Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-06-04
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on trial at Boone, a verdict for the
plaintiff was drawn up on the jury
torn of verdict for the defendant and
was so returned to the court. The
case will have to be retired.
The receipt of forty carloads of
steel by the ST. Paul & Des Moines
road, means that work on track laying
for the Short Line extension from
Iowa Falls to Mason City will be re-
sumed at once and the steel will be
laid as fast as the bridging and grad
ing can be completed by the contrac-
tors. They hope to reach Mason
City by July 1, but weather conditions
will determine this.
A motion for a new trial has been
made for H. V. Battey, clerk of the
district court at Council Bluffs, on
the ground of misconduct of the trial
jury The motion is supported by the
evidence of James McRobert, one of
the jurors, to the effect that while
the jury was celebrating 1t had ac-
cess to the use of two telephone lines,
and that in fact all except one mem
Der of the jury used the phones, con-
trary to the instructions of the judge.
Miss Bessie NJ. johnson of Daven-
port known as the prettiest school
teacher in Scott county, commenced
suit against the school board OF
Princeton, claiming 100000 damages
from e. l.. Slaughter S. l. Porter, P.
H. McGinnis, and Harry Martin The
board recently refused to reappoint
Miss Johnson and she alleges they
have slandered her by connecting her
In an unfavorable way with True
Metzger, a we'll known young man OF
| Princeton.
On warrant sworn out by the Rev.
| fl. HI. Sawyer, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league of Sioux City, the
club rooms of the Elk's club and the
| Hawkeye CLUB exclusive Sioux City
| social organizations, were raided by
Constable Sim Huber. The raids We're
| failure. At the Ells club the Off
| GERS found nothing but refrigerator
filed with mineral water. bottle OF
seer and bottle of whiskey were
found in an upstairs room at the
Hawkeye club.
Chas. Cooper and Herbert Camp
bell, two Clinton boys, have started
on novel trip, Oh wager. They
departed on the 23rd of the month,
| ON a trip around the world. The con-
ditions are that they make the earth's
circuit after starting from Chicago
| with one penny each as capital, and
that they pay no transportation tolls
at any stage of the journey wager
sports that they cannot accomplish
the feat in four months The boys
leave Chicago on May 26, going TIC
Gibraltar Port Said, Bombay, Singa
pore, Hongkohg, Honolulu and San
Francisco.
j. G.. Benedict of Davenport has
stirred up the school authorities by
charging in an open letter to the
school board that the rule that child
rem must remain after school if they
ask to leave the school room except
at recess, caused the death of his
little daughter Emma, who was at
tending school No. in that city. The
rule, he says causes much suffering
among the pupils, and in the case OF
his little daughter, SO injured her
health as TO cause her death. The
statement has caused much discussion
and demand for Investigation. Super
intendent of Schools F. l.. Smart
denies that such a rule exists.
On swaying scaffold 152 fee
above the roof of the Corn Products
companys factory al Davenport, a II
year-old boy, Lee Cooks. is rivetins
the bolts that are competing the
tallest steel stack in Iowa. One b.
men refused to continue the WORK
and the lad who was working as al
apprentice, finally volunteered TO as
cend 10 the lofty height and complete
the riveting of the stack. 1t requires
twenty-five minutes to climb through
the scaffording that fills the stack, tt
hits top, from where the fearless lat
is let down on a swinging scaffolt
that rests on rollers against the sid
OF the stack
report has been filed at the of1ic
of the assistane engineer in charg
of the Missouri river that the bi
stream at point about a mile an,
a half above the combination bridg
at Sioux City had broken through tn
revetment and Indications are that
may form a new channel, thus er
dangering thousands of dollars wort
of property in Sioux City and Covins
ton. Two breaks in the riprappin
are reported, but only one is deeme
serious. If the waters of the rive
!, persist in seeking a new course tn
combination bridge and the hig
D bridge will be left spanning spac
I OF march land with the river to tn
. south. A hurried report of the brea
has been sent to the office of tn
chief government engineer at Ka1
sas City, Mo.
. Mike Sporer, miner, was crushe
under fall of slate in mine No. s c