Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-05-19
DURING THE WEEK.

AT Roslyn, Wash, the remaining
bodies have been taken from the slope,
making fortythree who persisted in the
terrible explosion About twenty-five
children, mostly small, are left orphans
by the disaster Liberal offers of as.
sistance are coming in from all parts of
the country.
Justus Moss, moulder at the Adams
factories at Marseilles, ILL.,, disappeared
after perpetrating a fearful double
crime. He went home drunk, and upon
his wife demonstrating gave her a
merciless beating, and jumped upon
the woman, who was in delicate con-
dition, and gave premature birth to II
child, which died, and the mother after
terrible suffering, soon followed.
Sandelin Ilartcr, fireman of the
Pabst building, at Milwaukee, shot
himself because of domestic trouble.
Next morning his wife killed herself
by taking poison. Five children, two
of them deaf mutes, are left to strug-
gle with the world by the double
tragedy.
1t is stated on the authority of Secrc-
tary Blaine, that Mr., Justice Harlan,
of the United States supreme court, and
tor from Alabama, are selected by the
president as arbitrator on the part of
the United States in the Boring Sea ar
bitration. England will now appoint
others TO be appointed, one by the king
of Sweden, one by the president of the
republic of France, an one by the king
OF Italy, making seven arbitrator in
all. Hon. Il. J. Phelps, late United
States minister to England, has been
selected rs chief counsel on behalf of
the United States before the arbitra.
ton commission.
Passengers arriving in San Antonio
Tex, on the International train re-
ported it was fred upon by robbers
just as it was about to stop for water
at tank near Temple. The engineer
did not stop, but threw the lever over
SO as to put on all steam possible and
get away, but the express car was bad
ly rddled Two passengers were
wounded-one, whose name could not
be learned, had au arm shattered; the
other, L. G.. Townsend, was shot in the
face, but only received flesh wound.
Several other passengers had narrow
escapes. The ladies were panic-strick-
en- and many tainted.
An extraordinary elopement and mar.
riage of the oldest couple ever joined in
Kentucky occurred in Covington. The
groom was David Heath, who was 81
years old last December, and the bride
was Miss Mary i. IIetriclS, who stated
she was Go. They hailed from Mount
Sterling, OHIO, where Heath is a well
TODD farmer. They arrived in Cincin-
natl in the morning and concluded to
foot it across the suspension bridge.
Heath said that while there were no
parents in the way to object, relatives
OF Miss Hetrick bitterly opposed the
match, and that he and his bride were
compelled to run away to have the
nuptial not tied. The license was OBJ.
tanned without objection, and Justice
Francis performed the ceremony.
Jim Foster, notorious desperate OF
Mcdowell county, w. Va, got DRUM.
and attacked his father. Mr.. Brown,
a neighbor, interfered, and Foster
knocked him down and beat his brains
out with stone. Then he fatally
stabbed hisfather and escaped. Foster
has Killed two men before this and
served terms in the pcnitentiary. II
is believed that he will be lynched If
caught.