Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-06-25
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| ton few days ago Tree q foot in
diameter were twisted Off, uprooted
end blown over the tops of houses
Much damage was done to property
and crops. There were no lives lost
Theodore Grove, a farmer living
! just back of the Inn hotel at Arnold S
Park was struck by lightning and IN
stantly killed. Mr.. Grove had just
gone to the corn crib and stepped in
side when the flash come. He was
quite badly burned and his clothes
partly torn from him. Mr.. Grove
vas a man about 80 years old and
| leaves a family.
| Slot machines can't be touched by
the police department if they run ac-
cording to the proposition submitted
by the cigar dealers to Superinten-
dent Hamery, according to City So
licitor Robert D. Brennan of Des
Moines When the element of chance
is eliminated Brennan says that the
machines are not unlawful and that
the dealers may run them in their
front windows if they choose.
DR.. Paul o. Koto, state veterinary
surgeon, has refused to make an
early inspection of Sioux City cattle
which are suspected of being effected
| With tuberculosis. He WIS asked TO
come to Sioux City by the city coun-
ell but it neglected to give the names
of the owners of herds under sus
piston. On that account and because
OF the exhausting of his appropria-
ton, Dr. Koto said his visit would
have to be postponed.
OF the S150,000 or more which it is
expected the primary election cost
Iowa, Cerro Gordo county will pay
| $1,062.S2, The bills as they have
been filed in the office of the county
auditor are: Publishing notices,
$135; ballots, 5000; booths and
transportation of ballots, $59.42:
books and supplies, $2S9.20; judges
$2S5.76; clerks, $17250; rental, $6775
There were 119 democratic votes cast
in the county; two socialists and nine
prohibitionists.
Six persons have claimed the two
rewards of s25 offered by the city OF
Des Moines for the recovery of the
bodies of Edwin Ebersole and Will
liam Jennings, drowned recently.
The reward for the Jennings body is
claimed by A. Mardis, Ben Jackson
and t. A. Canterberry. The first
claims only half of the reward, and
the two latter all of it. Two boys,
Sam Denim and Will Clouse, claim
two-thirds of the reward for the Eber-
sole body, and w. 7. Graham, who
was ent by the boys to get the body
claims half of the $25.
Coroner James Mckee Of Creston
< has summoned a jury to hold an in
3 quest over the remains OF Ben Vein
burg, who was found dead in his
room at that place with a bottle half
full of carbolic acid near by. Vein.
t burg has been a resident of Creston
for a number of years and had be
rome familiar character About a
year ago lie attempted to hang him.
: self and was only saved by parties
cutting him down after he was black
in the face. 1t is the supposition that
he did the work himself this time
but the case is teing investigates
The big Ward dredge boat in Rose
Q Grove township, Webster City, and
Il its crew, engaged in digging the
4 knickerbocker drainage ditch, are
still under quarantine for black diph.
iberia. This little inconvience, how
a ever is not interfering with the con.
# struction of the ditch. The crew,
t chatting under the restraint of the
. quarantine, is continuing it's work
and every day the big dredge moves
9 up a notch, just the same as before
It the yellow quarantine card was tack.
t.. ed upon it. The cook is the person
/. stricken with the disease. She was
- removed to the Pearl Radcliffe home
in Williams, which also is now quar-.
n antined. The woman's condition IL
ia satisfactory and her recovery is look.
" ed for. The G. j. Knckerbocker home
!. which the dredge crew were making
20 their headquarters, is of course also
: under quarantine.
With over $4,000 in his pocket
Martin Knittle of Mountain Home
% idaho, attempted to get off Bur
lington train at Ottumwa by climb
ing through the window. He was
II taken in charge by the police and IL
If being held pending word from his
q relatives. Knittle imagines that he
= is still in his old home at New Lon
: don, N. Y, and says he wants to sec
Dave Mowers, with whom he wishes
Y to settle a business account
q Knittle's condition is pitiful. Whel
searched at the police station {
% ticket to Mountain Home, Idaho, wa:
o found and $1,06OSS in cash and
Y $4,000 check on the Bank of Noun
n tain Home, Idaho. Knittle claims t.
n be gold miner. He says he is 81
years old and has been visiting 6
- brother and sister in New London, N
Is Y. The police have notified his rela
) tives and are awaiting a reply from
them.
= People in northern Iowa are inter