Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-08-12

MRS. William GillaSpie who lives
near Bonaparte, was in the woods
hunting blackberries, and had her
target rifle along for company when
she saw RATHER. The snake was
stretched at full length on the ground
and she shot him through the head
at first shot. The reptile was four
feet and one inch long, six inches in
circumference, and had fourteen rat
ties and button. This is the largest
and oldest snake of this kind killed
in this vicinity in years.
Mrs. John A. Craig, living near
kilbourne, Van Buren, county, was
shot in very peculiar manner. Her
son, Jay, was shooting birds from
the barn lot. Mrs. Craig had started
to walk to Kilborrne and just as she
was crossing the bridge near her
home, which spans Lick creek, she
heard q buzz and the next instant
felt hurt on her arm. Upon exam
ination she saw blood and realized
she had received bullet.
A clever checking scheme in which
one man checks the liquor and anoth-
er one presents the baggage ticket is
thought to have been discovered by
the police at Clarinda. A trunk con-
tanning thirty-eight quarts of whisky
was seized at Clarinda and the man
arrested when he called for his bag
gage
About thirty girls in the telephone
exchange at Boone went on a strike
and for more than an hour the lines
were dead. The trouble arose over
the appointment Of one of the num-
Der as chief toll operator. Every
thing Is back to normal now.
Fire at Britt destroyed both the
Charles Rawson and the Hugh Null
lin elevators. The supposition is that
fire was started by tramps, who have
been making the elevators quite a
rendezvous. The total loss is about
$4,000.
The north route OF the Lincoln
highway out Of Ogden has been Sc
lected as the official one. This final
| announcement settles long con-
troversy between the residents north
Of Ogden and those in the district
around Beaver.
Fire of an unknown origin destroy.
ed the general store room of the Chi
cago Great Western railroad at Gel
vein. The damage is estimated at
$4,000. Supplies of practically all de-
partments of the system were stored
at this point.
Samuel Matthews, aged 92, one of
the oldest men in the county, is dead
at his home in Washington. He had
lived in this county since 1865. Be
fore the war he was an abolitionist,
and served as conductor on the un.
derground railroad in the war times.
Following the news that his wife
had given birth to a child at a hos
pital in Cedar Rapids, Alfred Samson,
laborer, went to the basement of
the house, shut the windows and
doors and turned on the gas. He was
dead when found.
Desire to land a big fish caused
the death of Anders Elholm, a prom
inent insurance man of Davenport,
who was drowned in the Mississippi
river. Elholm overbalanced in an eff
fort to bring in the big fish.
BY quick action and presence of
mind George P. Whitney Of Sabula
saved the year old Donald Wilson
from drowning. Mr.. Whitney was
sitting in the ferry and saw the little
fellow struggling in the water
w. R. Rattan, who has been work
ing as a farm hand in the vicinity of
Ida Grove for several months, has
been arrested on the charge of having
passed several bad checks among
merchants.
William Alfred Bullock, aged SO,
landlord of the Hotel Sidney, died
from paralysis. He was in the hotel
business there for many years and
has wide acquaintance with the
travelling public.
Information has been received at
the state penitentiary at Fort Madi-
son of the apprehension of another
parole violator. The word comes
from Toledo, to identify one Abner
H. Saunders.
Boone will lose one rural mail route
after Sept. l, when three routes will
be given added mileage and the rest
of the territory will be supplied prob
ably from the Gilbert Station post
Office.
Burger Young, who was one of
those injured at Independence by a
train running into an auto, died at
his residence. He was painter by
trade, about 80 years of age. His en-
tire life was spent in that city.
T. j. Dunahoo, a Sioux City barber,
was arrested on the charge of vio,at-
ing the new state anti-tipping law. H.
l.. Houghton, secretary of the charity
bureau. swore out the warrant against
the barber in Justice E. G.. Smiths
court.
A party of tourists narrowly escap-
| ed death when their auto turned tur-
tie on road near Fl Madison. The
breakdown of the steering gear was
responsible. The car plunged over
a high embankment and its occupants
were pinned underneath.
Nearly three and half inches of
rain fell in three days near Elkader
Upland small grain in the county is
seriously damaged. In lowlands grain
in shock was swept away or practical.
ly ruined by the food.
George Brown narrowly escaped
burning to death at Traer when .
clothing man threw bucket of gaso-
line over him accidentally. The fluid