Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1910-11-24
Iowa News
NEWsY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE STATE.

vember "a, as Thanksgiving day.
Civil service examinations will BIZ
held Dec. 10 for rural carriers al
Kinross, Luverne and Stanwood.
M. c. Brown has been indicted on
six counts on embezzlement charges
by the Pocahontas county grand jury
Mrs. Reid, fell twenty feet into 9
sewer ditch now in the course OF
construction in Boone and was fatal
ly injured.
Thomas Bybee of Clarion has been
sentenced to five years at Anamosa
for the alleged theft OF $275 from
George Yost.
1t Is planned to hold a corn and
grain show in connection with the
poultry show to be held at Corning
in December.
Carl FRANKIE, chairman of the Re.
publican state central committee, has
announced his candidacy for United
States senator.
While John Powers was seriously
i'll, Boone neighbors went to the row.
ers farm and husked 1000 bushels OF
corn and cribbed it.
John Paradoski, an inmate of the
county poor house, was struck by an
Illinois Central train near Dubuque
and instantly killed.
Frank Donohue, at one time a trav.
cling salesman, was arrested at Sioux
City, charged with robbing James
Miller of Perry, of $16.
w. T. Adams, farmer, business man,
and for four years county auditor,
died suddenly at his home at Hamp
ton of hemorrhage of the brain.
Cedar Rapids expects to show
something entirely new in the way OF
church architecture when the new st
Patll's Methodist Episcopal church is
completed.
According to a statement by the
owners, the Steamboat Rock mill,
which was destroyed by fire together
with all its contents, will be rebuilt
Immediately.
While working on the top of a pole,
which fell to the ground with him at
Nevada, Tom J. Henrshan, lineman,
received serious injuries about the
back and head.
Over three hundred were convert.
ed during the four weeks campaign
at Clarion, conducted by Evangelist
M. H. Lyons. A purse of about 1925
was raised for the evangelist.
Fire which destroyed the barn and
several other out buildings, belonging
to David Archibald and his son, Rus.
sell, who is mail carrier, near Cen.
terville, caused a loss of several hun.
dred dollars.
Trappers in the northern part of
the state are having the best season
in years. Fur bearing animals are
plentiful and mink bring from 81 to
81 each, while muskrat is worth
about rs cents.
Fire Of an unknown origin destroy.
ed the White-Rose creamery at Mar.
Gus, causing a loss of $4,000. Insur.
ance to the amount of $500 was car.
ried on the structure, which will be
rebuilt at once.
A chapter, known as the Independ.
ence Chapter, of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, was recently
organized at Jefferson. Mrs. w. E.
Stewart, was made regent, and Mrs.
w. Anderson vice-regent.
William Franks, arrested for steal.
ing an overcoat at the Armory hall
at Dubuque, is wanted at the insane
asylum at Independence from which
institution he escaped according to
word received by the police.
Rev. Otto Richter, pastor of the
German Lutheran church of Denison,
was seriously burned about the legs
and body when lamp which he was
trying to fill without putting out the
blaze, exploded, throwing burning oil
over him. Much damage was done to
his home.
Pension have been granted to the
following Iowans: George w. Barr,
SIS; Eli J. Bennett, Sic; Riley R.
Cook, SIS; Margaret Emery, $12;
George H. Ferris, $40; John Jutland,
SIS; Daniel w. Marston, $12; Allen
"C1NCly Ols1 plOJ W. "A. OluUl,
$40; Oliver Wingate, SIS.
Daniel McGinnis, a Dubuque veter
an of the civil war and a member of
the soldiers home at Marshalltown
died of bronchial pneumonia. He en-
listed in the regular army in Dubuque
N 1862, and served three years. He
was 73 years old and, as far as known
IS survived by no relatives.
The barn on the Neglass farm near
Cushing, was destroyed by fire togeth.
er with all it's consents. Charles Joy,
the tenant of the farm, hung Ian.
fern in the barn and went out On
returning he found the barn ablaze
Three horses, some hogs, calf, hay,
harness and quantity of grain were
lost In the flames.
The faculty of the high school at
Webster City will cancel the balance
of the years football schedule, as
the result of the accident during the
game when a Webster City player
Sroke his leg.
Because two negro laborers had
been employed in the shops, 160 men,
the entire force employed in the Iowa
Central railway car and paint shops
at Marshalltown, went on a strike.
Governor Carroll has appointed
Hon. Lafayette Young, of Des Moines.
United States Senator to succeed the
ate j. p. Dolliver.
On the third Of December, NAL
uern will have colt shnw com.