Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-26
neutrality-suspicious.
IOWA
NEWS

iis clothing in the shafting and was
Thirled around several times before
lis brother, John, could stop the en-
sine. He sustained injuries from
which it is feared he will die.
Jacob Strict, German living near
Homestead, was found almost lifeless
:hree miles west of Iowa City. He
nad lain in the rain all night and was
80 stiff from exposure that when
brought to the county jail his clothes
could hardly be removed. He was in
ioxicated 1t is thought from his ac-
lions before leaving the city.
A case of long standing was tried
recently in the district court at Sid
ney. 1t is entitled Foust VS.. Vincent
ct al, and has been on the docket for
.welye years, some of the litigants
being dead. The dispute is over a
boundary line and only a little more
than one acre of land Is involved.
The value Of the land + about $50
and the costs in the case already ag-
gregate $500, exclusive Of lawyers
Decision has not yet been rendered.
A special representative of an in
terurban company met with the Car
roll business club and much enthusi-
asm was manifest 1t was proposed
to interest parties in an interurban
project from Des Moines to Sioux
City, via Panora, Bayard, Coon Rapids,
Carroll, Wall Lake, Ida Grove, Correc-
tionVille thence west into Sioux City.
Another meeting will be held in the
near future, at which time it is
thought some definite action will be
taken.
Claiming that the medical treat
ment given him did no good and that
his money had been obtained under
false pretenses, John Wilkerson, of
Wilton, has filed information against
A. Galloway and G. w. Hawey, charg-
ing them with being itinerant doctors.
The men were arrested at their Of
fee and pleaded ignorance of the law,
but were bound over to the district
court The doctors have been doing
thriving business during their stay
in the city.
County Attorney U. G. Whitney, of
Sioux City, has been asked to use the
machinery of his office in locating
Earl Lyle Good the 10-year-old grand
son of o. Streeter, of Correctionville,
who was kidnapped while the funeral
services were being held over the re-
mains of his grandmother. Mrs.
George J. Green, of Ida Grove, the
mother of the boy who deserted him
two years ago, is charged with the
offense. The woman is thought to
have taken the boy to Cherokee.
A dispatch from Jewell Junction
says the game season is on again in
portions of northern and north cen
trail Iowa, and the hotels are serving
some fine wild game dinners with wild
ducks as the piece de resistance on
the bill of fare. A great many fiocks
of gild geese and ducks are last &C.
ing northward and the prospects are
good for plenty of good shooting soon
Around many of tho ponds and the
marshes in this region the wild fowl
are beginning to congregate in vasl
flocks. Sportsmen are fast prepac
ing to commence the onslaught. At
Lake Park, Milford, Terrill and other
points in Dickinson county there will
be large quantities of wild game of
all kinds this spring.
An unusual runaway at Holbrook,
Iowa county, nearly resulted fatally
for John Duffy, a prominent farmer
living between that town and Fren-
dale. He had just started home when
team attached to hayrack and
| left united by its owner, started off
| on a run. The hay and rack were
| dumped off and the horses, dragging
| the running gear, ran into Mr.. Duff
| fy's buggy from behind. The hor3ss
| did not stop, they went right through
! the buggy, and the wagon followed
after. One of the runaway horses
went between Mr.. Duffy's team and
| the other outside, and four abreast,
they started to run away. One of the
horses fell down and stopped the pro.
cession. Mr.. Duffy had been thrown
out and was thought to be dangerous.
! ly hurt. 1t took seven stitches to
close one cut on his scalp. He will
recover, however. Thomas Bivins, an,
other farmer living near Frendale
was kicked on the head by one OF
his horses at about the same time and
badly hurt.
One of the, saddest deaths in the
history OF the Chicago, Burlington &
| Quincy railroad constructive depart
ment was that of Mr.. c. E. Barnum
|
the inventor of a new stoker applied
to railroad locomotives which gave
promise of great success. The stoker
was attached to a locomotive and q
trial was given it on the Burlington
main line a week of so ago, but the
day before the trial Mr.. Barnum was
taken i'll and had to be removed to
his home in West Burlington, and
| 10 IL
without his supervision. AS there
were some points about the mechan
| ism which he alone understood, the
test was not fully success, and the
engine was placed in the round house
to await his recovery. He never left
his bed again, and after an operation
for cancer Of the stomach, he passed
away, leaving what is believed to be
a most valuable invention upper
fected. II is stated by those who
know that the stoker would save mil
lions of dollars In coal bills for rail
roads.
Despondent over a love affair, Wal
| thea Ralston, servant girl aged 2(
| years, took carbolic acid in her room
at the Collins hotel. The girl was
dead when found an hour after hei
rash act.
Fire routed out three families living
on the second floor of the drug store
of Mcnamara & Hickey company g
Fort Dodge and destroyed the build
ing. The fire gained such headway
before it was discovered that the
sleeping inmates of the upper floors
were forced to fee in scanty garments
The loss TO stock is estimated al
$4,000, partially covered by Insurance
Joseph Nastny, who was arrested a
Iowa City for making anarchist,
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