Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-05

DURING THE WEEK.


Der of dwellings We're destroyed in the
surrounding country, but so far as
heard from, there is no loss of life and
no one injured except a few bruises
from flying debris.
A freight tram on the New York
Central, while taking water at Church
vile, n. Y, was run into by another.
A minute later another train crashed
into the wrecked cars. The mass
caught fire and twenty-five cars and
much freight were destroyed. w. II.
Jones, engineer, was killed, and L.
Richardson, fireman, was injured.
A freight train on the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago road was
wrecked near Otis, Ind, going through
bridge. The engine and eight cars
went down. The bodies Of the engi-
neer, fireman and brakeman were
buried in the ruins under the water.
The bridge was weakened by rains.
The names of the killed are: John
Murray, engineer, James Bowen, fire.
man; Elmer Brown, brakeman.
The sensational case of Mrs. Kate
Boyd against Cornelius Hessian and his
three sons, at lie Sueur Center, Mimi,
ended in u verdict of Sc, 900 in favor of
Mrs. Boyd. 1t was shown in the testi-
mony that the Hessian family had gone
to the home of Mrs. Boyd at midnight,
and because of some fancied wrong at
an earlier date, had tarred and feath-
cred her and left her. Had not neigh
Tors discovered her, she would have
soon died.
Sheriff j. X. Brown, of Tucson, A.
T., arrived in Denver aud took in
charge Cecil Henry Rutherford Fitz-
gerald, representative of the English
company which is cutting an irrigation
canal and reservoir near Tucson, and
who IN his official capacity had charge
of the funds of the company. Accord
ing to the sheriff about 500, 900 remains
to be accounted for.
While picniclling on Chiclamauga
creek, three members of the middle
class of the Chattanooga, Tenn, high
school were drowned. They were
Wendell Sanders son of President San
ders of the Chattanooga Plow Com
pany; Miss Bette Cheney and Miss
Blanche Barr, the latter the daughter
of prominent attorney. The bodies
had not been recovered at the end of
forty-eight hours.
The Mississippi river is still rising
rapidly and there is every indication
that it will pass the high water mark
of last year. 1t has been raining most
of the time the past week, and at some
points the levees are caving in.
A freight train on the Louisville &
Nashville crashed into the rear of a
passenger train standing at Moore Sta
ton, KY, Fireman Wallace and ne
gro tramp being killed, and Engineer
Holtner being badly injured. The
passengers escaped with good shak-
ing up.
At Blockton, Ala, Frank Dexter
of an old feud. The men met in
large crowd at the depot and drew
pistols. Several people narrowly es-
capped being shot, and many women
tainted Dexter fred three times be-
fore Lisle could fire.
In the morning at 2 o'clock two
masked men robbed the ticket agent of
the Omaha bridge, at his Office, secur-
ing $50 and gold watch and revolver.
They were captured in Omaha about 4
o'clock. Their names are Sober Burns
and Dick Grandon. Both have served
time in the penitentiary.
Deeming. wife murderer and general
criminal, was put on trial at Mel
bourne, Australia. The Standard says
he confessed to his lawyers that he IS
guilty of most of the White Chapel
Jack the Ripper" atrocities. Counsel
for the prisoner asked the judge to dis
regard the plea of not guilty previous
ly entered by Deeming. The judge
said that at a later stage in the pro-
ceedings he would ask the jury con.
corning the request. The court then
adjourned.
Coleman Blackburn, colored, stands
to-day without rival for strength of
neck. On the goth instant he was
hanged at Harriston Miss, for wife
murder and a few days later was able
to walk around the room and converse
with friends After having hanged for
thirty.slx minutes and being pronounc-
ed dead by three local physicians, the
supposed corpse was turned over to re-
latives and taken to Franklin county,
thirty-fivc miles distant. While en-
route to the family burying grounds, a
noise was heard in the coffin, and when
it was opened the supposed dead man
was found to be breathing. Physicians
were summoned and the patient is pro-
nounced now out of danger.
A few evenings since at Philadelphia
fire started on the stage of the Grand
Central theater and before it was got
under control nearly million dollars
worth of property had been destroyed
A large amount of costly scenery was
stored in the opera house and it was all
destroyed. In their efforts to escape
from the opera house large number
of persons were badly injured by being
thrown down and trampled upon.
Fully fifty persons were carried to the
hospitals after the crush. The fire
spread rapidly and in five minutes the
building occupied by the Times was
ablaze. In half hour it had been
completely Quilted and the costly
machinery, library, files, etc. were
ruined. The company playing at the
opera house was unable to save thing,
and the ballet girls escaped to the
streets in their tights and gauze No
fatalities are reported, but as number
are missing it is feared they were
caught in the fire trap.
Saginaw Dry for the First Time.
SAGINAW, Mich, May 3.-For the
first time in its history Saginaw was