Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-07-09
IOWA
NEWS

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the relief fund petitioned for by Gov
ernor Cummins, for the flood suf-
| fereres
While temporarily insane Mrs.
John Etsinger of Burlington, swal-
lowed four tablets of bichloride of
mercury which caused death at ST,
Francis hospital.
While shoveling earth on the coffin
of woman in Einsiedeln, Switzer-
land, grave-digger heard scream
Tor help. He opened the coffin, and
found the woman alive.
Some unknown miscreant is evil
IDENTIFY pursuing Rev. j. w. S. Lowry
OF Corning, for some real or imagined
injury. Recently he stabbed the
preachers horses with a poisoned
Knife and a night or two later cut
the pasture fence and turned them in
TO neighbours green corn field. SINH
lar depredations have occurred in that
vicinity of late, the most notable be-
ing the poisoning of 100 head of sheep
belonging to r. D. Bentley
A $4,000 damage suit in which the
claim is made that a husbands af-
lectlo1 for his wife was estranged
by the interference of her husbands
parents, has been filed in the district
court at Davenport. Lena Kniegge
is the plaintiff and states in her petit
ton that William Kniegge and Annie
knlesge, the defendants, have made
accusations against her character
that have alienated her husbands af-
lection for her and have finally re-
suited in separation.
George Young, the man who shot
and killed his former business part
ner, Frank Parker, at Newton about
ten days ago, was held on charge
OF murder and remanded to Jail with
out bail. The dead mans widow,
who had separated from her husband
1T is alleged, because of Young, was
present in the court room, but was
not put on the witness stand. Young
lost his cool demeanor and broke
down and cried when his attorney
made an impassioned plea.
A burglar bluffed his way out of
the Willis Brown home at Des Moines
with a $50 diamond in his pocket
while Mrs Willis Brown showed the
thief over her home, discussing the
proper decorations for the different
rooms. When the burglar left Mrs.
Brown discovered that her diamond
ring worth $50 was gone and that the
alleged decorator was in reality
thief who bluffed his way to liberty
when he was caught in the house
by the mistress. The man asserted
that he had been sent to take meas
urements to redecorate the house.
His smooth talk convinced her ard
she showed him all over the house
The body of little Annie strunk OF
Usage has been recovered from the
Cedar river into which she fell while
| playing with companions The re-
mains were discovered by her father.
who has been conducting a systematic
and tireless search ever since the wa.
| tiers engulfed his child. While row.
ing forty rods below the dam the
father glanced up into tree border
| ing the water and there saw the
| body of his child dangling head down
ward. The little one had lodged
about twelve feet up from the pres.
ent stage of the river and had become
entangled in a bough. The remains
were decomposed and an immediate
burial was made
Bishop James Davis of the Catholic
diocese of Davenport has issued an
appeal to the Catholics of the do
cese to assume three-fourth of the
expense OF the extensive additions.
costing about 100000, being made to
st. Ambrose college. The college is
educating a large number of young
men, largely for the Catholic min
istry and is self-supporting. The ad-
ditions being made include a gym
nasium, auditorium, infirmary, private
rooms for senior students and con-
siderably extends the college dormi-
tories. More than one-third of the
priests of the diocese states Bishop
Davis, have been educated within its
walls. In his episcopal letter the bish-
also urges the creation of an endow-
ment for the college.
The entire Hagenbeck and Wallace
circus, representing value of $780,
600, was held in Mason City for four
or five hours to compel reserved
seat hawker to disgorge $29, of which
1t is alleged he had feeced a
spectator of the nights performance
According to the story of Joseph
Stewart, who caused the trouble, the
hawker asked for two $40 bills in ex-
change for smaller bills. Stewart
accommodated the hawker, but dis
covered Immediately that he had been
short changed to the amount of 500.
He demanded restitution at once.
put was refused. Instead of taking
his loss meekly, Stewart sued out a
writ of attachment against the shows.
| The officers seized a fine team of
horses and the whole outfit was de.
layed until o'clock in the morning
pelofe the matter was adjusted.
The Western Grocery company Of
Marshalltown closed a deal by which