Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-04-30


assault of Clarence Gilmore upon
Mrs. Frank Vernon. Gilmore fed and
was captured by officers at Swale-
1ale, asleep in the railroad station. He
was lodged IN the city jail at Clear
lake. Then the mob gathered and
while they were preparing to rush the
structure and get Gilmore, officers
too him out a back door and rushed
him in an auto to Mason City.
William (BnD Richards, convicted
at Des Moines OF carrying concealed
weapons, was sentenced to the Fort
Madison penitentiary for an indeter.
inmate period of not to exceed two
years. Richards for many years a
deputy u. 5. marshal in Iowa, is par
oiled convict. He was given his re-
lease from the state prison after serv-
Ing seven and half years of TWEEN.
ty year sentence for burglary.
One Of the greatest public sales of
live stock ever held in Iowa was at the
e. A. Cooks Brookmont farm, just
north of Odebolt recently at which
time 1876 head OF Herefords passed
under the hammer. Five hundred
breeders from every section of the
United States we're in attendance at
the sale and bidding was -pirited. One
bull brought $1,210. The aggregate
amount of the sale totaled $4,000.
John Beck, aged 16, son of Car,
Beck OF Audubon county, was killed
by a disc pillow. He had the lines
wrapped about him and when the team
ran away was pulled from the seat in
front Of the disc. In this position the
horses dragged the lad across a forty
acre field and the body was not re-
leased until the lines had been cut
by the wheels.
After investigating the death of
John Williams, a farmer living near
Redding in Ringgold county for over
a year, John Fletcher, assistant at.
torney general, secured evidence
which has resulted in the indictment
OF Elmer Williams for the murder of
his father The murder of Williams
occurred March II, 1913, but it was
made to appear to have been suicide.
w. E. Steele. former attorney for
the Cedar Rapids and Marion Interur-
ban Railway company. has been in
dicted by the Linn county grand jury
on a charge of cheating by false pre-
lenses. 1t is charged that, in making
settlement with claimants against the
company. he held out portions of the
claims for himself
Officers OF the Marshall, Jasper and
Hardin county fairs have organized
the Central Iowa Racing association.
Eight classes will be provided, and
the purses in each class will be $500.
The organization hopes to get a bet
ter class OF horses by providing from
three to five weeks OF racing with
small jumps,
Virgil Hawkins, rural mail carrier,
was given Judgment of $4,000 against
the Inter-Urba Railway company by
a district court jury at Des Moines for
injuries received when struck by one
Of the company's cars. The accident
occurred on July 10, 1918. near Al
toona.
With an grafton on World Peace"
Sterling Richardt won the gold medal
given by Hannah Caldwell Chaper, d.
A. r., at annual oratorical contest held
at the high school at Davenport He
win represent that city at the middle
west oratorical contest to be held in
Galesburg in May.
Owners Of the tract of land accept
ed for the site OF the ep,leptic colony
near Woodward have been notified by
the state board OF control that the
options were accepted. The transfer
of the cash and fling OF deeds will
follow The state gets 952 acres at
an average price OF 1874 an acre.
George Douglas Is in Jail at Mason
City charged with arson. Mrs. Alice
Bright filed the charge. She says
George made love to her and that
when she refused to marry him he
tried to burn her house.
The annual meeting OF the Iowa
Congregational association will Be
held May 10 at Marshalltown, Among
the speakers Of note, according to the
program issued will be DR.. Washing
ton GLADDEN. of Columbus, o.
NJ P. cronwall, prominent farmer
living near Nodaway. is in a danger
Gus condition from blood poisoning re-
sulting from scratch received while
trimming fruit vines.
A runaway horse drawing deliv.
cry wagon crashed through the front
OF the Kidd drug store at Ottumwa
demolishing the doors and smashing
show cases.
Matthias O'Donnell OF Keokuk is on
trial at Fort Madison on the charge
Of wife murder. The case went there
on change OF venue from the lower
district. M
A fire which started in a moving
picture theater in which there were
nearly 100 persons, most of them wom-
en- and children, wiped out an entire
block Of the business section of Colo
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
While working on the Kavanaugh
farm near Waukon farmer named AL
ton found pile of gold pieces totaling
s1,05O. 1t is supposed the money was
hid there by the late Patrick Kavan-
augh.
Bruce L. Baldwin, who wrote for
newspapers under the name Of "Cir-
Gus" Baldwin. died recently in one Of
the hospitals at st. Joseph, Mo.
Victor Elliott q Waterloo, aged Is
years, is thought to be dying of lock-
jaw as result of infection from step
ping on rusty nails. By an unusual
coincidence he punctured the bottom
Of each foot week apart
Miss Pearl Thompson, tailor's as
sistant at Des Moines, stitched three
fingers of her right hand together in.
a power sewing machine, After the
accident she walked to the office OF
a physician.
A shoot will be given by the Cen.
terville Gun club this week. II was
ISOLATION contributed $50 for the
event.