Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-06-08

tngs on the farm of o. s. Wierson,
near Boone, loss $4,000.
Lightning struck the barn of Fer
dinand Butslaff near Greene, and
burned 1t. Loss. $4,000.
Fred Voelker, son of F. M. Voelker.
of Oelwein, was struck by lightning
during a storm and instantly killed.
Sheldon postoffice has been desig-
mated as a postal savings bank, ac-
cording to announcement at Wash
ington.
Nine gamblers have been indicted
as result of the recent raid in Keo-
kuk, ordered by Attorney General
Cosson.
Iowa City will have a new 100000
hotel. Business men will take stock.
Sophus Braun, wood chopper, was
drowned while swimming in She'll
rock river.
d Miss Marguerite Norton, aged 10.
daughter of the manager of the Post
al Telegraph in Waterloo, and w.
Cashbaum were injured severely in
motor cycle accident.
Hans Torgler, of Waterloo, has
gone to Germany to wed girl to
whom he became engaged through
correspondence. II she looks like her
photograph he will wed and bring her
back.
Grover Johnson and Julius Van
Krog, two button workers, were fined
500 and costs each at Muscatine for
causing trouble about the Automatic
Button factory where the men are on
strike.
The Rev. J. G. Heerlein, for TWEEN
ty-eight years pastor of the German
Lutheran church in Iowa City and
leader in national synodical affairs,
died following an operation for gall
stones.
E. c. Kerr, for four years president
Of Palmer college, at LeGrand, has
resigned, the resignation to take ef-
feet at the annual meeting of the
college trustees, to be held next
month.
The, state federation of Negro Wo-
AASh CiuuS at Ato CouNCutiou IA &c
dar Rapids elected Mrs. J. B. Rush,
of Des Moines, president, and select
ed Sioux City as the next place Of
meeting.
Business men and citizens held a
mass meeting In Osceola to consider
plans for the proposed interurban to
Hopeville. M. L. Temple, United
States district attorney for southern
Iowa, presided.
Oskaloosa and Mahaska county
have organized the first branch OF
the Greater Iowa league authorized
by the last legislature. Over 200
farmers attended the banquet given
by business men.
Kate Shelly, Iowa's famous heroine
who saved loaded Northwestern
passenger train from going into an
open bridge near Boone, twenty years
ago. lies at the point of death in
hospital at Carroll.
Clarence Cogswell may be a Grip
pie, and his companion, Henry Helm
ricks, will be disfigured for life, be-
cause the motorcycle on which they
were riding collided with q street
car In Des Moines.
City Marshal Shanan, of Grinnell,
tried to stop dog fight in front Of
the postoffice by shooting at one of
the dogs, and bullets from his gun
wounded Emil Youngsted in the foot
and Thomas Phipps in the thigh.
Following a sensational prelimin-
airy hearing before Justice Knowles,
Charles Reid Of Jewell was discharg-
ed. He had been brought before JUS
tice Knowles on statutory charge
preferred by Edward Voss.
Indianola, according to the st. Jo-
seph autoists is the "tightest" town
in the world. The party spent some
time there Sunday and they couldn't
even buy cigar. Indianola citizens
are law abiding. however.
The general store Of w. D. Smith
& Son in Humeston, was entered by
burglars and the safe robbed of $40.
1t is thought that an entrance was
gained through the front door by
means of key especially made to
fit the lock.
A record crowd Is expected In Ma
son City, June 1916 to attend the
State Bankers convention. 1t now
looks as though w. C. Bagley, of Ma
son City, would be elected treasurer.
E. J. Curtin, DEBORAH, looks like
winner for president.
Northbound passenger train of the
Illinois Central went over 20-foot
embankment at Alburnett, and 70
passengers narrowly escaped death.
Roy Collins, a carpenter living at
Manchester, had collar bone brok-
en-. Mail Clerk Frank Madden was
caught under the wreck.
The tenth annual convention OF the
Ioya Catholic Total Abs jinence union
opened in Clinton with nearly 800
delegates in attendance. Among the
distinguished visitors present is the
Very Rev. Peter J. (O'Callaghan, of
Chicago. president Of the c. T. A. U.
OF America.
The Observatory building at the
corner OF West Fourth and Locust
streets, Des Mcines. has been sold to
capitalist of st. Paul, Mimi, by l..
F. hammers. for $4,000. The build
ing is nine stories high and one of
the best built in the city.
The Upper Iowa Conference will
meet according to announcement of
the bishops. on Sept. goth, continuing
in session over Sunday, concluding on
tie 25th. Waterloo was selected as
the next place of meeting. Bishop
Thomas B. Neeley, of New Orleans,