Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-03-31

John c. Mabray, Leon Losier, Tom
8. Robinson, Willard Powell, Clar
ence Glass, Ed Leach, Eddie X. Nor
ris, Clarence Forbes, Harry Forbes
Frank and Eddie Mccoy, leaders Of
the famous Mabray swindling gang
We're sentenced to two years In the
federal peniteniary at Fort Leav
enworth, Kansas, and fined $4,000
each by Judge Mcpherson, at Coun
ell Bluffs. Frank Scott and Winford
s. Harris, other members OF the gang,
were sentenced to six months in the
Red Oak county jail and fined 500.
Bert r. Shores and George N. March
Fort Leavenworth and fined 500. r.
e. l.. Goddard was released. The
sentence followed the finding by o
jury In the Mabray case OF all the
men except Goddard guilty of using
the mails to defraud.
Ernest Schneckloth of Correction.
vile has returned from the meeting
OF the board of directors of the Des
Moines & Sioux City Railroad COM
| pany, held In Wall Lake. There was
a crisis in the affairs of this company,
which is projecting an electric rail-
road to connect Des Moines, Sioux
City and Fort Dodge, and Mr.. Schneck-
10th, who is banker, announces his
firm belief that the crisis has been
| successfully passed and that construc-
ton work will begin within sixty days.
Martin Smith Of Audubon, and a
| member of Allison post, Grand Army
of the Republic, was highly pleased to
receive a communication from Tren.
ton, N. j., stating that he was entitled
to receive medal on account of ser.
vice in the union army. Mr.. Smith
serveS two years from the state of
New York and one year as veteran
from New Jersey.
my husband tried to kill me with
big open knife, and / fed from
home" So declared Mrs. Anna Web
err in Judge r. P. Howell's court. She
asks a divorce, $1,000 alimony and
the custody Of their three minor chill
dren. A long list of other cruelties
is made part of her petition.
A persistent rumor in railroad cir
cles of late is of great interest in
northern and central Iowa since it
involves the extension of the Des
Moines Short Line south from Des
Moines to connect with the Milwau-
kee road at Seymour on the latter's
line to Kansas City.
Enrtu- aiyh II Ano1 mi
be increased to fifty and nearly as
many injured, several fatally, was the
result Of the wreck of a Rock Island
train which was being detoured on
the Chicago Great Western tracks
four miles north of Green Mountain,
Marshall county.
The high cost of living is due to
the farmers method of raising his
products, according to Dean c. F.
Curtis, of Ames college, in an address
delivered before the Commercial
clubs agricultural banquet in the
Grant Club in Des Moines.
Nearly one thousand names were
secured by a committee that visited
twenty or more towns within a rad
ius Of fifty miles of Mason City to
petitions asking for an improved rail-
| road passenger service on all roads
| for that part of the state.
The plan for municipal ownership
of the gas works and electric light
ing plant has been revived again, and
the cause has been espoused by May
| or o. L. Ingledue, who will soon pre-
sent plan that he says will be &C.
ceptable to Marshalltown people.
An effort is being made by the citi-
zen's of Vinton, Shellsburg and Palo
to induce the Rock Island manage
ment to extend the service of the gas
oline motor car now operated be-
tween Iowa Falls. and Vinton to these
| towns.
George w. McCagg, an old business
man and a former resident of Corn.
ing is dead at Oskaloosa. He was a
civil war veteran and a member OF
the Twelfth New York infantry and
participated in the battle of Bull
| Run"
Fred E. Hand, of Washington, d. c.,
leading man with the Maxwell-Hall
Stock company, and Miss Alice Ander-
son, Of Washington, were quietly
married at Marshalltown. Mrs. Hall
is a non-professional.
In response to an order coming
| from Kansas City headquarters of
the national organization of leather
workers, fourteen men in the employ
Of horse collar factory in Council
Bluffs quit work.
Samuel L. Kelly, aged 81, car in
spector for the Burlington. was as
phyxiated in his home, 1919 Fourth
avenue at Council Bluffs. His body
and that Of his dog lying at his side
being found
Something of sensation was caus-
ed in Creston in the filing of a suit
for breach of promise by Miss Stella
Kegley against w. R. Henderson. Mr..
Henderson is one of the county super.
visors.
The dead body of John Schmidt was
found dangling from the iron bar OF
windmill on the Lench farm near
| Bennett. His body was decomposed
He probably had been dead for a
| week.
The electrical engineers of the To-
wa state college at Ames are plan.
ping for a great electrical show to be
held April 18th at the college.
The Odd Fellows have decided to
erect three story brick building on
Broadway at Eagle Grove. Construc.
| ton will be started shortly.