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

ended In a victory for the temperance
people.
Gus Brose, aged IA years, fell sixty
| feet from the flies above the stage
In the Grand opera house at Dubuque
before the opening of an amateur
production, sustaining fractured
skull, broken arms and legs and in
ternal injuries. He will die.
Presiding Elder Fl. w. Troy CT the
Upper Iowa conference of the Meth
odist church was stricken with pa
ralysis and is in a critical condition
at Waucompa. He had started to
drive to an appointment, and was
stricken enroute. His wife was sum
moned frim their home at Fayette.
Flames starting from an over
heated stove caused a fire loss of
$500 in the Occidental hotel in Col
fax. The first started in the wash
room and before the fire department
was able to get control, the fire
threatened to destroy the entire
building. The Occidental is a rail-
road mans hotel.
Spontaneous combustion caused
fire to start in a coal bunker in the
basement of the Fleming building,
the tallest building in Des Moines.
and for nearly six hours the janitors
worked to extinguish it The build
ing filled with fumes from the burn
ing coal, but few occupants knew the
cause. There were eight tons in the
bunker.
Some Of the money of Polk county
is now making per cent interest
G. L. Dobson, county treasurer, plac-
ed about $4,000 on time certificates
for six months. IL is in the nature
Of an experiment and If it can sue
ceSsfully be done, more will be put
with the banks at per cent. The
county now gets per cent on daily
balances.
After serving a sentence of thirty
days in Jail at New Hampton for
stealing an overcoat, John Rush was
re-arrested ON a warrant, charging
him with robbing hardware store of
$40 worth of goods. Much of the
goods was found upon Rush's person
after arrest at New Hampton. He
will be lodged in Jail to await the
grand jury at Mason City
Five years labor for two overcoats
makes the latter rather expensive, but
stolen goods come high. Put Murray
swiped a couple of them from the
grand jury room in the Polk county
court house several weeks ago and
pleaded guilty to the offense in GRIM
inal court. He was given a sentence
of five years because the grand jury
charged the man with larceny from a
building, which is serious offense.
No mere bride-kissing in Justice F.
T. Van Liew's court at Des Moines.
The judge Issued an edict which elimi.
mates the time honored custom of all
witnesses to marriage kissing the
newly made matron at the conclusion
of the ceremony at least as far as the
weddings solemnized in his court are
concerned. Hereafter to the groom
only will this privilege be extended,
even the judge himself resisting the
temptation.
#. J. Kleven, who resides near
Joyce, was blasting stumps with
powder, using. ground rock as slug.
He had lighted fuse but it did nSt
go and he thought it was cut and
stepped up to examine it, AS he was
bent over the explosion occurred and
his face was terribly lacerated and
1t was at first thought he was blind
ed 1t is now thought barely possible
that partial sight of one eye may be
saved and he has been taken to Iowa
City for treatment.
The first of series of cases being
instituted by the Iowa Humane
society to compel the observance of
the child labor law was tried in the
Justice court at Colfax, and resulted
in the conviction of Jeff Lucas, a ne
gro coal miner. He received a sent
ence of thirty days in the county
jail. The charge on which Lucas was
tried was that of having compelled
Theodore Sorrell, a 13 year-old foster
son, to remain away from school for
the past four years and labor in the
mines. His wages were taken by the
foster father as fast as they were
| earned.
No more death certificates, failing
to state the exact cause of death,
will be accepted by the state board
| of health. DR.. l.. A. Thomas, secre-
| tary of the state board of health noti-
| fed Coroner Newlen, of Des Moines,
to this effect. In the past coroners
| throughout the state have been per.
mitted to return unknown" verdicts.
| ner to spare the feelings of the fam
| This is done on the part of the coro-
| lily in which a death has occurred
! but under the new ruling of the
| state board of health the real cause
| viii have to be reported. "Un,
known" verdicts are often given in
cases where babies have been smoth,
cred or suffocated
By vote of 566 to 223 the propo-
sition of buying site for city hall
| at Mason City was turned down.
There was wide interest in the cleo,
| ton. The women are reported as
having been opposed to the PROPOSE
| ton.
One Of the largest land sales thai
has ever occurred in Wapello or vicin
ity was made when N. Stamm sold
| 800 acres adjoining Let's for $40 pei
acre to C. A. Carpenter, of Columbus
| Junction. The same day he sold tc
| parties from Ohio twenty head OF