Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-07-01

has been unconscious since the trag-
edy. The victims were found by their
IL year old son, who was away at
the time.
Judge Hamilton has set the date for
hearing the motion for a new trial in
the case OF the Wissmath Packing
company VS.. the Mississippi River
Power company at Fort Madison. in
its trial last year the jury established
First district record, II not state
record, when It awarded the plaintiff
a verdict for $4,000 damages alleged
to have been sustained by the rails
ing of the waters Of the Mississippi
by the construction OF the dam at
Keokuk.
Hundreds Of dollars worth of jew
elry, half dozen revolvers, a score
or more OF skeleton keys, bottles of
chloroform, masks and burglar tools
were found In the suit cases of Arthur
Parker, colored, and his dusky com.
panion after their arrest at Daven.
port. Their apprehension followed a
series of robberies in which many
articles OF value were taken. Parker
has confessed to the thefts.
Mrs. George Bond of Fort Madison
was killed by lightning during a
storm there. She was seated on the
porch at her home. A little girl on
the same porch escaped uninjured.
fenced in the past few years. The fire
started when bolt Of lightning fol-
lowed the electric light wires into the
building.
Mrs. Carrie Lane Chapman Gait,
twenty-five years ago superintendent
OF the Mason City schools, has 1900
600 placed in her possession. The
will of the late Mrs. Frank Leslie put
this vast fortune in the hands of Mrs.
Gait to be used in the promotion OF
equal suffrage in the United States.
Boone county will get its new $780,
600 courthouse building voted by the
people at an election. The state SUI
preme court reversed Judge Kamrar
Of the Boone district court and held
that the election was valid, permitting
the legal issue of bonds for the con.
struction Of the building. ,r.."
Prof. A. E. Potts of the dairy depart
ment Of Iowa State college has gone
to Canada to enlist for active serv-
ice in the English army. He hopes to
sesure a commission with the Can
adam volunteers, having served as
an officerfin Scottish regiment be-
fore be came to America.
A. loyal spirit brought together
about 1000 citizens of Buena Vista
county and vicinity at Alta in the
great annual farmers elevator picnic,
at the fair grounds. The grounds
were well filled with autos and bug
gies and the grandstand could only
seat portion of the merry throng.
Assistant Deputy Warden Ben
Skyles of Fort Madison was compell-
ed to shoot William Hall, negro con-
vict who attacked him with an axe.
Hall, who is serving FIVE year sen.
tence for larceny, broke from his
guard while being taken to solitary
confinement.
The German Lutheran association
of Denison has just let the contract
for the erection of new school build
ing near the Lutheran church. j. F.
Kabler was awarded the contract for
s7,7l for the building without heat
ing.
The greatest display of northern
lights which has been seen in eastern
Iowa for years and according to uni
versity authorities probably the great
est ever to come, was seen in the
skies at Iowa City.
The clerk OF the Sac county district
court reports 415 births in Sac county
during the year 1914. an increase OF
140 over the number reported in 1918.
OF this number 2o2 were girls and 213
were boys.
Rev. A. A. Cavanagh has been trans
ferred from Murray county, Minneso-
Ia to Denison as assistant to Father
Farrelly OF the Catholic church, who
has been granted leave Of absence.
An early morning fire in the
Shortley block at Perry, located in
the heart of the business district,
gave the fremen one Of the hardest
fights of the many they have exper-
Geo. Wyatt and Louie Halter OF
varina left Nemaha in new car.
When two miles east OF that place
the machine took fire and was COM
pletely destroyed.
w. o. Smith of Iowa City will die
as the result of injuries received
when a boom of bridge engine der
rick broke and struck him on the
head.
The three days campaign to close
the subscriptions for the new hotel
at Ottumwa ended with s125,O00 be-
ing raised and the hotel assured. Com
mittees raised $4,000 in three days.
DR.. Walter F. Hammill of Union
was drowned in the Iowa river at
Union. He was swept over the dam
in a boat. The body was recovered
five hours later. Two others escaped.
The new company M Of the Second
regiment was mustered in at Cherokee
by Col. N. P. Hyatt of Webster City
with sixty-one enlisted men, besides
the three commissioned officers.
Burglars entered the hardware
store of Gaennen & Forkenbrack at
New Hampton through rear window
and escaped with several revolvers
and knives There is no clue to the
theft.
After q residence in Denison OF If
ty-two years Mr.. A. j. Bond, together
with his wife, win soon leave for Cal
ifornia their future home Both are