Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-10-14
1nsanely angry at the refusal of his


Sweeney, brother of State Mine In
spector Ed Sweeney of Des Moines,
who has been working at Klondike.
followed her into a field adjoining her
home in Saylorville and shot her
down as she was milking COW. Al
though MORALLY wounded, the wom-
an tried to drag herself to the house
several yards away, but fell fainting
in the pasture. Without waiting to
see IL his bullet had done its work,
Sweeney ran several yards into q
clump of bushes and sent ball from
his revolver crashing into his own
brain. He was found shortly after.
A pool of blood surrounded him and
his brains were scattered on the
ground. He died after forty minutes
Of terrible agony.
Advocating that women not marry,
Miss Gertrude Won Petzold of Des
Moines stirred large audience at
the Unitarian church in Iowa City
with the declaration. She spoke on
"The Woman Question in Ibsen." Miss
Won Petzold, who won reputation in
her debate with Senator Shirley Gill
Inland on womens suffrage in Des
Moines, told the congregation that
there were unlimited fields besides
matrimony for the average young
woman. Miss Won Petzold also stated
in a conversation with friends that
she believed the "co-ed" portion of
the S. U. l. student body were of
higher type than the men undergrad
yates.
Mabel Adair, the Des Monies girl
who was brought into the public eye
two years ago when her sister, Mrs.
Martha Picray, was shot and killed
by Roy Howard, a trooper, was mar
ried to Leo H. Snyder of East Des
Moines. According to the marriage IL
cense she is Is years old and the
groom % years old. At the time that
that she gave up her life to save her
sister. Howard and Mabel Adair had
been keeping company and after
quarrel he made an attempt to shoot
her, but the sister jumped between
them and was killed. Howard was
sent to the penitentiary for ten years.
A meeting of the citizens of Wa
pello interested in the button factory
proposition was held in the rooms Of
the Commercial bank when the f.
nance committee reported that suffi-
cient money had been subscribed to
erect suitable building and an arch
itect, Fl. o. Pease, is now working on
the plans. He was in Columbus
Junction to inspect the button factory
at that place The finance committee,
consisting of H. A. Pitt, ]. G. Keck
and R. d. Mccullough, are now en-
gagged in collecting the subscriptions,
and it is hoped that but short time
will elapse before button factory is
in operation in Wapello.
The theory that burglary was the
motive for the murder of Charles E.
Murrow of Des Moines received anoth-
er body blow when Sheriff Ness and
Detective Sims informed Coroner
Newlen that they have found the
money that was supposed to have
been stolen from the room of the
murdered man. The officers told the
coroner that the money was found in
the same trunk from which it was
said to have been stolen. 1t was Sc
GREETED in cigar boxes and a big leath-
er pocketbook.
The current number of Wealth, the
Greater Des Moines committees book
let, contains an article which is de-
signed to prove the climate of Iowa
is superior to either that of many Of
the health resorts of this country or
that of southern Italy. 1t states that
in the last fifteen years there have
been more days of sunshine in this
state than in Italy and that the death
rate is lower here than in any health
resort in the United States.
The crops on the farms at the state
institutions will be bumpers this year,
according to Chairman Cownie of the
board Of control He declared that the
potato crop at Knoxville would run
to 3VO bushels to the acre, while the
corn crop at most of the state farms
would run as high as 60 bushels to
the acre. He declares that the fine
showing made is due to care taken
in selecting the seed.
The quarterly checking up of the
states finances by representatives Of
the treasurer, auditor and governor
show that they are in good condition.
They found that Treasurer Morrow
has on hand s1,150,96324, which is
the amount he should have. This is
divided as follows: Cash on hand,
$5,58S.72; cash in banks, SASS, 42452;
agricultural college bonds, $6S5,590.
OF the fifty winners of scholarships
at the Cooper Institute at New York,
Miss Irma Rudis, daughter of DR.. ].
r. Jicinsky Of Cedar Rapids, was the
twenty-second. Miss Rudis submitted
large oil painting representing a
Holland woman. She left Oct. 1 for
New York to take up her studies i'm
mediately.
Although she asked damages in the
sum of $4,000 from the Mcbride
Drug company for selling her husband
liquor, in the allegation that 1t made
him an habitual drunkard and caus-
ed his death by delirium tremens,
Mrs. Enola Bennett Friend secured
Judgment of only 5000 in the distinct
court.
Wesley Dennis, a retired farmer
about 60 years of age, fell while at
tempting to alight from Rock Island
train No. 10 at Dexter, and the wheels
cut OFF his left foot. He was saved