Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-01-20

blaze is believed to have originated
from combustion in the shipping
room. Spreading to the stock of cot
ton flannel, the flames gained head
way rapidly and spread over the en-
tire plant. Mr.. Rate plans to reopen
the factory as soon as possible.
While Warden McClaughry of the
state reformatory at Anamosa was
telephoning an account of a mutiny
among the prisoners he was attack
ed by a guard said to have been rem
dered temporarily insane by the dis
turbance. The guard was overpow-
cred. The mutiny started several
days ago and continued for three
days before ii could be brought I'M
der control, according to the warden.
Seventy prisoners have been put on
bread and water, and thirty are in
solitary confinement Another guard
is also said to have become temper
arily insane as the result of the affair.
The mutiny is said to have been caus-
ed by the cutting off of supplies OF
candy, and other luxuries by prison
officials following recent inspection.
Thousands of patrons Of the Han
sell consolidated school district at
tended the dedication of the new
school house which cost $4,000 and
stands in the center of a five acre
tract of ground, one of the finest ru-
raj school plants in the state. All
the pupils of one township will at
tend and many little district schools
will be abandoned. Gov. Clarke and
State Superintendent Deyoe were the
speakers and both pointed with pride
to the large number of handsome con.
solidated schools being erected in all
parts of the state. Both said they
were unable TO accept all the invita-
tions to attend dedicatory exercises.
Hon. c. B. Bradshaw, aged &c,
who served on the bench in the Mar
allTama-B Benton district from 1906
to 1913, died at his home in Toledo,
death being due to heart failure. He
was one of the most prominent law
yers in Iowa. When the Civil war
broke out he left Cornell college to
enlist, serving three years as cap
tain of Company H, Twenty-fourth
infantry. At the end of the war he
returned to Iowa. completed his
studies and began the practice OF
law. in which he was actively engag-
ed for 40 years.
II every county in Iowa has the
same record for divorces during the
year 1915 as is shown in Marshall
county, there is startling situation
in existence in Iowa. For every four
and fraction marriages performed
in this county during 1915, there was
one divorce granted, or 1927 per cent.
However, the situation was not SO
discouraging as in the year preced-
ing, when the ratio OF divorces to
marriages was 23.1. The totals for
1915, however, showed a falling on
over 1914.
Senator Kenyon has pledged his sup
port to the movement OF Iowans to
have the government acquire land
along the Mississippi river and estab-
fish a national park, where the people
of Iowa and adjacent states can enjoy
and show to tourists some of the most
beautiful river scenery to be found
anywhere on the globe. The present
tract of land under consideration for
the national park is about 1000 acres.
south of McGregor, in northeastern
Iowa near Dubuque.
Spencer plans number OF extern
sive municipal improvements during
the present year. Among these will
be the laying of several blocks Of
paving. costing probably 100000, the
building of a new city hall, and sew
er and water system extensions cost
ing $4,000. A fine new park was
recently completed and opened. Spen-
Ger has $4,000 in its city treasury,
and owns both its light and water
plants, which are valued at about
$4,000.
Robert r. Spencer, who started in
the banking world in 1871 by sweep
ing out the Johnson County Savings
bank of Iowa City, of which he later
became cashier, is dead in Seattle,
where he was vice president of the
National Bank Of Commerce. Mr..
Spencer married Louise e. Lovelace,
the daughter of one OF Iowa City's
most prominent business men and
bankers of former years.
Special guards for the plant OF the
e. /. du Pont de Nemours Powder
company at Mooar, FIVE miles from
Keokuk, have been put on duty. ].
F. McSweeney, special agent for the
company from Wilmington, has been
in the city for several days. Three
guards have already been picked. The
du Pont company at Mooar is the
largest black powder plant in the
world.
The chair factory which was to
have been opened at the state peni-
Tertiary at Fit. Madison, Feb. I, will
not be opened until month or so
later ON account of a shortage OF
copper, with which the chair machin-
cry is largely constructed. Several
hundred convicts were to have been
employed in the chair factory.
An Injunction suit has been filed
against the American Express com.
pany in Des Moines to test the right
of an express company to transport
liquor into the state. The action
was brought in the name OF John B.
Hammond, of the Anti-Saloon league
forces, after a city detective had
bought four quarts Of whiskey from
an Omaha dealer and the express
company had delivered 1t.
Fire starting from an overheated
furnace destroyed the Sioux City
First Congregational church, the
largest in the city, with loss of $780,