Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-06-04

Miss Mary Romhild, aged 46 years
was struck by a Rock Island freight
train while she was walking down the
track returning near Cedar Falls,
sustaining injuries from which it is
| feared she will die. She was very
deaf and failed to hear the approach.
ing train.
The Burlington & Quincy company
filed $30,OOO,O00 mortgage at Bur
lington, covering all its property.
| The mortgages are the Central
Trust company of New York and
Oliver M. Spencer. The purpose of
! the mortgage are funding of existing
| Indebtedness, acquisition of other
| property and of financing improve
ments.
A most discriminating record on
the part of the proverbial stork was
made in Grundy county last year,
where exactly the same number OF
| girls were delivered to the homes OF
the county as the bird found places
for boy babies. The total number
! of babies born in the county was 3l4,
of which exactly one-half were girls
and the other half boys.
Superintendent w. II. Blakely
famed through the state for his de-
velopment of the manual training de-
partment in the Clarion schools, has
decided to go TO Fort Dodge next
year. He was offered 5000 more sal
airy to undertake the work at Sioux
City, but before that offer came he
had already given his word that he
would accept the place at Fort Dodge.
While catching in an amateur
game without a mask, James Boyer,
of Dubuque, had two front teeth
knocked out by foul tip. The bat
ter, thinking the teeth would be fine
mementoes, picked them up. Boyer
fastened to dentist, the teeth pick
ed up by the batter were secured
and inserted The dentist promises
that they will be as solid as ever In
a week. The case has not single
parallel among Dubuque dentists.
Charles Woodcock, an aged Daven-
port bricklayer, received injuries
which it is feared will prove fatal,
in fall from the second story of the
jerks fiat building, in course of con-
| struction. Mr.. Woodcock is 70 years
| of age. He lost his balance and fell
! from the building, breaking his leg
| and arm, and sustaining severe inter
nal injuries. His two sons were
working with him on the building
and witnessed his fall. The injured
man is received treatment in a Gin
ton hospital.
Grinnel's representatives won the
| field meet at Des Moines on the 29th.
| The same fatality which has pur-
! sued Ames so many times in the past
| few years was there on the Goth. A
| predicted winner, Ames fought hard
| to come in second place. 1t is
probable that the races at Kansas
| City the week previous had some
thing to do with the work of the
men, but even in the best of shape,
| Grinnell must have won. Drake
finished third, Morningside fourth
Iowa fifth, Coe, Normal, Simpson
and Cornell not getting points.
Paul Wolf, an 1S-year-old German
boy committed suicide by drowning
himself in the watering tank on HIS
brother, Richard Wolfe's farm, forth
east of Iowa Falls. When found the
body was rigid and gave every evil
| dence that the lad had been dead sew
eral hours. The young man came to
| this country from Germany about a
year ago, and the only motive assign
able is the possibility of homesick-
ness, although the evidence before
Acting Coroner H. E. Martin showed
| that the boy had a good home with
his brothers family and was we'll
treated The parents still reside in
! Germany.
William Dunn, prosperous farmer
living five miles north of Villisca, was
| killed by train No. / shoStly after
midnight. He, with party of others,
was returning from Creston. when the
accident happened. He had gotten off
the train but had hold Of the hand
rail when the train started again.
| Those who witnessed the accident
state that he staggered and fell and
was dragged under. the train. The
wheels crushed both legs and the
head was badly mashed. The train
was stopped after he had been drag
ged ten or twelve rods, and the body
removed. The unfortunate man was
about So years old.
The 14-year-old daughter of Elijah
Sells, of Moravia, is lying at the point
of death with a bullet in her brain
as the result of a strange chain of
| accident while she was on her way
to town with her father and brother.
| The girl has lain unconscious since
the accident, the surgeons daring
not to undertake an operation for the
| removal of the bullet. In the rear
of the wagon in which the Sells were
riding stood a younger brother OF
the girl with a small rife in his
hands. The horses became fright
ened and began running. They bump
ed int a rut. the wagon was VIC
lently Joted and the lad was thrown
down. AS he fell the rife was DIS
charged accidentally and the bullet
found it's way into the girls head,
entering the cheek and lodging some
where in the brain. \
The Des Moines river broke through
the levee near Keokuk Canning COM
pany's plant and wiped out 200 acres
of tomatoes, causing loss of $4,000.
The field will not be replanted.
The body of Art Reaves was found
on the west shore of Lake Okoboji