Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-06-04

oa0ly injured by being caught under
harrow while working in the field.
One thigh was gashed to the bone and
other serious injuries inflicted. The
team became frightened at large
bull snake and ran away.
Iowa fruit dealers will fight the
rates on shipments of watermelons
and grapes before the state railway
commission. The Objectionable ruling
Is that watermelons shipped in less
than carload lots must be Grated in
lots of IL each and that the name of
the consignee must be placed on each
basket of grapes in a shipment.
Voters OF Woodbury. county will be
given chance to abolish the present
Jail system of the county. An cleo
ton will be held to decide the ques-
ton Of establishing a workhouse in
stead, whore all classes of prisoners
would be required to do productive
labor. The plan entertained by the
supervisors is to make the work farm
an adjunct of the county poor farm.
When George Pierce. chief of police,
at Sioux City, exploded charge Of
dynamite to blow down the tottering
walls of the Grain Exchange building
burned with a loss of 100000. piece
Of steel a foot square and an inch
thick, went thru window in barber
shop across the street and narrowly
missing FIVE BARRIERS who were at
| work. buried itself in the wall behind
them.
Jud Morrissey. former county super
intendent of MARSHALL Co.. whose
mysterious disappearance from home
Oct. 4, 1913, has caused his family
and friends here to believe he was
dead, has at last been heard from at
Omaha. He was seen in Omaha by
Marshalltown travelling man. to
whom Morrissey talked. The cause
of his disappearance Is still as much
of mystery as ever.
The girls of the high school grad
uating class. at Rock Rapids, wore
dresses made by themselves in the
domestic course. The expense of each
dress was less than So and all were
made alike. At the commencement
exercises the pictures of each mem
Der of the class were thrown on the
screen. G. w. Wassarm delivered the
address and the music was furnished
by the high school students.
Albert Moore residing on a farm
near Akron, strolled out of the house
and leaning up against straw stack,
cut his throat in view Of his two sons.
He died instantly The boys rushed
at him to prevent the suicide but were
too late. A shot gun was also found
beside. the stack. Moore had been
In the asylum for short time. He
was widower with five children.
! The body of Edward Broderick, who
died in Chilli. South America, two
months ago. was buried at Villisca.
Broderick's body was brought back
at the expense of the Dupont Nitrate
company. for whom he was working
when he met death by drowning in a
we'll. Two brothers of Ontario, Can,
a brother and sister Of Montana
were present at the funeral.
A campaign to enlist 500 new mem
bers in the Waterloo Woman's Suffrage
Association will be launched. The
membership committee, headed by
Mrs. Jennie c. Kicker, who has ex-
tensive property interests, has its
plans we'll under way. A public meet
ing has been called for Further plans
will be made for the big suffrage
demonstration planned for June 26,
when Fola La Toilette will appear at
/ 10 oh orto in Nofo
Construction work on Delhis new
Catholic church has started. The
building will stand in the south west
ern part of town and will be ninety
feet in length. When completed the
edifice will cost $4,000. The building
/ will be of brick trimmed with stone.
Arrangements for the laying of the
corner stone have not been completed
as yet. The contractor has promised
to have the church ready for service
by the first of October.
/ Charles Moen, an employee at the
Plymouth Gypsum Mills, at FIT Dodge,
had narrow escape from death when
he fell to the ground from one of the
buildings, distance of fifty feet.
Moen had been working on the ridge
of the building when he lost his
balance, slipped down the roof, and
fell from the edge. He lit on his feet
with such force as to break the bone
of his leg and drive it into the ankle
Had he fallen on his face OF side he
would probably have been killed In
addition to the broken leg and injured
ankle, Moen is suffering from dis
located shoulder, results of the acct
dent
The repeated seizures of liquor
shipped into Ottumwa is making no
small problem for the police depart
ment to find space wherein to hold the
stuff. The latest shipment was car
load OF beer at the Milwaukee freight
house. Sixty barrels were taken on
a search warrant filed by an attorney
of the Law and Order League. This
is being stored at the rear of the