Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-08-04

AAAt SuASAuOs
Frank Vinegar has been appointed
rural carrier and Helena Vinegar sub
stitute at Chester.
The state w. C. T. u. convention
will be held in Boone during the lat
ter part of October.
Dominic Sevario, was killed by a
fall of slate in the Wapello Coal
company's mine near Abba.
A fine new $4,000 Methodist church
has been dedicated at Lorimer; ST.
900 was raised at the dedication.
John A. Buehner has been appoint
ed postmaster at Shipley, Story coun-
ty, vice H. w. Allen, resigned.
John Junkin, the murderer of Clara.
Rosen, at Ottumwa, was executed at
the Fort Madison penitentiary on FRI
day.
According to an official report for
the year 1909, Emmett county has had
1S9 births, 10 marriages and d.
vorces.
Rural carriers have been appointed
as follows: Nemaha, H. Ralph Page;
Weston, John F. Hayward; substitute,
Edw. S. Grove.
Two freight trains collided in the
Rock Island yards at Cedar Rapids,
causing loss of several thousand
dollars to stock.
Engineer w. A. Kennedy, for thir-
ty years with the Chicago & North
western, died at Mason City. The
burial was at Belle PLANE.
Edward Zaah and Milton Hodge,
both about sixteen years old, are I'M
der arrest at Cedar Rapids, charged
with a number of local robberies.
Julia, aged II, daughter of Michael
Cahill of Dubuque, is dead as a re-
suit of becoming overheated. The
girl was overcome while working in
factory.
The Oskaloosa city council has
closed contracts for about one-half
mile of brick paving at s1.73 per
yard, to be completed under contract
by September 16.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the barn of Michael Donovan, with all
its contents, including valuable live
stock on his farm near Morse, north
east of Iowa City. .....
Mrs. w. L. Slaves and her grand
daughter, Vera Walkup, aged 5,
Were injured at Marshalltown, when
they were run down by an automobile
driven by J. D. Plumb.
Sheriff Williams raided three blind
pigs" operating upon Otter Island,
two miles above Burlington, and ar.
rested the proprietors. They were
taken to Mediapolis for trial.
An examination of the accounts of
the late ]. E. Kintigh, treasurer of
was short over $4,000. Mrs. Kintigh
has promised to make the shortage
good.
Peter Schroeder, aged SO, car fore
man for the Illinois Central, died at
Dubuque as the result of infection
following an liberated tooth. Mr..
Schroeder was well known in railroad
circles.
Rural carriers out of Iowa Offices
have been appointed as follows: Good
ell, William H. Monaghan; Guthrie
Center, William F. Hall, substitute,
Florence R. Hall; Remsen, John P.
Muller
Mrs. M. M. Johnson, a pioneer of
Iowa City, aged 80, died at the home
of her only surviving child of four
teen, Mrs. S. J. Zorn, of Montezuma,
and the body was taken to Iowa City
for burial.
Richard l.. Whitaker, driving a
big auto across a bridge met a trac.
ton engine near Iowa City. The re.
sultant crash shattered the auto, but
none Of the party in it, including two
young women, suffered.
The Minneapolis & ST. Louis rail-
road has announced that within a
short time Fort Dodge will be made a
still more important division point
and a chief dispatcher and three as
sistants will be located there.
A record breaking sale of land was
made at Iowa City when John
| Wilmington sold forty-one acres in
Big Grove township, near Scion, for
1920 per acre. This is the high
water mark for Johnson county land.
The State Historical Society of
Iowa, at Iowa City, has held another
election, and four Iowans have been
honored by admission: James Blaine
Mason, Of Des Mo:nes: William A.
Hunt, of Wapello; Walter !. Wolfe, of
Lost Nation; and Charles F. Peterson,
of Clarion.
Bank deposits in 663 savings bank,
272 banks and 16 trust companies in
Iowa increased $21,766039.6S from
May IS, 1909, to the close of business
June 80, 1910, according to the re-
ports of all banks made to State Audi
tor Bleakly at the close Of business
June 30.
Joseph Koba, the pioneer farmer,
whose right eye was rent in twain by
hayhook recently, may lose the lett
eye, also, as a consequence OF SYM
pathetic Inflammation. The removal
Of the blinded eye may avert the sec
ond disaster.
Clara Emma Brown, aged 25, com.
mitted suicide by taking carbolio
acid and died in great agony after
several hours intense suffering, at
the home of her father, Ludwig Heck
finger, at Cedar Falls. She was de-
serted by her husband and became
despondent She leaves one child.
Mrs. Nancy A. Carr Cuerno of New
Mexico committed suicide at the
home of her sister, twelve miles
north of Ottumwa, by jumping in a
well. She was the victim of tuber-
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