Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-04-22

bunch. Mr.. Netsch sod some cat
tie in South Omaha and placed the
money he got for them, nearly $1,000,
in an outside pocket and started home
when he decided he had better buy a
On the way home on a Northwestern
passenger train Netsch was robbed of
all the money he had, S..
Will E. tombstone of Ida Grove, one
OF the best known republicans in the
state, and chairman of last years re-
publican state convention, has de-
parted in company with Edward Cas-
sadly of Whiting on a $4,000 mile tour
to the orient. After visiting both the
expositions in California they will
visit Honolulu week and divide six
weeks between Japan and the eastern
coast of China.
United States Marshal Baker went
to Mason City to take Ray Collins to
Fort Dodge, where he is to answer to
the charge of receiving and selling
drugs contrary to the law. Collins
was taken into custody some time
ago, and is alleged to have received
drugs at nearby towns through the
mails.
Acting upon evidence presented dur
ing its recent meeting at Manchester
the grand jury returned a true bill
against Charles Haigh of Earlville,
charged with giving liquor to the 10
year old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Derr of that place. Haigh was arrest
ed and gave bond for his appearance
in court later.
The new city administration in Of
tumwa has given instructions to the
chief OF police to wage war on the
bootleggers and other vice, and states
that 1t will stand by the police in it's
efforts to clean up Ottumwa. One
bootlegger was fined 500 and costs
m police court and appealed his case
to the district court
There will be a special election at
Randolph April 10 to extend the town
limits. The proposed annex is a ten
acre tract east Of the present corpor-
ate limits, part of which is the
school ground. The law provides
that the school building in a consoli-
dated district shall be within such
corporate limits.
The cornerstone of St. Joseph's hos
pital, Mason City, has been laid. On
account of the illness of Dean Caro-
Ian no public exercises were held.
Rev. Father Dougherty read the serv-
ices in the presence of a number of
visiting clergymen and the hospital
board.
Tim Taylor, pioneer cigar mer-
chant and travelling salesman, and a
prominent lodge man, of Dubuque,
was drowned in the Mississippi river
there. He was standing on barge
when he was apparently seized with
apoplexy and fell into the water.
The combined membership of the
four Protestant churches of Clearfield
is greater than the population of the
town, being in excess of 700, while
the people number GAG. The Sunday
school attendance on April II was SO
per cent of the population.
The lid is on IN Perry, and &C.
cording to Mayor Jack Bruce, it is
on to stay. The campaign of Mr..
Bruce. a short time ago was made
on a strictly dry platform and he has
started to rid the city of every boot
logger.
ID. o. Wilson, aged 16 years, of Mar
shalltown, in attempting to get off a
c. & N. w. freight train, struck a
signal post and was thrown under
the wheels of the car and both legs
cut off just below the knees.
Thus far in Iowa eighty-three towns
haxe experimental with oil to lay dust
on their streets. The results have
been good, bad and Indifferent Hum
boldt, like many other Iowa towns,
is now studying the oiling process,
with likelihood Of it's being tried
Walter Smith of Bloomfield, a young
man, was lodged in the Wapello coun-
ty jail after an exciting chase by
6lcodhunds. Smith is charged with
wilful incendiarism for firing an I'M
occupied house in Davis county.
Actual work on the sl50,000 court
house to be erected at Primghar Is
expected to commence the latter part
OF May. The contract for the NOV
ing of the old county court house has
been let.
The fast Rock Island passenger
train passing through Dunlap at mid
night, struck a team driven by Joe
Hinkle, killing the horse instantly and
destroying the wagon. The driver was
not injured.
Jonathan Wax, 103 years old,
prominent Iowa centenarian, died at
Uniontown, Kans. The body will be
brought to Shenandoah for burial.
1t is not given to many people to
serve half a century in one calling,
but among Ottumwa's ministers is
one now retired who has served in
the church in numerous pastorates
for more than fifty years. This is the
Rev. David Van Dyke, d. D., who has
made that city his home for several
years.
Blanche Franz, aged % years, is
being held by the police of Council
Bluffs pending the outcome of her
husbands injuries, resulting from a
shot fired from a revolver in the
hands of the young wife. She declares
the shooting was accidental.
Owen Ball, reputed as an accom-
plice of Frank Shercliff in a noted dia-
mond robbery, was found not guilty
Of burglary at Fort Dodge. Goods
stolen from the G. s. Ringland home
were found in his room last Deem
Der. He also is indicted on two