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

for the first offense and will stand tri.
al on the second. Twenty-Five per-
sons who are holders of government
licenses were hailed into court by the
police and charged with Illegal sale
of liquor. The majority preferred TO
pay fines of $50 and be released.
Former Representative Frank E.
Sheldon frustrated an attempt by DR..
t. w. w. Little, formerly of Kingsley,
to kill Mrs. Little in hotel at Mt.
Ayr. Mrs. Sheldon, who was near her
husband, was wounded by bullet that
glanced from Mrs. Little's cheek after
infiicting flesh wound. Mrs. Little
had filed a suit seeking divorce, and
1t is believed this caused the trou.
BILE.
After a week Of investigation Unit.
ed States secret service men admit
that they have been baffled by dar.
ing mail robbery, which took place in
Davenport recently. A mail pouch
containing money orders was taken
from a truck on the station platform.
The empty pouch was found a mile
west of the station In weeds along the
railroad track.
James G. Quick was sentenced to
thirty years at hard labor in the Fort
Madison penitentiary at MARSHALL
town. Quick shot and killed his wife,
Clara. on the night of May 30, after
he had quarreled with her because
she went to dance. He was sentenc-
ed upon his pleading guilty to murder
in the second degree.
A new electric company, appeared
before the city council at Mauuoketa
and asked for en- unconditional fran
chise, the limit to be twenty-five
years, to string wires and poles into
Maquoketa, connecting with trans
mission line from Anamosa. After
a delay of two weeks the council voted
TO turn down the proposition four to
one.
A dip backward into boiling
spring at Yellowstone park burned
almost every particle OF skin from
the body of Ross P. White, of Ames,
a senior at Iowa State College. He
now is mending slowly in the govern
ment hospital at Fort Yellowstone
Young White had been acting as a
guide at the park during the summer
Jake Terpstra lost his life while
digging well near Sioux Center. At
a depth of forty feet his bore encoun-
tered rock and Terpstra went down to
investigate. When down about thirty
feet he noticed gas in the well and
was pulled up at once. He was uncon-
scious when he reached the surface
and lived but short time.
For injuries received on the even
ing of Dec. IL, Mrs. Title Roberts of
Nora Springs has brought suit against
the Milwaukee Railway company for
$4,000. While going home from
Nora Springs and while crossing the
Milwaukee tracks near that place her
conveyance was struck by a freight
train. @
Miss M. Elizabeth Appleton of Tama
has been elected to the chair of pro-
fessor of modern languages at Lean
der Clark college, Toledo, succeeding
Professor Cronise, who sailed last
week for Japan, Miss Cronise goes
to take charge of the girls English
department in an American college at
| Toxic.
w. w. Cook, who represents Per
ry live stock firm at Dawson, was
seriously hurt while riding in the
caboose of freight train on the Mil.
waukee near Coon Rapids. Mr.. Cook
was in the cupola when a car jumped
the track and he was thrown through
the window.
John f. Wade, chairman of the
state board of control and former
state senator from Butler county! died
At his home in Des Moines aged 81
years. Death was due to stroke of
apoplexy. Senator Wade was at work
In the state house all day.
Rev. o. B. CHASED, formerly Of
Iowa Falls, has taken over the Iowa
Methodist, the official organ of the
Methodist church in Iowa and will
move the paper to Iowa City. 1t was
founded by Rev. Fairall and has been
published at Epworth.
The survivors of the Eleventh, Thir-
teenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa
regiments, which composed Crocker's
brigade held a most successful reunion
at Clarinda recently About two hun
dred survivors of the brigade were
present.
w. e. Miller, a chiropractor, has
been arrested on charge of practic-
ing medicine illegally. Miller runs
the Charles City sanitarium, and was
quar- antined some time ago for expos
ing himself to infantile paralysis.
Rufus Lindhorst received double
fracture of the arm, James Lindhorst
a broken nose and Guy Stewart Of
Armstrong fractured thigh in a bad
auto accident near Algona.
The forty-second annual convention
of the Iowa Equal Suffrage association
will be held in Boone on Wednesday
Thursday and Friday, October Sth, 9th
and 10TH
Elmer Hansen, 16 years old, was
killed when his motorcycle stalled on
the Northwestern railroad track In
front of a freight train near Boone.
Two Waukon widows were granted
pensions recently under the new law.
Goth have small children depending
on them for support.
Ernest Convey. near Knoxville, has
Just finished threshing five acres OF
fiax-the first ever raised in Marion
county. The crop averaged sixteen
bushels to the acre and is Of fine quail
ity. This yield is said to be one and
one-half bushels to the acre above the
average in North Dakota and Canada.
Eighteen refrigerator cars loaded
with fruit were wrecked at Wise Sid
ing, nineteen miles east of Waterloo,
when a broken rail .derailed an east
bound Illinois Central freight train.
The track was torn up for distance
of 250 feet.
James Thomas is dead as the result
OF dispute at railroad camp near
Lovilia, and Sheriff Griffin is hunting
for John Henderson, colored, who is
said to have shot Thomas. A posse
searched the vicinity of the killing for
Henderson and picked up what is be-
Iieved to be defGite trail.