Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-09-06

$4,000, $1,000 of winch is for the
clergyman's salary and the balance to
be used in caring for the poor of that
city.
John Conway, living near Sibley,
who lost his stable, stock and machin-
cry by fire, charges the fire to a tramp
who left his place in bad humor the
night of the fire. Conway's family
was sick and probably drugged. Mrs.
Conway saw a man at the window just
before the fire. The sheriff has no
clue yet. The loss is $4,000; no in
surance.
In thedistrict court of O'Brien coun-
ty David Griggs, brother of the ex-
fish commissioner, has sued the Chicago
& Northwestern railroad company for
damages to valuable trotting horse
injured in shipping over that road. f.
Il. Holdridge, brakeman on the Chi
cago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha,
sues that railway company for $1,000
damages in crushing his hand between
the bumpers on freight train. Louisa
Tangman wants s., 900 from John Mil
Ter for certain alleged slanderous
words spoken.
| Six years of hard labor in the peni-
tertiary was the sentence passed by
Judge Thornell at Harlan, upon A. w.
| Dickerson of Cass county bank fame,
for his fraudulent banking. Mr.. Dick
ersod had read by his attorneys a state
ment attempting to shift some of the
responsibility for the banks condition
upon the president and directors, but
as justification of his own course it
was failure. The judge SAID in SEN
| fencing Dickerson: Il have been i'm
portuned by many of the accused's
friends to give a light sentence, but
must adhere to the conclusion to give
a severe sentence for the sake of public
demands and for the honesty of banks
and bankers"
The case of Mclaughlin, Case,
Mushrush and Jones, who are under
indictment for the murder of Frank
Leib last April, will come off for trial
at Audubon October 0, before Judge
Thornell. The prosecution is in charge
of r. c. Carpenter, county attorney,
| and VIM. Wonn, one of the best Grim
| inal lawyers in western Iowa. Judge
Henry Funk and Col. c. II. Mackey are
retained by the defense. This is look
ed forward to as the greatest trial that
ever engaged the attention of a court
in the county. The defendants are
now securely held in Jail and every
precaution is being taken that they
may be on hand to answer when court
| convenes
| Another Iowa town has been wiped
out of existence. Bows City, in Wright
| county, town of about 1,0)0 inhab-
itants, suffered a $15O,OO0 blaze. The
fire originated in the MulnoX brick
shortly after o'clock in the morning.
and was well under way when the first
alarm was sounded. The Clarion and
Iowa Falls companies were called upon
to assist and they responded promptly.
The Burlington railroad got them to
the city as quickly as possible. The
wind was blowing very hard, and in
| less than one hour not enough was left
of the fiourishing town for recognition.
Two dilapidated stores and about fifty
dwellings is all that is left. The total
! insurance reaches SIS, 900.
Mr.. J. C. Gotham, of Norwalk, met
with an accident at Des Moines which
resulted in his death a few hours later.
He was going to the east side to stay
with relative, a gentleman named
Stout. He was not watching the pro-
gress of the car and suddenly noticed
that it had passed the place where he
should get off. He was at that time
about two car lengths from the turn.
In leaping from the car he jumped
straight out, the momentum of the car
causing him to fall with great severity
on the pavement. Several Commissions
of the skull were seen on examination
and the ambulance being called he
was taken to his nephew's home in the
ambulance. 1t was found that his
skull had been fractured. He died the
following day. The coroners jury
rendered a verdict of accidental death,
generating the street car company.
The deceased was 81 years of age and
leaves wife and two children.
John H. Cater, butcher residing
at Burr Oak, twelve miles north of De.
corah, was lodged in the Winneshiek
county jail, under suspicion of having
killed his wife and George Wemmet, a
former employee. Mrs. Cater was
found in the barn, with her throat cut
in several places and her face badly cut
and bruised, and Wemmett was found
near the village school, with bullet
hole back of one ear. 1t is said Cater
l has been unduly intimate with Mrs
Heath, fact which Mrs. Cater learn
: ed. tits supposed that she got Wem
met to catch them, and that when Cat
l ter found this out he became SO en-
2 ragged that he killed Wemmett and
l then killed his wife because she would
l be witness against him in the case
and he was arrested. Caters arrest
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