Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-07-28

following Iowans: Charles w. Beresr
ford, alias Oscar Bennett, $24; Sarah
A. Boyer, $12 Stephen M. Cook, $20;i
Jonas p. Cupp, SIS; Satira Ann HUI
kill, $12; Margaret L. Hewitt, $12;
Thos. Kelly, SIS; Emma S. Linn.
$12; VIM. Lloyd, SIS; Isiah McWil-
liams, $40; Edward A. Mercer, $751;
Anna s. Oxerman, s12; Lunette A.
Reid, SIP; Mary j. Scanland, $12.
Civil service examinations for de-
partment positions in Washington will
be held this fall in the following
places: Des Moines, Sept. IA, "a,
Oct. IL; Council Bluffs, Sept IA, Oct.
IL; Davenport, Sept. IA, Oct. H. Du-
buque, Sept. IA. %. Oct. IL; Fort
Dodge, Sept. IA, %, Oct. II; Iowa City
Sept. IA, Oct. ~; Mason City, Sept.
IA, 30, Oct. IL; Sioux City, Sept IA.
%, Oct. IL; Waterloo, Sept IA, 20.
Oct. IL.
Third and fourth class postmasters
of the Des Moines district would
place themselves under the civil SER
vice ruling and take the appointment
out of politics. At the Des Moines
meeting resolution was adopted in.
dorsing this plan. The resolution
will be presented at the state meet
ing of postmasters- to be held in Des
Moines August 80 and 81.
Having saved enough money taken
in tips to purchase the relinquish-
ment of claim of 100 acres, five
miles from Ardmore, S.. D., Miss
Margaret Jordan, a pretty waitress in
the Mondamin women's cafe at
Sioux City has closed the deal and
will locate upon her property about
Aug. /.
Mrs. William Cline, who became
violently insane, was sent to the
asylum at independence, by the COM
missioners of insanity at Iowa City.
She attacked her father, husband and
baby, before she was overpowered
finally. She has been in asylums be-
fore, years ago.
Claiming that the Glenwood Coal
company has been unlawfully min.
ing coal from under adjoining land.
the Hyde Park Investment company
of Minneapolis, has filed a suit in
the district court for $1,6O0,00 dam.
ages.
The big tank, which will be used
as settling basin for river water be-
fore it goes to the filters at the Clin-
ton water works, will have a capacity.
of something more than 10000 gal
Ions of water when it is constructed.
Mrs. John Bryne of Morningside, is
in receipt of word from her father,
Peter Quirk of Meade county, S. D.,
to the effect that the father has fallen
heir to fortune of $4,000 left him at
the death of sister in Brooklyn N. Y.
The five-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Folsom of Bonneville,
choked to death while eating an apple
The child was recovering from whoop
ing cough and drew the core down
her throat while coughing.
When Frank Peshel, Jr., a farmer
living near Ferguson, started to
hitch team preparatory to cutting
oats, one of the horses kicked him,
causing an injury that will probably
prove fatal.
At the annual convention of the
Christian Endeavor societies of Iowa,
at Iowa Falls, the convention went
on record as strenuously opposed to
the exhibition of the Johnson-J effries
pictures.
N. Norwood, section hand on the
Illinois Central, was killed at Fort
Dodge when fast train collided with
hand car. Other members of the
section crew jumped and were not in.
jured.
Mrs. Frank Shay, of Tiffin, holding
her baby in her arms plunged into
an abandoned cistern, through board
covering. She was all but drowned,
when rescued, after terrible struggle
On the blowing out of the cylinder
of a gasoline engine, w. G. Hart, a
farmer near Nora Springs, was seri-
ously burned and may lose limb.
Five Panora business men were in.
jured when an auto in which they
were returning from Perry was wreck
ed eight miles northeast of Panora.
The university has awarded four
year course, as honor scholarships, to
fifty-one leaders of their respective
classes in Iowa high schools.
Richard Parker, a well known citi-
zen of Jasper county, died at his home
on the farm near Newburg of tuber.
culosis.
The Polk county grand jury has re-
turned an Indictment accusing Gov.
B. F. Carroll Of criminal libel.
The fine farm home of Henry Weig-
ban and family three miles north Of
Allison was destroyed by fire.
There were fifty-four deaths in Du-
buque during the month of June; forty
is the number of births chronicled in
the Office of the city recorder.
Dave Thornton fell from the roof
of new building on Watson French's
farm near Davenport, and broke his
neck. He died an hour later.
Thomas Healy, father of P. B.
Healy, clerk of the district court of
Jasper county, died at Newton at the
age of 81 wears.
Governor Carroll has signed the
warrant for the execution of John
Junkin in the prison at Fort Madison.
The new Central church of Christ
at Marshalltown, almost completed
and costing $4,000, will be dedicated
on September 4 with an address By
DR.. l. N. McCash of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mrs. Elizabeth McNaughton OF
Leeds, aged "a years, was stricken
down with apoplexy while carrying