Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-01
IOWA
NEWS

| of the state board of health and state
| board of medical examiners died sud-
denly at Los Angeles.
One hundred delegates met at Mason
City in the annual convention OF the
Eleventh district of the Iowa w. r. G.
The convention was presided over by
Mrs. Ring of Marion. BY special In
vitation the ladies were the guests OF
the university at noon. New Hamp-
meeting.
Paul Keith has commenced suit
against the Union Electric company Of
Dubuque for $4,000 damages alleged to
have been sustained by reason Of be-
ing elected from the company's car.
Keith claims he was elected from the
car on the refusal to pay SECOND
fare and that he was injured in
rough handling by the conductor.
r. H. Van Wrinkle, well known
down and killed by c., B. & @. fast
freight here. Mr.. Van Wrinkle alight-
ed from a west bound passenger and
walked around the rear end and on
TO the other track directly in front
of the east bound freight. He was
sixty yards and horribly mangled. The
body was cut in two, one leg was
severed and the skull crushed.
District court has adjourned with
the conclusion of the Sullivan will
case, but a decision will probably not
be had until in December. There is
much speculation as to the decision
which involves the question of I'M
sound mind, undue influence and the
execution of a deed and will. Forty
witnesses were examined, and four
hundred pages of dispositions were
offered. The will involves a 100000
estate.
The first day Of the Orient pump
kin festival opened with a large
crowd and success is assured. The
streets and stores were decorated
with pumpkins, big and little and
pumpkin vines, presenting novel
sight. The address of the day was
given by James Bryan, who spoke on
The Optimitic View. Rev. CASTOR
of the Creston Baptist church will
also deliver an address. The Green
field band furnished the music.
A sensation has been sprung in
Dubuque by a divorce suit filed by
Mrs. John Bradley against her hus-
band, John II. Bradley, son of the late
William Bradley, one of Dubuque's
wealthiest and most prominent citi-
zens, citing in the petition as the cause
the statutory grounds and excessive
drinking A permanent alimony in
the sum of 100000 and the custody
Of three minor children is asked as
we'll as temporary alimony in the sum
of $500 a month and $4,000 to defray
expenses of the suit.
Rev. Edmund Hayes, pastor Of st.
Patrick's Catholic church at Imogene,
nine miles north of Shenandoah, has
made a proposition that he will give
$4,000 if the congregation will give
a like amount, to build new church
at cost of $4,000, the material of
the present building to go into the new
in addition to the $4,000. More than
that he proposes to go to Rome at his
own expense and buy $4,000 marble
altar. This will probably make the
finest and most costly country church
in the state.
Fred Koury, who has conducted the
big store" at Bows for the past year,
appears to be in financial troubles and
the business is in the hands of Hilder
1saacson, to whom Koury made an as
| signment. The store was closed fol-
lowing some attachments by wholesale
, houses. The Welsh-Cook company of
Cedar Rapids and the Farmers bank
at Bows hold a mortgage of 81 200. 1t
| is tated the liabilities aggregate $500
with meager assets. Koury has main
tanned a force of a dozen statesmen
travelling over the county selling goods,
but despite an apparently good bust
ness seems to have failed in the enter
prise.
! The consumaton of recent negotia-
! .
and those representing outside capital
has placed the Creston, Winterset and
Des Moines interurban road at a
point where there is little doubt of
the roads being financed in com
paratively short time. A great east.
ern corporation, the New York Inter
urban company, has approved of the
project and has offered to back it 10
the extent of something like one and
three quarters million dollars, pro
vided that the balance be provided by
others. Already the sum of $250,00C
has been subscribed, and it is said
that $125, 900 more must be forthcom
ing. OF this amount 100000, at least
is provided for by the recent offer o.
c. C. Wolf, of Parkersburg, Ia, tt
invest that sum in cash. Mr.. Vol
was in Des Moines recently, and. after
going over the situation with the of
ficials of the company, agreed to in
vest that amount
One hundred and forty persons ar,
said to have been converted In re
vival meeting at Dallas
The grand jury at Fort Dodg
brought in an indictment of murde
in the first degree against Wilbu
Carr, for the death of Marshal Mich
olson of Gowrie recently. The prison
er displayed no emotion when inform
ed of the indictment and maintaine
the same silence and Indifference a
,, before. In the absence of Judge Ey
ans, who has resigned, Judge r. N
Wright of this city presided, and re
ports of the grand jury were made t
him.
Miss Dora Holmer, daughter of