Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-16


Mrs. Eta Larsen Is on trial in the
district court at Northwood charged
with having attempted to poison her
father, Douglas Rhodenbaugh, q
wealthy farmer. Marion Rhoden-
baugh, . young sister of Mrs. Lar
sen, testified that Mrs. Larsen gave
her paris green five separate times
and told her to mix the poison In
tea, coffee and other food prepared
for her father
The Rev. w. A. Sunday, the evan
gelist, closed q six weeks series Of
meetings at Springfield, o., this
week, and some old records were
broken The converts at Sunday
evenings service numbered 607, and
for the day they reached 95S. There
were 6,S04 conversions during the
campaign and the tree will offering
for Mr.. Sunday was $1s,761.13. HI
Mrs. John Davis, aged 26, wife Of a
farmer living thirteen miles south OF
Sioux City; their three months old
baby, and Miss Lucy Hodger, aged
So, an aunt, were burned to death
In fire which destroyed their farm
home. The explosion Of an oil can
is supposed to have caused the fire.
Judge Talbot OF Newton sentenced
Steward Chester to the penitentiary
for not exceeding fifteen years for
robbing Henry Wehrman on June 26.
Assisted by three other men 1t Is
charged Chester held Wehrman and
took bottle of whisky from his
pocket.
Beatrice Clark became the wife Of
Walter Mccarthy, Of Sapulpa, Okla
homa, at the bedside OF her father in
Mason City, who was dying but re-
vived by stimulants long enough to
see his daughter married A. g..
Clark, the father, was county audi.
tor.
Mrs. J. G. Mabray seeks to have
her husbands bond reduced to .
point where he can secure his re-
lease pending his trial. Mabray 10
held under $4,000 bonds in two
cases. Mrs. Mabray hopes to get the
bond reduced to $4,000 in each case.
The defense of John ROLAND on
trial at Keokuk for killing his wife.
has placed number OF witness on
the stand to prove that he fired in
selfdefense. Among them were
French ROLAND and Mrs. Lou ROLAND
the latter the defendants mother
The famous case at Grundy Center
OF Ida z. Heisler VS.. Conrad and Net
tie Heisler for alienation of affec-
tions has been settled out OF court
for 5000. The first trial resulted In
a verdict for $1,000 but the supreme
court sent 1t back for retrial.
Burglars attempted to rob the Citi-
zens' bank at Mitchellville by blowing
open the big vault with nitro-glycer-
in. They were scared away before
they had reached the inner vault Of
| the safe in which was stored several
thousand dollars.
The semi-annual conference of Al
COMA district of the Northwest Iowa
conference of the Methodist church
will be held at Emmetsburg the COM
ing week Among the speakers on
the program is DR.. Craig, president
| of Morningside college.
John L. Adams the Scion farmer
whose barn was burned by incendiar-
ies. and who has for the past six
months received anonymous letters
demanding sums of money, has found
another mfssiye in his mail box de-
handing $1,000.
F. r. Lee broke out Of the county
jail at Fort Dodge and made his es-
cape He sawed of the bolt to the
lock Of his cell door. He then punch
ed a hole in the ceiling, went over
the attic and down an elevator
shaft.
Robbers entered the postoffice at
Elma at an early hour and after blow
Ing open the safe with powder. got
away with 500 in currency and
stamps. Two tramps have been ar
rested at New Hampton on suspicion.
Mrs. J. Fl. Christofferson, shot four
times by her husband In a jealous
rage at Atlantic died from her in
| juries. Her husband was at once
sent to the asylum at Clarinda, and
does not know Of his wife's death.
The organization Of a cadet signal
corps, the first OF its kind among
western colleges, Is being completed
at Iowa City by Capt. Morton C..
Mumma of the university of Iowa
cadet regiment.
Frank Hunt is dead at Ottumwa
from a broken neck received when he
fell forty feet to the ground from q
scaffold on which he was working.
Hunt leaves a wife and Ave children.
Business men OF IRddanola have
raised $4,000 for the proposed $780,
600 to be raised this year for the
endowment fund for Simpson col
lege.
The power plant of the Peoples
Gas and Electric company at Burling-
ton was partially destroyed by fire
and as a result the city was in dark
ness and the street cars stopped Tor
some hours.
President II. L. Fisher Of the ma
tional Laundrymens association. was
endorsed by the Iowa association in
semi-annual convention at Burling-
ton.
Typhoid-pneumonia is killing thou
sands Of hogs in the vicinity Of Mus
catine and the financial loss to farm
ers will be many thousand Of dol
lars.
At a special election at Abba the
voters decided to issue bonds for q
$4,000 school house
John Dillon, button worker strik-
err wanted in Muscatine for alleged
assault upon Chief of Police Hoff.