Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-03-24

and espe ,ially any attemp. at self
destruction In an unguarded moment
she escaped from her bed chamber and
FASTENED to large stock pond near her
fathers house and jumped in the pond.
The pond was shallow and in her strug-
gle she must have thrown herself out
of the pond, for when found by her
family she was on the bank of the pond
stiff in death, The young lady was 20
years of age, and highly respected and
loved by her neighbors and friends,
Mr.. Elijah Crawford is successful
farmer. The family have the sympathy
of the entire community.
A close call for murder happened at
Eddyville. Mr. Crosen, a young lounger,
was standing in front of the butcher
shop making some remarks, when Mr.
Lafferty came along and cut Mr.. Crosen
from the rear. Mr.. Crosen released
himself from Lafferty's grasp and
whirled around to face his opponent
They both squared themselves, but as
they were about to strike they were
checked by surrounding parties. In
the scuflie Mr.. Lafferty fell AS he
was in the act of getting up Crosen
struck him but was taken off the pros
trate man. Lafferty got up and ran
into the butcher shop and secured n
long butcher knife and wheeled and
met Crosen at the door of the shop
striking him heavy blow on the side
of the head, making fearful and
dangerous wound. Had the blow been
one inch lower it would certainly have
caused instant death. They are both
being cared for by their friends.
A. II. LAwsHA, an old gentleman
| from Red Oak. Iowa, loaded to the
matches with obejoyful and with coat
tails sailing joyously on the night
winds, was arrested in Omaha. He
told disjointed tale of the loss of a
| fabulous fortune which he had on his
inside pocket and an investigation was
made. 1t was ascertained that he had
| deposited $500 in the First National
bank of that city and had been given a
| deposit slip therefore. In the morning
| Lawsha could remember nothing ex-
| cept that he had been in Iowa, and as
he was then in Omaha, and as his head
was several sizes too large for his hat
he presumed that he had had roar
| ing good time" AS soon as the bank
| opened the next morning the deposit
! slip, duly endorsed, was presented and
cashed by B. f. Williams, Douglas
street gambler, Familiarity known as
dad Williams" Lawsha was informed
| of the fact and came to the conclusion
that he must have beeu betting on
some other mans game while in a
trance. He returned to Red Oak a
| wiser man.
A fearful accident occurred in Early,
killing one man and seriously injuring
| another. A Mr.. J. w. Stone, an old
resident living one mile west of that
place, was hauling grain to town, and
as he, with his hired man, Geo. Simpson,
was starting to return home, in cross.
| ing the railroad track, they were
struck by an engine and caboose,
platform on the north side of the track
at the depot, crushing his skull and
otherwise cutting his face and head.
Mr.. Simpson was thrown on the south
side of the track, alighting in the
ditch on his head and shoulders, break
| ing his right collar bone and injuring
his head badly. Stone died about three
hours after. Simpson is resting quite
easy at this time and in all proba bility
will recover. The engine was running
at fearful rate coming down grade,
and parties who saw it say it was run
ming at least forty miles an hour, and
some parties say that the engineer was
| intoxicated. The marshal promptly
arrested the engineer and conductor
and they had preliminary hearing
and were bound over.
Garden Grove suffered considerable
loss by fire. Seven business houses,
large and small, were totally destroyed,
unless some use can be made of the
walls left standing of two bricks. The
parties losing by the fire are as follows:
Geo. Woodbury., drugs and groceries; s.
| Wheeler, groceries; W. Kentner,
watches and jewelry; j., w. Russell,
small brick building occupied by the
Misses Maggie and Mary Brown, dress
makers; Wales & Young, meat market
and groceries; Black & Zila, shoe
makers: Mccullough Bros, barb
ers; G.. Sanford, artist The
fire originated in Wheeler's building,
froma defective flue. 1t was discov-
cred about O'Clock, and in little
more than an hour and half the
buildings mentioned above were swept
away by the fire, with the exception
of Sanford's gallery and McCullough's
barber shop. which were torn down to
seve the building in which the post
office was located. The buildings were
all frame except Russell's and Wood
bury's. Nearly all the goods were
saved. The loss will foot up about SO,
900, with little or no insurance, except
on the drug store, which was insured
a