Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1913-08-07

Thomas Dickerson, who was arrest
ed at Victor on a charge of stealing
horses, is confined in the Boone coun.
ty jail. He has made confession in
which he says he is 70 years old and
an old soldier, serving through the
civil war as dispatch bearer. "The
chase at Malcolm, when / got through
the corn fields from the posse, which
seemed like thousands of persons, re-
minded me Of my services for the
government during the civil war;" he
wrote. So far he persists in his re-
fusal to implicate others In the thefts.
Some of the fastest and most
strongly competitive motorcycle and
automobile races ever pulled off in
eastern Iowa are expected to take
place &c Io~s City Sept. 8, the last day
OF tie Johnson eS"nty fair. The John
sol County Motor Racing association
ofers prizes amounting to $3.50, $500
going to, the best motorcyclists and
$3.50 20 the winners of the two auto
races.
An Italian about so years of age,
whose name is believed to be Charles
Ruffino, was found wandering in a
corn field near Loveland, Ia, and was
taken to a sanitarium in Council
Bluffs for examination. Tickets car
ried by him showed him to be en- route
from Alameda, Cal, to Italy. Besides
valuable papers found on his person
there was 5000 in gold in belt.
In order to bring about church
union 1t will be necessary for the
Baptist denomination to reach a point
where it will insist less intensely on
immersion as the only form of bap-
tsm." declared the Rev. E. H. Stew
ems, pastor of the First Baptist
church, Sioux City, in a sermon on
church union. Each church must
surrender something"
Because he became home sick" at
the end of three days of camp life
ana deserted the camp, the feature of
his desertion being a seventy-mile
hike afoot back to Des Moines, his
home, evidently to prevent intercept
ton of his escape If he went by rail-
road, Everett Cooley, a private of
Company A, is under guardhouse SEN
tence Of court martial.
In an endeavor to fix the blame for
the death of a baby, whose body was
found buried under a hen house,
coroner's jury is making an investi-
cation at Cedar Rapids. The jury
Is examining Mr.. and Mrs. Marion
La Reintz and Mrs. La Reintz's grand
mother. Mrs. La Reintz is a white
woman, but her husband is a negro.
Twenty-three hundred volts of cleo
tricity which coursed through his
body while he hung suspended above
the ground with a live wire under his
armpit failed to kill John Lancaster,
telephone lineman at Iowa City. He
was cut down by his comrades in an
unconscious condition, and was resus-
citated after vigorous work.
The Northern Iowa Power company
is extending its lines from Humboldt
to Fonda and Pomeroy and it is ex-
.pected that these towns will be using
electric power generated by the Des
Moines river thirty-fiye miles away,
some time this fall. 1t is also likely
that Pocahontas and Manson will be
placed on the circuit soon.
Samuel Wood of near Milford was
fatally hurt when he fell from the
top of load of hay, breaking his
hanR uio p,Iinly l,,n
forward and he lost his balance,
striking the ground head foremost. He
is past his 80th birthday and his in
jury is so serious that little hope Of
his recovery is held out.
The contract for the rebuilding of
been let to Frank Fee of Muskogee,
Okla, the price fixed in the bid be-
ing $30,769, which does not include
the plumbing, heating or electric
wiring of the structure.
The annual convention and camp
meeting of the Young Peoples alli-
ance of the Evangelical church will be
held at Chautauqua park, Waterloo,
August 1924. Bishop S. c. Breyfogel
OF Chicago will be one of the princi-
pal speakers. ..g.
The cornerstone of the new federal
building was laid at Red Oak. Among
the prominent speakers who appeared
on the program were Judge Walter l.
Smith of Council Bluffs, Judge Smith
Mcpherson, also Supreme Court JUS
tice H. E. Deemer,
Joseph H. Preston, one of the best
known attorneys in Iowa and for
mer judge of the district court, died
at his home in Cedar Rapids, aged
IS years. He had been Ill three
weeks.
John w. Myers, one of the earliest
settlers Of Shenandoah, died suddenly
while conyersing with friends. Mr..
Myers lived in Manti long before the
birth Of Shenandoah.
The supposed vagrant found dead
on the railroad track between Crom.
well and Prescott was not accidental
ly killed, but had been murdered. The
coroners jury issued a statement find
ing that he came to his death by hav-
ing his throat cut by persons un-
known, and that his body had been
placed on the railroad track to cover
the crime.
An increase in deposits of $26,033,-
490.54 for state and savings banks in
Iowa since June 20, 1912, is shown n
the report issued by the state bank
department last week.
William Lynch; Fl years old, a
clerk in the wholesale department of
the Becker Hazelton Glassware com
pany at Dubuque, died from injuries
received when he was thrown under
street car. He tried to get on 1t
from the wrong side and was struck
by car on the other line moving in
the opposite direction.
At a special election at Winfield ad-
ditional bonds of $4,000 were author
ICED to supplement bonds voted at
the spring election 20 build an addi-
ton to the present school building.