Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-03-19
Charles White. a prisoner at Boone


escape and are safe. Sheriff Hannun
offers 500 reward for the return OF
the prisoner.
James Phillips, laborer employed
In the Kemper saw mills at Pine
Mills, fourteen miles northeast OF
Muscatine, was terribly injured when
6-foot board few from the rip saw,
striking him square in the face. A
splinter 6 inches long penetrated his
eye and brain, totally destroying his
sight and fatally injuring him. He
was taken to the Hershey hospital for
treatment. One year ago to day
his son, Cal Phillips, was fatally in
jured in the same place by falling on
saw
The grand jury has returned indict
ments against Warren Dale and Ralph
Layman of Newell in connection with
the murderous assault on Samuel
Carson, a veteran of the civil war,
several weeks ago. The former, who
is now in jail at Pocahontas Center,
for tapping a till at Variva, confessed
to his share of the crime, duplicating
young Layman. They have been sus-
pected from the start, as they tried
TO get change for $40 gold piece
at Fonda the night of the occurrence,
and the old man had shown the gold
piece to parties in Newell that day. ,
Miss Messie Brewer of Fairport was
welded at Muscatine TO Carl Trues-
daye after one of the strangest ex.
periences that can possibly befall a
bride. On the previous day, arrayed
in her wedding finery, she stood be-
fore the mirror near where her
brother, Frank Brewer, was cleaning
shot gun. The shot gun exploded
accidentally, Kidding the skirts of the
bride-to-be's wedding gown and total
ly running it. The shots smashed the
mirror and the fragments cut her
about the face. She was so frustrated
that the wedding had to be postponed
a day.
Owing to the poor health of the
plaintiff, Mrs. Will Heisler, of Iowa
Falls, her damage suit of $4,000
against her father-in-law, Conrad
Heisler, did not come up at the present
term of the Butler county district
court. The plaintiff Is the leading
witness in the case and has been in
very poor health for several weeks,
hence the postponement. 1t is re-
ported that a movement is on foot
among members of the Heisler families
involved in this litigation to settle
this case out of court. 1t is said that
the defendant in the case has Of
fered $4,000 If the case is dismissed,
but these reports cannot be certified.
The Clinton Jail was one Of those
investigated by the American Prison
association of New York city, which
association undertook to prove that
the average county Jail in the United
States is school for crime" because
of overcrowding, and the mingling OF
notorious felons awaiting trial with
men charged with lesser offenses, and
boys held for various causes. A bad
condition of overcrowding and lack OF
facilities were reported by the associa
ton in the Clinton Jail. The report
coi.es while the Clinton county board
of supervisors is considering the pro
position Of putting the question of a
new county Jail before the voters next
November.
The dead body of Nelson Eastman
a retired farmer, aged about 20 years
living in Rutland, small town near
Humboldt, was found lying on the
floor of his home by an evening caller
His wife was found in bed uncon
scious and there are grave fears oil
her recovery. 1t is supposed that
Mr.. Eastman was taken sick during
the previous night and his wife get
ting up to assist him, was overcome
by apoplexy. They were not found
until about twenty house after death
had occurred, and had their friends
not accidentally paid them a visit
several days might have elapsed be
fore the townspeople would have
known of the condition of the old
| people.
When Mrs. Claus Moller Of Walnut
went out at few days ago to look FOL
her husband, who had been out {
longer time than usual doing chores
she was Mortified to find his dead
| body hanging in the barn. Mr.. Mol
| ,er, one of the prominent German
citizens of that section and possessed
| of large property interests, had hang
! ed himself while in fit of despond
| ency over i'll health. He was more
| than 60 years old and to the infrmi
| ties of his years there were added
! other serious ailments that discour
| aged him and probably drove him Il
| self-destruction. No other motive il
| known. for his home relations wer'
| pleasant. Moler leaves a wife AM
! three children.
Beulah Bandfeld, aged Is, a wait
ress in the main building of thu
Soldiers home at Marshalltown, me
death in the Icy waters of the low;
river when she jumped from a boa
during the excitement that followed
the loss of an oar while rowing Witt
her friend. Florence Ford, Miss Band
field started for a little ride down TIM
river from the Soldiers home land
+! ing The current was very swift ant
when near the bank one oar slipped
from its lock. Miss Bandfield triet
to reach it, but failed. Probably fear
ing that the boat would be carried
down stream, Miss Bandfield jumped
out into ten feet of water and went t
the bottom. When she came up Miss
Ford pushed out the otner oar anC
told Miss Bandfield to grab it. bu
the latter made no effort to save her
self. She came up second ana
third time and then sank below thu
surface. The body was found tel
rods farther down stream.
James McCulloch, a miner employed
in the White coal mine, was hit by ;
Northwestern switch engine and fatal
| ly injured.
The soliciting committee of tn
Oskaloosa Commercial club announce
its success in placing $4,000 in bond
necessary to secure the location of
plant of the American Supply com