Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-07

dinner time, after having left the
house at o'clock in the morning to
perform his farm duties, his wife
summoned a neighbor and instituted
a search of the farm for her husband.
At two o'clock in the afternoon they
found the lifeless body in the NOW of
the barn, lying on the hay near the
chute, pitchfork still clasped in his
hands. The coroner was summoned
and after an examination pronounced
Singer a victim of heart trouble, from
which he had been sufferer for
many years.
Webster City has just been clean
ed" again by corps of bogus maya
zine solicitors. For the most part
their victims were women, for the
magazines they claimed to sell were
the various well known women's
monthly periodicals. The crew made
a very thorough house to house cam
vass of the city. The magazines were
offered at ridiculously low prices ito
introduce Them" and an order was
obtained from almost every home.
But the magazines failed to come.
A pitiable case of the drug habit
that made the satisfying of the appe-
tite for few hours an act of charity,
came under police notice when a
dope fiend" begged for a shot" of
morphine at police headquarters in
Marshalltown. The victim of the
habit was in broken down physical
and nervous condition. Chief of Po-
lice Breckel took the man to a physi-
clan, who gave him hypodermic in
lection of the morphine. He claimed
to be on his way to Clinton to enter
A ditcher by the name of Clodfelter,
while working near Williams, stepped
accidentally on what he supposed was
a garter snake. To his surprise two
heads were reared in the air instead
Of one, and removing his foot discov-
cred the snake had two heads He
took 1t to Williams, where it was
placed of exhibition. When allowed
to crawl on the floor, it was discover
ed that the body was governed by
both heads, though the larger one
seemed to have the most control.
]. M. Whitney was fatally injured,
Mrs. Whitney is dead and their SON
in-law, DR.. F.. s. Barnhart, seriously
injured when their auto was struck
by Southern Pacific train near Whit
tier, Cal, according to reports reach
ing Newton. The Whitneys sold their
property in Newton and removed to
California Sept. ~.
Four desperate prisoners made
their escape from the Pottawattamie
county Jail during the night, by saw
ing their way through the bars Of
their cell, located on the second floor,
letting themselves down to the ground
by rope made of strips OF blanket
and forcing their way through the iron
barred fence.
Hans Mohr, 20 years old, giving
Oelwein as his home, called at the
Sioux City police station and. con-
science stricken, surrendered him
self Mohr said he had stolen an au-
tomobile from Albert L. Won Berg,
of lie Mars, on the night OF September
20. The machine was wrecked and
abandoned near Hawarden, Mohr said.
John Kobe has just sold his farm
three and half miles north of Lis
bon for 1925 an acre. The improve
ments were old and just fair. This
means In the face OF an adverse sea-
son Iowa land Is at premium. Kobe
has owned the land year and has
realized largely on his investment.
Otis Green, serving life sentence
at Fort Madison for the murder Of
his divorced wife on the streets Of
Des Moines in 1901, has been denied
a pardon by Governor Clarke The
prisoner is totally blind, the result Of
a shot fired into his brain after kill
ing .the woman.
Miss Ella Mary Malone, for thirty
years an instructor in the Des Moines
schools, died in that city at the Meth
odist hospital. Twenty-six Of the
thirty years service spent by Miss
Malone in Des Moines schools, she
served as principal.
A bullet from the gun of Deputy
Marshal Baumgardner, Of West Liber-
ty, brought to a sudden end the ram
page of Robert Jackson, colored, who
attempted to kill another negro with
whom he had quarreled. Jackson was
shot near the heart, but will recover.
Fred Kelley, prosperous farmer
living FIVE miles south OF Scranton,
left the house one evening about ten
days ago, and no trace Of him has
been found since.
Levi Bowles, superintendent of the
Quaker boarding school at West
Branch, is still hunting his missing
fcl, aged twenty-one, who vanished
ts--ee months ago.
The 16 year old son of Richard Pro-
bert, of Elkader, was impaled on a
fork handle when he jumped into a
gi.o. The handle entered full length
i-to the lower part Of the body. pro-
t-uding on the other side through the
ribs near the heart. His recovery is
expected.
c. M. Clark of Davenport faces a
charge of obtaining goods under false
pretenses following his arrest at Clin-
ton. It is alleged that Clark bought
cattle in Davenport from the firm Of
Mcknight & Fletcher at $35 head,
and paid for them with what are
rlaimed to be worthless checks.
Striking the window by the head
OF their bed, lightning set fire to the
curtain, which fell across the bed Of
Mr.. and Mrs NJ. A. Hogsett and awoke
them when the fire was burning their
home at Shenandoah. A few minutes
later the entire wall burst into flames.
giving them but few minutes to es.