Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-03

tight around his neck. oIIis feet touched
the ground and he might have stood
upright as his knees We're bent. Near
by was found q bloody pocket knife
with wide blade. Three stab wounds
were found in his stomach. 1t is evil
dent he tried the knife first, and finding
death did not come at once resorted to
the rope Increasing blindness and
loss of employment in the Rock Island
shops caused dependency, though he
was not needy. He leaves wife and
family.
L. A. Cox of Keol<uk, who was
charged by his wife with being insane,
will not have TO submit to an examina-
ton to esta blish his mental soundness.
The complaint has been withdrawn.
Instead, his wife, whom it is alleged he
assaulted has agreed to a separation, she
being given possession of the children
and Mr.. Cox agreeing to pay weekly
sum toward their support 1t has de-
veloped that all the trouble was
caused by family row and that the
stories of the assault were considerably
exaggerated. 1t is expected that Cox
will resign or be removed from the
school board, Notwithstanding the fact
that the other members did all in their
power to suppress mention of the affair.
Information was fled at Keokuk
charging Lisbon A. Cox, prominent in
Grand Army, secret order educational
circles, with being insane. Cox was
taken in charge by an officer and
locked up in the county Jail. He had
attacked his wife and this was the
cause of the complaint. He is mem
Der of the board of education and is
probably best known by reason of his
geological works and in connection
with his collection of crinoids, said to
be one Of the finest and most extensive
in this country. Papers were prepared
providing for having Cox taken before
the commissioners of insanity for
examination, but he was taken in
charge by friends who will endeayor to
take care of him.
The Burlington Hawkeye met with
a disastrous confagration. The en-.
tire contents, except the library, were
totally destroyed few mornings ago.
The building suffered considerable
damage, but the walls will not have to
be torn down in repairing. The press
man in the basement was preparing to
go home when he noticed the fire
dropping down the elevator shaft.
room on the fourth floor. The origin
is mystery as the building is heated
with steam. There were only three
employees in the building at the time.
The loss is about Sis, 900 fully covered
by insurance. The paper was issued
from temporary quarters next morn
ing and did not miss an issue.
The Humboldt wifebeater is at it
julius Metzner is his name and he is
a German who runs a large Touring
mill at that place. Several times,
when drunk, he has brutally beaten
his wife, lost money and business by it
and got into Jail for it, but still he
keeps it up One night recently he
stayed out late, and his family, con-
GLIDING he was off on drunk, did as
they usually do all went up stairs and
locked the door Mrs. Metzner heard
him come in during the night and went
down to take aHquilt and pillow to
him. AS she opened the door into the
room where he lay it struck him. Up
he jumped and hit her in the head with
his fist, knocking her over a lounge and
breaking her ribs. The brute saw she
was badly hurt, and fear for his own
safety sobered him up and he de-
camped. One child went for a doctor
and the neighborhood was soon
aroused. A posse of men set out to
capture Metzner and if they had
caught him then he would certainly
have been badly used up. As soon as
he turns up he will be taken in hand
and dealt with as he deserves.
A suit for the recovery of 500, 900
will be commenced in the Dubuque
courts at this term. 1t is the celebrat-
ed case of the Bremen County National
Bank of Waverly against j. w. and NJ.
j. Ridgeway, as executors Of the estate
of N. J. Ridgeway. The case has had
several hearings in the Bremen county
court and is taken to Dubuque on a
change of venue The petition as filed
by the plaintiff is q voluminous one,
but recites in brief that the bank is a
corporation with capital stock of
5000, 900, formerly 100000; that N. ].
Ridgeway, deceased, was large stock
holder in the bank; that from 1880 to
1884 he was its president; that it was
his duty as such officer to exercise a
general supervision over the affairs of
the bank and to see that it complied
with the requirements of the law; that
he neglected to do SO and on account of
such neglect the bank sustained very
severe losses during the four years over
which his administration extended and
its capital in consequence was serious
ly impaired. Further the petition re-
cites the bank nor the president
neither had the authority to make a
loan in excess of s., 1000, but In violation
of this restriction the president permit
ted Window G. Champion to become in
debted TO the bank in the sum of $685.
600, while $4,000 was lost ON John III.
Mickle, and the bank incurred further
liability, concealed by the president, of
$4,000. The whole loss the bank sus-
tanned through the fault of its presi-
dent was ss7,00o and the plaintiff asks
Judgment against the estate for this
amount, with interest at 6 per cent
from 1884.
Iowa Railroad Beds Seem Unsafe.
FoRT DODGE, Iowa, March 1.-The
railroads in this vicinity have new
danger to contend with. The phenom-
enally wet weather of the last fortnight
has SO softcncd the roadbeds that the
track wabbles and mud flies in all di-
ractians ne hanvu trains x,aoe T,ao