Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-02
IOWA
NEWS

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While temporarily insane, Mrs
} John Etsinger of Burlington, swal.
lowed four tablets of bichloride OF
mercury, which caused death at ST.
Francis hospital.
County Attorney Malmbery of New,
ton filed information charging George
Young with the murder of Frank
Parker at Kellogg. Young's father
has arranged for the defense. The
plea is to be self-defense.
George Simms, who made his
escape through sleeping car win
dow with nothing on but his drawers
and undershirt, was caught at New
Haven, ten miles nG<thwest of Elma,
by the United States marshal.
Some two months ago, John Sher.
man of Protivin attempted suicide
and few days ago he completed the
job by hanging himself in the barn
He was dead when found. He leaves
four brothers, two sisters, and a
mother to mourn his loss.
Bert Lameroux was drowned IN
Crystal lake while out bathing with
three boys all under IS years OF age.
The boys all ventured farther out in
the lake than they should and all Of
them were nearly ready to give up
when they reached shallow water
One boy tried to helJ Mr.. Lameroux
when he called for help, but he could
do very little and save simself, and
he had to break away from Lamer-
ouX. Mr.. Lameroux was married Jan
last and has been in the general
merchandise business since Feb. !.
In their farm home some nine
miles southeast of Webster City Mr..
and Mrs. w. R. Brown are anxiously
awaiting the arrival of their son,
Alva, who eighteen ySars ago quar-
relied with his father End left home,
vowing he would never return during
the lifetime of the Older Brown. The
young man was then but IS years.
He is now 81. But the boys mother
never gave up hope, and through all
the years she made efforts to find
him. She advertise% continually in
the larger papers. and finally located
her boy in Mississippi. He has
promised to return and make his
parents visit.
The first pure food case to come
up in Cerro Gordo county was called
before Mayor McConlogue, NJ. l..
Endanger, manager of the New York
Brokerage company, being the de-
PENDANT. The defendant was fined
$25 and costs. He was arrested by o.
Otteson of Otteson, pure food in
spector, who has been in the city for
few days looking over the business
firms. The firm does a brokerage
business and buys, besides much
material secured from bankrupt sales
and such stocks. A quantity Of bak-
ing powder was secured in this way
and was found to be a fragrant viola
tion of the law to offer it for sale.
The Rooseveltian example of anti
race suicide is a cardinal principle of
Cerro Gordo county, which this year
boasts of 2S3 more births than deaths.
A total of 37S births occurred with
40 deaths. Mason City stands at the
head of the column in birth rate, ac>
cording to population with the rest
IF the county, with 1874 births and
only 81 deaths with a population of
, 10000. Rockwell. however, a town of
500 or 700 people, has no births re-
corded and ten deaths. Three town
ships of the county, which are old
and well settled, report no births and
total Of ten deaths. In the county
outside the city the boys outnum-
bered the girls by 90 TO &c, while in
the city the male, children outnum-
bered the female by four.
Uncle Jimmy" Dickerson, the orr
ginkl pioneer of Cerro Gordo county
northern Iowa, was laid to his final
rest at Clear Lake a few days ago
in the very ground that in his pioueer
days he reclaimed from the wilder
ness. His grave in the cemetery is
on little raise in the prairie from
which he viewed for the first time the
expanse of water in Clear lake which
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home in Clayton county TO the region
Of Clear Lake James Dickerson died
aged 80 years. He had lived in Iowa
since 1884, coming here from In.
diana, his birthplace, and locating
first in Clayton county, where he re-
manned until 1851 hunting and trap
ping chiefly, and farming a little. In
he nd 20 nil
OF northern Iowa, Joseph Hewitt
were tempted by the stories of the
fine inland lakes of northern Iowa, es
pecially Clear lake, and the fine hunt.
: ing and trapping in that vicinity. and
they moved westward stalking out
: homeSteads where the town of Clear
! Lake now stands. These two men
were alone almost in those days in
northern central Iowa, save for the
. Indians. Fort Dodge had been in
existence about year. North and
west there were no settlements and
, none east until Chickasaw county was
reached.
George w. Hayzlett, mayor of La
porte City and former agent to the
Na'oJo ihuiahS III Aii|oho, d III hiei
sheriff and member of the lower
} house of the Iowa legislature, died
J after an illness of only a few hours
, of acute congestion of the lungs. He
was II years of age.
During her regency the matter was
kept constantly before the chapter
and when her time as head of the
chapter expired she was made chair
man of a committee of twelve tC