Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-09-25

Methodist church meets at Girard this
week. Bishop w. o. Shepard will pre-
side. The conference is attended BY
1876 ministers and many lay delegates
The district extends over northern
Iowa, all of South Dekota, the south
west portion Of Wisconsin and north
western Illinois.
If plans of business men in the
towns along the Milwaukee west Of
Perry are carried out, high tension
wire which will give the residents OF
the smaller places a continuous light
and power service will be run from
that city The power is to be furnish
ed by the Perry pant, which is now
owned by the Iowa Railway and Light
company. ..
Miss Hazel Conant of Somerset re
ceived injuries OF a serious nature
and Arthur White of Indianola was
hurt when the buggy in which they
were driving was hit by an automo
bile. The car was driven by Harry
Haldeman. Miss Conant was injured
internally and her condition is grave
Mr.. White suffered a broken collar
bone
Unconscious from an injury on the
head received in railroad wreck
Charles e. Knight of Sioux City ha:
been found by his wife in Minneap
oils hospital. He left home July 81
and was not heard from until a few
days ago when countrywide search
through the newspapers resulted II
his Identification.
The hog cholera situation in Chicka
saw county grows worse constantly
Many farmers have lost all their hogs
and several have lost more than 10(
head. Dr. F. Malcolm, assistant state
veterinarian, said 1t would be a safe
estimate to say that 5000 hogs have
Gied in that county, within the last
month.
Two Keokuk property owners have
brought suit against the Mississippi
River Power company for damages
they allege were caused by dynamite
explosions in blasting out the river
bed, claiming that their houses were
damaged. the walls cracked and the
ceilings injured. Both ask $4,000.
Mentally distracted over the loss OF
what she thought was life position
in the internal revenue office at Bur-
lington, caused by its consolidation
with the Office in Dubuque, Miss SUI
sic Smyth, for twenty years a clerk
in that office, was found dead in a
ravine near Burlington
During the past few days fourteen
snakes have been killed In the Iowa
City postoffice. The first indication
that the reptiles had taken up their
home with Uncle Sam was when a
clerk found one coiled around door
knob. Later three were found under
a pile of mail sacks
Fred Thompson arrested at Mason
City charged with violating the Mann
white slave act, was bound over to
the federal grand jury which meets al
Sioux City in October. He is accused
of bringing Anna Slader from Nebras
ka into Iowa for immoral purposes
Lou Marlowe, who has been acting
as clerk at the Hotel Pattee at Perry
ia wanted by the police on a charge
of forgery He is claimed to have
cashed checks for total of 1852 on
q Perry bank in which he had nc
deposits.
Col. John A. Joyce, formerly Of Al
lamakee county, Ia, the Washington
d. c., poet, has informed his friend,
in Iowa that a bronze bust of himself
is being made by Jerome Conner. Hi:
friends ara contributing to the pro
ject.
The candidates for the Glenwoot
postoffice are Homer Kier, Charlie.
Record, William M. Donelan, w. H
Tickle. A petition has been circIlst
ed asking that the selection be left Il
a democratic primary election.
Isaac Richardson, former saloon
keeper at Davenport, is on trial in thai
city charged with killing Arthur Wun
drum, who died in January, 1912, after
drinking beer glass filed with
whisky in Richardson's saloon.
Oout Of about three hundred sur
yivors of the Thirty-third Iowa infan
try, holding three days reunion at
Oskaloosa one hundred and thirty
registered present. They made res
markable dress parade.
In dispute over 50 at Waterloo AL.
bert Tracey, colored, aged 22, shot and
almost instantly killed Percy Hopkins,
rged "a, also colored. The shooIins
took place in barber shop cond;.c.
ed by Hopkins.
Wolves have become so plentiful and
bold in Tama county that a hunt is
planned Eight wolves have been seen
in single pack, and farmers are los
ing sheep as result of the depreda-
tons
The first through train to Kansas
City over the Allerton Short Line left
the Rock Island passenger station at
Des Moines on schedule time at 10:45
o'clock Sunday night. There were
twenty-five passengers on the train
and eight berths were sold to Kansas
City.
An attempted elopement was stop
ped when Perry officers arrested Miss
Gladys Coppis, II years old, and Walt
er Brink, 81 years old. They we're
held until the arrival OF Sheriff Hogan
of Jones county, who took the couple
back to Olin.
Dan Hockersmith, farmer living
near Fontanelle, narrowly escaped
death when swine attacked him while
he was in the feed lot. Mr.. Hooker
smith found a pig caught in the gate
and he was trying to release the pig
when its squeals brought the rest OF
the animals down upon him.
Lester Coons, 20 years old, and
Roy Coons, II years old, members OF
the family of ]. NJ. Coons, of Council
Bluffs. are victims of infantile paraly-
els. The disease was diagnosed fin
ally by a member Of the state board
OF health, who was called.