Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-03-30
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culturallSt, delivered an address on
fruit culture in the M. e. church at
Logan. He gave demonstration Of
grating trees.
Mrs. Carrie Van vucht, so, of Keo-
kuk, is SO badly burned she will prob
ably die. Burning rubbish In the
yard was blown against her and set
fire to her dress.
John McCarty, "A. OF Bloomfield.
won the suit against him by Mrs.
Mary K. Wilson, GA, who sued for
breach OF promise. She asked for
$4,000 damages.
James Silvers, boy Of Montrose,
Iowa, shot an eagle In a tree near
his home. wounded 1t, and finally
captured it alive. The bird measures
seven and a half feet from tip to tip.
j. s. Johnson. manager of roller
ring at Eldora, is in Jail on serious
charges. He was caught in the rink
after closing hours with local girl.
There were threats of lynching him.
Frank Fay, sent to the penitentiary
in 1899 from Nora Springs for at
tempting ITO wreck a Rock Island
train, has been given his liberty aft
er serving eleven Of his twenty-year
sentence.
George Holod is dead at Sioux City
from the effects Of blow over the
head with a beer glass held by Mike
Dyke at a wedding dance. Dyke was
tried for assault and battery, fined
$25 and released.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Doyle celebrated
their golden wedding anniversary at
Logan where they have lived for
fifty years. Nearly $50 guests were
at the function, including five chill
dren and ten grandchildren.
Mrs. William Bennett of Marcus
was hit on the head and instantly
killed when grindstone running at
high speed burst, a piece hitting her.
She was 80 years of age and leaves
husband and two small children.
BY picking the lock with a key
made from a spoon, James B. Walt
ers, accused of stealing merchandise
from freight cars and Bert F. Mey-
.rs. held on a statutory charge, es-
capped from the city jan at Cedar
Rapids.
The state board of education will
soon issue circular giving the re-
quireme uts for admission to the
state educational institutions. They
win be liberal and almost any grad.
uate of high school can secure ad-
mission.
A broken axle piled eight Milwau-
kee freight cars loaded with mer-
chandise In the ditch near Dyers-
vile. George Knippline. Pearl City,
H., asleep In one of the wrecked
cars. was injured. Several horses
were killed.
Flames swept the east side OF Main
street at williams. Four business
blocks were destroyed entailing .
loss of about $40, 0e0. about half COW
cred by insurance. The fire was dis
covered in the Beeler & Mason gen.
eral store.
Arnold company, Chicago. has sent
word that it would build the new
owa City-Ottumwa line half way to
ottumwa, about 80 miles, this year.
Work is to commence June /. Rob-
srt Campbell has secured 100000
u English money to put through the
work.
Isaac Patterson of West Side, Craw-
ord county. has been sued by Nellie
Derrick and Matte Hanna. claiming
ie defrauded them out Of half sec
ion Of land. The former also asks
10000 damages claiming he induced
Ter to divorce her husband, saying
le would support Ter and leave her
ais property valued at $250,00o.
Twenty-nine freight cars on the
Milwaukee were derailed few miles
south of Muscatine. caused by a brok-
en- rail.
James Cooney. one of the promin-
emit attorneys OF Oelwein. and can
didate for mayor ON the non-partisan
ticket, died at his home of ptomaine
poisoning.
Ernest Freese, 20, driver for the
w eiiS-f dIBo GApiSob SohP~Ay
Sioux City is alleged to have confess
cd that he stole 500 from the COM
pany. SO he could travel on higher
social plane. He is IN jail.
Saloon consent petition WAS de-
clared legal at Creston by the county
board. The drys say they will take
the case TO court
1t is reported at Colfax that the
Rock Island railroad has bought the
Colfax Consolidated Coal company.
The road is also negotiating for the
purchase OF land near the station.
c. /. Hodge. a farmer living nine
miles southeast Of Rock Rapids com
mitted suicide by hanging. He haf
seen to Rock Rapids during the da!
and left for home somewhat undei
the influence Of liquor.