Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-09-02
Sutherland has q public spirited

people shut the gate after them when
they go in or out. Mr.. Mccormack
should have and doubtless does have
the thanks of the community for the
spirit he is manifesting.
Crashing through a wall in his gar.
age, dropping down a fourteen foot
embankment and hitting curbing was
the experience of A. j. Shea of Du-
buque. The remarkable feature OF
the whole mess is that Shea did not
suffer even a stratch although the
top Of his auto was ripped off, When
Shea neared the entrance of the gar
age he became confused and instead
Of pressing his foot down on the brake
lever he pressed another lever which
gave the engine more gas.
When the sheriff at Algona went in
to the Jail to lock the prisoners up
for the night one man struck him over
the head with some sort OF club and
knocked him down. Before the sher-
if could rally his assailant had es-
capped from Jail. The man who es-
capped was forty-fiye years of age, was
coatless and hatless and wore blue
jeans overalls.
Enraged because of charge of
bootlegging brought against him, Hen.
ry Hawks of Shenandoah attacked
Levi Mattox, county attorney in the
court room, and injured him severely.
Judge H. Castle, presiding at trial,
bound him over to the grand jury, fix
ing the bond at $500.
Henry H. Willett, an employee of
the Union Pacific railway at Council
Bluffs, has been arrested and bound
over to the United States district
court at Deadwood, S. d. Willet is
accused of violating the Mann act by
taking Mrs. Mary I. Smith to Dead
wood and living with her as his wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerry Douglas of In
dianola recently celebrated their fifty
eighth wedding anniversary. Mr. and
Mrs. Douglas were the parents of
twelve children and enjoy thirty-two
| grand children and seventeen great
grand children.
w. X. English, GA, well known bust
ness man and politician, died at his
residence In Des Moines. Death was
| due to paralysis. Mr.. English was a
member of the school board for years
ard was also deputy sheriff and JUS
tice of the peace.
When August Kadereit Of Council
Bluffs saw stranger step in front of
his automobile he steered for the
| curbing without a moments hesita-
ton. He was thrown through his
windshield and suffered several cuts
about the head, but will live.
Oliver Olson, prominent citizen OF
Estherville, dropped dead on the
street from heart failure. He had
been resident of Emmett county for
nearly thirty years. He leaves
wife and one son.
Mrs. John Fortune, adjudged insane.
slashed her husbands throat as he
| lay in bed, infiicting a terrible wound.
1t is believed he will recover. The
Fortunes lives near Melcher south
west of Knoxville.
G. w. Bissell clerk of the Dayen-
port hotel at Sioux City, was held up
and robbed by two men who appeared
at the hotel early in the morning.
The hold-ups displayed a revolver
and emptied the cash register.
The thieves who stole an auto be-
longing to Superintendent Thomas OF
Sheldon, have been apprehended at
Flandreau, s. d. The auto was found
at Algona and returned to Mr.. Thorn
as
Twenty persons were injured, one
seriously, when two interurban cars
collided at Centerville. Miss Beulah
Metcalf of Blandinsville. ILL.,. sustain
ed broken collar bone. The injuries
OF the others were slight.
While in swimming in the Des
Moines river near Petersburg, Ernest
Weather was taken with cramps while
in mid-stream and drowned before
| assistance could reach him.
An attempt to asphyxiate her while
she slept is charged against Ralph
Moad in divorce suit filed by Mrs.
Ethel Moad at Sioux City. She asks
S35 a month alimony.
Mrs. Agnes Geochenour aged IL.
OF Shelby, fell and broke her leg, when
she tripped on a rug. Her condition
is regarded as serious because OF
| her advanced years.
Capt. James G. Wright Of Enid, Ok
Ia, fell 5000 feet at Iowa City when
the parachute of his balloon failed to
open He alighted on roof and was
only slightly injured.
| Frank Walker of Council Bluffs,
aged 102, negro who was born In
Virginia, is dead. He was slave
for fifty years, serving under three
different masters during that time.
Knoxville is going to lose its OPP
era house. 1t was recently sold to
wrecking house company and will be
torn down.
Rev. w. p. Canine, formerly Bap-
fist pastor at Tama, died at st. Paul
and the body has been brought to
Tama for burial
Oscar Johnson, who fell from the
porch OF his home near Iowa City,
died from his injuries.
Ed Cahill, farmer who lives north
west of Green Mountain, recently fin
ished threshing a field of twenty-eS8ht
acres of oats and received a yield OF
1926. This was at the rate OF eighty
two bushels to the acre.
The big onion crop in Scott county
is half failure because OF the heavy
rains which caused the onions to rot
in the fields. Some farmers are plow-
ing in the crop without attempting to
| harvest IL,