Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-06-19

Harlan will make study of laws, or
dinances and requests relative to the
acquiring of lands surrounding public
structures. He expec.s to gain much
information that will be or value in
work of improving lowa's capitol
grounds. Mr.. Harlan also will study
methods of administering archive de-
partments in the different capital
cities. He expects to leave July LIST
and will be gone until September LIST.
Declaring that the prohibition party
was the cancer of the century and
the iceberg of the United States" M.
F. Farley of New York City, national
president of the Retail Liquor Deal
ers association, made.a bitter attack
on the temperance movement in an ad-
dress at the opening session of the
tenth annual convention OF Iowa re-
tail liquor dealers at Cedar Rapids.
Mr.. Farley's ire was aroused over an
open letter of greeting printed in local
papers over the signature of the
Womens Christian Temperance Union
in which the liquor dealers were as
sailed as "Debauchers of manhood
and promulgators Of pauperism."
Albert Mouw, residing near Orange
City, is dead, and John Van Derwarf
of Chicago, aged % years, is lying IN
hospital at LIE Mars in a precarious
condition, as the result Of an automo-
bile accident. Mouw, who was driving,
made wrong turn, going into lane
at such speed that the machine skid
ded and upset Both men were PIN
ned under the machine and were
badly crushed. Mouw died couple
Of hours later, Van Derwarf has been
unconscious since the accident and lit
tie hope is held out for his recovery.
The sheep raisers of the Spring
Hill neighborhood, near Knoxville.
having been pestered by wolves, the
farmers organized a posse and started
lin pursuit of the disturbers. Earl
Brady killed large, full grown wolf
and wounded Second specimen,
which finally escaped. Three filters
of wolf cubs have been taken in that
neighborhood this spring.
1t is announced by Drs. C. c. Bir-
ney of Mason City and V. C. Birney
Of Greene, that their brother, DR.. Il.
e. Birney, wanted at Nora Springs
for an operation that caused the death
of Miss Irish, will appear and face the
charges within few days Mr.. and
Mrs. Irish, parents Of the girl. were
witnesses before a special grand jury
at Charles City.
A Northwestern coal train crashed
into a suburban street car at Boone
and demolished the car. Motorman
James Cutler was carried fifty feet
with the yestibule of the wrecked car
and was thrown into weeds by the
side of the Northwestern tracks. He
was seriously injured. The passengers
escaped with minor bruises.
The races which will be held at
Perry June "a, 20 and &c, are attract
ing an unusual amount of attention
from the lovers of good horse flesh.
In the 2:27 trot there are thirty
horses named, which surely promises
to be one OF the largest fields of hors-
es ever given the word Go" in the
StateNof Iowa.
The accident which cost the lives
OF two daughters of r. M. Dudley OF
near Nashville, when Northwestern
passenger train struck their auto.
near Carroll, was unavoidable, the
coroners jury decided. The railroad
crossing was condemned as unsare.
Mort w. Kimball was killed and
William Mott seriously injured in an
automobile accident at Clear Lake
Driving rapidly the machine became
unmanageable and both men were
| thrown violently. Both are promin'
ent in northern Iowa.
William and Vaselti defeated Iowa
Wesleyan at Mount Pleasant by II
to score. There was only one score
made up to the seventh but the visi
tors added seven more in that inning
and four more in the eighth.
Six men were burned, three seri
ously, when an acetylene tank ex
ploded at the Hart-Parr factory, in
Charles City Superintendent c. E
Lamb of the steel foundry was the
most severely injured.
Mangled beyond recognition the
body of man was found ON the Rock
Island tracks near park in Daven
| port. He is supposed to have been
killed in attempting to board west
bound freight train.
| The Rev. w. V. Written. pastor Of
the Episcopal church at Charles City
and Mrs. Helen C. Parish of Nashua
we're married at Nashua. Bishop T
NJ. Morrison of Davenport performed
the ceremony.
While hitching up his horse to at
tend the funeral of his old friend G
r. Shaul. Scott Slaymaker Of Maren
go fell dead in his barn. He had
been a resident OF Marengo for forty
years.
Jacob Gugger, one OF the best known
railroad men in Boone, has been re
tired on a pension. For more than q
quarter of century he has been EN-
ployed there.
The body of Clyde p. Bartlett,
young farmer living near Oskaloosa
was found hanging in the barn on his
fathers farm. He had been missing
all day. 1t is believed that he hac
brooded over his Ill health until his
mind became unbalanced. Bartlett
was prominent Pythian.
John 2edman, who was held as
connected with the shooting of Mrs
| Cora Prescott at Clear Lake of which
her husband, Louis Prescott, is charg
ed, has been released from custody
The police have discovered that he ID
not the man wanted.
Adjutant General Logan announces
that regimental encampments Of the
Iowa National Guard will be held this
year, the 54th, at Washington and the
SD at Charles City with possibility
that the seth regiment will go to Storm
Lake and the 18th regiment to
| Charlton.
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