Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-06-17
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

OplrlIuaUStS association VIII open III
Clinton on July q and close On Aug,
20. Members of the order from many
parts OF the United States will attend
during the four weeks OF the reunion.
Robert IA. Harrison, a young man
about twenty-one years old OF Grundy
Center was drowned in the Block
hawk creek. He and some compan-
ions were in bathing and he got in
beyond his depth and was drowned
in about Is feet OF water.
Erastus H. Franks, deputy fish and
game. warden, shot his nephew,
Charles Franks, while attempting to
arrest the young man for violation OF
the game laws. Franks has been ar,
rested and is now in Jail.
Professor Sam Sloan, formerly OF
the University of Iowa department OF
English, has been granted a disabili-
ty allowance of 5000 by the Carnegie
foundation.
A 1oater was found Sunday even
ing on a sand bar of the Missouri
river about four or five miles north
of Onawa. The remains were brought
to Onawa, but nothing leading to iden.
LITIGATION could be found. The body
was clothed in a gray coat, brown
shirt, blue overalls and tan shoes.
Supposed to have been a man about
rs years of age and weighing $50
pounds.
John r. Heck, one of the city's best
known pioneers, was found dead be-
meath the feet of a horse in the Heck
barn. He had fallen dead from a
stroke of apoplexy. The body was
found by John w. Bolton.
A SAD death fell to the lot OF James
A. Klcnda, a ~13-year-old school boy
while on the way to school in Daven-
port. The lad stepped on a live cleo
trio light wire lying unprotected on
the street and met instant death.
Mr.. and Mrs. ~Bockenstedt Of New
Vienna celebrated their fftieth we'd
ding anniversary at their home near
there. They are among the most high
ly esteemed residents of the state.
A handsome new club to be the
headquarters of Marshalltown's COM
bined commercial organizations, will
likely be built this summer il the
plans as now arranged are carried
out. The merchants association,
manufacturers and jobbers ~associa-
ton and travelling mems commercial
clubs are going to unite and form one
strong organization.
A number of night providers have
been at work in Boone and about the
meanest method of taking out their
spite is to break large plate glass
windows in the business blocks of the
town.
The lifeless body of a child, believ.
ed to be but a few days of age at the
time of it's death, vas found lying
midst some driftwood, near the shore
at a point on the Mississippi river
about five miles below Muscatine by
Mrs. Catherine A. McCreary, who.
with her husband, resides in a small
cottage near the place.
Two bushels of imported cigarette
papers are stored in the vaults of the
county court house at Mason City
awaiting condemnation proceedings
and consequent destruction. They
were appropriated from the colony Of
Greeks at the cement plant.
Luther NJ. Freeman of Kansas City
has been elected president of Morn
ingside college at Sioux City, succeed.
ing bishop Wilson Seeley Lewis. The
college has been without a president
since last fall.
A team which he sold to a Jew rag
peddler, is being sought earnestly by
Jacob Dansker, a farmer living near
Usage. Dansker sold the team to the
Jew on the installment plan, and soon
the Jew departed for parts unknown.
In a street fight over a girl Frank
Stephenson was so severely beaten at
Cherokee that his life is despaired OF.
The contract for the erection of ST
Francis academy at Mason City was
let at $40, 1000. The building is to be
finished by Sept. 1.
The members of the |. O. o. F. or.
der at Clarion have entered into a
COllI ACT " IlS purchase vi u ~ v n
building for their use.
Superintendent l.. J.. White OF
Greenfield has been elected superin.
tendent of schools at Sheldon, and
has accepted the place.
The largest owner of Grundy county
land is a Reinbeck man, Fritz Stroh.
behn who owns 2,166 acres of land in
Grundy and is without doubt the larg,
est owner of real estate in the county.
The commencement exercises Of the
Ida Grove high school will occur
Wednesday evening when a class of
twenty-four will graduate.
Judge Oliver at Sioux City denied
the motion for a new trial and sen.
fenced Red" Clayton to not more
than eight years in the p~enitentiary at
Anamcsa. Clayton was found guilty
of m~anslaughter in killing Mel. Pow
ers, a veteran river man and saloon
keeper.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has sent Mrs. Minnie l.. Meek,
widow OF l.. l.. Meek, a check for
$4,000 ia settlement of the claim she
filed with the company for her hus,
bands death. He was employed as a
brakeman and was killed at work
near Herndon.
Fou lpsilcn Tset, a fraternity com
posed OF colored students in the Uni.
versity of Iowa, will give a dance at
Iowa City. The fraternity has a chap
ter house and has a good membership
including students from all colleges
in the university.
A. n. Mott. one of the wealthiest
land owners Of Franklin county Is