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

! The Swanson brothers were Killed
and Al Hanson very nearly lost his
life in trying to rescue them, three
miles narth of Cherokee, by entering
a well filed with fire damp.
PtomaMn poisoning from eating
salad has made twenty members of a
party of knights of Pythias and their
ladies at a picnic critically i'll. E. r.
Gibson, one of The party, is in des-
perate condition.
Arthur OLeary, a farm hand bum
ming his way home to Chicago, was
robbed, beaten and kicked from the
train while going at a high rate of
speed near Boone by quartette of
tramps. He escaped with his life
and So cents, but vows vengeance.
Glenn Blanchard and Clarence Guy
printers, fell three stories and base
ment in a freight elevator shaft in
the Boone Blank Book company manu-
featuring plant, but were saved from
death by another employe who had
rope and reduce the power. Blanch-
ards hands were badly burned by
trying to stop the descent of the ele-
vator by selling the rope.
The Davenport city council has
granted permits to eight saloons,
recently enjoined, to reopen their sa-
looms and run them in conformity to
the mulct law. Washington garden
is among these enjoined. Some DAY.
export saloonkeepers are now oe-
claring themselves content to obey
the law, saying that a rest after 10
o'clock at night and on Sundays
agrees with them as well as with
other people.
Albert and Josephine Landgraf were
seriously injured in a runaway in
Odebolt. The young folks had been
spending the day at the Auchstetter
! home near Arthur and were on their
way home when the horse became
frightened. Running east and strik'
| ing a telephone pole the horse threw
the occupants of the buggy out,
| legs just above the knee and lnjuring
his sisters back. Aid was quickly
| summoned and the wounds dressed
and the boy and girl removed to their
! home.
Rev. and Mrs. James S. Corkey OF
the Winterset Presbyterian church
will sail on the Lusitania from New
York on Aug 26. The trip is pre-
sentation from this enterprlsing
church to the pastor and his wife
They will make an extended tour
While abroad Mr.. Corkey will take
part in family reunion in the old
manse at Londonderry, where his
father has been pastor for forty-nin.
years. Seven brothers, all Presby
terrain preachers, and one sister, &
missionary in Africa, will meet al
the old home.
1t is thought a clue has been found
that will throw light on the mysteri
Gus assault of Mrs. Stevens at he,
home in Sand Springs. One evenins
during the absence of Mrs. Stevens
husband some person entered heI
| home and beat her so unmercifull.
that she nearly died. 1t was frs
| thought that robbery was the motive
for the assault, but his theory wal
abandoned when it was found tina
nothing in the house had been dis
turbed. 1t is now said that the Is
sault was prompted by revenge, an;
was perpetrated by one of the womel
in the neighborhood who had a grudg
against Mrs. Stevens.
In an attempt to cross the Rocl
Island track near Mason City in from
of swiftly moving train, Mrs. Pat
rick Kelley, wife of prominen
farmer living in the northwest par
of the county, with her son, wer
hurled across the right Of way ant
terribly bruised, though it is though
not fatally. The team was killed in
stantly and the wagon crushed int
kindling wood. The accident seen
ingly was foolhardy as the track
clear in both directions at the cross
ing and the train could easily be see
approaching. The train stopped ant
taking the injured people on board
took them to Garner.
During a storm at Bagley ligh
ming struck a house occupied by NJ
, and Mrs. Jack Skinner and thre
! children. At the time of the flas
. Mrs. Skinner was sitting on a be
upstairs while Mr.. Skinner was
, the dining room below. Both wer
stunned, but not injured. The chill
rem escaped. The bolt ran down tn
: chimney and divided, part goin
2 down the roof at the side of the hous
: into the ground, splintering shingle
5 siding and a door casing. The otht
4 part of the bolt reduced the casir
y of a partition upstairs to kindlir
+ wood and threw the door some di
. lance into the bedroom where Mr.
. Skinner sat. The house is bad
t wrecked and it is miraculous thi
!. the occupants escaped serious injur
The loss is covered by insurance.
A flying rock from a blast at IL
u Mason City cement plant broke Il
y arm of Miss Merle Harding, who WI
passing in a carriage. large artel
& was severed in the member. causir
an alarming hemorrhage.
p Henry Van Alstine, of Spence
r fell from a load of hay, sue &iniag
II broken neck as a result. Van Alstlr
# was employed by F. M. futile al
Q had gone to remove canvas cove
y ing from the load, when he slippc
e and fell, striking on the side of h
" head with a fata' result. Te -
alone at the time.
Mason City officials have filed
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