Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-10-02

One litter OF spring pigs bringing
the owner $1,000 is the record which
Isaac Overton, Knoxville township |
stockman, has good prospect OF es- |
tablishing for Marion county. The |
pigs are only six months old. One of |
them, a 2S5-pound male, was sold to |
a Michigan man for $780, Others of |
the same litter have sold for from
$S5 to 500. Que that was shipped
to Mississippi weighed 275 pounds,
and brought $3.50.
Mart Dugan, the 19-year-old son of
C. M. Dugan. banker and stockman of
Vail, was killed instantly when driv-
ing an automobile load of young
folks. Five miles south Of town they
ran the car through an open bridge,
dropping twenty feet. Patsy Pieper's
face was cut, M. Gibbons jaw broken
and three women dangerously injured.
While hunting seven miles south of
Dubuque. Joseph Bohlen and William
Becker were attacked by huge
panther and only escaped after a des-
perate battle during which they were
badly scratched and chewedi TIE
hunters were passing through heavy
uaderbrush when the panther jumped
on them without warning from tree.
Russell Rogerson, II years old, was
shot through the hip and seriously
injured as the result of the accidental
discharge of revolver in the hands
Of friend at Eldon. Young Roger
he xyfaf Of
gun accidents due to others and has
accidentally shot himself three differ
ent times.
The Iowa Fraternal congress con-
vention was closed with the installa-
tion of officers. A. H. Corey of the
Homesteaders in Des Moines was
elected president OF the congress and
William Koch, grand foreman of the
Yeomen, was elected secretary,treas.
urer.
Cities and towns along the Hawkeye
highway are rejoicing over the rul-
ing of the government that the $780,
600 to be appropriated by the govern
ment to aid Dubuque county to i'm
prove its roads. is to be spent on that
particular road.
The three weeks union revival
meetings held at Rockwell City have
closed. The evangelist, DR.. e. j. Bur
gin, secured 200 converts. At the con-
Guiding service a free will offering
was taken for the evangelist amount
ing to $1,000
Leroy r. Tillotson and Howard A.
Written. aged respectively, IS and 26
years, we're killed when a buggy in
which they were riding plunged over
50-foot embankment in Des Moines.
Both mea were stereotypers and leave
families.
After bidding his wife good bye and
going to work, Dan Henry, black
smith at the Santa Fe shops at Fort
Madison, received a telephone call
from his neighbor's informing him
that his wife had just been found
dead, suspended with clothes line.
Ambrose sayles, alleged box car
thief, was not sentenced by Judge Nc
Pherson at Council Bluffs Leslie
Thomas and Henry Gonzolleys, who
were convicted with Sayles, admit
their guilt, but declared Sayles was
not concerned in the thefts.
Marjorie Sarver, three-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Sar-
yer, is dying at the hospital in Oska-
loosa a victim of strange accident.
She fell on a broken fruit jar, which
cut like knife into the abdomen.
Transmission lines will be run from
the electric plant at McGregor four
teen miles west across the country
to Monona, to supply that town with
electricity Twenty-four-hour service
win be assured from the beginning.
Claude and Maude Blakely were
divorced in the district court at Coun-
ell Bluffs but found they could not
bear life separately and were remar-
ried by Justice of the Peace j. X.
Cooper the next day.
Albert Clarke, pioneer farmer OF
near Perry, committed suicide by cut
ting his thoat with a razor. Clarke
was about 70 years old. For fifty
years he lived on farm seven miles
north Of that city.
county district court adjourned after
a weeks session at Abba. They re-
turned fifteen indictments, which in
clude those from murder down to
bootlegging.
o. ID. Donaldson, on complaint OF the
Cole Creamery company, was brought
before Justice Creager at Logan on
the charge of embezzling $2S4.35.
Miss Margaret Collins, sister OF
COUNCILMAN F. W. Collins of Ft. Dodge
was fatally burned when she tried to
blow out a lamp and it exploded.
When the sluice gates in the big
dam at Keokuk are opened the fish
become stranded in the shadows and
are easily caught Fishermen first
noticed the trap and in a short time
nearly hundred people were wise
to the easy way of getting fish In
wholesale quantities.
The construction of transmission
line TO carry electric light and power
to Manly will be begun at once by
the Peoples Gas and Electric com.
pany OF Mason City. The company
was granted franchise by Manly
voters.
Suit identical with the suit filed in
Jefferson county, has been instituted
at Marengo, seeking to enjoin the au-
ditor and supervisors of Iowa county
from spreading the half.mill levy for
the capitol-grounds extension.
A barn on the William Faris farm
near Centerville, was struck by
lightning and destroyed with loss
OF $4,000. Two horses and several
cattle were rescued with difficulty.
The social year at the University Of
Iowa was opened by reception given
by the YIN. C. A. to Z uniyersity's
coo new men.