham of Tenant, an oil,
e time Shelby county trapper of fit,
It years ago nearly, is also in the run
ming.
l. Davenport's famous sponge cas-
% was settled by the payment of $3.50
E. by DR.. A. L. Hageboeck, the prime
L. pal defendant. Mrs. Johannes Ar
IT sued several leading surgeons for $50
g. 900, alleging that they left a spong
inside her husband after performin
a. an operation. and that it caused hi
n death. Two trials resulted in IL to
disagreements of the juries, afte
n strenuous legal battles lasting tire
;. weeks.
10 The Iowa City lodge of Elks ha
6 purchased a building site and wi
i, proceed at once with the erection {
$4,000 home.