Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-01
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IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

crowned at ESUHeTVllle Willie OodtilS
on the river.
Nearly 1000 pints Of whisky were
burned in huge bon fire at Waterloo
after having been seized by the sheriff
in places operating illegally.
William Gasteiger of Mason City.
who attempted to end his life, was
found insane and sent to the asylum
at Independence for treatment
Mrs. G. P. Gallagher, wife Of a
prominent farmer and old settler,
died at her home east of Williams
burg. Besides her husband, she
leaves large family.
Ben johnson, while visiting rela-
tives at Leon, walked into an adjoin-
ing room, took revolver from his
pocket and fired bullet into his
brain. He died instantly.
The body of Louis Ludwig, Of Dan
sury, a member of the automobile
party of five which went into the Mis-
souri, river last fall, was taken from
the river near Whiting.
An attendance of over 600 physi..
clans is expected at the sixty-second
annual convention of the Iowa State
Medical society, which will be held in
Des Moines on May Z, 8 and s.
Work has been begun on the $4,000
federal building at Red Oak. The con-
tractor says work will have prog
ressed sufficiently to allow the corner
stone to be laid on Memorial day.
Prof. c. P. Christensen, president
of the First Progressive Spiritualists'
society at Iowa City, is bedridden,
victim of nervous prostration. He will
Sue for damages, a fellow citizen,
whom he accuses of threatening him.
Lee Swearingen, lawyer who dis
appeared from Rock Rapids ten years
ago, suddenly appeared at the home
Of friend. He had disappeared once
before in the same manner. Mental
unbalance is said to be responsible for
his strange actions.
The explosion of a can of gasoline
in one of the bunk cars at Mechanics
vile fatally injured one of the Greek
laborers and painfully injured one or
two others. 1t is thought the fact that
the car door was open saved several
4 others from being hurt.
Both becoming members of the SOL
diers' home at Marshalltown at the
same time five years ago, and meet
ing there for the first time, j. Mat
thew McCord, SO years old, of Wat
erloo, and Mrs. Rebecca Holloway, 55
years old, of Webster City, were mar
ried.
Fire destroyed the Rock Island
depot and E. d. Jones & Sons eleva-
tor at Oxford, burning $4,000 bushels
of grain. The loss probably will be
) $4,000, and the insurance on the ele-
d yator $1,000. Nearby livery barr
e and lumber yards were saved after
hard fight.
A movement has been started t.
change the date and location of the
annual encampment of the Iowa de
= partment of the United Spanish.
e American War Veterans to Des
/, Moines for June 9, the date for the
: homecoming week Of the veterans o.
e the civil war.
y The Iowa State Kindergarten asso
nj citation will hold it's annual convention
h Nav 1917 at Cedar Falls. About 20
n delegates are expected to attend. Mis-
Florence Ward, in lecture on tn
Nine. Montessori System of Chill
Education, will be one of the big fea
: lures of the convention.
: Raymond Repp, of Abba, a hig
school boy of the class Of 1913, ha
e surprised his friends by marryin
4. Miss Goldie Bowman and the coupl
1t will remain there till he graduate
IS from high school, when they will g
it to Melrose, where they will make thei
n home on the groom's fathers farm.
a Mrs. Angeliki Margiori, a maid
Waterloo hotel, went to war on be
bugs which she feared were in a ma
y tress, and as result she is ccnfine
- to her bed, suffering from serior
" burns on her arms and legs. tt
10 gasoline used on wire mattress b.
!. came ignited and she was envelope
n in flames.
While dressing a chicken recent
Mrs. A. T. Wilkins of Tabor found
the fowls gizzard a lump Of shinir
!, metal which aroused her curiosity.
!, was about the size of the end of HI
finger and looked like gold. She kel
it and when Mr.. Wilkins made tr
~ to the city he showed it to jewele
o. who pronounced it pure gold.
nd Leonard Weber, aged 10 years, 81
in Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Weber, di'
ct at the home of his parents in Waite
J. loo from lockjaw, which had set
,ly following his vaccination a few da
.ir ago. The little fellow had been pla
he ing about until just a day or SO b
- fore his death, when in some way t
= wound became infected, with the fat
~ result.
MS Dick York of Atlantic, local p
m corn and peanut wagon man, paid
be fine of $50 and costs in the court