Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-12

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above in some way became dislodged
aud fell striking Harcourt on the head
crushing in his skull
REV. NJ. 4. JACKSON, pastor of the
Christian church at Adel, died n few
days age. Though bis pastorate IN
that city was blc! lie had SO cndeeard
himself TO the whole community Us to
molio his loss deeply felt as public
calamity. As pulpit orator his tai
ents were of high order. AS man
he was quiet and unassuming. As a
preacher he was brilliant, scholarly
and gentle, though firm in the assertion
OF the truth as he understood it.
The annual meeting of the Iowa
State Horticultural society will be held
in the rooms of the society in the capt.
toll mt Des MoiGcs, on the seventeenth,
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
of January, 1898. The programme Will
consist of the reports of the directors
OF the twelve districts, into which the
state is divided. together with the re-
ports of the me mbcrs of the standing
committees on all subjects connected
with the growing of the orchard fruits,
small fruits, ornamental trees, shrubs,
etc, and other topics connected with
the advancement of horticulture in
Iowa. The society offers liberal prem
umS on fruits and towering plants ex.
hiUitcd in the horticultural room. For
lists OF premiums see stare horticultural
report for 1892. 1t is hoped that many
will take advantage Of the offers made.
Mrs. Elizabeth Beidler committed
suicide 1T Council Bluffs by hanging.
She was about - years old, German,
and leaves Il husband and several chill
drcn. Melancholy insanity caused by
iIl health and the attempted murder
by the daughter Of her friend, Captain
Hattie Smith, OF the Salvation Army, a
year ago, is supposed TO be the cause.
She was apparently rational and had
been recovering. her family thought,
put the deed was prcmeditated. She
had been preparing to do it for several
days, having taken her little boys sled
rope and sccrctcd it. She was Sleep
ing alone and in the night went out of
a back second story window, fastened
the rope TO a balcony and around her
neck, stepped on the sloprng roof of the
shed underneath the window, and
quietly slid off AMI stranglcd to death.
When found next morning her face and
ears were frozen stiff.
Iowa has had fewer legal hanginga
perhaps than any other state in the
union. Not since 1857 when Chester
Bcllam was hanged III Floyd county
for the murder Of his niece, and William
Schmidt was executed III Fayettc
county, for the brutal murder of the
aged German couple who had adopted
him, has capital punishment been lie.
sorted to. Within the next few months
however, two murdCrers will have paid
the extreme penalty for their crimes.
At Corning, January 10, James Dooley
will be hanged for one of the most
brutal murders ever committed. lie
Is Young fellow mbout twenty years
of age. He wor,:t ior farmer named
Coon:. One day he took oifense at Mrs.
Coous. he seized hatchet and hacked
her to pieces lie then turned on her
innocent little daughter and dealt her
q fatal blow, then took horse and
fled, but was overtaken by Il posse and
captured and narrowly escaped being
lynched. In 1888 J. X. Cum bcrland
| killed James and Jasper Robertson fol
| their money. Cumberland had worked
| for the Robcrtsons and when neigh bors
missed them Cumberland SAID they haG
sold their farm and gone to Nebraska,
lie afterwards moved to Missouri, ant
there, long after the commission of the
crime, was arrested, He pleaded guilty
at his trial, but is now trying to get 6
new hearing
Peter Suffer, who, last week, muir
| dered his wife at their boarding place
in Kingman Place, u suburb of Des
| Moines, and who later confessed hi
guilt and was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury, committed
suicide IN what Is known as the "fel
on's cell" OF the Polk county Jail, where
| he had been confined for three days
Suffer learned from his fellow prisoner.
that upon certain days of the week the
prisoners were allowed to shave them
selves, the racer, SOAP, towels, CITE
being passed around. From develop
ments, it appears that from the timC
of securing the information he con
templated sclf-icstruction. He pre-
pared statement Of hls affairs for thu
benefit of his heirs, and became moros,
and refused to talk to his companions
Upon the day of the tragedy, after tn,
other prisoners had used the razor
Suttcr, unnoticcd, picked it up anC
walked to the bedside. Seating him
self, with calm deliIcra:ion he twic,
drew the razor across his throat, cut
ting IL from ear to car. His fellow
prisoners were attracted TO him by tn,
sound of squirting blood, and then Sut
ter reeicd to the center of the cell
rushed blindly around for a moment
and then fell heavily upon the cemen
floor. The Mortified prisoners yelled
for help, which was soon at hand, bu
with few faint pulsatIons of the heart
life was extinct.
The presidential electors chosen a
the recent election met ut the capito
ON the 9th aud formally east their thir
teen votes for Harrison and Reid.
The case of Peco, against whom tn
jury at Oskaloosa had rendered dealt
penalty verdict was passed upon b,
Judge Dcuey, The judge reduced tn
verdict from murder in the first degree
To murder IN the second degree an,
sentenced him To ~. Madison 70
twenty-five years. The prisoner wa
visibly affected. and his father hill hi
face in his hands while his whole franz
shook with emotion,
The county scat contest between
Missouri Valley aud Logan has bee
under consideration 10y the board
February has been GSed rs the dat
when the board viii count the petition
and rcmonstrarccS
While cGasiing with IA number O