Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-06-10

mayor OF Scion. The shooting took
place in front of the Cerny Bros. store
while kreigci was returning to his
home with a bundle of meat in his
arm. The trouble between the two
men has been brewing for the past
month. 1t arose out OF the fact that
both have the same side lines OF bust.
ness--a creamery station. Wolf is
said to have become incensed over ad-
vertisements, which have appeared in
the Economy, insinuajting that he was
not operating the creamery in an up
to-date fashion.
The mysterious disappearance of
Myrtle Schroeder, the II year old Dav.
export girl who stepped into oblivion
when she left Harrison School was
partly cleared up when she returned
home. Where the little girl has been
all the time she is not able to say.
She told her mother that she had gone
riding with a man In carriage. That
he was large and that he drove q
black horse is all the girl is able to
say.
George w. Crooks, Jr., farmer re-
siding just south OF Boone, lost a
yearling heifer. but finally found 1t
hanging in sugar maple tree. 1t
was badly bruised and weak, and al
though still unable to stand, is get
ting along nicely. 1t had slid down
an embankment over creek and was
caught by the branches OF the tree
where it hung foot or eighteen inch
es from the ground.
A case that has engaged the atten-
ton of Jones county since September,
1912, has been finished by the princi-
pals, Otto vochoski and Leon Car
roll beginning twenty-five year SEN
tence at the reformatory. These two
young men were found guilty of rape
leased on bonds pending an appeal to
at that term of court, but were re-
the supreme court which affirmed the
first decision.
In criminal court at Abba L. Free
man was sentenced to twenty five
years in the pententiary for incest.
James Clay, w. G. Jones and H. c..
Adams each got five years for steal
ing brass from the Abba Coal com
pany.' Anguish Mcneil received five
year sentence for the larceny of jew
elry from the home of the Rev. Mr..
Barnes and Amos Miller.
When Benjamin f. Steward, stock
buyer of Marshalltown, attempted to
throw part of the carcass of horse
over the railing of a bridge into the
Iowa river, the animals leg caught
the mans body and the weight carried
him over into the swollen stream.
The only eyewitness to the accident
was unable to lend assistance and
Steward was drowned.
Petitions are being circulated among
the voters of Delaware county for the
necessary number of signers, to ask
that special election be called by
the board Of supervisors to vote one
half mill tax for the erection Of a
county hospital, to be built at Man
chester.
Mrs. Ruth Patee, wife of w. NJ
Patee, cashier Of the First National
bank of Perry, died at Chicago. She
had an attack of infantile paralysis
about year ago, from which she did
not recover. 1t was hoped that an op-
Grafton would secure relief and she
was taken to Chicago.
The annual reunion of the Marshall
County Veterans association will be
held in Gilman July 2 and 3. The vet
Grams of Gilman are going to make
the event more than strictly county
affair by inviting civil war veterans
from other central Iowa points.
Dependency over Italy's entrance
into the war, and over the presence Of
relatives in the battle zone of Europe,
caused Mrs. Joseph Bushinia, an Ital-
ian woman of Waterloo, to try to end
her life. She stabbed herself in the
breast with an ice pick.
Hon. George p. Christianson, presi-
dent and sole owner OF the Randall
State Savings bank, and who has been
connected actively with that institu-
ton since its establishment thirty
years ago, will sever active connec-
tions with the bank July LIST.
Relatives joined in celebrating the
thirtieth wedding anniversary of Mr..
and Mrs. George s. Carpenter of New
Hampton. Mr.. and Mrs. Carpenter
we're married at Ossian, but have re-
sided for many years near New Hamp-
ton.
Swollen by continued heavy rains
the Iowa river at Marshalltown went
on another rampage and submerged
lowlands to greater depth than at
any time this spring. The city deten.
ton hospital. which is situated near
the river, Is marooned.
Patrick Browney of Audubon was
killed and Philip Foley was danger
ously hurt in an automobile accident
near Audubon. The men were driv-
ing home from Templeton. Foley has
been unconscious and cannot explain
the accident.
George Barth, q farmer residing
near Greene, had a narrow escape
from death recently when train,
which he did not see approaching,
took wheel of his wagon. throwing
him to the ground with great force.
He was not seriously hurt.
The lifeless body of Frank bangle
Of Carroll, was found hanging from a
rafter in his home. He was In his
usual good spirits and when he failed
to attend the funeral Of Councilman
Schumacher an investigation was
started.
Jake Million Of Hamburg, a profess
sional stump blower, known locally as
Dynamite Pete" was literally blown
to pieces when charge of fifty caps
and eight pounds Of dynamite blew up
from match dropped into the box