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

| one so young of iockjaw, resulting
from an injury to the foot. The child
| started to run across the street and
ran under a heavy ice wagon, one
foot being badly mashed. Two days
later symptoms of tetanu developed
and two days after that the child died.
The year-and-a-half-old baby girl
of Mr.. and Mrs. James Hogan, Of Iowa
Falls, died following severe burns
caused by an accident about week
ago. The little one pulled a teapot
half filled with hot tea off the table,
splitting the contents down the child's
back and shoulders. While the burns
were severe, it was not thought to be
serious, but peritonitis set in in day
or so and resulted fatally.
After lying in a commatose condi-
ton for about ten days, or almost
ever since she had a tooth extracted,
Mrs. Eliza Clark, a well known
woman of Marshalltown, and a pio-
neer of the county, died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. E. B. Connley.
The removal of the tooth caused
rupture of blood vessel in the brain,
and resulted in paralysis which af-
fected practically the entire left SIDE.
Closely following his troubles which
eliminated in the divorce court sew
eral days ago. former Mayor Jim
Brenton, of Des Moines, was fined s.
and costs by Judge Stewart for al
| legged abuse of his horses. Mr.. Bren-
! ton did not appear in court to receive
his sentence. He was arrested a
| few days ago at the instance of the
! humane society. A similar charge
was filed against him several weeks
ago.
Oscar A Rosengren, who was in
! jured in an automobile accident in
Marshaltown on July 81, 1906, when
he was run into by machine owned
by w. h. Leech and F. F. Michaels
has entered suit in the district court,
asking $1,000 damages from Leech.
Rosengren claims that he as per-
manently injured as result Of being
run down by the machine, which he
alleges was running at an unlawful
rate of speed
Miss Elsie Hicknott the 17-year-
old Keokuk girl who has been re-
ported missing from that city, was dis
covered in Burlington employed in
the Office of a local physician as
stenographer. Her friends state that
she grew tired of attending business
college in Keokuk and slipped away
to Burlington, where she secured en-
ployment. friend secured her cloth
ing and brought it to her, saying
nothing about it to any one.
Ed Wagner and Joe Burns, two of
the five cracksmen who were sen
fenced at Marshalltown for blowing
the Marshall Vinegar company's safe
in November, 1906, have been dis.
charged after serving their two years
terms. The men were among the
number who, after being arrested
single handed by Officer Frank Haas
escaped from jail by saving their
way out. The men were all recaptur.
ed later, and all but one served terms
CONSERVATION reigns supreme in
Cerro Gordo county offcialdom over a
resolution passed unanimously by the
county board of supervisors that the
custom of paying the expense of the
official would be discontinued this
year. No reason was given for the
act. Why the board should pass such
a resolution cannot be fathomed
and they won't explain. Most of the
county officials have been waiting
for the annual convention of county
officers for their vacation
The professional diver, Eugene Fer.
ris, who has been searching the bot
tom of the river in front of Burling-
ton for a missing propeller wheel,
has encountered much difficulty in
gaining a solid footing on the bed
of the river. He states that the sand
and mud forming the bottom is SC
thiCkly strewn with logs and lumber
that it is almost like trying to thread
a dense thicket to make his way
about, and there is no solid ground
to walk upon. He says the logs and
lumber stick up in all directions and
are wedged in among each other so
tightly that it is impossible to push
them aside. The report of Diver Fer.
ris cOrroborates that of other divers
at Burlington and elsewhere that the
bed of the Mississippi river is a for,
est of logs and lumber that have &C,
cumulated during the long years of
lumber and log rafting on the upper
river 1t is stated that the Chippewa
and other tributaries of the Missis-
sippi in the north down which most
of the lumber has been RATED are
denSGly sown with lost lumber, and
the proposition has been made that
companies be formed to recover the
timber. In the present day Of fail
ing of the lumber supply it is thought
that now buried in the mud of the
river bed is immensely valuable, and
at least one firm is said to be con-
Iemplating a systematic dredging for
1t.
While buying scrap iron In the
country, Charles Denton, a teamster
of Marshalltown, loaded parts o. an
old reaper on his wagon. Then get
ting up on the load to test it's rid.
ing capacity, the wheel fell over the
wagon box, and on top of Denton.
The man. was terribly bruised, and it
is believed has sustained severe in,
ternal injuries.
A pleasure outing on the river at
, Burlington ended disastrously when
Fred P. Strunk, aged % was drowned
while swimming in the river below
Burlington.