Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-07

assisted by the Rev. r. B. III. Bell OF
Des Moines, rector of st. Paul's
church and other Episcopal clergymen
of Iowa. Following the corner stone
laying the celebration of the Holy
Eucharist took place. The Rev
George w. Hinkle of Christ church,
Waterloo, was celebrant; the Rev.
George R. Chambers of st. Stephens
church, Newton, deacon; and the Rev.
William Pence James of Marshall
town, sub-deacon. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. John Arthur of
Grace church, Cedar Rapids.
An Intellectual block system at the
Highland Park bridge was the main
cause Of the disastrous wreck in Des
Moines which resulted in the death
of two men and the injury of more
than O. score more persons, according
to the opinion of a person who pat.
ronizes the Highland Park line, ex.
pressed in letter to Coroner liver G..
Newlen. The meeting of street cars
on the single track which crosses the
belt line bridge is common occur
renee, the letter says, and it took
only the veil of fog which enveloped
the city that morning to bring about
fatal crash
Harry La Shelle, the young man
who last spring shot and killed DOC"
Seibert, Marshalltown gambler,
may never stand trial for his crime
before a tribunal of justice on this
earth. La Shelles case was set for
this term of court, but was continued
on a showing made by the young
mans physicians to the effect that
he was suffering from pulmonary tu-
berculosis, and that it might kill him
to undergo the excitement incident
to trial at this time.
A case bathing medical men was re-
ported from Brainard, Dubuque coun-
ty, where 10-year-old Joseph Geiser,
who Labor day was bitten by rat
tlesnake, for the past few days at
the hour of infection turns the color
of the snake and suffers pain. 1t was
moved from the wound long since.
The recurrence of change or color
and the pain last several minutes
each day.
Fred Press, a 17-year-old boy liv-
ing at Third street and Court avenue
in Des Moines sustained a compound
fracture Of the right leg when ,Spir-
tied horse which he was driving took
fright at a street car and plunged,
throwing the boy from the buggy to
the street. The injured lad was cared
for by the city physicians and re-
moved to his home.
The Big-4 Old Soldiers and Set.
tiers reunion closed at Eldon and
had one of the largest attendances
of the series. They have associated
with the railroad men and accepted
an invitation of the Big-4 fair to hold
their annual reunions at the same
dates as the fair, being given a part
of the shady grounds for the cree
ton of their big tent.
Declaring that the treatment OF
Mrs. Nellie Taylor, the Ottumwa wo-
man indicted for the killing of her
babe, who is now in a Des Moines
sanitarium being treated for insanity,
has been unfair in the extreme, a
number Of Des Moines women have
organized a movement in her behalf
In their opinion the woman should
be freed Immediately.
After a two weeks trial the jury
in three hours Of elaboration found
for the proponents in the case of the
contest of the will of the late ALI T..
Brockey of Lake Mills, whose sons
and daughters were contesting the
instrument on the grounds of undue
influence and unsoundness of mind on
the part of the maker of the will
when it was drawn.
AS result of injuries sustained five
weeks ago by falling on a pitchfork
handle. which penetrated his back,
Charley Bizsk, formerly an employe
of the w. ". Schropfer farm, was
taken before the insane commissioners
at Webster City and found insane.
Tripping home from school in Oska-
loosa Albertus Burnham, thirteen
years of age, jumped upon the back
step of an ice wagon and, falling
backwards onto the pavement, was
run over by team and buggy and
probably fatally injured.
In q n,h;oL .aol-
place in a boarding house in Des
Moines, John Bieneves, a Russian Ia
borer, was severely cut across the
head with a knife in the hands of
Joseph Stevka, also a Russian.
J. c. Gingerich, prominent farm.
er and stock raiser, has Just sold his
200 acre farm near Clarion, the con-
sideration being 500 per acre. Ear.
Gingerich, bought the farm fifteen
years ago for $3.50 an acre.
lnterurban trains No. and No. 2,
due to pass at the shops of the Fort
Dodge, Des Moines & Southern at
Boone crashed together near the sta
ton, injuring several people, and
damaging cars.
About midnight robber threw a
brick through the large plate glass
window of Chambers store in Boone
and secured ten gold watches. The to-
tai loss and damage is $3.50. There
is no clue.
Two distinct earthquake shocks
were felt at Muscatine Monday morn.
ing, the first at $50 and the second
at Ais. The motion was from east
to west and was generally noticed
Frank H. Randall has been elected
assistant in debate in the University
Of Iowa, and with William T. Jones,
will take the place of the late Prof
Harry r. Gordon tepnoror,,y