Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-09-11

ed their trail TO the Iowa banks or
the Mississippi river. The men were
Harry Scanlon, sent up from Jefferson
for manslaughter, and James Gleason,
committed from Emmetsburg for bur-
glary.
Iowa prohibitionists are to hold a
state conference in the Y. M. G. A. in
Des Moines on Saturday, September
18th, with sessions at $3.50 a. m. and
1870 p. m. Two national leaders and
speakers are to be in attendance
Hon. Virgil G Hinshaw, the national
chairman, and Hon. w. Stewart, a
former national chairman and member
OF the Illinois legislature. The state
committee will meet at the same time,
bringing members from each congress
sional district in the state.
The trial of the two $4,000 damage
suits for alleged defamation of char
acter instituted against two Illinois
Methodist ministers by the Rev. c. 8.
Lyles, former pastor of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Logan, and now
connected with the agricultural exteG-
sion department of the state college
at Ames, may be taken up at the pres
ent term of the federal court in Coun-
Gil Bluffs.
Anthony J. Goetz, a prominent cap
italist of Iowa City, was killed in q
runaway. Mr.. Goetz was president Of
the Hummer Mercantile company,
Iowa City Wholesale Grocery house,
president of the Farmers and Merch-
ants Savings bank at Lone Tree. and
president of the Hills Savings bank
at Hills. He was driving to his farm
when the accident occurred.
Two damage suits amounting to 49,.
500 have been filed at Iowa City as
the result of recent motorcycle col
lisions. F. B. McFadden brings suit
against Ed Rohret and A. w. Rohret
for $500 damages The plaintiff
claims that the defendants were driv-
ing milk wagon on the wrong side
Of the street at an excessive speed.
Paul c. Cassat left Birmingham, Ia.
recently for San Francisco, from which
place he will sail for. work In China.
He goes as an educational missionary
having the principalship Of the new
Boys high school at Using Tau, a
prominent port city of Shantung pro-
vince. Mr.. Cassat is a graduate Of
Park college.
A. s. Garretson, capitalist, has de-
clined the opportunity to run for may.
or Of Sioux City in the spring cleo.
tons. In public statement, Mr.. Gar.
retson, who was one of the big figures
in the boom days, says he cannot at.
ford to- run on account of his business
interests or to serve II elected.
Reuben R. Cook, a member of the
soldiers home at Marshalltown, from
ottumwa, who disappeared few days
ago, was found four miles west Of
town, almost .famished for lack Of
food and water. He had lost all OF
his clothing with the exception of his
shirt.
A man who gave his name as Mills
and who said he wss a farm hand, is
being searched for by the Perry po-
lice in that and adjoining towns. He
is charged with having passed a
worthless check for s51.
Fire destroyed the hardware and
sporting goods store Of C. e. Arm
strong & Co. at Clinton. The loss
on the stock was 100000 partially
covered by insurance and the loss on
the building $4,000.
A committee from Perry is at work
securing options on a number OF farms
in that vicinity, preparatory to max
ing bid for one Of the three state
institutions soon to be located by the
board of control.
Everett Stonebaker, FIVE years old,
was fatally burned at his home In
Iowa Falls. The boys clothes Were
ignited from a blazing gasoline stove
lighter with which he was running
about the yard.
The body Of Fred Dalton, a bachelor
living alone six miles west of Mace
donia, was found dead on the floor Of
his home. from self-infiicted bullet
wound in the head. He was about 30
years old.
Practically every building on the
Jesse Schroeder farm, six miles south
of Farnhamville, was destroyed by
fire which started in the roof of the
house and spread to the other build
ings.
On the recommendation of Con-
gresham Pepper, Drs. Frederick
Lamsch, Peter H. SHREDDER and R. p.
Carney have been appointed pension
surgeons at Davenport.
Perry Thorpe of near Manchester
was fined $40 for not burning hogs
that had died from cholera. The in
formation was filed by l.. H. Sands,
a neighbor.
Fire of spontaneous origin destroy
ed the G. w. McCold hay barn and
seyenty-five loads OF alfalfa, south
east of Logan. Mr.. McCold estimates
his loss at $500.
r. E. Woods was hit by Milwaukee
passenger train while walking along
the tracks at Charles City, receiving
serious injuries.
A civil service examination win be
held Oct. IL at Redfield for postmas.
ter at Linden.
The seventeenth biennial reunion Of
Crocker's Iowa brigade will be held at
Cla-inda, Sept. II and Is. An inter
esting program, including addresses
by able men in and out of the brigade,
has been prepared for the event. Gov.
Clarke, ID. w. Voris of Marion and
Col. w. p. Hepburn Of Clarinda will
be the speakers
Commissioner of Public Works Ar
thur M. Compton has resigned to be-
come supervising engineer of the
levee and harbor improvement work
at Davenport, project which will re-
claim land worth $1,0o0,000.
Officers at Perry are looking for the
owner OF navy uniform, found by
policeman in an old building near the