Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-05-25

association held In Sioux City.
A $4,000 fire ragged in the business
section of Corydon for three hours.
Half the business section is in ruins.
S. M. Workman, So years Of age,
a prosperous farmer living near Lake
City, committed suicide by taking
carbolic acid.
Thos. Shelley, of Davis county,
was struck by Wabash freight No.
3, near Carbon and instantly killed.
His skull was crushed.
Summer short course for teachers,
preachers, housekeepers, business
men and women will open at Ames,
june IL, for two weeks.
Frank McPetridge, so, superintend-
ent of sanddigging at the water pow
er works in Keokuk was struck and
killed by a falling derrick boom.
Miss Helen Burling, of Eldora, has
been chosen by the girls of /. S. G.
for May queen. The May day exer-
cises will probably be held next week.
Katherine, the 4-yeai-old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Hanrahan,
living six miles east of Manila. was
burned to death while playing with
matches.
Arrow Wilcox of Ogden, a farmer,
is out 800 which he paid young man
for a handsome horse which later
turned out to be the property of a
man in Nevada.
Augustus Case, for many years a
resident of Estherville, is dead at
Sherburn, MINI. The cause of his
death is mystery, but it is believed
that he was murdered.
Forty-sixth annual convention Of
the Iowa State Sunday School asso-
citation will be held in Cedar Rapids,
June 6, Z and 8. A chorus of 800
voices will lead the music.
Emil Christensen, aged rs, farm
laborer employed by Andrew Rasch,
near Harlan, committed suicide by
firing three shots from a revolver in
to his abdomen. He lived one hour.
Several firemen nearly met death
in Dubuque when the Clark Roll
Awning company and the branch
house of the Beatrice Creamery COM
pany were destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
On the second referendum vote Al
bia is in the lead for the location of
the headquarters of the United Mine
Workers of America, district Is. The
vote stood, Abba 2S3, Des Moines 10,
Oskaloosa ~.
The limiting by the state board OF
education that the hiring of big
hall for commencement exercises OF
the /. 8. c., was a needless expense
raised a storm of protest from the
senior class at Ames.
Officers of the Fort Dodge, Des
Moines & Southern Interurban Rail
road company refused TO grant the
demands of the motormen and con.
ductors in their employ, and as a re
suit the trainmen walked out.
Seventeen cars q freight train No
81 on the Sioux City branch Of the
Milwaukee were piled up across the
track as a result of a wreck between
Mapleton and Rodney. Traffic was
tied up for about fifteen hours.
A banquet and reception in honor
of the 10th birthday anniversary oil
Judge Davis McCarn will be held al
Anamosa this week by members OF
the bar and the district bench. Judge
McCarn has practiced law in eastern
Iowa for So years.
The much-litigated and hardfought
Bort-McCutchen case has been decid
ed for the seventh time in the fed
eral court, this time in favor of the
bondsmen of the late E. II. McCutch
| en-. The last decision comes from
the district court Of appeals at ST
| Paul. BY it the Woodmen lost their
suit to recover from the bondsmen
the sum of $100,153.
Three thousand people attended
the aviation meeting at Atlantic, and
saw Rene Simon in daring flight
that came near ending in his death
On his last fight for the day he was
caught several hundred feet in the
air in a wind and rain storm and
was obliged to make quick landing
a mile from the aviation grounds to
save his machine and himself.
At a meeting of the farmers at
Kimballton, Audubon county, $4,000
was raised to be applied on the fund
to buy back from the receiver seven
teen miles of the north end of the
| Atlantic Northern & Southern road
when the sale occurs July "a. To
gether with $4,000 in first, second
and third mortgage bonds due the
farmers this will give them $4,000
toward purchasing their own branch
line.
II. ]. Kane has been adjudged in
sane at Hampton. He returned home
ed out OF town two weeks ago with
funds OF the city gas company, 1t Is
alleged.
A. B. Funk, of Spirit Lake. has an
nounced that he is not a candidate
for the republican nomination for
governor. He has gone to Canada on
business trip.
David Anderson, a pioneer Of Blu
chanan county, was found dead in bed
| at the home of his son, Dana Ander-
son, Otteryille.
A delegation of twenty-eight went
from Des Moines to the annual state
convention of Episcopal churches
held this year in Sioux City at st.
( Thomas church. OF the delegation
sixteen were from st. Paul's church,
seven from st. Marks and five from
st. Luke's.
Policeman B. F. Nickerson return
ed from Waterloo with Charles Mid
dleton, who was arrested there charg
"a with breaking and entering Bair