Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-11-06
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

Mount Pleasant Is improving he,
city waterworks.
a 50-pound squash is on exhibition
In New Hampton.
{ The new lock at the Keokuk dam
will pc closed Nov. Is.
Harvey Statham Of Galena was
killed by the kick of horse.
The city council Of Davenport is
drafting an ordinance to abolish the.
smoke nuisance.
II Is very probable that automobile
numbers for dealers will be abolished
entirely next year.
II r. =. Armstrong has been appointed
division superintendent OF the North
4 western at Mason City.
Governor Clarke will be the prin.
cipal speaker at the corn show to be
4 held ct Fort Dodge, Nov. i.
Aug. Appling, 81. residing one mile
i from Waterloo, was killed In an auto
mobile accident at Leroy. MINI.
Mrs. Sarah Morressey Of Boone was
4 struck by an automobile in Des
Aoines and was seriously injured.
For the second time wiz, = week
i the body Of q 7-monthr infant was
found In the river at Cedar Rapids
An interurban from Quincy, ILL.,, to
Burlington. Iowa. is under serious
consideration by a Paris banking firm.
Five white men and negro were
arrested at Grinnell for breaking into
q freight car and stealing quantity
Of beer.
Conductor j. T. Kennedy was in
1ured at GAINESVILLE by having q but
ter tub fall from a truck and crush
q his foot.
Cedar Rapids has completed Its
100000 subscription which assures
that city OF new interurban from
Waterloo.
Phillip Kessling, well driller. was
Instantly killed at Coon Rapids, when
he was struck by Milwaukee pass
enger train.
a team Of horses at Missouri Val-
/ ley, valued at $500, were so severely
injured in runaway that they had
10 be shot. Z
Mr.. and Mrs. j. A. Fndlay Of Fort
Dodge celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary. Over 100 guests
were entertained.
The Elks lodge Of Marshalltown has
started campaign to pay of the
mortgage on the Salvation Army hall.
amounting to $1,000.
Walton Stumbo Of Woodward re-
ceived broken leg when HIS team
became frightened at a threshing ma
chine and ran away.
Mrs. John H. Byford Of Waterloo.
mother Of eighteen children. Is dead
from blood poisoning, the result Of
running silver into her foot.
Ed. Walsh, baker employed at
Kreger's bakery In Abba. may lose
! his hand as result of getting 1t
caught in bread mixing machine.
Harry -Lemburg. Of Davenport. a
chauffeur who ran down and killed
I railroad switchman has been held
!. to the grand jury for manslaughter.
Convicted OF q serious crime against
Q 3-year-old baby girl, Albert Ousley.
3 colored. of Des Moines. was sem
fenced to 90 years in the penitentiary.
Caught under q fall Of slate In the
4 Mitchell mine at Cincinnati, Jack
E Mules back was broken and he Is
3 expected to- die. He was mule
driver.
About 600 of the Catholic parish at
lEarly met at the opera house to give
Father Quensel q farewell reception.
EHe was presented with gold watch
and chain.
C.. A. Babcock Of the Babcock In
stitute Of Pharmacy in Des Moines
was seriously injured in a collision
between street car and an autOmo-
bile
Dunkerton boosters are busy and
: have granted. a franchise to j. A. REM
for! The installation Of an electric light
: plant, to supply the city and resi-
dents.
because her mother would not per-
init her to enjoy e dance, Gladys
Dickerson, age 16. Of Muscatine, at
tempted to take her own life by swal-
lowing poison.
The city of Des Moines is preparing
/ TO enter suit in the sum of $4,000
4 against the Mutual Telephone COM
pany for use of the streets and alleys
!, Of Des Moines.
4 The district court of Newton has
brought In q verdict OF guilty against
j. 3. and G. 8. McAninich, indicted for
y practtcing without license. They
IRE chiropractors.
Word was received in Des Moines
OF the accidental death Of ]. E. Lamp
man at Almeda, Calf. bullet sent
through hi heart while he was clean
Ing revolver was the cause.
Phil Heileger Of Sheldon. being
overcome from gas coming from a
I we'll from which he had assembled
tainted and fell to the bottom, a dis
lance Of "a feet and was killed.
p. s. Estel. Of Waterloo, state dairy
expert announces that preliminary ar
Irangements are being made for the
tour OF q special dairy train over the
+ Burlington road in southern Iowa.
Farmers in Cherry Mound country
are mourning the loss of several head
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