Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-22

Sac City football team, died of injur-
les received while playing football.
Wiseman was hurt a week before and
had been troubled with headaches
since. He was put In the game with
Lake City. but had to be taken out In
the first quarter. Later in the game,
when It was going against the Sac
City team. he was put in the game
again during the fourth quarter. The
excitement and exercise started anew
the hemorrhage OF the brain, which
resulted in the young mans death.
twenty-five state convicts were
largely instrumental in saving the
business section Of Woodward from
being destroyed by fire. The convicts
were at work on the buildings for the
epileptic colony near there when the
fire broke out in the Woodward gar
age. The garage and thirteen auto
mobiles which were in it at the time
of the fire were destroyed. as was the
implement store of Stalker & Sons and
the livery barn.
The new game of soccer football is
being introduced into the city and
high school through the Community
Y. M. C. A. of Centerville. The first
game attracted much interest. The
community work committee has
secured an athletic field, 1t has been
enclosed and all the high school and
town athletic events for the boys and
girls are held on it,
T. he A oil nf
Mr. and Mrs. George O'Neil OF Mason
City, is dead of lockjaw. The little
boy was playing around washing ma
chine. A sharp corner struck his leg.
tearing large cash in which several
stitches had to be taken. The wound
healed rapidly and he was just able
to bear his weight on the injured
limb when he was taken with lockJaw.
With the presentation OF a dozen
Gags to the Centerville city schools
by the Elks lodge, for use in the vari-
Gus rooms, the movement started last
spring to supply every building and
room with flags has succeeded. MI
merous lodges and organizations have
taken a hand In the matter. The w.
r. C. was the first to lead, and others
fell into line.
Chief OF Police Giellis and two de-
tectives raided two blind pigs at Du.
buque, securing two wagonloads OF
beer and a large quantity Of other
liquors. They arrested two brothers,
Charles and Frank Hos, who offered to
plead guilty to charge of illegal sale
of liquor, which the Judge refused to
accept.
H. ID. McCurlew OF Freedom, Okla,
--~as ~ssostos1 90 <Aisea~- by -5l.esiir- orsa'
son in connection with the triple muir.
der at Great Bend, Kan, on Sept 8,
OF L. L. Morgan. Clarence. McGugin
and Wayne McQuillan. McCurlew
says he was in Great Bend at the
time of the crime, but declares he is
Innocent.
The jury returned verdict of Sec
oRd degree murder in the Whynack
murder case at Davenport. County
Attorney vollmer made scathing ar
raignment Of the brutality of the
murder and appealed to the jury to
stop the crime wave in Scott county
ny imposing heavy sentence.
Frank w. Wrate, aged SO, prom
inent business man of Mason City,
HING himself to the post Of a wood
en- bed. The act was prompted by
sufferings from locomotor ataxia. He
was former state lecturer for the
Odd Fellows lodge and was prominent
in the social and business world.
Several ministers and lay workers
in the temperance cause from out or
the city attended the convention Of
the Ottumwa district which was held
at Ottumwa. Tie repeal of the mulct
law and state and nation wide prohi-
bition was urged by the convention.
The police are hunting for ~ year
old Georgia Davis OF Des Moines. She
left her home near the army post to
get book In downtown store. She
I did not return. Employees Of the
store remembered her being there,
but she has not been seen since.
Three men were hurt, one seriously,
when the boom Of derrick which
was being used at the building Of q
new bridge near Marble Rock broke.
The derrick was hosting heavy LOAD
OF sheet piling at the time Of the ac
cident.
Senator w. 8. Kenyon will attend
the University OF Iowa Homecoming
at Iowa. City on October 22-24. at the
same time the forty-eighth semi-an-
nual meeting of the Upper Des Moines
Editorial association is In session.
Sixty-eight cases Of diphtheria have
been reported in Cincinnati. Appa-
moose county, and as result all the
churches, schools and stores closed
and the town Is quarantined by the
rest of the county.
Collateral heirs to the estate OF j.
l.. Rankin OF Hawarden are .contesting
his will In which he left his property
TO his young wife. II is claimed undue
Influence was exercised over the aged
man by his wife and the man whom
she married shortly after her hus'
bands death. The estate is valued
at $3.50, 900.
At least 10000 bushels Of apples
will be picked. packed and sold from
Greyheath orchard, two miles north
Of Bonaparte, this fall 1t is the
property of Mrs. J. s. Hoore. Most Of
the crop this year bears the Ben
Davis label.
The city council OF Rockwell City
has awarded the contract for putting
In $4,000 feet Of water extension and
twenty-nine new hydrants. The work
10 being done preparatory to street