Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-02-04

4 lIiSI IHcdteT lHe last lew weeks.
| Over 600 tickets were sold to til
greater university dinner in the UNI
versity armory at Iowa City.
John Shortly has been elected a
| Judge Of the superior court at Perry
Official notice Of the election was re
ceived by Governor B. f. Carroll.
William Winter, slayer of Linz
Trimble has been identified by Mrs
Trimble as the man who killed hel
husband.
Three school children were lost Ii
the binding storm at Mason City
They were found almost frozen
huddled in the shelter of a pile o
brick
A campaign has been started By
Iowa, Dakota. Minnesota and Wiscon
sin Germans of the Methodist de
nomination for anu endowment fund
for Charles City college at Charles
City.
The greatest damage as the result
Of the blizzard at Oskaloosa was a,
the southwest corner of the Kalbach
lumber yard corner Second avenue
and G street. A section OF the lumber
shelter about seventy-five feet In
length was picked up ana scattered,
together with portion of the con-
tents. The place looked like a eye.
line had been busy.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Walters, of Sheldon, got out
of the door into the cold, and when
found both his hands were badly
frozen. The surgeon says that the
only chance to save the little ones
hands is by the amputation of at
least three fingers of each hand.
Mrs. Harriet NJ Shrader, one of
the pioneer residents of this state,
died at the home of her son near
Hazleton at the advanced age of ~1G3
years. She had been in good health
until a few days ago when she fell
and broke her hip which was the
immediate cause of her death.
Charged under the state pure food
law with selling adulterated oysters
in unnatural condition, five Council
Bluffs butchers were arrested on in
formation filed in superior court by
Dillon l.. Ross, assistant county at
torney. Deputy State Food Inspector
Wright of Des Moines caused the
information to be fled
Twenty head of cattle valued at
$500 froze to death on the stock farm
of ID. f. Norris, three miles south Of
Prairie City. The cattle had been
out in the rain previous to the biz.
card and their hides were soaked with
water. The shock of the sudden
change and continued exposure kill
ed them. Several others are missing
and may be frozen.
A. e. Coppeck, representing him
self to the the president of the West
ern Live Mixture company, was plac-
ed on trial in the criminal court at
money by false pretenses. The de-
PENDANT is said to have had weak
ness for drawing checks. on many
banks in Des Moines and Marshall.
town when he had on moey de-
posted in them.
The use of the Flexner serum for
cerebro-spinal meningitis promises to
prove highly successful in the case
of Miss Ruth Plunkett, aged 16, of
Marshalltown, who was stricken with
the disease without warning of any
kind, and within three hours time
was unconscious. Doctors were i'm
mediately called, made sure of their
diagnosis, and injected thirty cubic
centimeters of the serum.
If the pending bill covering the
taxation of railroad terminal proper
ty is enacted into law, Des Moines
will receive approximately $4,000 a
year more taxes from the railroads
than it is receiving now. Figures
compiled by the secretary of the
Commercial club shows that the city
is entitled to about 100000 a year
from the trunk line roads, where it
is now receiving only about $4,000.
The new school building in Keota,
has been dedicated. DR.. Schel of
Iowa Wesleyan university gave the
principal address of the day.
High school pupils served dinner and
supper in the basement The build
ing is fireproof, being made up of iron,
brick and concrete Keota is a town
of only 1000, and yet has put $24,-
900 into this building, besides $1,000
in the clock which surmounts the
building.
The suit brought by ex-Sheriff A. C.
Campbell against Howard county,
which has been pending in the district
court for hearty two years, has been
withdrawn, the board of supervisors
having agreed to withdraw its count
er-claim. Two years ago Campbell
retired from the sheriffs Office after
having served eleven years, and soon
thereafter he discovered that he had
failed to collect from the county for
washing for prisoners" and other
minor services alleged to have been
rendered. He filed a bill with the
board claiming something like 81 600
which was promptly rejected. He then
began action in the district court and
the county responded with counter
claim for some $500 for excess fees
collected in various ways by the ex
sheriff.
A truant officer of Oskaloosa arrest
ed pupil who went to classes in the
Dutch Reformed church and the court
ordered his release. Judge Clements