Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
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NEWS


kreimeyer of Ackley was stricken
and died before assistance could reacf
him. About a week ago he was taker
with the grip, and feeling better de
| cided to sit up while. In attempt
ing to put on his shoes, he was over
come and died shortly after, the sup
position being his death was due tc
weakening of the heart
The sheriff's officers arrested in a
schoolhouse three miles south east OF
Laurel, man who is believed to be
an escaped convict from the North
Dakota penitentiary at Bismarck
The prisoner gave his name as Ed
Lamont, but he answers the descrip.
ton of John G.. Page, who Is wanted
by North Dakota, and for whose cap
ture a reward of $50 has been offered
After a spectacular escape from
Patrolman Gaffney of Sioux City,
who had arrested him for horse
stealing. John Conrad, believed to
be South Dakota desperado, was
chased through the business district
and finally recaptured after the ex-
change of several shots with officers.
Conrad is accused of stealing a
horse from Barrett Brothers of Hin
ton.
Ealing neary sixty feet In the In
side of a caisson pier of the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad bridge in
course of construction at Clinton,
Bert Winter, one of the pneumatic
workers employed by the company,
alighted in the soft mud in Vie bot
tom of the river ard escaped further
injury than a sprained ankle. He
was taken to a Clinton hospital for
repairs.
Claude Vancant, the 11-year-old son
of a farmer living near Sidney, is
threatened with blood poisoning from
a bite received some five weeks since.
The boy stuck his hand into a hole
in straw pile, thinking there was
a rabbit in the hole. Something.
thought to have been rat, bit him
on the arm. The wound at first heal.
ed up, but is now giving him a great
deal of trouble.
Robert B. Williams, civil war vet
eran and a member of the soldiers
home at Marshalltown, while at
tempting to stop runaway team,
received injuries from which he died
at the home hospital three hours
later. Williams seized one of the
horses by the bride and was thrown
against a telephone pole. Three ribs
were broken and he received severe
internal injuries.
Mrs. George Jones, aged 80 years,
wife of a Dubuque policeman, shot
herself with her husbands revolver.
The husband had just stepped into
the back yard, leaving his wife pre-
pairing dinner. He heard pistol
shot, and fastening into the house
found his wife sitting in a chair and
his 3S-caliber revolver lying ON the
floor. She shot herself in the right
breast and is not expected TO live.
The husband says the woman was
temporarily insane.
Peter Ruff, Burlington barber, has
been arrested by federal authorities
charged with using the mail for I'M
lawful purposes. Ruff is charged with
dealing in lottery tickets and was
taken to Ottumwa. 1t is stated that a
number of arrests will be made in
this part of Iowa on indictments found
by a federal grand jury in Chicago.
taken to Chicago for trial. II is said
the lottery business has been con-
Quoted in an extensive manner.
H. w. Ballard, of Denver, Colo.
superintendent of agencies of the
Keenesburg Improvement company, of
Denver, was placed under arrest at
Waterloo, by Deputy Sheriff A. A.
Nicholson, on charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Ballard
was arrested at the instance of H. j.
Hartjens, a travelling man, and
brother-in-law of Landlord c. NJ. Cole
man of the Pilgrim hotel. Hartjens
identified Ballard at the Marshalltown
State bank in order that Ballard
might secure $50 on a check issued
on his company. The check was pro-
tested and returned, and the bank
looked to Hartjens for the money.
Hartjens Immediately caused Bal
lard's arrest, and he was placed in
Jail. Two women, who live in Des
Moines, and who were in Marshall
town, furnished the money with
which Ballard made good to Hart
jens the $50. AS soon as Hartjens
was reimbursed the action was dis
missed. Ballard left the city, going
to Des Moines.
Mistaking cup of gasoline for
water and pouring it over her apron
to extinguish flames that had caught
in the garment, Mrs. George Yanning
of Millersburg was burned to death
She was instantly enveloped in a
sheet of flame Members of the fam
lily succeeded in smothering the fire
with rags and carpet, but not until
the lady had been fatally burned
and had bre-.thed the flames. Death
ensued a few hours following the
accident The whole affair was due
to a faulty gasoline can. The can
containing the household supply or
the liquid was placed in a shed. A
cup had been set beneath the can to
catch the drip from a leak. The
evaporation from the cup had satu-
rated the air of the small enclosure.
Mrs. Yanning on entering the room
struck match and a slight explo-
sion followed, igniting her apron.
She saw the cup containing liquid,
and. believing it was water, deliber'
ately poured it upon the burning gar.
ment
John D. Mickey, a prominent con
tractor and builder of Oskaloosa
in taking a dose OF medicine at his
home, mistook a bottle OF household
ammonia for the remedy he sought
and almost fatal results followed the
swallowing of a portion of the relg
ent. The man is now thought to be
out of danger.
The proposition to bond the towr
Of Williamsburg for the sam CT $40,
900 to erect a new high school build
Ing was carried, 1877 men and 12(
women voting for it and thirty-fivt
men and two women voting agains