Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-12-02
Iowa News
NEWsY lTEM5 GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.


ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.
Council Bluffs won the next ma
tional horticultural show, defeating
st. Joseph with the assistance of st.
Paul. The new officers elected are
as follows: President. j. p. Hess,
Council Bluffs, Iowa; first vice presi-
dent, Capt. J. II. Shawhan, Payette,
Idaho; second vice president Profes-
sor Close, College Springs, Md; sec
rotary and treasurer, George w. Reye,
Council Bluffs, Iowa; superintendent,
Freeman l.. Reed, Council Bluffs
| Iowa.
That a board of supervisors has
full authority to establish a road
crossing wherever 1t is, in their judg-
ment, needed by the public, and that
the railroad commission and the
courts have no right to interfere was
the decision of Judge Plat in the
case of Black Hawk county VS.. C. r..
j. &c p. railway at Waterloo.
| The Belle PLANE city council has
taken up the matter of the construc-
| ton of sewer system next season,
and decided to proceed with the build
Ing of between four and five miles of
sewers. Funds will come from bonds
issued few years ago from sewer
tax and from assessments on the
property benefited directly.
Harry Elwood, whose right name
is Everett Robinson, did not prove
to be the person wanted for stealing
Rock Island hand car, although he
was held for two weeks at Osceola.
1t is learned that he is an escaped
inmate of the home for feeble mind.
ed children, to which place he has
been returned.
Albert Kinney OF Oskaloosa has
been acquitted Of the charge of man
slaughter against him. growing out
of the death of little Bertha Harlan
from a gun shot wound alleged to
have been inflicted by Kinney. The
shots were aimed at Jesse Harlan
were fired in self defense.
A movement has been started at
Dubuque by the Mercy Hospital asso-
citation, composed of over fifteen hun.
dred women, to get recognition from
| the Carnegie hero fund for Joseph
Cludry, the man who risked his life
In the fire to save his wife and adopt
ed daughter Sybilia. His wife and
child are out of danger.
The litigation between s. d. Alex
ander and his wife of Winterset in
which Mr.. Alexander demands a di-
vorce and $150,000 alimony, will in
all probability be settled out OF
court. The property will be apprais-
ed and divided. Mrs. Alexander was
one of the heirs of the Beving ton
estate of $750,00O.
DR.. Il. u. McManus OF Waterloo
memSer OF the state board of health.
was at Manchester to diagnose the
twelve cases in Manchester which
have been pronounced smallpox. He
says they are mild cases, and that
the epidemic will be wiped out in
| couple of weeks.
John Murphy, young man from
Baskerville who has been thing near
Ringsted, shot himself through the
hand while cleaning repeating shot
| gun. His ramrod struck a shel- In
the barrel with such force as to eX-
plode 1t, tearing his left hand to frag-
msrss.
The county supervisors at Burling-
ton have established drainage district
No. l, comprising "a 900 acres, and
| will drain it. The cost will be about
$500, 900. AS soon as the land is drain
ed the Muscatine north and south
railroad will be extended from Elrick
Junction to Burlington.
Z. A. Maltby and Mrs. Eliza Z. har-
vey were married at Brooks, by Rev.
j. Kirkendall, pastor of the NJ. K.
church at Corning. Mr.. Maltby is 65
years old and his bride six years
younger Both have children by form
er marriages.
Fred Neimeyer must pay his son
Edward about $3.50 for wages for
work OH the farm the last three
| years. The father claimed that there
was no contract between them provid-
| ing for wages but a jury in the dis
trict court at Waverly gave the son
| judgment.
Leroy Ware, the Seymour banker
doing time for making false entries.
was taken back to the Fort Madison
penitentiary by Warden Sanders to
await the action on his habeas cor
pus case by the supreme court In
December.
Grant Fox, Of Sidney, Is on the
warpath for the man who stole all
his chickens, 81 in number. The thief
had a wagon and went to Nebraska
with the plumber.
Officers are looking for A. G. Muir
ray, a farm hand at Missouri Valley
who is thought to have forged several
checks on we'll known farmers and
business men.
Hon. Platts Wick, a pioneer citi-
zen, and legislator of Shelby county.
died at his home in Pueblo, Col. He
twas at one time trustee OF Iowa
state college.
Prof Samuel Calvin OF Iowa City
will deliver an address before the
American archaeological society at
Boston at its annual meeting during
the holidays.
After only two years Of welded
life, Mrs. Ellen Elsenhour has sued
her husband, Edward at Avoca, for
divorce. She charges intoxication
and abuse.
Thomas O'Rafferty, an old hermit,
was found dying in his home near