Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-12-01
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

after q long illness.
C. w. Kabach OF Spencer has filed
petition in bankruptcy. He has no
assets and $4,000 liabilities.
Oscar o. Clark has been appointed
postmaster at Udell. Appanoose ooun-
ty, vice T. H. Glenn. resigned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas ]. Hart cele-
brated their fiftieth wedding anniver.
sary at their home at Center Point
Harry w. Raymond, Kenwood
Park, has been Sopointed steonog
rapher in the land office at Cheyenne.
Wyo.
Sparks from a nearby chimney set
fire to the roof Of the home Of Frank
l.. Hall, 1923 West Tenth street. re-
sulting in $500 damage.
Civil service examinations will be
held Dec. 10, for mail carriers at
Prescott, GAINESVILLE, Glenwood.
Grimes, Salix. Spechts Ferry.
A short course In agriculture and
corn and stock Judging is to be held
at Villisca this winter under the dr.
rection OF the State college at Ames.
Anthony Swanson. aged so year,,
committed suicide by hanging himgelf
in his barn at Stratford. where his
body was found by son and daugh.
ter.
On the Recommendation of Senator
Cummins DR.. H. A. Habinicht has
been appointed pension surgeon at
Alerton, vice DIR. d. e. Williams, re-
signed.
Reports from all parts Of the state
indicate the duck hunters are carry.
ing extremely slim game bags this
year, owing to the lack of water in
the ponds and sloughs.
Fire toeally destroyed the Iowa Cen.
trail depot at Marietta and the eleva,
tor and coal bins of B. L. Pyle, near
the station. 1t Is thought that tramps
We're responsible for the blaze.
A committee of five o--cials Of
Cresco inspected the new bitulithic
paving at Perry recently and were SO
well pleased with 1t that they are
likely to adopt it for their town.
The months old grandchild OF
James Butts, farmer living near
Elkton, was killed by being struck
with stone which was thrown, 1t is
alleged, by William Doss, a neighbor.
Sister Mary Alphonsus, member OF
the order of nuns for the past thirty
years, passed away at the Dubuque
convent. She was a sister of former
State Senator ]. A. Green of Stone
City.
Mayor o. l. Ingledue, of Marshall
town, and four codefendant's were &C.
quilted on the charge Of interfering
with U. s. officials in the U. S. dis.
trict court before Judge Smith Nc
Pherson.
Postmasters have been appointed
as follows: Cromwell, Union county,
Louis M. Randolph, vice F. J. Ste
vens, resigned; Portland, Cerro Cor.
do county, Simon c. Hill. vice l.. D.
Burnham, resigned.
Fred Eslinger. well known farm
err, is in the hospital at Ottumwa in
critical condition as the result of in.
juries received when his wagon was
struck by an inbound street car throw.
| ing him to the pavement.
William Springer has been appoint
ed postmaster of Manson and will take
up his new duties as soon as his bond
is returned from Washington. He sue.
ceeds Postmaster Long, who held the
position for twelve years.
Ellis Simmons died at his home at
Logan, a victim of typhoid fever.
Three weeks ago his wife died of ty.
phoid fever. one child is just recover.
ing from the same trouble and one is
critically Ill with the fever.
The pistol toting habit resulted in
tragedy near Cascade, when Bern
ard Kennedy killed his father-in-law,
to whose house he had goEe to try
to induce his wife to return to him.
The shooting followed an argument,
during which Kennedy's temper got
beyond control.
James Rutherford of Greeley and Q
resident Of Delaware county for sew
enty-two years continuously, passed
away at the home of his daughter.
Mrs. Matte Carlow, here. Mr.. Reth.
erford was 81 years of age, and was
the Oldest resident CT the county In
point of continuous residence.
A particularly fragrant case OF
white slavery at Waterloo is likely
to send two men to the penitentiary,
one of tie prisoners being Fred Piper,
husband of 17-year-old girl in whose
virtue he trafficked. He and his com.
panien, c. A. Huntley, former police
officer. both confessed their guilt.
Action has been started against
Leslie NJ. Shaw and Carl F. Kuehnle,
Shaw's former law partner, for s24,.
600 by John ]. Prell, which he claims
to be due as the result of the transfer
of real estate by him to them without
other consideration than an old team
of the value OF $125 and lumber
wagon of the value OF $40.
The people of LaPorte City are re-
joicing in the promise of the Rock Is.
land to build an $4,000 depot next
spring.
Carl, the 1S-year-old son of Rev. A.
Buettnef, OF the German Evangelical
church at Pomeroy has disappeared
and no trace Of his whereabouts can
be found.
Pensions were granted to Iowans
as follows James F. Camp, $40; VIM
r. Fee, SIS; ]. Hardy. $40; George M
Minkler. $40; Joseph w. Newly, $50;
John w. Robinson, SIS; Mitchell Sui
livan, SIS; Clare Sullivan, s12.
The police are searching for ne
gro who passed an alleged worthless
check for s2S on w. ]. Sermons, an
Ames merchant.