Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-12-10

Jordan, janitor at the First Methodist
church, Mt. Pleasant, is under arrest.
The girl died Nov. Is from poisoned
pancakes, which also made the moth
er and brother and Jordan i'll.
After the girl became i'll Jordan
threw into the fire the -four from
which the pancakes were made.
This and the fact that Jordan's wife
was mysteriously attacked with club
three years ago as she lay In bed
early in the morning led to Jordan's
detention, pending investigation. He
Is being kept in room at a hotel,
where he steadily protests he is In
nocent.
A well dressed stranger giving his
name as ]. H. Conkling, and represent
ing himself to be a salesman for
creamery supplies. pulled of clever
deal at the local creamery at Storm
Lake. He made a call at the cream.
cry when he knew the manager was
out, but asked one of the boys for the
manager, and while he was looking
for him tapped the till and got away
with about $2S. A few hours later II
was discovered that Steffen Bros.
were short $50, and then It was re-
called the same man called there.
Benton county, Iowa, has been push
ing improvement work on the Lincoln
highway this fall in anticipation Of
the traffic expected next year. Four
miles Of hills have been graded, and
an additional twenty-one miles Of the
highway have been crowned and
ditched while several new concrete
bridges have been completed. o. c.
Burrows, Benton county counsel for
the Lincoln Highway association,
states that several more bridges will
be completed early in the spring.
The Amana society. which owns
several hundred acres of land on the
Iowa river in Iowa county and which
has long been mecca for hunters,
has posted signs over its tract of land
forbidding trespassing or hunting.
Advertisements are also being run in
newspapers and the members Of the
society will enforce the trespassing
law to the letter, 1t is said. The
Amana society farmers own many
herds Of blooded cattle and are using
every precaution to keep the foot and
mouth disease out of their district.
They hitched team of horses to a
top buggy, and Mr.. and Mrs. Hen
bricks were going to a neighbor's,
where a member OF the family was
Ill. Just as they were driving out OF
the yard the neck yoke broke. This
frightened the horses, who ran away,
throwing the occupants out of the
buggy. Mr.. Hendricks will recover.
1t is believed Mrs. Hendricks neck
was broken.
Senator james M. Wilson of Gen.
terville, representing Appanoose and
Davis counties, favors making an
other trial in the next general as
sembly to fix the date of the primary
and the state election closer together.
He visited the state house recently
and discussed measures in which he
in interested, which will come up be-
fore the Thirty-sixth general assem-
bly,.
Eggs will be better and fresher next
year If the state dairy and food COM
mission is able to get additional leg
islation. At the convention OF the
inspectors held at the state house ].
w. Mines, H. E. Forester and B. c.
Illiff were appointed committee to
draft new laws on the subject Of
eggs. They will have charge Of the
task of presenting the matter to the
legislature.
Considerable mystery surrounds the
finding of the dead body of a new
born babe on vacant lot near the
corner of Valley avenue and Broad
street at Shenandoah. The dead in
FAINT. when found, was wrapped in Chi
cago and Omaha daily newspapers,
giving the package the appearance Of
an old bundle of newspapers cast up
on the vacant lot.
About four million dollars has been
expended for bridges in the state this
year. according to John Ward, of
Sioux City, president of the Iowa
Bridge Builders association. While
some of the bridges are steel struc-
lures. the majority are constructed OF
concrete. The tendency, according to
Ward, Is for substantial structures.
Farmers in certain locations of
Delaware county are losing their hogs
in large numbers by cholera. Two
years ago many Of the farmers in this
locality suffered heavy losses through
cholera, and again this fall some OF
these same farmers hogs are meeting
with q similar fate.
John Jansen, aged % Of Ida Grove,
is in serious condition and If he re-
covers, probably will lose his left arm
as the result of using a lantern to
examine his automobile. Jansen was
under the car and his coat was sat
urated with dripping oil which ignited
from the lantern.
Mrs. Cal Coy of West Grove, Iowa,
was instantly killed and her daughter,
Ida, aged s, was seriously injured,
when the buggy in which they were
riding was struck and demolished by
a Wabash passenger train at grade
crossing near West Grove.
A lighted lamp exploded in the
hands Of Mrs. Margaret Sly, age 60,
OF Waterloo, causing burns which she
cannot survive. When ulaced on
stretcher her scared flesh dropped
from her body. ass
Mrs. Connolly and her 9-months-old
infant we're burned to death at San
borne. The mother was trying to
start fire by using kerosene when
the gas formed in the stove and ex-
,ploded. The baby died Immediately.
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