Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-06-29

was run over and instantly killed al
grade crossing in Burlington.
Postal savings banks have been
ordered established at Denison and
Missouri Valley. to open on July II.
Carl Lorenson, 30, Denison, was
killed by Northwestern train be-
tween there and Arion. He was
walking the track.
After only a week OF married life
George G. Fancher, of Charlton, is
dead and his widow, formerly Miss
Daisy Dukes, is heartbroken. He
was well-known attorney
John Mccarthy, Illinois Central
brakeman who lost both arms while
switching in the Storm Lake yards
last spring, has settled his $4,000
damage suit against the Company for
5000.
Governor Carroll has paroled Har.
ny Solsey from the lreformatory at
Anamosa. He is serving five-year
sentence for malicious destruction OF
property. He has been in prison for
three years.
The annual campmeeting OF the
German Methodists of Iowa, Illinois
and South Dakota opened at Garner
to continue one week. Nearly 200
delegates from the three states were
in attendance.
Mrs. Margaret Mccormick, OF TT.
Dodge, has secured a verdict for ST.
500 damages against the Great
Western for the death of her hus-
band. He was killed at GAINESVILLE
in a railroad wreck.
D. T. Gilman, 43 years a resident
of Sioux City, died at his home of
cerebral hemorrhage, aged IS. In
1887 he founded the Iowa State Ma
tional bank and continued In that
institution until 1900.
The twenty-fourth annual conven-
ton Of the Ida Grove district Ep-
worth league was held at Correction
vile, with nearly 200 delegates in
attendance. President c. H. Young,
of Wall Lake. presided
Frank Butts, 10, was drowned in
the Nishna river near Coburg while
fishing with net. He was taken
with cramps and sank in seven feet
of water. Twenty men and boys saw
him drown without making an effort
to save him.
A Burlington passenger train ran
over and killed an unknown man on
the tracks near Lockridge, the head
being severed from the body. He
was Of medium height, weight $50
pounds, we'll dressed and had nearly
$40 in his pocket.
H. A. Dyer, commander of the
Iowa G. A. R., has returned home
from Rochester, MINI. He Is report
ed to be suffering with incurable can
Ger. 1t is said an operation was moi
performed at Rochester because II
could do him no good.
Herman Ackerer, ~ years old, sec.
rotary of the Palace Clothing com.
pany. Of Dubuque, attempted to com.
NIT suicide by shooting himself with
a .32-caliber revolver. The bullet en-.
tered just below the heart and there
is little hope of his recovery.
Earl Hall, who lives near Nashua
is perhaps the largest chicken raiser
around that part of the country. Mr.
Hall now has 1900 little chickens
Matched out, and will have more la
ter. He says he intends to have l.,
600 laying hens next winter.
A head-on collision on the Rock Is
land between a freight train and q
switch engine occurred in the yards
at Iowa City. Tho crews of both
trains jumped, escaping injury. The
enignes were demolished and sever
al hundred feet of track torn up.
With the installation Of the new
grand officers and the presentation
of handsome jewel to the retiring
grand master, Fred w. Craig, Des
Moines, the sixty-eighth annual meet
ing of the Grand Lodge of Iowa Ma
sons has closed it's session in Cedar
Rapids.
Work on the erection of a new
freight depot and added trackage In
the yards Of the Illinois Central Rail
road company at Manchester will be
commenced in the near future, &C
cording to an announcement given
out by the company. The new de
pot and two added sidings to be con
structed will mean an outlay OF
about $4,000.
Friends of James Talbot, a bank
er at Hartford, Iowa, who disappear
ed mysteriously In 1877, believe II
was his skeleton that was unearth
ed recently near Turner's sanitarium
at Colfax. Talbot left his home IL
Hartford with $1,000 in his pockets
The belief at that time was that he
had been murdered for the money he
carried with him.
Admitting indebtedness in excess
of $4,000. Still College OF Osteopathy
Des Moines. filed five confessions o.
judgment in the Polk county district
court. The five confessions tosa, oh
legations Of $37,1S1.6S.
A parade in which 1000 Elks
marched was the big feature OF the
convention of the Iowa Elks at Siou,
City. A Bohemian lunch was serv
ed at North Riverside.
Richard Schnack, of Hutchins, wal
drowned in Crystal Lake, near For
est City, while boating. The body has
been recovered.
Information reaching the office OF
Adjutant Genera. Logan is that the
United States war department is go
ing to withdraw its army officer from
service as military instructor al
Simpson college. Indianola.
The postmasters of the third and
fourfh class Cedar Rapids district