Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-09-04

keokuk to attend the. convention of
the Iowa Christian church
| Two tawny lions have terrorized
the Goodell neighborhood, according
to reports, for the past week.
Thomas Russell, Jr., and David
Crabtree of Muscatine were held on
a charge of robbing Harry Hudson
of that city.
The Black Hawk county teachers
institute came to close with total
enrolment of Ill, establishing rec
ord in thai county.
| For failure to burn carcasses of
hogs that died from hog cholera, VIM.
Geilenfelt, farmer, was fined $22 in
justice court at Algona.
Rev. j. V. Comm, pastor Of The
Presbyterian church at Washington,
has resigned, to take effect September
7th. His future plans are unknown.
C. III. Liz of Des MONIES, aged 20.
rated to be worth 100000, was found
guilty in police court of stealing two
lunches of celery and was fined SIS.
The 160-acre farm Of Jabex Bow
II
of Watkins, was sold to George Pos
sehl of Watkins for $185.50 an acre.
Sadie Underwood has filed suit
against John Mcdonald, a proprietor
of saloon at Des Moines, in which
her husband was killed in drunken
brawl
Rush C. Benedict, a prominent
Iowa republican of Shelby, died Of
typhoid fever. He served in the state
legislature as chief clerk for ten
years.
Jacob Rueter committed suicide by
hanging himself at Dubuque. He has
been an inmate of the asylum for the
insane for two years. He leaves a
| family.
| Clark Mckee, arrested in Kansas
City for robbing the Graves drug
store, escaped from Sheriff Gretton
| of Nevada and has not been appre-
hended.
Mrs. Ralph Shallcy was seriously
injured when she ran into a clothes
line, which rendered her unconscious.
She was unconscious for twenty
four hours.
\ George w. Lewis is in q serious
condition at Fort Madison as result
of a knife wound received in the back
by Mexican. The assailant eluded
the police.
An explosion of barrel of cider in
the basement of the Old Peoples
home at Cedar Falls threw the in
mates into a panic, fearing it dy-
Mantle outrage.
| Farmers in the vicinity of Perry
are taking a decided stand agains,
the spreading of horse nettle, noxi-
Gus weed that has secured a start on
farms near there.
1 Charles E. Schramm, aged so,
prominent Burlington dry goods mer-
chant, who broke his neck in diving
in the Mississippi river, died at his
home in that city.
| September 18th is The date set for
the dedication of the new Knights Of
Pythias block at Mason City. Five
hundred members are expected to at
tend the exercises.
| Mrs. Emma Anderson, aged So, of
McClelland, was instantly killed
while riding in an automobile which
collided with another machine run
ming at high rate of speed.
/ Charles Abbot, John Slater and
Geo. Wineneck are held by the police
at Iowa City in connection with the
burning Of the Cochran barn on the
farm of Mrs. j. U. Cochran.
Bert blanchard, a crippled man,
of Mason City, aged %, attempted
suicide following quarrel with his
sweetheart, who reported his actions
after he had swallowed ether.
The approaching term of the dis
trict court at Marshalltown will see
the greatest number of criminal cases
before the court in many years. In
terest centers on two murder cases.
The fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Iowa yearly meeting
of Friends will be celebrated at Os-
kaloosa on September 5. A new $780,
900 Iowa yearly meeting house will
be dedicated.
Joseph Gaden was seriously burned
while trying to extinguish fire in
an automobile, which started in the
rear of the car, while he was filling
the tank. An explosion followed and
he received serious burns.
A committee of five citizens went
TO Des Moines from Kellogg to con,
fer with Rock Island officials concern
ing the kind of station the company
should erect there, to replace the one
recently destroyed by fire.
Discouraged over the escape from
his game farm Of 500 pheasants
William Benton, Of Cedar Falls, who
for several years has grown most Of
the game birds for the state, has de
cided to discontinue the business.
On the decision as to whether i
was the body Of Henry Sternweis o.
his wife found hanging in the barr
at the time the rest of the famil!
was burned at Dubuque rests the dis
nosa1 Of $40 900 worth Of nroperty