Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-07-01
Iowa Brevittes

That the carelessness Of doctors
nurses and parents within a few hours
or days after birth of children is re
sponsible for 25 per cent of the blind
ness was the statement of DR.. L. w
Dean of the medical faculty of the
Iowa state university in a paper be
fore the quarterly meeting of heads
of Iowa's state Institutions in the Of
fee of the board of control.
A jury in Judge James A. Howe's
division of the district court at Des
Moines returned a verdict in the Lot
tie Louer-Ben Banning breach OF
promise suit giving Miss Louer
S 5000. This is $1,000 better than
the verdict returned the first time
the case was tried in district court.
DIR. F. T. Breene of the university
dental faculty, his wife and two chill
dren, and Edward and Charles Koser
were victims of a runaway at Iowa
City, and the doctor was hurt in a sec
ond mishap of the same type.
Baron Eric Won Kutzleben was re
leased from the insane ward of the re-
formatory at Anamosa through a writ
of habeas corpus. An hour later the
German nobleman was on his way to
Chicago, where he was Joined by his
mother and they are speeding toward
Germany as fast as trains and steam.
ers can carry them.
Physicians attending A. c. Brechtel,
one of the two brakeman shot by ne
gro tramps on a train near Vail Sun,
day afternoon, have given up all
hope of his recovery.
The next annual meeting of the
Fort Dodge district Epworth League
will be held at Fort Dodge next year,
Two livery stables adjoining each
other, burned at Mason City. They
belonged to l.. NJ. Valentine and s. w
keeney. Three horses and eight bug,
gies in the former stable were burn
ed. 4 woman discovered the fire and
was the first inside the barn and
liberated the horses.
L. n. Greener of North McGregor
had q needle removed from his arm
pit and up to the time of it's appear
ance in this particular spot it had
never caused him any pain or incon,
venience and he cannot remember
when the needle entered his body.
While swimming in Linn creek,
Carl Johnson and his brother, Leon
ard, aged Z, sons of Frank Johnson,
drowned in twelve feet Of water at
Marshalltown.
Fire completely destroyed the
Storm Lake Sanitarium, a private
hospital owned by DR.. d. H. Nus
baum. The patients and other oc-
cupants barely escaped with their
lives. q
Charges that Mayor Fred Inter
kircher and Chief of Police w. A
Hiltz of Burlington have refused to
enforce the law against red light re
sorts and gambling rooms in that
city were laid before Attorney Cen
erel H. w. Byers in person by B. E,
Jones, the Burlington railroad en-
gineer who has led a crusade for law
and order in Burlington and who
waS mobbed by saloon men because OF
his attacks upon them.
The twentieth annual convention OF
the Jasper County Sunday School as
ISOLATION held a two days convention
at Colfax. John Hahn, former ColfaS
mayor gave the welcome address
General J. B. Weaver and Mrs. C.. E
Riser, of Des Moines also made ad
dresses.
j.. w. Gray, Ottumwa, is the 'steentt
man to claim the $500 reward Offered
by the state for the capture of Johr
Junken. Gray is a private detective
who worked upon the case.
The newly organized Commercial
club of Valley Junction will take steps
at once to secure the cooperation Of
the Greater Des Moines committee il
securing factories and large bushes!
concerns for the railroad town.
Farmers at Mason City have decid
ed 10 build an elevator, and have
formed a temporary organization, WIKI
the following officers: President, T. s
Mason; vice-president, Peter Madili
secretary, l.. S. Woods; treasurer, J.
c. Sponer; board of directors, S. A
Robinson, NJ. S. Smith, H. H. Fleerer
Dean Eichorn and R. J.. Hadley.
H. B. Wyman, president, Mechanic
Savings bank, at Des Moines will b,
a special river policeman under Super
i%ntendent Hamery.
Lloyd r. Maxwell, elected presiden
of The Iowa Elks at the Dubuqu,
meeting is one of the best known Elk
in The state. He is an enthusiastic
golfer and popular on the links.
Iowa auctioneers voted to hold tbei
next annual meeting at Iowa City.
Thomas Rinard, a resident of De
Moines for twenty-five years died a
the home of his daughter; Mrs. Brat
ley Patterson, in Des Moines.
The 1~2-year-old son of Joe Andovel
found a dynamite cap ON the track
near he city picked 1t up and took
hoxc. While playing with it, it wa
discharged and blew off two fingers {
the left hand, half of the first fnge
and half of the thumb. The chil1'
face is badly burned and singed.
In anticipation of the going int
effect of the Cosson law, the polio
department closed eight gamblin
houses in Keokuk and will attem,
to exterminate the social evil.
Three young Greeks, working in i
cal shoe shining parlors. were take
into custody by federal officials
Des Moines charged with the viol
tion OF the immigration laws.