Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-06
se..s. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES =
IOWA
NEWS


under a trolley car at Dubuque while
hlppln2 the car, and had a leg cut off
Wayne Ramsey, aged g. was drown
ed at GAINESVILLE while playing about
a bayou of Shell Rock river. His
young companions tried to rescue
him, but their efforts We're in vain
George Sherer, a prominent resident
OF Buchanan county, was killed in
stantly when a Chicago Great West
en freight train struck mis- rig al a
crossing near Lamont. The buggy
was demolished but the horse es-
capped.
Ferdinand w. Kerch, 2o-year-od
Davenport barber. quarreled with his
Vile 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 barn dance on the Henry Gala
han farm near Elma, Leo Enrisht and
Jack Graft quarreled and Enrieht 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, Greek section hand
on the Rock Island near Cedar Rapids,
went swimming, got beyond his depth
and his twenty-four companions OH
the bank allowed him to drown with
out further help than by raising their
hands to heaven in prayar.
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
vacant building adjoining, burned
to the ground a few days ago. Mr..
and Mrs. Lee, who ran the restaurant,
had temporary living quarters above
it. They barely escaped with their
lives. The belief is general that the
buildings We're set afre by some in
cendiary. The less 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-
tion regarding the consent of adjoin-
ing property owners. Proprietors of
resorts all over the city are actively
engaged just now in preparing tc
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 20 accept vol
UNFAIRLY what they consider to be the
inevitable.
James McCreedy, a popular bust
ness man and member of the firm OF
Stewart & 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 man about 80 years of age
and leaves a wife and three daughters
Cecil Decker of Lake City was
drowned in the Raccoon river abou,
six miles south of Grant City while
in bathing with a boy companion. He
was not a good swimmer and while
wading suddenly dropped into fiji
teenfoot hole. He struggled in the
water alone, for his companion had
left the water and did not see him
until it was too late 10 rescue him
The body was found about half an
hour later. Young Decker was about
10 years old and had been clerking in
d Lake City clothing store.
When John Lepley, a farmer livine
near Union, put bullet through his
head he not only shot himself, bu,
also a picture of himself in the room
The bullet that Lepley fired into his
head went with such terrific force
that ii passed through from side tc
side. Not far away on the wall huns
a group picture in which Lepley was
taken with 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, anG
unctured it squarely. Uncanny as
VAS 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
precision that stirs the superstitious
The leaden missile had singled out
from all that group of people the sui
eide himself and tore its 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 car
know, and it may never happen again
Lepley had been acting queerly fcl
some time and it is believed that his
mind was unbalanced. He leaves q
wife and several children.
A mysterious stranger is in the