Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-09
IOWA
NEWS


ernor Cummins, for the flood suf-
fereres.
While temporarily insane, Mrs.
John Etsinger of Burlington, swal-
lowed four tablets of bichloride of
mercury, which caused death at st,
! Francis hospital.
While shoveling earth on the coffin
of a woman in Einsiedeln, Switzer-
land, grave-digger heard scream
for help. He opened the coffin, and
found the woman alive.
Some unknown miscreant is evil
IDENTIFY pursuing Rev. ]. w. S. Lowry
of Corning, for some real or imagined
injury. Recently he stabbed the
preachers horses with a poisoned
knife ana night or two later cut
! the pasture fence and turned them in
to neighbours green corn field. SINH
lar depredations have occurred in that
vicinity of late, the most notable be-
ing the poisoning of 100 head of sheep
belonging to r. d. Bentley.
A $4,000 damage suit in which the
claim is made that a husbands af-
! lection for his wife was estranged
by the interference of her husbands
parents, has been flied in the district
court at Davenport. Lena Kniegge
IS the plaintiff and states in her petit
zion that William Kniegge and Annie
Kniegge, the defendants, have made
accusations against her character
that have alienated her husbands af-
lection for her and have finally re.
suited in a separation.
George Young, the man who shot
and killed his former business part
ner, Frank Parker, at Newton about
| ten days ago. was held on q charge
Of murder and remanded to Jail with
out bail The dead mans widow,
who had separated from her husband,
1t is alleged, because of Young, was
! present in the court room, but was
not put on the witness stand. Young
lost his cool demeanor and broke
down and cried when his attorney
made an imprisoned plea.
A burglar bluffed his way out of
he Willis Brown home at D.s Moines
| with a $50 diamond in his pocket
while Mrs. Willis Brown showed the
thief over her home, discussing the
proper decorations for the different
rooms. When the burglar left Mrs.
Brown discovered that her diamond
ring worth $50 was gone and that the
alleged decorator was in reality a
thief who bluffed his way to liberty
when he was caught in the house
by the mistress. The man asserted
that he had been sent to take meas
urements to redecorate the house.
His smooth talk convinced her and
she showed him all over the house.
The body of little Annie Strunk OF
Usage has been recovered from the
Cedar river, into which she fell while
playing with companions. The re,
mains were discovered by her father,
who has been conducting a systematic
and tireless search ever since the wa,
ters engulfed his child. While row,
ing forty rods below the dam the
father glanced up into a tree border
ing the water and there saw the
body of his child dangling head down
ward. The little one had lodged
about twelve feet up from the pres
ent stage Of the river and had become
entangled in a bough. The remains
! were decomposed and an immediate
! burial was made.
Bishop James Davis of the Catholic
diocese of Davenport has issued al
appeal to the Catholics of the dio
cese to assume three-fourth of thu
expense of the extensive additions
costing about 100000 being made t,
st. Ambrose college. The college il
educating a large number Of youn!
men, largely for the Catholic min
istry and is self-supporting. The ad
ditions being made include a gym
nasium, auditorium, inflrmary, privat,
rooms for senior students and con
siderably extends the college dormi
tories. More than one-third of tn,
priests of the diocese, states Bishol
Davis, have been educated within it
walls. In his episcopal letter the bish
also urges the creation of an endow
ment for the college.
The entire Hagenbeck and Wallac,
circus, representing a value of 5000
900, was held in Mason City for fou
or five hours to compel a reserved
seat hawker to disgorge $29, of which
it is alleged he had fleeced a
spectator Of the nights performance
According to the story of JOSEPH
Stewart, who caused the trouble, tn,
hawker asked for two $40 bills in ez
change for smaller bills. Stewar
accommodated the hawker, but dis
covered Immediately that he had beel
short changed to the amount of $29
He demanded restitution at once
but was refused. Instead of takin
his loss meekly, Stewart sued out
writ of attachment against the shows
The officers seized a fine team O
horses and the whole outfit was de
layed until o'clock in the mornin
before the matter was adjusted.
The Western Grocery company @
Marshalltown closed a deal by whic
John T. Hancock Sons, a wholesal
grocery house, OF Dubuque, the oldes
in Iowa is taken over by the f-s
named concern.
Charles E3ermeyer. a prominen
musician of Carroll and known 70
his talent all over that section. con
mitted suicide at his fathers hous
by cutting his throat. He was foun
in his room by his mother who wa
at the home at the time he killed hin
self. Prolonged poor health couple
with an unbalanced mind was tn
cause of the act.
George w. Haynett, mayor of l.;
porte City and former agent to tn
Navajo Indians in Arizona, a forme