Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-20
IOWA
NEWS

Fred Strict committed suicide in
the Dyersville Jail by hanging him
self. He had been drinking.
The Swanson brothers were killed
and All Hanson very nearly lost his
life in trying to rescue them, three
miles north of Cherokee, by entering
a we'll filled with fire damp.
Ptomaine poisoning from eating
salad has made twenty members of
party of knights of Pythias and their
ladies at picnic critically ill. E. R.
Gibson, one of the party, is in a des-
perate condition.
Arthur OLeary, a farm hand bum.
ming his way home to Chicago, was
robbed, beaten and kicked from the
train while going at high rate of
speed near Boone by quartette of
tramps. He escaped with his life
and IS cents, but vows vengeance.
Glenn Blanchard and Clarence Guy.
printers, fell three stories and a base
ment in a freight elevator shaft in
the Boone Blank Book company manu-
featuring plant, but were saved from
death by another employee who had
presence of mind to grab an outside
rope and reduce the power. Blanch-
ards hands were badly burned by
trying to stop the descent of the ele-
vator by selling the rope.
The Davenport city council has
granted permits to eight saloons,
recently enjoined, to reopen their sa-
looms and run them in conformity to
the mulct law. Washington garden
is among these enjoined Some Dav-
export saloonkeepers are now 0e-
claring themselves content to obey
the law, saying that rest after 10
o'clock at night and on Sundays
agrees with them as we'll as with
other people.
Albert and Josephine Landgraf were
seriously injured in runaway in
Odebolt. The young folks had been
spending the day at the Auchstetter
home near Arthur and were on their
way home when the horse became
frightened. Running east and strik-
ing telephone pole the horse threw
the occupants of the buggy out,
breaking both OF the young mans
legs just above the knee and injuring
his sisters back Aid was quickly
summoned and the wounds dressed
and the boy and girl removed to their
home.
Rev. and Mrs. James S. Corkey Of
the Winterset Presbyterian church
will sail on the Lusitania from New
York on Aug. 26. The trip is a pre-
sentation from this enterprising
church to the pastor and his wife.
They will make an extended tour
While abroad Mr.. Corkey will take
part in a family reunion in the old
manse at Londonderry, where his
father has been pastor for forty-nine
years. Seven brothers, all Presby.
terrain preachers, and one sister, a
missionary in Africa, will meet at
the old home.
1t is thought clue has been found
that will throw light on the mysteri-
Gus assault of Mrs. Stevens at her
home in Sand Springs. One evening
during the absence Of Mrs. Stevens
husband some person entered her
home and beat her SO numerically
| that she nearly died. 1t was first
thought that robbery was the motive
for the assault, but his theory was
abandoned when it was found that
nothing in the house had been dis.
| tnrhal IT ic ~,
sault was prompted by revenge, and
was perpetrated by one Of the women
| in the neighborhood who had a grudge
against Mrs. Stevens.
| In an attempt to cross the Rock
Island track near Mason City in front
of a swiftly moving train, Mrs. Pat
rick Kelley, wife of prominent
| farmer living in the northwest part
! of the county, with her son, were
hurled across the right of way and
terribly bruised, though it is thought
not fatally. The team was killed in
stantly and the wagon crushed into
kindling wood. The accident seem
ingly was foolhardy as the track is
clear in both directions at the cross
ing and the train could easily be seen
approaching. The train stopped and,
taking the injured people on board,
took them to Garner.
During a storm at Bagley light
ming struck a house occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Skinner and three
children. At the time of the flash
Mrs. Skinner was sitting on a bed
upstairs while Mr.. Skinner was in
the dining room below Both were
stunned, but not injured. The child
rem escaped. The bolt ran down the
chimney and divided, part going
down the roof at the side of the house
into the ground, splintering shingles
siding and door casing. The other
| part of the bolt reduced the casing
of partition upstairs to kindling
wood and threw the door some dis
lance into the bedroom where Mrs
| Skinner sat- The house is badly
wrecked, and it is miraculous that
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