Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-06


known as BILLY the Kid" had been
spelling for a fight all day, and during
the performance at the Fashion theater
a six round boxing match was arranged
for him with Jack Keefe, well known
as fighter and wrestler in the west
The fight commenced about one o'clock
on the stage in the presence of several
hundred men and women, and the men
did some fierce fighting, with Keete
having the best of it. In the Efth
round Raway fell to the floor but after
ward revived and admitted he was
whipped, Keefc aud his crowd went
away, but Raway tainted and died IN
half an hour. Keefe, Referee Lyle and
Seconds Cahill and Odannell are in Jail
to await the action of the grand jury,
and two other seconds are at large.
The fight was with six ounce gloves,
and Keefe declares that none of the
strokes We're hard, but others who saw
it say the dead man was badly pun
ishea.
Blood flowed freely in Mahasta
county few nights ago-three shoot
ing ARRAYS, resulting in the death of
three persons and the mortal wound
ing of the fourth. The first, and very
unfortunate affair occurred in Jeffer-
son township. A boy IA years DID,
named Ezra Cooper, was accidentally
shot by his cousin, boy aoout the
same age, the ball passing through the
abdomen. lie died the next day. The
second shooting scrape occurred ut
Carbonate between two coal miners
Add Scott and William Tiffis Scott
was shot through the jugular vein and
lived until the second day afterward.
Tiffis is in Jail at Oskaloosa and says
the shot was fred accidentally, though
SCOTS friend says it was not The
third and most serious ARRAY occurred
about two miles east of Fremont. One
Guy Helm, a man of 4j, and two broth
ers ny the name of Clark, aged 90 and
&c respectively, had family row in
Fremont in the afternoon. Helm lay
in wait for the young men on their
way home aud shot TO Kill both of them
with a large revolver. One ball en-
tered the elder Clark's heart, killing
him Instantly Another passed through
the younger mans breast in the neigh
borhood of the heart, and though he is
still alive, the doctors say he cannot
recover. Helm is an uncle of the young
men, and the trouble grew out of the
settlement of some property interests
Helm escaped the officers of Mahaska
county, but went directly to SIgourney
and gave himself up to the Keokuk
county authorities The murder was
undoubtedly premeditated, and the
Clark's friends say Helm must hang.
The entire business part of Runnells
was destroyed by fire recently, except
livery barn, blacksmith shop, grain
Office and the new $1,000 creamery
The fire started about o'clock in the
afternoon in the rear of Mckinney 81
Sons store in a manner yet unknown.
The losses are: Mckinney & Son, gen
eral merchandise; building aud stock,
$1,000; insurance, Hawkeye, Sl,500,
Des Moines, 81, 10). p. w. Brown, gen
eral merchandise, building and stock,
$1,000; insurance, Merchants and
Bankers and Hawkeye, $4,000. d. l.
Blodget boots and shoes, $500: no in
surance. Telegraph printing office and
two buildings, $500; no insurance d,
Ii. Clarke, restaurant, $500; insurance,
5000 j. G. Person, groceries, loss on
building, 81, 500, stock, $1,000; insur-
ance In Hawkeye, building $1,000 and
stock S4O). |. II. Winfrey, druggist
aud residence building 5000, stock $500,
household goods $500; insurance in Des
Moines Insurance company, stock $500,
building $500, household goods 5000
w. A. Price, groceries, building, ST.
100, stock 5000: insurance in Iowa State
Insurance company, 81, 2Oa. Masonic
building and furniture, 81, 500; insur-
ance Iowa State of Keokuk, 81, 200. w.
A. Price, pool room, 500; no insurance.
Charles Galloway, meat market, small
loss. building owned by W. w. Muir
ray, 500: no insurance. l.. Rees, shop,
800, d. T. Brown, two buildings,
$500; no insurance. A. J. Heinlein,
residence building, 5000; no insurance
ID. Reese, household goods. Quite a
large number of buildings were burned.
The Red Men, Odd Fellows, American
Mechanics and l. o. G. Il. lodges each
lost their halls. The total loss is in
the neigh borhood of 100000,
The strike of the operators on the
b., c. r.. & n. railway has been de-
clared off. The terms on which an
agreement was finally reached between
the road aud the operators make this
a most decided victory for the road
On condition that the strike is declared
off, the road, too, agrees to recognize
the order and to treat with its author.
lied representatives when properly APP
preached; not to discriminate against
the members of the order, and to fill
all present vacancies from the old en-
ployes, and TO take others back as va
cancies occur, providing their records
are satisfactory in all respects to the
company. Nothing is said about the
S45 minimum upon which the strike
was declared and after which all the
fight has been made. The road has
always been ready to treat with this
as with any other order of its employees
There was no discrimination against
its members, or there would not have
been enough to make a strike; and as
only these are to be taken back whose
records are satisfactory, IL is difficult
to see wherein the strikers have gained
In fact, they have been beaten from
the start, and were glad to quit with
any thing that looked like comprom-
Use, They are practically where they
were twelve days ago when they went
out, save that a large majority of the
strikers arc out of job and will have
difficulty in getting back. President
Ives states that he will have room for
about ten operators and the others will
in all probability have difficulty in