Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-30

| The fellow was stealing ride, Adj
vices from Kansas City Indicated that
the deceased was the son OF q
wealthy real estate dealer OF that
place.
Stephen Hidden, Oscar Glow and
William Mcclure, forgers, who clean
ed up lot of saloon keepers at Bur-
| lington, Ottumwa and Cedar
Rapids, were sentenced a few days
ago, Hidden to an indeterminate SEN
tence In the penitentiary, and the
| others to indeterminate sentences In
! the state reformatory. Hadden claims
to have rich relatives In Peekskill,
| N. Y, and has begged that they not
be informed of his disgrace.
Joseph B. Suffer and Shorty"
Gamble, proprietors of the Suffer &
Gamble sports goods emporium Of
| Burlington, suspecting the robbery of
| their money drawer. lay in wait for
| the burglar at their store. The result
was that Henry NJ. Mckee, a local
crook, entered the store and was in
the act of robbing the cash register,
when the watchers sprang upon him.
He ran, but nine revolver shots fol-
lowed him, and he fell wounded and
is now In jail.
Charles Miller of Cascade was the
victim of peculiar accident. AS he
was driving along he felt sudden
sharp pain in the palm OF his hand.
The blood began to squirt out and he
fastened to doctor to discover what
was the matter. An X-ray examina-
tion showed that bullet had lodged
in his hand. He did not hear any
report at the time, but 1t is supposed
some careless hunter in the vicinity
of the river shot wild, causing the
injury to Miller
The Grand Army of the Republic
post OF What Cheer has secured the
services of Gen. James Rush Lincoln
of Ames, formerly In the rebel army
in the civil war, to deliver the prin-
cipal address on next Memorial day.
The old soldiers propose to give an
object lesson. showing how deeply
has been buried the Ratchet of the
civil war, and so have invited for
mer soldier of the confederacy to take
the principal place on their program.
Harold Smith, aged Is, who was ar
rested at Marshalltown on a charge
of breaking and entering, was bound
| over to the grand jury on charge
OF burglary. Young Smith, until re-
Gently, has been working at the Saw
cry hotel in Des Moines as bellboy.
His alleged crime is burglarizing the
residence of Conductor S. B. Chapman
of the Iowa Central. Nearly all or
the stolen goods have been recovered,
onI do ol
sion to Chief OF Police Nicholson.
Albert Wester. a young man 30
years of age and single, met his
death in mine accident at Hooking,
two miles south of Abba. He was en-
ployed by the Hooking Coal company
and was doing company work. While
pushing car of tools into what he
supposed was cage, he pushed it in
to an open shaft and the momentum
was so great that his body was pulled
in with the car. The shaft was $50
feet deep and the body crashed from
one side of the shaft to the other
with such force that one limb was
torn entirely from the body. The
young man was one of the most TEN.
perate and careful in the county and
had but recently returned from
trip to his native land of Sweden.
The County Farmers Mutual Insur
ance society closed one of the most
prosperous years in it's history, ac-
cording to the report at the annual
meeting at Mason City. The society
has in force $3,20401500 in risks or
net gain during the year of $712,.
10000. The cost OF getting this in
surance per 1000 was $3.50 and the
cost of getting the business for the
past five years per $1,000 was $11.1S.
Last year the society paid in losses
S13,620.12 which was more than half
of the cost of the total losses paid
for the past five years which were
$21 ,692.97. j. H. Brown of Rockwell
was elected president; ID. Macarthur
and Frank Paul, vice president and
secretary and J. E. Treston treasurer
Fire or unknown origin started at
10 o'clock on the morning Of the 26th
In the plant of Fish Bros. Manufactur.
ing company, at Clinton, one of the
largest wagon works in the state The
fire continued throughout the day and
into the night, devastating the plant,
but a small portion of which remained
Standing when the firemen got the
flames under control. The loss OF
$150,000, insurance about $4,000.
Fire Chief Price was overcome by
smoke, also City Electrician James
Keefe, Capt. Albert Kranz and Fire
| men Will Bitner, Harry Sheppard and
Charles Garlock. Bitner and Shep
pard are in a serious condition and
were conveyed to hospital. The
plant was insured on general form
! of policy plan for $169,S00, distrl-
buted among hundred companies
! operating in Iowa The loss to these
| companies amounts to 100000. The
| firemen are saving parts of the plant,
including the paint shops. blacksmith
| shops, sheds and Office The fire start
| ed in the dry kiln and had gained
| such Roadway before being discovered
that the main building was mass or
| flames in half an hour and before
noon was in ruins the fire wall alone
saving the paint shop adjoining, in
| which combustables were kept. The
company's extensive lumber yards
| were destroyed. The plant has been
J in operation in Clinton thirteen years.
Charles F. Cureis is president
John Sinclair, one OF the founders
of the Cedar Rapids packing house,
and a member OF the firm of T. NJ
Sinclair & Co., died few days ses
at his home in New York City Of heart
trouble. Mr. Sinclair was 67 years OF
| age.
The states new sanitarium for the
! treatment of tuberculosis north OF
Iowa City will be formally opened
February 1. No ceremonies or special
exercises will mark the opening. Nc
estimate can be made as to the prob
| able number of natients there will