Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-08-06
; IOWA
NEWS

Tipping the car, and had leg cut off,
Wayne Ramsey, aged 9, was drown
ed at GAINESVILLE while playing about
bayou of Shell Rock river. His
young companions tried to rescue
him, but their efforts were in vain.
George Sherer, prominent resident
of Buchanan county, was killed in
stantly when Chicago Great West
ern freight train struck his rig at a
crossing near Lamont. The buggy
was demolished but the horse es-
capped.
Ferdinand W. Kerch, 20-year-old
Davenport barber, quarreled with his
wife because she did not let him read
letters she received before she read
them herself. Later Kerch swallowed
an ounce Of carbolic acid and soon
died in agony.
At a barn dance on the Henry Gala
han farm near Elma, Leo Enright and
Jack Graft quarreled and Enright bit
off one of CRAFTS ears. Both men had
been drinking. The sheriff and con-
stables have been searching for En-.
| right but cannot find him.
John Boales, a Greek section hand
on the Rock Island near Cedar Rapids,
went swimming, got beyond his depth
and his twenty-four companions on
the bank allowed him to drown with
out further help than by raising their
hands to heaven in prayer.
Alleging that the hot weather and
! the prevalence of flies keeps the cows
busy switching their tails to the
exclusion of the legitimate business
of producing tactical fluid, Dubuque
dairymen have raised the price of
milk from twenty quarts to sixteen
quarts for 81.
The City restaurant at Jewell and
a vacant building adjoining, burned
to the ground few days ago. Mr..
and Mrs. Lee, who ran the restaurant,
had temporary living quarters above
1t. They barely escaped with their
lives. The belief Is general that the
buildings were set afire by some in.
cendiary. The loss will not run above
| $4,000. Insurance $500.
More than twenty saloons in Bur-
lington will have to go out of bust
ness as a result of the mulct regula-
ing property owners. Proprietors of
resorts all over the city are actively
engaged just now in preparing TO
come strictly under the law with the
intention of heading off action by the
civic federation. They have watched
proceedings in Muscatine and Daven-
port and have decided to accept vol
UNFAIRLY what they consider to be the
inevitable.
James McCreedy, a popular bust
ness man and member of the firm of
Stewart e. McCreedy, meat dealers,
died in Washington as the result OF
injuries received in fall from a
horse. AS Mr.. McCreedy was thrown
by the horse, which was frightened,
his foot caught in the stirrup and he
was dragged considerable distance,
and badly tramped about the head
and chest. He lived some hours after
ward in much pain. Mr.. McCreedy
was a man about so years of age,
and leaves wife and three daughters.
Cecil Decker of Lake City was
drowned in the Raccoon river about
six miles south of Grant City while
in bathing with boy companion. He
was not a good swimmer and while
wading suddenly dropped into a fif-
teen-foot hole. He struggled in the
water alone, for his companion had
left the water and did not see him
until it was too late to rescue him.
The body was found about half an
hour later. Young Decker was about
10 years old and had been sterking in
a Lake City clothing store.
When John Lepley, farmer living
near Union, put a bullet through his
head he not only shot himself, but
also a picture of himself in the room.
The bullet that Lepley fired into his
head went with such terrific force
that it passed through from side to
side. Not far away on the wall hung
a group picture in which Lepley was
taken with a number of other people.
After it had death death to Lepley
himself, the bullet took it's course
with unerring accuracy straight
toward the likeness on the wall, and
punctured it squarely. Uncanhy as
was the sight of the dead man as he
was found lying in his own blood,
even more uncanny was the later dis
covery of the freak Of the bullet. With
q precision that stirs the superstitious
the leaden missile had singled out
! from all that group of people the sui
eide himself and tore it's way through
this paper likeness just as it had torn
| its way through the flesh and bone of
the origina. No intent of the suicide
| directed the course of the bullet after
it left his body-only some strange
| break of chance. The incident never
happened before as far as men can
know, and it may never happen again.
Lepley had been acting sueerly for
some time and 1t is believed that his
mind was unbalanced. He leaves a
wife and several children.
A mysterious stranger is In the
hands of the police of Burlington with
a bullet wound in his shoulder. 1t Is
believed that he is A. E. Hair, who
was mixed up in shooting ARRAY in
Galesburg.
G. L. Dixon, a long time resident
of New Hampton, died Of poisoning
In the morning when he rose he TOLD
his wife he was going TO get some
thing from the pantry. Later it was
found that he had taken large dose
of Lewis I've. 1t is not positively
known whether he got the I've can b!
accident or if he intended to commi
suicide.
Marvin, aged years, son OF An
drew Clark, was drowned in tn,