Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-04-10


revolver. The bullet entered his
body just below the collar bone and
lodged under the shoulder blade. Lo-
cal physicians do not think his wound
will prove fatal.
John Gordon of Kirkella, Canada,
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Eliza
Heating at Greenfield. Brother and
sister were lost to each other forty
years ago when they separated in
Belfast, and only recently Mr.. Gordon
learned his sisters address.
During the past week farmers in
the vicinity of Rock Rapids were
blowing and disking in the fields, get
ting ready for sowing grain, and they
reported that the ground is in fine
condition for cultivation. The section
is dry land there must be rain before
the grain will grow.
Word comes from st. Paul that
Mrs. Anna Kird, aged 103 years, has
died. She formerly lived in Dubuque
and was for some time the oldest wo-
man in Iowa. Her mind was clear to
the last and she could tell Of happen
ings Of nearly 1O3 years ago.
Benjamin Williams, who died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. John Wat
son, at Glasgow, was an Iowa pio-
neer. He had lived for more than
sixty years on a farm near Stock
port, which he owned at the time Of
his death. Mr.. Williams was 81 years
of age.
Seventeen horses were burned at
Des Moines in blaze which de-
stroyed the Ware Transfer company's
barns. A broken workman's lantern
scattering oil over hay started the
blaze. One horse was rescued, but it
was so badly burned that it will have
to be shot.
One man was seriously hurt and
several others slightly injured in a
wreck two miles northwest of An
keny, when Chicago & Northwestern
passenger train No. 18 was derailed.
The track was torn up for distance
of two hundred yards and four cars
were derailed.
/ "A ONIIOIklOOh, 1OuuU III tllO
possession of Will Mcneil of Clinton,
will be used as evidence against him
on a charge of robbing Winters sa-
loon. The point of the hook with
which the lock is said to have been
picked was found in the lock, accord
ing to the police.
Programs have been issued for the
annual spring meeting of the Iowa
Presbytery, to be held at Winfield.
April ID. Rev. A. E. Cameron, Morn
ing Sun; Rev. R. A. Montgomery, Of
tumwa; Rev. w. Parsons, Fairfield.
and T. B. Foster, of Ottumwa, will be
among the speakers.
| ]. A. Laird, resident of Henry
county since coming from Ohio in
1858, died at his home in Odds, of old
age. He was 80 years old. His wife
and three children survive, DR.. Oscar
Laird, a dentist of Malvern; Mrs. F.
r. Hagie of Mt. Pleasant and Mrs
Minnie Smith of Odds.
Rev. Billy Sunday, ex-baseball
champion, is going to hold revival
meeting in Des Moines, providing he
accepts an invitation which the Inters
Church Council voted to extend. Some
of the ministers were opposed to the
methods of Sunday, but eventually all
agreed to extend the request.
The VIM. G. Andrews Co. Of Gin.
ton was given the contract for deco
rating the new court house at Mt
Pleasant by the county supervisors
their bid being the lowest. 1921
The work will begin June /. The ap
proximate date for the completion o.
the new court house is September l
Officers are searching for business
men of Clarinda who, it is said, Win
ME Johnson, negress, held in Jail TO
examination into the death of Dicl
Able, has implicated in the death
Three white girls, said to have beel
members of a party, are said to b.
expected to shed some light on tn
. tragedy.
While northbound freight on tn
Illinois Central was passing through
Ryan a truck broke, causing derail
ment of seven cars of freight. Sew
eral hundred feet of track was tor
up. The track was repaired stuff
! GENTLY that the evening train wa
abb to resume its regular run to Man
t chester and return.
Five times married, twice divorced
once sued for breach of promise an
now seeking third divorce is tn
position matrimonially of DR.. Georg
Allen Staples, one of the most promi
nent physicians in Dubuque. TIL
doctor is seeking separation from hi
present wife on the ground of crus
and inhuman treatment.
,, The offer of a compromise wag
: increase made to union men by mas
ter painters is unsatisfactory and
strike developed at Sioux City that
expected to develop to larger proper
- lions. Union men refused to Wor