Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-11-11

farm near Marion, has returned. He
peared he received letter asking
him to meet friend on the highway
near Marion. He went to the spot
designated and claims that three men
leaped upon him, beat him into I'M
consciousness, bound him and threw
him In Milwaukee freight car at
Marion. When he recovered consci-
BUSINESS he was in Omaha, but his
memory was a blank. Since that
time he has worked on farms in Ne
braska and South Dakota. He re-
gained his memory few days ago.
The business district of Bridgewa-
ter was swept by a fire which de-
stroyed six business buildings and
threatened the entire center of town.
The damage is estimated at 100000.
Fire Of unknown origin, which start
ed in the Fred j. Clark general store,
quickly swept to the Warrior & Co.
general store, the Union bank, Keyser
G. Schaffner's machinery storage
plant, millinery store and an empty
store room. The fireproof structure
of the Bridgewater Savings bank
standing next to the Union bank form
ed barrier to the flames which prob
ably saved the rest of the business
section.
The Iowa Bankers association has
received word of the operations of
gang passing fraudulent money or
ders drawn on the Great Northern Elk
press company. In several Of the
towns they visited they arrived in a
seven passenger touring car of ex-
pensive make. It is thought the men
were arrested at Sigourney. Four
men were taken into custody and
sent back to Minnesota for trial. When
captured they had full set OF burg
lars tools and $1,100 in currency, it
is said.
Anti-tobacco rules have been adopt
ed in very rigid form by the school
board of the Sheldon schools. The
rule forbids the use of tobacco in any
form in the school buildings, on the
school grounds, or at any contest, So
cial function or other gathering held
under the auspices Of the school or
any organization or group of the
school. Furthermore, all pupils are
forbidden to carry tobacco while at
tending school, Citizens are asked
to help in the enforcing of this order.
Three men blew the postoffice safe
at Talmage, and escaped on a Great
Western passenger train. The rob-
bers used nitroglycerine. They OBJ
tanned $50 in money, about $500 worth
of stamps and diamond ring valued
at $780, The safe blowing was timed
for the arrival of the passenger train,
which stopped for water. A family
across the street, awakened by the
explosion, saw the men hurrying out
of the post office and running toward
the train which was just leaving.
Mrs. Albert Winter of Humboldt
met tragic death in an automobile
accident. With her husband and
daughter she left by automobile to
visit friends In the country, her hus-
band driving the car. At a point
about six miles southeast Of town, the
car was driven too near the bank Of
large. open drainage ditch; the auto
mobile plunged into the ditch, and
Mrs. Winter was drowned. Her hus.
band was badly bruised and sustain
ed fractured arm.
An outrageous crime was commit
ted In Batavia when a valuable stall
lion belonging to d. E. Plum was kill
ed by unknown parties. Some one
entered the barn and cut the animal
three times on the right side of the
throat. One stroke went along the
animals cheek, another cut went well
into the neck, while the third was long
and. deep, severing both windpipe and
Jugular vein. The stallion was a
handsome Percheron, recently pur-
chased by Mr.. Plum.
The contract for tile in drainage
district No. los in Greene county was
awarded to the Jefferson Cement
Products company at $11,O17. To-
gether with two other contracts
awarded to this company within the
past sixty days, 1t now has $4,000
worth OF county work alone. Sew
eral other large drainage contracts
have been let, the cost OF them in
the aggregate amounting to $751;
1880.
Within period Of two weeks three
different carriers have worked on the
new consolidated mail route out of
Grand Junction. All agree that the
position is Improbable even in this
kind OF weather which is the best
that there has been during the whole
year.
With the rapid recovery of Rob.
ert Tice, who has been critically iii
with spinal meningitis, physicians at
Monroe believe they have ended the
feared epidemic of the disease. There
have been two cases. Tice is the son
OF F. L. J. Tice. prominent farmer.
The family has been quarantined.
The badly decomposed body OF an
unknown man was found hanging in
an old building, about a mile and
half from Charlton, which had been
anoccupied for some time. The man
had probably been dead for month.
There was nothing about him to in
dictate his identity.
The Sioux City Tribune has settled
n 100000 libel suit brought against
the paper by George w. Egan. former
candidate for governor OF South Da-
kota. Egan. was paid $4,000 for re-
linquishing all claims for damages
against the Tribune. The suit grew
out OF stories published about Egan