Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-05-07
IOWA NEWS BRIEFS

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1 Fire destroyed large barn on the
farm Of @. e. WEIGH near Manning.
Nine pupils will graduate from the
Alta high school this year.
| John w. Glellis, up to now deputy
sheriff, has been appointed chief OF
police of Dubuque.
Rev. j. asswell of the Ireton
Presbyte -adrch left that place to
accept charge in Logan.
The city council of Newton has
named the Newton Daily News as the
official paper for Newton.
Over $50 rural and grade teachers
have enrolled for the first tuition
summer course at Iowa State college.
| VIM. e. Russell, farmer of neal
KeOsauQua. was shot and killed by a
gun in his wagon box when his team
ran away.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oelrich j. Frerich cele-
brated their golden wedding annivers-
ship, near LIE Mars.
Jesse Ranous, deputy sheriff under
B. j. Ness, dropped dead OF heart fail
ure at Madrid He was q Spanish
| American war veteran
Jesse Walters. 20-year-old boy had
both legs cut off by Rock Island
train. He is in Mercy hospital at
Davenport, and has chance OF re-
| covery.
Odd Fellows from five counties
Clinton, Scott. Muscatine. Jackson and
johnson held district convention in
Iowa City. Nearly 1000 visitors were
present.
that Edward r. MARI. OF Council
Bluffs, is one of the Americans hello
prisoner at Mexico City by General
Huerta.
A popular 3'crab apple cider" sole
by one of the Rock Rapids vendors
has been classed as intoxicating anl
an Injunction has been issued agains,
It's sale.
A man claiming to be A. Emiles Nit
tag Of Parker Prairie, Mimi. was
taken before the insane commission
ers at Harlan and ordered sent to the
asylum.
Word has been received in Iowa City
that Frank Lauger. aged 80, Of lowe
City, was killed on the railroad in Chi
cago. His body will be brought here
for burial.
Frank Rupp of Davenport, aged IS
crazed with drink. committed suicide
1 By drinking carbolic acid and taking
| laudahqM. No motive is assigned t.
the suicide. ~ satrsAe nsua.<. -.
| A heavy storm at Herndon did con
siderable damage to property III,
roof was blown from the hotel ant
outbuildings were blown over Sew
eral empty stock cars were blown
from the Milwaukee tracks
/ The 5-year-old daughter of Mr.. ant
Mrs. Henry Brocksh of williamsburg
died of burns received while playing
near cook stove kept in the yard 70
laundry purposes. The child's cloth
ing caught fire from the stove.
William j. Busby. one of the oldes
settlers of Sioux county. died at hi
| home two miles south of lreton afte
ten days illness. He was 80 years oil,
and lived on farm near lreton TO
thirty years. He was civil war vet
eran. <r~ss..--.aiea 49, 1910
The Chicago Rock Island Railwa,
company is going to cultivate thei
[ right-ofway through the state, plant
ing it to alfalfa. This Is being don
as means of keeping down tn
weeds and making their roadway NOR
slightly.
The loss OF hogs by cholera in Shell
by county during the year 1871
amounted to almost 100000. Their
were almost $4,000 hogs died Their
were. however. about 100000 porker
left, according to the reports Of tn
assessors.
Six-year-old Dickie Muyskens, sol
Of G. Muyskens, Il prominent farmer o
near Orange City, received a pitch
fork tine through his skull and ha
since remained unconscious. The lit
tie fellow ran into fork held by al
elder brother.
ConsulGeneral Shankland who wit
his staff has reached Vera Cruz iron
Mexico City. along with Charge O.
Shaughnessy. formerly was pastor o
st. Luke's church at Dubuque. Late
he was president of Upper Iowa uni
versity at Fayette
While trying to rescue horses fror
his burning barn. John Albright, age
20. a farmer living ten miles south
west OF LeMars lost his life. Hi
body was found in the ruins under
meath those OF ten horses. He leave
wife and three small children.
Marshalltown officers may have il
custody the "acid proof ink" giraffe
who operated extensively Throughout
Iowa within recent weeks AT an