Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-04-13

A charge Of murder in the first de.
gree was filed against Ben Dudi and
Anna Dudi in the municipal court by
Coroner Claude Rooms OF Polk County.
Dudi and his wife are specifically
accused of permitting their six-weeks
old baby, Rose, to die by willful neg.
lect.
The body of the Dudi baby was
found on a southeast street dump in
Des Moines.
The couple are supposed now to be
In Chicago. Authorities wired for
their arrest.
Information was brought to the pc.
lice that Dudi had checked his trunk
to 2254 w. 18th street, Chicago.
Mrs. Rose Barton, GIG Allen street
said she had seen Dudi mark his be.
longings to that address. The Dudi
family had been living at Mrs. Bar.
toms home previous to their depar.
ture. She says the father and mother
quarreled constantly and the father
was threatening to leave his wife un.
less she disposed of the child.
The long fight against the foot-and.
mouth disease is over. The secretary
of agriculture has issued an order re.
moving all foot-and-mouth guarantees
and restrictions against the ship.
ment and movement of live stock.
The order signed specifically removes
the quarantine from small territory
in Christian county, Illinois, the last
area which was under suspicion.
Along with the removal OF the local
quarantine, the various federal or
ders restricting shipment Of cattle
are rescinded, so that dealers can now
ship their cattle as before the first
quarantine was imposed.
The Swanwood Coal company must
pay $1,000 for the loss of human life
in its mines. A jury in Judge bud.
ley's court returned verdict for that
amount in the $4,000 damage suit in
stituted by Elizabeth Mitchell, admin.
istratrix of the estate of Stanley Dam.
sky, who was killed by fall of slate
March s, 1918. The company volun'
tarily rejected the terms OF the work.
mems compensation law. Plaintiff al.
legged negligence. Because of the coal
company's non-acceptance of the law
in question, the burden of proof rest.
ed upon its officials to disprove the
negligence charge.
One of the most important actions
taken at the twenty-third annual con.
ference of the United Evangelical
church, assembled in conference at
Marshalltown, was the formation OF
the Ministerial Benefit society. The
purpose of this organization Is to
provide for disabled and superanu.
ated ministers. Also the widows and
orphans of ministers. The Mems
Bible class at Marshalltown present
ed a check for 800 as the first fund
of the society. E
Clinton has Just recorded the first
instance of convicted man paying
the costs OF his own prosecution un.
der the new law.
The man is Rudolph Kettleson, now
serving sentence at Anamosa for
larceny.
The clerks office at Clinton has
Just received check for SIS taken
from Kettleson's earnings at the re.
formatory.
At a recent meeting of the Black
Hawk county board the question OF
submitting bond issue for perman.
ent road improvement was discussed.
Widaonraad aapti,napf hoe baan ora
ated for graveling $50 miles in the
county road system in the next four
years. 1t is proposed to issue bonds
for 100000.
Stricken lived in Atlantic for three
years. He is survived by widow and
three children. Dependency is as.
signsd as the cause for his act
NTth Central association of col.
legey and high schools has notified
Iowis Wesleyan college that the school
has been placed on the associations
accredited list.
Elizabeth Whitlach died at her home
in Indiana township, eight miles
southeast OF Knoxville, at the age OF
SO years. She was born in Ohio in
1923 and came to Marion county with
her husband in 1847, and lived until
her death near the place where they
took claim upon arriving here.
A shortage of approximately $500
has been found in the accounts OF
Roy w. Clark. superintendent OF the
Crooked Creek railroad, according to
an announcement by officials of the
road. Clark has been missing from
his home several days.
The body of a six-weeks-old infant
was found on the dump Of the Saliva
tion Army Rescue home, in Des
Moines by Bert Parmaster, who had
been employed to haul some rubbish
away from the home.
The 1916 city directory OF Cedar
Rapids gives that city population oil
$4,000. The state census placed the
population at 10000.
In the most spectacular blaze In
years the big barns of the WEIGH
Transportation company at Council
Bluffs were consumed by fire with
eighteen head of horses and much
equipment. More than dozen resi-
dences located near were On fire and
were more or less damaged. The loss
is about $4,000.
Eight year old Elmer McClelland OF
Clarion was run over by an auto mo
bile driven by c. c. Thorn. The boys
leg was broken.
H. ]. Stiser was speaker at the
opening Of the spring term Of Lean
der Clark college.
H. !. Foskitt, representing the
First National bank of Shenandoah
went to Hamburg to look after a
farm to which the bank recently &C.
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