Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-23


crank kicked back, striking Mr.. Et
wards on the arm, breaking it jus
above the wrist. Mr.. Edwards attr
butes the accident to the spark b,
Ing rather advanced, causing tn
crank to kick backward instead y
| forward.
Owners OF orchards in the Glen
wood fruit growing belt say tina
early conditions for apples wer
never more favorable and that tn,
outlook is for an enormous crop thi
fall, barring some disaster or other
The peach crop promises to be very
small, as the trees generally are IL
bad shape, because of cold weather
at critical time.
Anna Mary Gables, the 16-months
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Otto
Gables, of Council Bluffs, is dead
as the result of eating the heads
from twenty or thirty matches. The
child was discovered in the act oil
consuming match and, although a
physician was hastily summoned, sc
much poison had been taken into the
stomach that all efforts to save the
child's life were futile.
The biggest single order ever plac.
ed for advertising lead pencils has
just come to a Davenport manufac-
turer, calling for 100000 printed pen.
cils-more than carload. Still
more interesting is the fact that this
order came from the east to the
west, having been placed with the
Blanchard Bros. company of Daven-
port by the John Hancock Mutual
Life Insurance company Of Boston.
The Davenport men control a. not
able patent for printing round pen
ellis.
Master Mechanic F. E. Doxey OF
the Des Moines Short Line had his
left foot badly mashed. While cross
ing the tracks near the company's
round house at Iowa Falls, Mr..
Doxey passed between two sections
of freight train that was switching
in the yards. He tripped and fell
across the tracks, but had presence
of mind to throw his body out of the
way of the advancing train, but his
foot was caught and badly mangled.
1t is thought that amputation of the
member will be necessary.
A rather peculiar action has just
been instituted in the courts at Cres-
ton, wherein the ticket agent of the
Burlington road is charged with hay-
ing perjured himself in giving testi.
mony in the case wherein John Hall
sued the Burlington for $4,000 DAM
ages for personal injuries. 1t is
claim by Hall that Agent G. w. Fogg
swore that the change in the railroad
company's name involved great ex.
pense over the system in printing
new station billing paper, etc., as we'll
as the change in wording on tickets
On the eve of his wedding, Tibbits
Jackman, a resident of Ellis town.
ship, Hardin county, was stricken
with paralysis that ended in his
death. While he was at work in the
field with disc he sustained a stroke
which rendered him speeches. and
helpless. But he had presence Of
mind to drive to the house, where
physicians were quickly summoned
He grew gradually worse and died a
few days later. Mr.. Jackman had
about completed new home and was
to have been married in a short
time.
Judge Walter /. Babb, of Aurora
H., but formerly well known Iowan,
has just closed the purchase of a
part of the Penick & Baker ranch in
Cedar township, Lucas county. The
purchase includes 625 acres of land
which was bought at price of SIS
per acre, perhaps the cheapest price
paid in years for Iowa land. Mr..
Babb was acting for Messrs. Gerge
and Smith, of Aurora, who expect to
operate stock farm. Mr.. Smith is
president of the Inland Fuel CON-
pany and the Western Wheeled
Scraper company, of Aurora, al as
associate is treasurer of the Inland
Fuel company.
The parole of Victor P. envy, OF
Dubuque has been ordered by Gov
ernor Cummins. Remy was con-
victed in January of embezzlement of
5000 funds of the fraternal society OF
which he was treasurer. Numerous
palliating circumstances, among them
the fact that Remy never profited by
the money, having paid up dues Of
,,,a in
Of the money in grocery business
which did not prosper, were advanc-
ed. He was allowed liberty under
bond while friends circulated a petit
ton. He never served a month IA
prison. The case is unique in local
criminal records.
The big new touring car recently
purchased by DR.. N. e. Mighell of
Marshalltown was badly damaged
and one man quite seriously burned
by an explosion of gas in front OF
the Eldridge-Beebe company's gar
age. The Mighell machine was
driven to the garage for gasoline
and in filing the tank S. l.. Wedge.
wood spilled considerable oil over
the machine. This vaporized and
famed by the wind, was carried to
the headlights, which ignited it. In
trying to extinguish the blaze Wedge
wood, whose clothing was also some
what saturated, was burned badly
about the right arm and left hand.
When Mrs. Margaret A. Pennington
OF Fayette county arrived in Detroit
Mich, after long journey to take
charge OF the funeral of her son
Amos Pennington, she was amazed tc
find him hale and hearty at the traiI