Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1909-04-22
Iowa News
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

bonds to the amount of nearly $500,
| 600.
AS the result of injuries received
by being struck by an electric car,
| Mrs. E. Griffin, of Sioux City, is dead.
A stranger entered the confession.
al at st. Patrick's church at Iowa
City, but was discovered by woman
and fed.
Billy" Sundays building superin.
tendent, Gill, has arrived in Marshall
town and the big tabernacle will be
rushed to completion.
Jack Johnson, colored, got into a
banana car near New Orleans, the
brakeman shut the door and he was
unable to get out until the car ar
rived at Clinton.
A derrick used by the Chicago e.
Northwestern in building the new
bridge across the Mississippi river at
Clinton fell, causing loss of $4,000.
w. l.. Lee, one of the owners OF
the LeMars Printing company, at
Mason City, has sold his interests to
j. b. Cunningham who was connect
ed with the company.
At meeting of the Oskaloosa
school board Prof. F. w. Else was re-
elected superintendent of the Oska-
loosa schools and his salary increased
to $500. .
Nicholas and George Juhl took a
dozen young wolves but three of four
days old to Mason City, upon which
they received bounty of 81 each
from the county auditor.
Congressman ]. A. T. Hull has
made a donation to the Pattee park
commission at Perry in the shape of
a number of shrubs of different coun-
tries which have been acclimated for
growing in the United States.
Henry c. Johnson, for the past
seven years superintendent of De-
corah, has been chosen superintendent
of the city schools at Aberdeen, S. ID.
He will take up his new duties in
September
Mrs. G. NJ. Swearingen and Roscoe
Williams, banker, had a pistol duel
on the street of Sidney. The woman
fired first. She claims to have been
defrauded in a land DEAL She is now
under $4,000 bonds -.
Fred Brad and Boyd Allen made
their escape from the Monona county
Jail. They pried hole in the brick
wall. A posse was formed and after
thrilling chase. captured them five
miles north of town.
Mrs. Wilbur Baker, formerly Miss
Blanche Carl, was accidentally shot
and instantly killed by her brother,
aged 10 years, by the discharge of
a shotgun at her home four miles east
of Farragut.
With the initiation of a large class
| of candidates and an elaborate BAN
quet, the grand council, Royal Ar
| canum of Iowa, is in session at
| Cedar Rapids. All the grand officers
and committees are present, with al
most all delegations from all cities of
the state.
Jerome Beach, night Waterman at
the Boone viaduct, had a miraculous
escape from death while walking to
] approach of the westbound freight
and was struck by the engine and
thrown to one side of the track. He
was badly hurt, but will recover.
Because one of it's conductors
made the mistake of ejecting A. M
Lundgard-and his dog-instead OF
only the dog, the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway company al
Council Bluffs was required by a jury
in the district court to pay 1915 dam
ages. .-
The citizens of Mount Vernon hello
a regular old fashioned town meeting
in the Methodist Episcopal church fol
the purpose of discussing the advisa
bility of instituting sewer system
and of constructing a new schoo
pointed by Mayor II. G. Webbles fo1
further investigation of these ques
tons.
The Northwestern Railroad com
pany has just announced that it will
expend half a million dollars durin,
the coming summer for rebuilding al
of it's bridges between Clinton ant
Cedar Rapids. The bridges will be o
solid concrete with a foundation o
piling.
The Masonic fraternity of CORNING
are planning to observe st. John
day, June "a. Speakers and lodge
from the surrounding country will b.
invited and there will be a large mum
Der to celebrate the occasion.
, Col. E. C. Pratt of Chicago pres
, dent of the Boone Gas company wire
from Chicago that if the citizens o
Ames gave him franchise to us
the streets of that city for the pipin
of gas he would erect and maintain
within the corporate limits of tb
| city one of the best gas plants ives
of Chicago.
The electric light company has a
ready secured more lights in Farragu
than they anticipated and still hav
a number of orders ahead. A fey
firms have already secured electri
power and there will be many other
before the year is over.
E Three high school students of low
City have perfected a Marconi sys
! tenn of wireless telegraphy there, an
! their stations are working perfectly
, They are planning, II possible, to e,
I tend their operations, and will cor
| struct a station mile or two up tn
river and continue their tests.