Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-04
IOWA
NEWS


cistern, where her husband found
Vie body after missing her and start,
ng on a search for her.
Olaf Sierverston, who was brought
he had been running around dement,
ed, killed himself in the county jail
by tying a blanket around his neck
and then strangling to death.
Miss Florence Bender, aged %
years, an inmate of a resort conduct
ed by Carrie Mains of Clinton, COM
mitted suicide by swallowing an
ounce of carbolic acid, which resulted
in her death within five minutes.
Gus Klotz, young man about 25
years of age, living near Nashua, was
killed by falling from a tree while
at a picnic. The young man had
about twenty-five feet into
the tee and was sitting on limb
Joking with companions, when the
limb broke. He sustained a broken
hip and arm and also internal in
juries from which he died in half
an hour.
The federal grand jury, which has
reported, found indictments against
five people, the only one made public
being that against w. c. Smith, of
Sioux City, head of the local office OF
the Globe Realty company, who is
charged with using the mails for
purposes. The other in
dictments were for violation of the
postal laws. The indictments include
one against a postmaster in north
western Iowa.
The oral arguments in the cases in
which the Greater Des Moines COM
mittee is the complainant against
half score of big railway corpora
tons will come up before the inter
state commerce commission in Wash
ington, June 6. E. G. Wylie, freight
commissioner of the booster organ
ization, has left for the east to be
present when the hearing ic called
and see to the interests of Des
Moines shippers.
A mysterious wild man is reported
to be living in the bluffs of the Mis-
souri, river northwest of Sidney.
When last seen he appeared one day
when the Brightside school were hav-
ing a picnic. He was seen standing
on q high bluff entirely nude except
that he wore a woman's sunbonrel OIL
his head. A posse was formed and
an attempt was made to capture him,
but he made his escape. 1t is thought
that he is some insane man, but his
identity is a mystery.
AS result of the food on the west
side the city council of Sioux City
will probably order a special election
at which an appropriation covering
the cost of Strengthening Perry creek
will be submitted. The proposed i'm
provement will cost close to 100000.
The city engineer will be asked to
draw plans for the construction of a
conduit down Center street from
street to the Missouri
river. The Strengthening of the creek
will do away with five or six pile
bridges in the downtown district.
For a third time, Bernice Allen,
the 14-year-old wife of S. e. Allen,
is to have a hearing on the charge
of forgery at Winterset, new trial
having been granted following her
conviction and sentence to prison
for fifteen years. Mrs. Allen was tried
by one jury for forging a check on a
st. Charles bank for $25 and found
not guilty. On exactly the same
charge, except that it was a different
bank, by jury composed of bust
ness men of Winterset after a de-
liberation of five minutes, she was
found guilty.
Friends are greatly concerned
over the disappearance of c.. Brown
a shoe merchant of Latimer, who
left that place thirty days ago fol
Des Moines, for the supposed pur
pose of trading his stock for land
On April q he mailed from Des
Moines a letter to his former bust
erd, Mimi, a letter stating that he
would arrive there in a few days
He never showed up, and nothing has
since been heard from him. The
holders of a mortgage against the
shoe stock have closed the store.
Milo Grace, young man % years
old, shot himself in his room a
Coon Rapids, over the saloon of hi:
father, /. r. Grace. The boys mother
heard the shot and fearing that some
thing was wrong called Charlie!
Howe, an employee. Together the!
tried the door, which was locked
Then Howe climbed in through thu
window and found the young maj
lying on the floor dead with a bulle
hole in his forehead and a small %
rifle lying at his feet. No cause TO
the suicide is known. Young Grac,
was of quiet disposition, and though
he drank some, he was said to hav,
been sober when he killed himself
The father was at Perry at the tim,
of the suicide.
While playfully kicking up its heel
and frisking about, horse belonging
to S. ]. Elkin, k.:Sed him over I'll,
right eye, inficting terrible wound
The doctors are hopeful that he will
recover unless complications shoulC
set in.
Crawling under box car to escap,
heavy shower at Marshalltown
Frank Taylor, aged SO years, an low
Central section hand, was cut in tw,
by switch engine that backed dow
| to move the car. Both legs were Gu
off UP so high as TO prevent hi
amputation and both hands ar
| crushed at the wrist.
With a purse containing s104.49 o.