Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-01-23
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NEWS
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Every saloon keeper in Clinton sign
ed a petition presented to the city
council demanding reduction In the
mulct tax from $500 to $500, following
a reduction of business hours, closing
Sundays and holidays. Action was de-
ferred by the council.
William Schwene, a member of the
Schwene Hardware company, and also
of the Schwene Manufacturing COM
pany, and one of the most popular
lyorng business men of Ogden, was
struck by C. & N. w. train, death re-
sulting instantly.
After two days trial before Justice
A. A. Alline and jury of six men,
James Ross, William Ross, B. F..
Adams and u. D. Smith, prominent
farmers near Akron, were acquitted Of
charge of illegal seining and fishing
In the Big Sioux river.
John Pumping wanted for bigamy
was arrested at Billings, Mont. Sheriff
Dunn of Dubuque departed for there
as soon as requisition papers arrived.
! Pumping is the Helena man who mar
ried Dubuque girl after getting a
divorce from his Montana wife which
fnter had been set aside by the SUI
preme court of Montana. The woman
Is now in Dubuque.
! Harrison Weeks, former resident
Of Green Mountain. Marshall county,
was murdered at Hayes Center, Neb.
| Herbert Robb, an insane man, wanted
| Weeks to settle an imaginary claim
| for farm land and demanded the
| money at the point of shotgun
| Weeks laughed at him and Robb told
him to say his prayers. With that
he shot Weeks, blowing off the top of
his head. Robb was captured.
Following out their custom of profit
sharing, it is announced that Morri
| son, Mcintosh & Co. of Grinnell. will
soon distribute $1,000 in cash among
| their employees on the basis of their
| 1907 business. About sixty employees
| will participate and they will receive
sums ranging from $11 to SIS, accord
| ing to the salary. The company has
| found its experiment success and
the labor troubles are at minimum.
A south bound car on the Iowa City
Cedar Rapids Inter Urban rolled down
thirty foot embankment near Con-
falls after jumping from the trestle
| work. Motorman AL Anderson of
| Iowa City was seriously cut about his
| head and body, and Conductor John
Hollenbeck of Iowa City received
| bruises on the head body and legs,
| but not so serious. Mrs. John Stoner,
of North Libery, was injured in the
arm; Mrs. Stevens, OF Iowa City, was
| cut and bruised about the head. The
| injured were all taken to Cedar
| Rapids.
AT a meeting of the Ringgold County
Mutual Insurance company w. S. Shri-
yer was reelected president for the
| twenty-first consecutive term. He has
been president of this organization
since its beginning and has made 1T
one of the most successful in the
state. 1t is claimed that he can show
longer term of service than any
other officer of Iowa. The county
association shows a good record for
the year. They have carried for the
farmers of the county S1,04l,908 OF
risks during the year and did 1t at
cost of but SET per thousand.
Fort Dodge people have been hold
ing Indignation meetings because of
the disclosure of their narrow escape
from a theater horror and of the dis
regard of the local theater manage
| ment for the laws. While the Midland
txeater was packed, unprotected cleo
trio wires became short circuited,
back on the stage and a blaze fol-
lowed that was put out by the stage
manager only at the cost OF severe
burns on his hands. There was i'm
minent danger of u destructive fire
and attendant loss of life in the
audience. In violation of law, chairs
were crowded in everywhere in the
aisles. An examination of the switch
board revealed a frightful careless
ness in wiring. Electric wires were
not properly insulated, some were
wrapped around iron pipes and brass
wires were used in place of fuses.
These were the facts, notwithstand-
ing the manager of the theater is city
fire marshal and was on duty wear
ing his badge of authority at the time
Two suicides marked the openenig
of the new year at Charles City. One
was committed by young college
student Anton Kari Hlndrfcks, and
the other by George Goddard, a
farmer living east of there, man we'll
along in life. Lack of wealth explains
the first and lack CT health the sec
ond remarkable note was left by
the boy addressed TO his roommate,
named Cook. 1t read: ''If there is
such place as hell, people are just
as well there as on earth" This tragic
note was found lying by the side of
| the young man. AS the young man
had just come from Pierre, S. D., to
enter the Charles City college, not
much is known of him. He had just
| proved up on a claim and had come
! to Charles City to work his way
| through school, Work was hard to
find, and 1t is supposed that this fact
| drove him to commit his rash act,
which has plunged the whole institu-
tlon into sorrow. George Goddard, the
farmer, who died by his own hand,
leaves wife ard several children.
| He was prosperous. But his health
has been poor for three years, and
1t probably was that which led to his
death.
Suffering from severe hemorrhages
Of the nose for several months, caused
by small tumor on the brain, result
| ed in the death of Edward Hebrank,
aged 35 years, of Mason City.
The Grand Army of the Republic
! post OF What Cheer has secured the
services of Gen. James Rush Lincoln
OF Ames, formerly in the rebel army
in the civil war; to deliver the prin-
cipal address on next Memorial day.
The old soldiers propose to give an
object lesson, showing how deeply
has been buried the Ratchet of the
! civil war, and so have invited for
mer soldier of the confederacy to take
the principal place on their program.
A large livery barn at Sheffield,