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

| farmers IN the state, filed a petition
In bankruptcy in federal court.
Claiming that he had been slugged
into insensibility. robbed of $35, car.
ried to box car, which was set on
fire. and there left. as far as his as.
sailant was concerned, to perish In the
flames. Thomas Haskinson, Musca.
tine button cutter, was found in the
Milwaukee yards at the foot of Per-
ry street in Davenport, in an uncon.
scious condition, by the firemen, call
ed to subdue the fire. He was at once
removed to the police station and
given medical attention, though con-
seriousness was not restored for con-
siderable time. The fire had all the
earmarks of incendiarisn, and Haskin.
son was subjected to a most thorough
examination and is being held until
the matter is further investigated.
Mrs. Charles Paxson, aged 76, moth
er of Miss Ruth Paxson, who was for
merly state secretary of the Y. W.. C.
A., now travelling secretary, died at
the family residence IN Manchester.
Miss Paxson was in attendance at the
P. w. G. A. conference in Capitola-on-
the-Sea, CAL.
"Muscatine people drink more water
per capita than the people of any
city in the United States" said a
prominent physician and former cor
oner of that place. "And since the
municipal plant providing water OF
absolute purity has been installed the
decrease in typhoid cases and other
diseases arising from like causes has
been so great that number of Mus.
catine nurses have left the city be-
cause there was no work for them
here"
A telegram received at TT. Dodge
bore the news of the death OF T. C.
Wilds at Eddyville, for eight years
superintendent of the Fort Dodge
schools, but more recently superin.
tendent Of the Eddyville schools.
Death came suddenly Sunday, and
was due to acute gastritis. The body
was taken to Fairfield for burial. Sup
erintendent Wilds left Fort Dodge
nine years ago. For many years he
was prominent among Iowa educators.
Interurban traffic is tied up at
Boone as a result of big landslide,
which occurred on Frazer Hill. The
tracks were buried to depth of six
feet for a distance of sixty feet. A
loaded passenger car, going at the
rate of fifty miles per hour, reached
Frazer Hill just as the avalanche
came, but the motorman reversed the
power and stopped the car in time,
probably saving many lives.
William Ebsling and wife of Grand
Junction had very narrow escape
when their house was destroyed by
fire, the flames having gained consid.
cradle Roadway before they were
awakened
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Burton cele.
brated their SEVENTEEN wedding ami.
versary at Mount Pleasant. They are
among the best known people in the
county.
The annual meeting of the c.
Shenkburg Cooperative company,
which will be held in Sioux City
April 1923, will bring there between
1900 and 1900 of the retail gro
Gerry merchants of Olivia, Nebraska,
South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyom.
ing and Montana. In connection with
the convention there will be a pure
food exposition in which hundred of
the leading manufactures of the
country will participate. Mayor w.
G.. Sears will formally welcome the
visitors to the city.
The Rev. Mr. Robinson, a colored
evangelist from Clarinda has very
interesting life story. He was born
slave in North Carolina and at the
outbreak of the war followed his mas
ter into the conflict. Later he was
captured and enlisted in the union
army, where he served several years
Chris Barman. a veteran of the civ
IL war and figure about Pennington
for many years fell dead on the street
Mr.. Barman had been suffering with
the grip throughout the winter. and
for the past month was barely able
to be out upon the streets. He fell
on the sidewalk in front of Sherricks
store and was carried into the build
ing and breathed his last immediate.
ly. He was sc years of age and I'M
married, familiar figure in all G. A.
r. matters
Roy Beaton of Maquoketa, while at
VII hn 70
ing in the Maquoketa river a bottle
containing the following message,
written in a woman's hand, on a
piece of white paper: ITO finder of
this bottle: Please notify my folks
at Cedar Falls, Iowa, that they will
find my body in the river just south
of the old tree. Tell them forgive
them all for their unjust deeds to-
ward me. Yours, the last. Miss Jessie
Francis, Cedar Falls, Iowa, June 21,
1907. P. S.-TelI Walter / am sorry,
but 1t was not my fault. I love him
STILL" The bottle was turned over to
Mayor Gregory. He will communicate
with the authorities at Cedar Falls in
an effort to solve the affair. A young
woman is said to have suicided by
drowning in the Maquoketa river at
Monticello in June, 1907, but whether
the body was over recovered is not
known here.
Charles A. Clifford of Newton, at.
tempted suicide by taking poison after
a trip to Des Moines He is plumb
er and has a family. He may die.
William McCuuo on ipcuranoa