Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-20

his potato patch few days ago what
was his surprise to come upon the
lost molars, carefully deposited in
a potato hill. Whether he had acct
dentally planted them there at an
earlier season or whether he had UNI
Intentionally let them drop out of his
mouth will never be known. The set
were little worse for the wear Of
the earth. but can still be used.
A broken heart is given as the
cause of the death of pretty Mrs
| Evelyn O'Conner, whose home is in
Mason City, but no has been with
| Chicago relatives for few weeks
| Six weeks ago H. j. O'Conner, the
woman's husband of a few months,
was drowned in a large tank in st.
Louis where he was working as
| plumber. The body was brought
home for interment. The shock was
so great that Mrs. O'Conner did not
at once recover and her friends be-.
came alarmed. Later she improved
but showed a decided melancholy at.
titude resisting all efforts to cheer,
her or to get her mind from her.
bereavement. AS change she was
taken to Chicago where she died.
During heavy rain storm an ex-
ira Milwaukee freight, second section
No. 62, was wrecked three miles west
of Washington, near Crooked Creek.
Twenty-one cars of grain were totally
demolished and water soaked, caus-
ing property loss of thousands of
dollars to the company. Two colored,
youths, Alvin Carter and Robert
Carey, were buried in the wreckage
brakeman was hurled out the caboose
window and badly stunned. Trains
were tied up during the day until the
| track was cleared. No. 5, the limited
train, would have passed the washed
out place first had there not been
an extra on which was the fatal train
Consequently the passengers on the
limited were fortunate, as the passen.
ger, had it passed first, would have
been wrecked.
The end Of sensational elopement
came in Burlington with the arrest OF
Frank Reeves and a married woman
named Middledorfer wife of wealthy
farmer living at Sigourney. The
couple arrived in Burlington on the
18th. Sheriff John Bailey of Keokuk
county took the couple back to that
city. The woman is SO years of age
and handsome. She is the mother of
three children and it is said by the
sheriff that she and Reeves took with
them when they left several hundred
dollars of Mr.. Middledorfer's money.
The latter accompanied the sheriff
and declared he would have Reeves
sent to the pententiary for adultery
but would forgive his wife. Reeves
was employed on the farm of Middle
dorfer, who placed entire confidence
in him and his wife and was almost
Frustrated when the truth was re-
vealed to him. Reeves is several
years younger than the woman.
After almost quarter of a cen.
fury of married life. James M. Bren-
ton, formerly mayor of Des Moines,
has sued for divorce. He confesses
that he has not been a model of per-
lection, but he claims that he has
been a good and faithful husband, Gin
the main, and that despite the fact
that he has treated his wife kindly,
has reared and educated her four
children by a former husband, has
furnished the family with the neces.
saries of life and to the best of his
ability with the luxuries, she has
treated him with. great cruelty. He
declares that she performed the duties
of a wife reasonably well for the first
few years of their welded life, but
that during the last seventeen or eign-
teen years she has not treated him
with that sweet tempered considera.
ton which was necessary to his hap
piness and content. The ex-mayor
says that during this period she has
irritated him by faultfnding, suspi-
cions and violent demonstrations fatal
to his peace of mind and decidedly
rasping upon the nerves.
Barely half an hour after Supt. C.
S. Hayden of the Iowa Central had
requested Mayor Ingledue to remove
fifteen guards employed as special
| policemen on the company's proper
ty at Marshalltown. strikers and their
sympathizers assaulted John Ryan of
st. Louise and a companion, both
strikebreakers. Ryan was badly
beaten up. A crowd of six or eight
men were in the attacking party, and
they approached Ryan from the rear
as he was on his way uptown 10 buy
pair of shoes. He beat a hasty re-
ed by his companion. No arrests
have yet been made, but the police
claim they will deal promptly with
the offenders if they can establish
their identity. Superintendent Hay
deI's idea in removing the guard was
that the men are anxious to get off
the company property. They have
Just been paid $4,000 in cash and
want to spend their money. Hayden
says the men are in need of clothing
underwear and shoes, and are anxious
to spend the money in Marshalltown
if they can. Immediately following
the assault Superintendent Hayden
guards removal, and they will re-
countermanded the order of the
main on duty indefinitely.
The large hay and stock barn OF
+. n. Grimes, near Newton was
| struck by lightning and totally de-
stroyed by fire. There was no stock
in the barn, but it was filed with
| hay. The heat was so intense that