Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-10-08

| Naupun, Wis, where his mother re-
sides. Officers say he had a sweet.
heart near Green Bay. Cochrane forg.
ed check, pleaded guilty before
Judge Plat and might have been re-
leased owing to his youth If he had
remained in prison until his month.
Lawrence Bryant, who now lies dy-
ing in Muscatine hospital, was set
upon by three men, beaten into in
sensibility and then thrown across a
railway track in order that the evil
dence OF their crime might be de.
stroyed, Muscatine police believe.
This was borne out by the story told
by several children who witnessed the
encounter.
Supt Ed. Hewitt of the Pottawat-
tamie county poor farm was danger
ously hurt and John Mcdonald, gaso-
line engine expert, whose home is in
Omaha, was fatally injured while at
tempting to cross the Great Western
tracks near McClelland ahead of a
fast passenger train. The men were
in an automobile.
John Gentry of Burlington died
while on his way to Burlington hos
pital following an accident in which
his car turned turtle short distance
from Burlington. He was found suf-
feTng from hemorrhages by passers-
by and an ambulance called
While fishing in the race at Ottum-
wa p s. Boyles pulled out a suit case
from the water containing six suits
OF clothes stolen from an Ottumwa
clothing store. The clothes were turn
ed over to the police and the mer-
chant identified them.
After swallowing quantity OF
strychnine, Peter C. Johansen, aged
"a, hanged himself to beam in a
barn. near Walnut. Johansen was soon
to have left with his wife for Calf
ornia, where they were accustomed to
spend the winters.
DR.. H. c. Johnson, veterinary sur.
geon of Blanchard, was probably fatal
ly injured when the automobile in
which he was riding was struck by a
Wabash passenger train. His automo-
bile was entirely wrecked.
Lester WEIGH, aged IL son of a
prominent family near Patton, was
killed when the automobile he was
driving turned over six miles from
his home. His neck and both jaw
bones were broken.
Meyers & Lawless livery barn, the
Wardrobe building, barber shop and
cream station were burned to the
ground at Williams. The cause of the
fire, it is believed, was due to boys
smoking cigarettes in the livery barn.
Ray Goodrich Northwestern
brakeman and first baseman of the
Boone baseball team, was killed at
that place. His mutilated body was
found along the tracks. The manner
Of the accident is unknown.
Sophia Folkeden, young woman
living near Highlandville, in the north
ern part of Winneshiek county, COM
mitted suicide by taking poison. Her
mind had become affected by trou-
| BILE.
The first new corn known to have
been marketed this season in the
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elevator at Luray by E. McCourtie.
Six hundred bushels brought the farm.
err so cents per bushel.
John Gentry, As years old, lamp
trimmer for the Peoples Gas and
Electric company at Davenport was
instantly killed by being crushed un-
der his automobile when the car turn
ed over
Iowa postmasters of recent date are
as follows: Lulu Reinbrecht, Buffalo;
Mary E. Davis, Farnhamville: Mae l..
CARRIER. McCausland, and Ebert T.
Smith, Norwalk.
The following have been nominated
by President Wilson for postmasters
in Iowa: Samuel B. Wasp, Fredericks-
burg; William p. Cults, Kellogg, and
Eugene F. Kieffer, Remsen.
Yeggs blew the safe at the North.
western station in Wall Lake, getting
away with but $40. 1t was apparently
the work Of experienced hands, so
clean was the job done.
Fire in the Sioux City Stock yards
destroyed large hay and feed barn
with loss of $4,000. The property
was owned by the Stock yards COM
pany.
Thomas Turner, a coal miner at
Mystic, ATTEMPTED suicide by drinking
two ounces of carbolic acid. He was
taken to hospital at Centerville and
may recover.
A newspaper change in Sac county
is the sale by Oscar M. Farb of the
Albert City Appeal to Will Lyons,
who until recently was foreman OF
the Alta Advertiser.
Thomas Tucne, a coal miner at Mys-
tic. attempted suicide by drinking two
ounces of carbolic acid. He was TAX.
en- to the hospital at Centerville and
may recover.
Mrs. Sarah A. Stokes, aged IS, pi.
oneer of Mt Pleasant, died recently
following the death Of her husband
Franklin Stokes.
Sheldon reports considerable i'm
provement in the shape OF paved
streets. Concrete was used largely in
construction
Bob Marshall, colored, was killed
by a fall OF slate in the Phillips mines
at Bear Creek near Ottumwa.
A Henry county poultry association
has been formed with the following of.
ficers: President. Rev. w. S. Moore;
vice president, James T. Gills: treas.
urer, Fred Green, and secretary,
Ralph Owen.
A beautiful new $4,000 Christian
chureh wac dadicatad in EarIham SIM