Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-08
Iowa News

had been sent to the bank for 1t, and
he will be prosecuted unless he de-
livers the money.
Father George Giglinger, Of St.
Mary's, Beokuk, fell from ladder In
the bell tower of his church and Is
suffering at the hospital from con-
cussion of the brain.
Miss Gladys Smith, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Smith of Webster
City, has been elected a member of
the faculty of the Jewell Lutheran
college, Jewell. The offer of a
place among the faculty of the school
was made Immediately following re
cital given by Miss Smith at Jewell.
Engineer Thomas jerks was killed
in wreck of Burlington passenger
train on the Keithsbu;g branch near
New Boston, Ill. He was rs years of
age, and said to be the oldest engi-
neer on the Burlington.
After a brief illness, William H.
Burns, proprietor of the Sioux City
Cornice works, and a resident of the
city for the past thirty-three years, is
dead. Pneumonia was the cause of
death. Mr.. Burns was born in Oneida
county, New York.
Hampton is agitating the question
of free city mail delivery and bases
! its claim upon the showing made by
the postoffice for the last year. Ac-
cording to the annual report, the bust
ness for the year will amount to $780,
600. The money order business runs
about $4,000 or will this year. Four
| years ago the postal receipts aggre-
gated $4,000, and a year later $4,000.
The plea is for three postal carriers.
Almost before the wedding bells had
ceased to echo Reuben Elliott of AL
bin had filed an action for divorce
| from his young wife, formerly Ella
Martin, of Albion, whom he married
| at Marshalltown on March g. Elliott
| Is 20 years old and his wife II. The
| husband accuses his wife Of a lack
| of chastity before he married her.
The gas franchise, which was the
| principal issue at stake in Grinnell
elections, is finally officially reported
to have won out by majority of 146,
| out of a total of 992 votes polled. DIR.
| Wiley lost the executive Office to l.. d.
Kemmerer by a majority of 120 in ia
| vor of Kemmerer.
Mrs. Harry Mathes' sleeve caught
| fire over a gas range at, Cedar Falls.
Before she reached a neighbours home
and a blanket was thrown over her,
extinguishing the blaze, deep and
painful burns had been sustained on
her arm near the shoulder.
Lanfear Knapp, who has rounded
out forty consecutive years as justice
of the peace at Cedar Falls, was de-
feated for reelection by Hans Crone.
Knapp has always been republican
and Crone is a democrat.
A man believed to be Orwyle Rob-
inson of Dubuque, was found dead in
rooming house at 323 Michigan
avenue, Chicago, from asphyxiation
by Illuminating gas. The police are
inclined to believe the man commit
ted suicide A card bearing the name
of the Dubuque Bridge company was
found in his clothes.
David Rohrer, who has the distinc-
ton of having been a Mason for sixty
years, is critically i'll at the home of
his daughter, in Des Moines. Mr.. Rob
rer is SO years of age, and has been
a member in good standing of the
Masonic order for three score years.
He may not recover.
The case of the state against Mrs.
Nellie Powell of Rockwell City was
indefinitely postponed during special
hearing before Judge Power and Mrs.
Powell was taken to the state asy-
lum for the insane at Cherokee on or
der of the court.
The most aggressive campaign
against the saloons of Council Bluffs
which the anti-saloon league has
waged of late years is now being con-
Quoted in the court of Judge o. d.
Wheeler by representatives of the
league. Heretofore injunctions sought
by the league have ended the prose-
! cutions but in the present instance
the officials are insisting upon writs
! of abatement in addition to the usual
process.
Frank Kulichek, a wealthy farmer
| living near Ely, blew out his brains in
| the house where he lived alone on
| the farm. He had been twice married,
| but his second wife separated frcm
him. None of his grown children
| lived with him.
Peter Mattson, foreman of the wa
ter service of the Burlington route,
| is dead at his home, in Burlington.
| He was born in Sweden May
| 10, 1863, and went to Burlington
when II years of age. For the past
twenty-seven years he has been en-
| ployed by the Burlington route. Mr.
Mattson was well known on the
Iowa lines of the Burlington. He COW
erer big territory and his operations
were Of a skilled nature. He had COM
! plet.e charge of the pumping plants
ind water tanks on the Iowa lines
and always attended to business.
| c. c. Dye, a Decatur county farm
er, is going to utilize some of his
rough land this year in growing tobac-
co. She cost of growing this crop
is about $35 per acre, and the yield
in return is from 500 to $3.50 per
acre. Mr. Dyes venture will be watch
ed with interest by Iowa farmers.
The barn of Frank Commack, near
Bloom field, was burned with the con.
tents and five head of horses. Loss
$4,000
The general store of ]. III. Taute at
| Bremen Station. Bremen county