Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-13

| Ing SEVERELY klCheu Oh the uedu anu
body by a horse. The boys life is
| feared for.
While in the act of lighting a lamp,
Miss Media Schollian, daughter of a
well known farmer near Sheffield, set
her night dress on fire, burning her
| so seriously that physicians say she
can not live. The loose gown burst
into flames in moment. Miss Schof-
| liam had been with her sister. Mrs. c.
| J. Allen.
The remains of George Mess, whip
was killed by the cars at Nora juno
| ton have been sent to the home OF
his mother at Alma Kansas, for in
terment. He was II and was return
ing from the harvest fields in Dakota
when the accident occurred. While
trying to board the train his hand
slipped and he fell under the wheels.
His body was horribly mangled, the
heart being found protruding through
his back when he was picked up.
Mrs. Ida Manning, of Centerville,
while visiting her father, o. A. john
son, two miles south of Foster, be-
came dementC and gave her L.
months-old child arsenic, killing it
almost instantly. Afterwards she
took a large dose herself, while her
parents were for the moment absent
from the house. Physicians were call
| ed at once, and by the aid OF
stomach pump and emetics, revived
her. Some hopes for her recovery
| are entertained.
A glancing bullet inflicted serious
wound in the leg of .Kirkwood Nal
lory, the 11-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. e. A. Mallory of Iowa Falls
| The ball entered the thigh and pass
| ed down the leg to the knee. In
company with some boy companions
young Mallory was camping out. One
| of the boys accidentally discharged
rifle ne was cleaning. The bullet
struck tin pail and glancing struck
| the Mallory boy. The surgeons have
been unable to locate the ball.
| Sam Wallace, a Franklin county
retired farmer, has been made the
defendant in a damage suit for
SANDER, the plaintiff in the case be-
ing Mr.. Newman, a junk dealer OF
Hampton. 1t is alleged in the petit
ton Just filed in the case in the dis
trict court that Mr.. Wallace styled
Newman a thief and sundry other
things that have a tendency to dis
credit the plaintiff in business, social
and financial circles. The case is ex.
pected to have an airing at the Octo,
Der term.
A stampede of cattle resulting from
a passing train knocked down the
horse ridden by James Watts, a
prominent farmer of Cerro Gordo
county, resulting in serious injury to
the rider. Both horse and rider were
trampled severely and while no bones
were broken their injuries are very
severe. How Mr.. Watts ESCAPED
death is a marvel. He was driving
fifty head of cattle to a neighboring
pasture and in crossing the Great
Western track a train dashed through
the herd.
Two of the club tents included il
the white city" at the Creston Chau
tauqua grounds were blown dowr
and strewn over a considerable dis
lance during a wind and electrical
storm. Some damage to property
was occasioned but no persons were
injured. Lightning struck thret
places in town shattering the towe
of the new Franklin school buildin.
on the south side, tearing a chime.
to pieces on the residence of GU
Anderson and disrupting the tele
phone wires at the home of Ed T
Holderness.
Several people were injured in ;
runaway accident at Iowa Falls few
, days ago. While driving down hill
with the family horse hitched to
surrey one of the shafts broke, re
: sulting in a runaway in which tn
occupants of the surrey were .hrowl
: into the ditch and all more or les
; injured. Miss Helen Morton wa
, driving. accompanied by Miss Hollis
, ter, who is visiting at the Morton
! home. Mrs. Burdick of Des Moines
formerly superintendent Of school
, in Iowa Falls, and Mrs. Burdick's littl
niece. The latter seems to hav
9 been injured internally for the We
+. hicle passed clear over her body
, While no bones were broken, all tn
occupants of the surrey were more O
less cut and bruised.
Reports from the western part c
/. Adams county are to the effect tina
a number of farmers in Douglas tow
O ship are losing their hogs from eli
h ease that no one seems to know wha
a it is. 1t is not cholera but is aESu
n as fatal. The sick animals ref-s
@ to eat and lay around for three c
I. four days before they die. If the
q attempt to walk they stagge-,
q cough accompanying the disease. NJ
q Bixler's was the first drove to tax
: the disease and he lost almost 10
r. head James Lyman lost twenty ol
q hogs and eighty pigs. Frank Da
Q lost thirty head. Henry Donnell
;. twenty-seven. Ernest Neill is bur
9 ing his dead at the rate of ten a da
Y Farmers are selling their hogs 6
# fast as possible. No remedy is know
" to cure the disease and farmers al
at a loss how to protect their drove
Joe Mathews, aged IA years, W.
e drowned in a swimming hole in IL
'e Nodaway river four miles north
% New Market. He could not swlI
The body was recovered after dra
e ging the river several hours.
Life was crushed out Of Charlt
Z Gnrrel aged 90 by q traction emf,