Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1911-11-09

authorities who have called in detec-
tives from Burlington to aid them.
The victim remains in comatose
condition and is> unable to speak.
Further medical examination has re-
vealed q second fracture of the skull.
In the belief of the physicians one
was made by sharp instrument and
one by blunt object.
This week two deals were closed
for farms near Stuart that reached
the top notches. The Prior farm,
three and one-half miles south was
sold for 5000 per acre. There are
one hundred acres in this tract and 1t
was bought by G. s. SCHNEIDER. Will
Crew sold his forty-acre farm five
miles southwest for $3.50 per acre.
This land was purchased by Mrs.
Finn and joins her 120-acre tract.
Milford is enjoying an era of pros
perity. Among the new improve
ments ara $4,000 hotel, a $4,000
school house, a $4,000 building for
the First National Bank, q $4,000
store for ]. F. May, q $1,000 residence
for c. F. Mause, $4,000 residence
for f. H. Nurritt, $4,000 creamery.
a $4,000 meat market for Holcomb &
Son and new water works system
that cost $4,000.
Complete returns show that the
Colfax Electric Light and Power
company was granted franchise to
oparafa m aIaotrio Vioht and nouar
house in Prairie City for period of
twenty-five years at the special cleo
tioR held this week. Work Is to be-
gin on the plant Immediately, and
Prairie City will have electric lights
before January LIST.
William Denman, ~ years old, was
electrocuted at Council Bluffs and
died instantly. Denman was at work
on pole OF the Citizens Gas and
Electric company and grasped two
wires of high voltage. AS his hands
relaxed Denman fell to the ground.
His home was in Grand Island, Neb..
where his brother is cashier Of .
beet sugar company.
James O'Callaghan was found gull.
ty of conspiracy in the attempt to
blow up the Polk county treasurer's
safe on the night of March 81 by the
jury after being out over "a hours.
O'callaghan was convicted mainly on
the testimony of AL Rhoades who con-
fessed his part In the crime and i'm
plicated the ex-deputy treasurer
Edward Cochrane, charged with
numbering John Hassman, a barber,
at Davenport, in September. has Sc
cured change of venue to Clinton
county. He claimed he could not Sc
cure fair trial at Davenport owing
to the prejudice against him aroused
by reports of the killing.
Mrs. A. X. Hite, the wife of a
prominent farmer near Mason City,
has brought suit against ]. A. Wiley,
a wealthy farmer of Carroll county,
asking $4,000. Mrs. Hite alleges
that while living with her husband as
tenant on the defendants farm she
was assaulted.
Five cases of smallpox are report
ed In Carroll county. Three of these
cases are in Maple River and one in
Carroll. All cases are under strict
quarantine and the authorities are
taking every precaution to prevent
the spread of the disease.
The Shannon City Savings bank
was damaged and the vault blown
open and nearly demolished by
cracksmen. Neither money nor pa
pers have been missed, and it is
supposed the maurauders were
frightened away
The second district convention of
the Iowa Federation of Women's
clubs will be held November sth at
Marengo. Mrs. Miller of Des Moines
who is state president of the fedora.
ton will deliver an address at this
meeting.
After being out seven hours, the
jury before which Rudolph Brandon
burg has been on trial for q fort
night at Davenport, charged with
killing his stepfather, Claus Muenter,
returned a verdict of mot guilty"
While crossing the Iowa Central
bridge. John Sanderson, so years old.
assistant superintendent of a tile
factory at Marshalltown, was struck
by a passenger train and died an
hour later of broken back.
Mrs. Bertha Smith and her daugh-
ter, Miss Blanche Smith of Windham
have brought suit for $1,000 against
Hugh Rogers, their nsighbor, who re.
Gently filed information charging them
with indecent exposure.
The Baker Manufacturing company
of Evansville, Wis, has announced
its intention of putting up 100000
warehouse OF FIVE stories for the
conduct OF their business out of Fort
Dodge.
The first druggist of Marshalltown
to be indicted on charge of liquor
nuisance since the city went dry July
l last is George p. Powers. against
whom the grand jury has returned
bill.
In an effort to reduce the high cost
of living in Fort Dodge, the majority
of the grocers and butchers have
started thirty-day trial of the Co
operative system of delivery.
Rowen & Son OF Grundy Center
; ave sold the Grundy County Repub-
lican to G. o. Goodwin of Des Moines
for a consideration of $500. Mr..
Goodwin has taken possession.
Mrs. Zell Jordan, As years old. was
discovered by her children lying
across her bed in her home at Mount
Pleasant with her throat cut from
ear to ear, and the bedding literally
soaked with blood and is expected to
die. The police believe indications