Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-04-07

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most to the point of excitement. John
s. Goodwin, OF Chicago, and other
owners of the park tract, are con,
ferring with the hope of securing gov
eminent aid in blocking the erosion
before II is too late. Already the
river has cut through Sioux Point, a
promontory separating the Big Sioux
and Missouri rivers, devouring more
than 300 acres of valuable land, In.
Guiding half of the golf course of the
Sioux City Boat club. The current Is
and other buildings at Riverside park
an dother buildings at Riverside park
and It is feared they will be lost in a
few months II radical steps are not
taken at once.
/ Mason City will be the scene of
the state Sunday school convention
june 81 to %. 1t will be held in the
First Congregational church. A num-
Der Of speakers of national promi-
nence have been secured. Among
them are Rev. Herbert Moniger OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, Or. Franklin McEl
fresh Of Chicago, international mis-
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New York will have charge of the
music. Between now and the date
OF the state convention there will
be fifty county Sunday school insti.
tutes held in the state at which tie
Rev. F. F. Fitch. OF Des Moines,
state secretary, will be present to
make addresses and conduct Bible in.
stitute work.
Friends of little Everett Ostling of
Sioux City, declare he deserves
Carnegie medal for his brave rescue
Of a child from certain death by the
flames. AS the lad was carrying pa
pers, he came upon bunch of dis
Bonham, year old girl. had caught
her clothes on fire at bonfire and
was shrieking with pain. The quick
witted boy rolled her over on the
ground in an instant and smothersd
out the flames with his sack of pa
pers. The child was terribly burned
but will recover.
George Eden, aged "a. was fright.
fully mangled by being caught in the
end OF shaft on a wood saving ma
chine at Lone Tree. He would have
been killed had not his clothes given
way under the strain. The young
man was whirled round and round
on the end of the shaft. His shoulders
were nearly mashed together and his
breast bone was crushed. His ply
sicians say he will recover.
| Heirs of Senator Allison, who in
clude a number of nephews have TAX
en- up with Senator Dolliver the mat
ter of getting the senate to allow
them one years salary of the senator.
The senate has done this in a mum.
Der of other cases. Senator Dolliver
has promised to give the subject at
tention and hopes to get the allow
ance.
1t develops that John NJ. Spence, the
young man from Clemens who went
insane as q result of the wreck near
Green Mountain was to have been
married to Miss Blanche NJ. Golding,
school teacher of Marshalltown.
Miss Golding is Frustrated by reason
of the turn of affairs and the fact
that her afianced's mind has given.
away.
| Judge Green has enjoined the coun-
ty officials OF Audubon county from
paying over to M. D. Toff, tax ferret,
Is per cent of his collections as re-
Enumeration for his work. This injunc-
ton is to hold until the ferret files a
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srvisors and the same has been prop
erly audited and passed upon.
The work of dismantling the $4,000
federal building at Fort Dodge scar
cely fifteen years old, a structure of
considerable beauty Of architecture
and well built. began in spite of re-
peated efforts on the part of citizens
to save 1t from destruction because
a larger building is needed.
Robert D. Harvey. aged A. died at
Sioux City as a result of an acciden-
tai shooting. The charge from a
shotgun in the hand of Gus Bergman
struck him in the right leg, the loss
of blood causing death. Wilfred E.
Boyd another member of the party,
was slightly wounded.
Three robbers seized several sacks
of mail thrown from Chicago &
Northwestern train at LeMars. They
boarded the blind baggage with the
sacks and rifed them. The engine
crew watched the robbers at work,
and when they reached Alton. they
were captured.
At the close of the first days trav-
els of the Holden seed corn special
over the Rock Island west of Des
Moines, Professor Bowman declared
himself convinced that seed corn con-
ditions in western Iowa are much bet.
ter than they are In southern Iowa.
Matthew Humes. miner of Crick-
ct, aged IS years, was killed by a
Northwestern train between Cricket
and Buxton. His badly mangled
body was scattered for several
yards
J. Roy Besco of Eddyville was in.
dicted by the federal grand jury for
writing a black hand letter to F. N.
Epperson, a banker of Eddyville.
As the result of a scratch received
on his hand two weeks ago, Adolph
Espe died from blood poisoning, aged
SO years. He had lived on a farm
near Kanawha for the past twenty
five years.
Eugene Hart, aged SO, died at his
home in Iowa City where he had liv-