Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-18
VOL. VIII
The charges against the lndepend-
encc hospital for the insane arc being

long line Of depositors crowded the
street in front of the bank most all
day. Nothing definite can be learned
of the bank until such time as the
bank examiner makes his reports,
which may be several days. The in
stitution was considered one of the
soundest financially there was IN the
state, having been doing business
since 1864 c. ]. Fields and VIM
Fields, cashier and president respect
lively of the concern, have cen actively
engaged in the stock business, being
about the heaviest importers of Eng
lish shire horses in the west.
The trouble in the family of c. W.
Dreier, living near Danville, which
led to law proceedings in Burlington
for a divorce recently, but which was
settled before trial, has bee effectual,y
settled by the neighbors of the unhappy
couple. All went well for awhile after
Mrs. Drcier had been persuaded to re-
came displeased with the state of
affairs existing at the Dreier home
stead, and they awaited upon the
female hired help (who, by the way,
seems to have been one of the many
barriers in the path of connubial
felcity) with rope and liberal supply
of tar and feathers, and requested her
to vacate the premises the next morn.
ing or abide the consequences which
would be certain to follow a refusal to
comply. The argument brought to
hear upon the victim appears to have
been perfectly convincing, as the place
that once knew her kno WI her no more.
At Vinton the jury in the Smith muir
der case returned a verdict of not
guilty. The prisoner and relatives
broke down and wept like children.
Many strong men also weps. The judge
had hard work suppressing applause.
Mr. Perry, father of the murdered man,
as the jury passed out, called them vile
names, and the judge ordered his ar
rest. The trial of s. Ii. Smith of Cedar
township, Benton county, who almost
blew the whole top of the head off of
w. r. Perry, on January 2, last, with a
double barrelled shotgun, for alleged
criminal intimacy with Smiths wife,
had occupied the district court for
three weeks. and had attracted wider
attention than any trial in that court
for years. Although very busy sea
son with the farmers, many of them
were IN attendance, some coming TWEEN
ty miles 10 listen to the arguments.
The defendant, who was raised in the
neighborhood of the homicide, and has
always resided in the county, and has
always lornc the reputation of being u
pcaceable, lnw-lovlng and law-abiding
citizen, has the sympathy of the entire
community.
ID w. Patterson, an employe at the
Union Pacific transfer yards at Council
Bluffs, was struck by lightning while
sitting by a window in his residence
during n terrific thunder storm and in
stantly killed. The bolt struck him on
the head over the left temple and ran
back over the left side of the head,
singing his hair, but leaving 40 marks
except where it struck, where the letter
ii appeared in red on the skin about an
inch long. The electric fluid passed
forward on the left side of the neck,
bursting the tympanum of the left ear
and thence downward on the front of
the body. Patterson's clothes were
torn to shreds and stripped entirely
from the front of his body. The legs
of his pants and drawers were torn 20
pieces, except at the bottom, where
they were not injured. On the front
of the body and legs were burned spots
where the flesh was actually roasted to
a crisp. From Patterson the flash
jumped ia the bed on which his arm
rested. The bed frame was marked
and the two dogs at the head were torn
to pieces. When the mattress was re-
moved piece of Patterson's clothing
was found in the bed springs. I'm
med,atelv back of Patterson was his
little daughter, who was stunned, but
not seriously injured. Patterson was
a prominent Mason. lie leaves large
family.
Several hundred dollars worth OF
counterfeit silver dollars, halves aud
quarters have been passed in Sioux
during the past few weeks and until
few nights ago no trace of the counter
letters was obtainable. Detective
Kreg, of the police department, sus-
pected three men, and followed them
into a saloon, where he examined a
coin they had passed, and found it to
be counterfeit. He followed them out
and arrested two of them. One is
George Hallett and the other John
Mason. One has been working at the
carpenter trade and the other one
cooking. Joseph Scott, the third man,
got away. The men had counterfeit
quarters of the issue Ct 1891 and 1892;
halves of 1860 and 1876 and dollars of
to the police station they threw pow
dered tobacco in the faces Of the offic-
ers and endeavored to escape, but
were overpowered and the counterfeit
IN oney they threw away recovered.
Hallett weakened afterward and took
the officer to grove three miles from
town, where he dug up a part of their
outfit from a hollow tree, and then
took them to house on Lafayette
street, where a half peck Of plaster of
paris dies, device for milling coins, a
quantity of metal and other articles
used by them were found. He says
that he was laugh. the business by
three McCarty boys at Council Bluffs,
one of whom is now deputy sheriff of
Pottawattamie county, and that they
have passed hundreds of dollars worth
of the money in Lincoln, Omaha, Coun.
Gil Bluffs. Sioux City and smaller towns
in the vicinity. One of the McCartys
Is now under arrest at Council Bluffs
for passing counterfcits. The work
manship on the coins is excellent and
the counterfeit hard to detect. Mrs.