Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-08


states for forgery, was sentenced, at
Cedar Rapids, to seven years in
prison. Kenbaush made speciality
of victimizing printing establishments
Mrs. Herman Bensch, of Davenport,
locked herself in her kitchen, turned
on all the light and stove gas jets
and was dead when found. No cause
| is known
The Iowa crop service bureau re.
ports that over 80 per cent Of the
corn crop was ripe at the time Of the
| first frost, and most of the remainder
was well denied, so that it will have
considerable value as fodder.
Grinnell is to have street car
nival. To one faction of Grinnell peo-
pie it seems almost sacrilegious to
articulate the two words in the same
breath, but regardless of opposition
the merchants have completed all ar
rangements, and soon the sedate town
will resound with the music OF
merry-go-rounds, the shouts of ven.
doris, and the various other noises
which are the accompaniment OF
fairs.
con the whole, the season has been
a profitable one" says the Crop Ser
vice bureau, Notwithstanding the con
tinued and excessive rains during the
period of planting, and the severe
drought at the close of the season.
The small grain crops late potatoes
and fruits were below average, but
the hay crop was abnormally heavy
and put up in excellent condition. The
corn crop will be nearly up to the
average of former years, and much In
excess of last year."
Cerro Gordo county must pay tbs
costs in the murder case now being
tried at Garner in which Frank Nc
Donnell of Mason City is accused of
the murder of George Stevens, Feb.
26, 1908, in the cement plant hotel
at Mason City. J. c. Martin, land
lord, was the chief witness. He was
the nearest eye witness Of the crime
His daughter, Miss Grace, was wit
| ness of the quarrel downstairs pre-
vious to the shooting. The case will
last several days.
The gift to the foreign missionary
fund Of the Presbyterian church al
Waterloo amounted to $1,000 from
those who attended the meetings at
the First church presided over by the
Rev. II. w .Reherd. DR.. Chas e.
| Bradt of Chicago added stimulus to
! the solicitations. Only one other
F, Presbyterian church in Iowa has ex.
ceeded the amount, and only few
in the United States. The local pas
tor is chairman of the foreign mis-.
sion committee of the synod of Iowa.
Frank Mcdonnell, who has been
confined in the county Jail at Mason
City since last March, was taken to
Garner, in Hancock county, to ans.
wer In the courts there for the al
legged murder of George Stevens. III
the April term of court here, the judge
| granted the change of venue. On
Sunday, March 20, Mcdonnell, who
was former newspaper man, then
in the employ of the Northwestern
| States Cement company as timekeep,
er, shot and killed George Stevens
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On the witness stand in Marshall
town Charles Martin, on trial for
breaking and entering Chicago Great
Western merchandise cars, and steel.
ing a large quantity of meat and
other provisions, confessed that he
had been sentenced to a three-year
term in the penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son from Polk county, on a charge of
| breaking and entering, on February
! 10, 1900. Martin also admitted that he
had not been out of the penitentiary
more than year before he was sent
up from this county for burglary.
A case of much interest to insurance
men was decided in the federal court
when the jury returned verdict for
! $4,000 for w. B. Carpenter Of Cedar
Rapids against the Home Life Insur-
ance company. An explosion in an adj
joining building wrecked a part of the
Carpenter building, which afterwards
took fire. The company resisted pay
ment on the ground that the building
had fallen as the result of an eX
plosion before it took fire. There was
motion to take the case from the
jury, but the court ruled that the ex,
plosion which wrecked the Carpenter
building was itself the result of the
fire. The verdict is for the full face
value of the policy.
Ex-senator tom" Healy of For
Dodge, and J. J. Henneberry of Eagle
Grove, who are the attorneys of w
ID. Toler, of Monmouth, H., charged
with manslaughter in the killing O.
George w. Davies, an Iowa Contra
striker, on July 10, will make an ap
plication in the district court soor
fer change of venue to some other
county in this judicial district, pre-
sumably Tama. The usual plea, in
cases of this kind, that a fair and i'm
partial trial is impossible to be secur
ed at Marshalltown, will be made. Ar
informal application for a reduction
of Toler's bond was filed in court
asking that the bond be reduced from
$4,000 to $4,000. This application
is made on the ground that Toler has
been indicted by the grand jury fol
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gree murder, the charge preferred be
fore the preliminary hearing, and tina
$4,000 is too much bail to be requir
ed under the charge now lodged
against the prisoner.
p Pathe of Melrose, Iowa, register
ed at the Peerless hotel in Davenport
and next morning was found dead il
his bed with a bullet hole in his tenn
| nile and a 22-caliber revolver tightly