Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-09-29

trlal lame, ana l.. w. Moore from Uni
cago were in Iowa City taking depu-
tatiors in the Smith divorce case. Mrs.
smith nee Miss Kanbught, was born
and raised In Iowa City,. She married
a carpenter by the namo of Bart
Couchror, from whom, after living
with HIM a short time, she obtained a
divorce and moved to Chicago, where
she welded IA very wealthy man by the
name of E Smith. Smith now seeks a
divorce on the ground that his mar
riage was not legal, as he claims Mrs.
Smith lived with Couchron under civil
contract after having obtained di-
vorce. Mrs. Smith brings counter
suit for divorce with view of obtaining
allmony. To increase the complication,
now comes Couchron and brings SUIT
for recovery of a child which is IN Mrs.
Smiths possession. The object of their
visit to Iowa City was oestablish Mrs.
Smiths good character. Over fifty
witnesses were examined.
Chief of Police Murphy of Burling-
ton succeeded by a neat bit of detec
tive work at catching an expert forger
and general all round crook, who gives
his name as Philip Harris. He and II
confederate were detected in the act
of buncoing passenger on the north
bound b., c. r. & N. passenger train
out of some money with the old bag
gage 'over charge" game. He offered
as security check for $500 on the
First National Bank of st. Paul, and
made out such good case that the
victim, an old man named David, of LA
Porte City, gave the required sum.
The train officials suspected Harris and
notified the police, who took him in
charge, David having escaped, On
Harris's person were found two other
forged checks amounting to $685.
Search was made for Harris's pal, and
he was finally captured by Chief Muir
ray, who had disguised himself as a
laborer and gained an advantage on
the unsuspecting criminal. He and
his pal were bound over to the grand
jury and now lie in Jail. They are
believed to be important captures and
photographs have been taken of them
for Identification.
Peter Meyer, who resides in the up
per part of Dubuque, made a savage
assault on his son Henry, young man,
and was arrested by Constable Coffee
on warrant sworn out by Henry.
Some years ago Meyer and his wife
bought a sand lot in partnership, and
Meyer sold considerable of the sand
without turning any of the money
over to his wife. A division was made,
but ever since there has been trouble
in the family, all brought about, as
the wife and children claim, by Meyer.
Recently Henry was engaged hauling
made savage attack on him with a
shovel while he (Henry) was in the
pit loading his wagon. The father
tried to split his head open with show.
ell, and to protect himself, Henry
raised the shovel he was using above
his head, holding it in horizontal po-
sition. The old man struck at him a
number of times, crushing one of the
cutting piece of flesh out of another.
Henry finally Jumped on his wagon and
drove down town, going to the Office
of surgeon, where his wounds We're
hn hn "A =,
has repeatedly threatened to kill him,
and he is afraid that ut some time he
may carry out his threat.
A violent collision on the main line
of the Rock Island seven miles west of
Davenport blocked the main line of the
road soon after midnight and the
wreck was not cleared till late the next
afternoon The Denver flyer bound to
Chicago struck west bound freight
in the middle, as the later was leaving
the main line for a siding at point
where both were ordered to meet. The
engineer of the passenger saw the
headlight of the freight on the siding,
and supposed the train was all on the
line clear ahead, and struck at full
'peed. The passenger engine was
stripped but went clear through six
freight cars, throwing them on both
sides of the track like a snow pillow and
smashing them to splinters. The re-
naming four cars of the freight are de-
rallied and damaged The engine of
the passenger and the mail car next to
it were wrecked. The baggage car
next in the rear was wrecked, but not
badly, and the rest of the train escaped.
The passengers were tumblcd from
their seats and berths, but none were
seriously hurt. Fireman Dan Moroney
of the passenger was cut on the head
and internally hurt, and Postal Clerk
0. Johnson, of Chicago, was cut on the
head. Engineer thompson of the pas
senger saved himself by jumping. The
wreck was covered with oil from mer-
chandise cars, but was not fred.
There is great excitement in Spencer
and prospect for wholesale lynch
irg of negroes. A few nights ago
there was a bloody battle inthe streets
between negroes and white men, in
which one man was killed and dozen
wounded. A gang of negroes started
in to run the town and for some time
terrorized the inhabitants and had
things all their own way. Finally the
sheriff and city marshal succeeded in
getting together "A posse of citizens to
put stop to the lawless acts of the
negroes The officers met the rioters
on the main street and sharp fight en-
sued. over fifty shots being. fred.
They were driven back and scores of
citizens came out TO join in the pursuit.
A running fight was kept up for some
time until the negroes, seeing that they
could not escape, turned on their pur-
suers and fierce hand-to hand
struggle followed, IN which one man
received ms death wound and several
Others were badly hurt. The desper-
ate negroes used revolvers, stones and
razors, but the white men proved too