Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-03-27

locked, no combination being on.
Five children of Mr.. and Mrs. C.
L. Haxton of Mason City were taken
from the parents by Judge Clark and
four of them were sent to Des
Moines.
The senate at Des Moines defeated
the Smith bill to change the date of
the primary election from the first
Monday in June to the third Monday
in August.
Henry Hermansen, a farmer, who
fell against circular saw while saw
ing wood and had his skull cleft near
ly in two parts, died at his home in
Mason City.
j. 7. Olson, held at Mason City on
charges of gambling, pleaded guilty
before Judge Clark and was SEN
fenced to las days in the county or
a fine of $3.50.
Fire which broke out in the Odd
Fellows block at Mason City did
$4,000 damage in the Iowa Tea COM
pany's stock. The building was not
seriously damaged.
The body of baby boy was found
dead near Ruthven on the Minneapo-
lis and st. Louis tracks. The body
was perfectly developed and had
slight bruises on the head.
John Bell, charged with the MUIR
der of Charles Ehling of Grinnell,
pleaded guilty to manslaughter at
Montezuma and was given peniten-
tiasy sentence of eight years.
David G. Scott, SO years old, ma
tive of Perch, Scotland, and resident
of Dubuque since 1915, banker and
general merchant, one of the oldest
citizens of Dubuque, died in that city.
The Clinton street railway and the
Gas and Electric company were
granted new twenty-five year fran
chises by majorities of three to one.
The companies will spend 100000 in
Improvements.
Malcolm E. Cox, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Cox, died at Montezuma as
as result of drinking kerosene. The
child got the oil from a can which
the mother kept in the kitchen for
starting fires.
John D. Nugen, for seventy-eight
years a resident of New London and
Henry county, died at New London.
He was one of the wealthiest retired
farmers of the city. He was prom
inent democrat.
During heavy sleet storm at
Council Bluffs, a flock of wild ducks
flying over the city became so weigh
ed with ice that they could not fly
and several fat nallards were caught
in the streets by boys.
Ed Proctor, from near Lime City.
suffered very painful and serious
accident when he was kicked in the
head by mule. His face was very
badly cut and he was unconscious for
more than two hours.
Fire destroyed the stables owned
by Henry Goodhile of Manchester. A
dozen valuable horses were taken
from the burning building by hard
work. The fire is supposed to have
originated from spontaneous combus-
ton.
Robbers entered the Damon Marsh
store at Conrad and secured valuable
silks and wool dress goods. The rob-
bers left no clue, but bloodhounds were
secured from Waterloo and took up
the trail. They followed the scent
south of there but soon lost it.
Herman Harm, young man resid-
ing near Lavinia, fen dead on the
porch of the home of his employer.
John Beam, where he had gone to tele-
phone for a physicion to attend his
wife, who is seriously ill. The couple
had been married only two weeks.
Although he claimed to be divinely
called to heal, sent out to alleviate
pain and suffering $40 per-Dan-
iel Orr Schiller of Rockford, ILL.,, has
been found guilty in the Linn county
district court of practicing medicine
without license at Cedar Rapids.
The proposed white slave commits.
sion may greatly broaden the scope
of its investigation, through the
speech Of Senator Perkins of Della.
ware, who introduced bill to make
the work of the commission include
the subject of divorce and it's general
cause.
When A Ballinger steps from the
Fort Madison penitentiary in a few
weeks, where he has been serving a
years sentence for assaulting his
wife at CT .ston last spring, he will
face an indictment just returned by
the federal court for Bookkeeping at
Villisca.
The agreeable surprise of the past
week in local coal prospecting was
the discove ' of five foot seven-inch
vein on he land optioned by the
Ramsay-Miser company, owners of
the Model mine, in the northwest
part of Knoxville, on the Tom Hind
man place.