Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-09-17

Known burlington river man, Is nel0
in Quincy charged with fatally shoot
ing George Milligan, a logger. The
shooting took place at camp be.
tween here and Quincy, and Johnson
claims self-defense.
Great excitement was caused at
Boone by the brutal assault on Sam
Kee, a Chinese washerman, by two
thugs, who followed him from his
in the residence district punched and
kicked him nearly to death because
Of some fancied insult. The police
are after the assailants and expect
to round them up.
Unable to find unemployed men in
Des Moines, Contractor Charles
Christy hired laborers out Of the city
Jail so he could continue work on
the sewer contract on Terarce Drive.
Christy says the unemployed in Des
Moines are scarce and he had to get
Judge Stewart hold the mittimi on
some laborers in order to give Chris
ty the men he needed for his con-
tract.
Because he had his nose crushed,
his ear split and sundry other bruises
by being Knocked from one end OF
box car to the other by the impact
Of switch engine, Richard Berkeley,
of Mason City, formerly employed at
the Northwestern States cement
plant, has filed a case asking dam
ages for $1,000. He alleges that the
accident was due to negligence on the
part Of company employees.
Leaving the impression with his
parents and friends that he was go.
ing to Indianola on business, Robert
Hughes, manager of the Ducart I'm
plement company of Des Moines, and
son of John Hughes, veteran mail car.
rier, brought back to Des Moines a
charming bride, who was formerly
Miss Iva Olds of West Eighth street.
Both are well known in the city. They
will reside near the home of the
brides parents on West Eighth.
Pat Graham, aged SO years, was
found dead in the toilet room of the
Bon Air hotel, Des Moines, three
hours after he died. Graham spoke
to Mrs. e. T. Flory, the proprietoress,
as he entered. After three hours she,
with others, entered and found Ora
ham dead Graham had heart trouble
and had told Mrs. Flory in case of a
bad attack that his mother in Kan
sas City should be notified. He said
that her address would be found in
his trunk. The body is now in charge
of the coroner.
DR.. c, S. James, of Centerville, and
DR.. L. d. James, of Fairfield, have
just performed an operation, whereby
they have taken over two square Feet
of skin from the body of w. Fl. Vat
kins, of Breckenridge, Mo-, and graft
ed it on the body of his wife, who
was severely burned by an explosion
two weeks ago. By the operation it
is hoped to save the life of the
woman. Evidences of Improvement
are already shown and the husband
is suffering but little from the opera
ton.
r. A. Ely, the Marshalltow1 con-
tractor, has been awarded the con-
tract for building drainage ditch No.
near Iowa Falls. The proposed i'm
provement starts on the north side
of the J. B. Parmlee farm just east
of town, and runs northwest two and
one-half miles to the Fred Raske
place. 1t is to be tile ditch COM
mencing with ten inch tile and end
ing with eighteen inch. The contract
price for the ditch is $4,000, and work
on the improvement will commence
at once.
Mamie M. Garfield, of Waterloo,
has brought suit against her huS.
band, Lee Garfield, for divorce and
alimony. She asks for a decree OF
separation and alimony in the sum
of s10,5OO. The couple were welded
last October in Washington, d. c.
The complainant says they lived to.
gether until March II, this year. Hell
allegations are rather unusual. She
AYERS that while they were on their
wedding trip in the east the defend
ant complaint about tie expenses
and she alleges that his love for her
has grown cold.
Thirty-fve hundred feet above the
earth, his balloon shooting higher
every instant, the big gas bag on tire
Of hn ir,o
and the detaching rope already burn
ed in two. Aeronaut Dan Rice sat il
his frail trapeze in the full sight Of
thousands of people, at Webster
City, including his agonized vile ant
two children, as nearly doomed as
any man ever was without actually
going to death. AS the parachute fin
ally burned loose, it shot toward the
ground with its human freight at &
terrific speed. Half way to earth il
spread. The hungry flames were
still eating their way, but enough o
the cloth remained to break the force
of the fall sufficiently that Rice es
| capped unhurt. Until the man wa!
brought to town, however, no one sup
posed he had escaped serious if no
, fatal injuries. Rice was making hi
initial ascension at the county fair
! He is an aeronaut of fifteen years
experience and in all this time ha
| never had so close a call to death.
The reduction of wages Of section
men on the Illinois Central a few
months ago has been the means o
placing a large number of Italians OF
duty, as the old men refused to worl
after the price was cut. The Italian
| I;ya ~, how porc anJ probo Ill,