Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-04-04

subscribed for a Cedar Rapids ball
team in the Iowa State League, and an
| additional thousand Will be secured.
| This amount insures the successful
organization of team in that city.
1t will be remembered that Mrs.
Betsy Smith was recently convicted at
Des Moines for numbering her hus-
band, Michael Smith, by administering
poison. Letters recently written to
her by her sister, Mrs. Leader, and her
daughter, Cora Smith, have furnished
new evidence, and those two have just
been arrested for the murder. Cora
was arrested in house of prostitution
in Omaha, and it is said she has con-
fessed that she and Mrs. Leader pur-
chased the poison and administered it.
c. A. and H. NJ. Wherry, of Oxford
Junction, after feeding their hogs on
-four for thirty days, again weighed
them and found that the average daily
gain was the same as during the ten
days trial-one and one-ffth pounds
per day. Previous experiments show
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make one of pork and the hogs gain
but one pound day. Six pounds of
-four will make one pound of pork.
Since the Wherry brothers bought
their -four the same grade has declined
IS cents per ton, making the price
S11.50 per ton laid down in Oxford
Junction. 1t will not be many weeks
before the Wherry brothers hogs will
be ready for market.
The only opium joint in the city of
Des Moines has been condemned by
the police and health department of
the city council. The joint has been
run by three Cinnamon for some time
and when the officers and aldermen de-
scended upon the joint three men were
found doing on the dirty ground floor
overcome by the drug. One of them
escaped but the pipes and opium,
which had been hid when the cry of
police was raised, were secured.
The officers and aldermen making the
raid were City Physician DR.. w. S. II.
Matthews, Chief of Police Ford, Ser
geant Shafer and Aldermen Haffner,
Wilkins, McElderry and Shelley. The
health committee condemned the place
and ordered 1t closed at once. There
is no state law covering such places
and the ordinance passed by the coun-
Gil has not enough effect to effectively
close the places. So the health depart
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succeed.
J. Clark, alias Davis, was indicted
for adultery by the Woodbury. county
grand jury. This il the man who
claimed that he was the son of
wealthy Des Moines man and cut a swell
in Sioux City, living with a woman
who was in the fortune telling bust
ness. They succeeded in getting into
debt everywhere, bought valuable
goods on credit and suddenly disap-
peared. AS it known that they had
not been married. this indictment was
brought and DAVIS will be brought
back if he can be located. c. NJ. Perry
was indicted for perjury in the Strange
case. Perry testified that he had
cousin named John Perry, who was al
legged to be the man to whom money
road work There was overwhelming
evidence to show that C. M. Perry was
the man who signed the vouchers, in
the name of John Perry, for Strange.
This makes the fifth of Strange's wit
nesses who has been indicted for
perjury in connection with his case.
Another Indictment returned was
against Frank Matthews for attempt
ing to burn the Illinois Central bridge
in the eastern part of town during the
strike of last July.
A most cold-blooded and atrocious
murder occurred in Clinton a few
nights ago, when August Swanson, a
laborer, deliberately beheaded his
7-year-old son Albert with a keen
bladed Ratchet. The scene of the
crime was the squalid dwelling where
the family, the father and three sons,
lived. There is every indication that
the murderer went about his work
with due deliberation. After the
other two boys had been put to bed
down stairs, the father led the victim
up stairs and barricaded the door. He
had previously prepared beheading
block by placing a plank crosswise of
the bed underneath the bedding, the
outer end being solidly supported by
the back of lounge. The boy was
placed on the bed with his head laying
over the edge of the bedstead on the
block. Two strokes were all that
we're necessary to sever the head from
the body. The filicide then left the
house by rear window overlooking
the roof of the kitchen. The crime
was not discovered until the two
children went to a neighbours for
something to eat. They told that their
father had not yet got up. An inves-
tigation was then started and the
horrible discovery made. A descrip-