Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-08-13
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self. He had been drinking.
The Swanson brothers were killed
and All Hanson very nearly lost his
life in trying to rescue them three
miles north of Cherokee, by entering
well filled with fire damp.
Ptomaine poisoning from eating
salad has made twenty members of a
party of knights of Pythias and their
ladies at picnic critically ill. E. R.
Gibson, one of the party, is in des-
perate condition.
Arthur O'Leary, a farm hand bum
ming his way home to Chicago, was
robbed, beaten and kicked from the
| train while going at high rate of
speed near Boone by quartette Of
tramps. He escaped with his life
and 50 cents, but VOWS vengeance.
Glenn Blanchard and Clarence Guy
printers, fell three stories and base
| ment in freight elevator shaft In
the Boone Blank Book company manu-
featuring plant, but were saved from
death by another employee who had
presence of mind to grab an outside
rope and reduce the power Blanch-
ards hands We're 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 Dav-
export saloonkeepers are now oe-
ciarlng themselves content TO obey
the law, saying that a rest after 10
O'Clock at night and on Sundays
agrees with them as we'll as with
other people.
Albert and Josephine Landgraf were
seriously injured in 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 telephone pole the horse threw
the occupants of the buggy out,
breaking both of the young mans
legs just above the knee and injuring
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 a pre-
| sentation from this enterprisine
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 mine
years. Seven brothers, all Presby-
terrain preachers, and one sister,
missionary in Africa, will meet at
the old home.
1t is thought clue has been found
that will throw light on the mysteri-
GUS assault of Mrs. Stevens at her
home in Sand Springs. One evening
during The absence Of Mrs. Stevens
husband some person entered her
home and beat her so numerically
that she nearly died. 1t was first
thought that robbery was the motive
for the assault, but his theory was
abandoned when it was found that
nothing in the house had been dis
turbcd. 1t is now said that the as.
sault was prompted by revenge, and
was perpetrated by one of the women
in the neighborhood who had grudge
| AGAINST Mrs SIavnOc
In an attempt to cross the Rock
Island track near Mason City in front
OF Il swiftly moving train, Mrs. Pat
rick Kelley, wife of prominent
| farmer living in the northwest part
of the county, with her son, were
hurled across the right of way and
terribly bruised, though it is thought
not fatally. The team was killed in
stantly and the wagon crushed into
liGdling wood The accident seem
ingly was foolhardy as the track is
clear in both directions at the cross
ing and the train could easily be seen
approaching. The train stopped and,
taking the injured people on board,
took them to Garner.
During storm at Bagley light
ming struck house occupied by Mr.
and Mrs. Jack Skinner and three
children. At the time of the flash
Mrs Skinner was sitting on a bed
upstairs while Mr. Skinner was in
the dining room below. Both were
| stunned, but not injured. The child
rem escaped The bolt ran down the
chimney and divided, part going
down the roof at the side of the house
into the ground, splintering shingles,
siding and a door casing. The other
part of the bolt reduced the casing
of partition upstairs to kindling
wood and threw the door some dis
lance into the bedroom where Mrs
Skinner sat. The house is badly
wrecked, and it is miraculous that
the occupants escaped serious injury.
The loss is covered by insurance.
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