Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-28
News FROM over iowa

WIN. ii. sewers, eX-Juuge OF tne
Iowa supreme court, died at his home
in Oskaloosa on the cath.
Peter Kremer, 26 years old, living
near Dyersville, hanged himself.
Trouble with woman was the cause.
Archbishop Hennessy has created a
new parish in the northern part OF
Dubuque and an elegant church will
be erected this spring for the benefit
of the German Catholics.
johnson Stuting, farmer living five
miles west of Delmar, Clinton county,
committed suicide by hanging. He
was 35 years old and married. Finan-
cial trouble was the cause.
Thomas Duffy, of Dixon, H., com
mitted suicide in Frank Blinn's saloon
at Clinton in dramatic manner.
Without word of warning he blew
out his brains with a revolver. No
cause is known for his self-destruction.
Henry Wallace, ex-editor of the
now editor of the Farm and Dairy, of
Ames, has applied for a receiver for
the Pierce Wallace Publishing Co.,
owners of the Homestead, the Wisconsin
Farmer and the Kansas City Indicator.
The Central, or Bell Telephone COM
pany of Dubuque, has cut rates and
announces that telephones will be
given for nothing should a rival eX-
change be undertaken by the Harrison
or any other company. 1t also prom
Uses the long distance telephone be-
tween Dubuque and New York, via
Chicago.
The case of Richmond VS.. the Chica-
go, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
company, for $50, 900 damages for in
juries. on trial at Dubuque, was decid-
ed in favor of defendant, on the
grounds that plaintiff, an engineer
killed in collision, was running at a
greater speed than was allowed by the
company's rules A former decision in
the United States court was similar to
this.
Vacha, in whose shop Burghmaster
was found dead at st. Ansgar, and who
was found supposedly dead drunk, has
been arrested and is now lodged in the
county Jail at Usage. Burns found on
his head and hands lead some to think
that he first killed Burghmaster by
strangling, and then attempted to con-
ceal the crime partially by burning the
body by means of paper piled about it,
and in his efforts he burned himself.
A correspondent says large number
of farmers of Boone county will SOW
considera BILE wheat this season Farm
ers who have had considerable expe-
rience claim that wheat sown in that
section during the month of march
natures good crop. Heretofore very
little of this cereal has been raised in
the county and many of the growers,
undaunted by the prevailing low price
of wheat. intend to give the cereal a
fair trial and believe that the result
will be paying crop.
Charles Mason, a photographer, was
arrested at Creston for perjury. In
able to get bonds, he was locked up in
the county Jail and attempted to kill
himself with a revolver, which the Of
ficers had failed to take from him. He
had laid his watch in front of him and
had set the time for the execution, but
Just a second before the fatal moment
and while he had the revolver at his
temple, fellow prisoner bounced upon
him and saved his life. Mason is the
fellow who was suspected of poisoning
his wife several months ago.
Dick Russell, the engineer In charge
of the Colfax electric plant, was in
stantly killed few nights since. The
company had just finished putting in a
new 2OO-horse power Corliss engine
the drive wheel to which is twenty
feet IN diameter. Russell had gone in
between the wall and the wheel to oil
the boxing, and was in some way
drawn into the wheel. He had just
allowed his fireman to go and lie down
for his usual sleep few moments be.
fore the accident occurred. The
mangled remains were picked up from
the floor after having been hurled
against the ceiling and almost every
bone in the body broken. Russell was
rs years of age. A wife and three
children are thus left almost destitute.
Waterloo dispatch: An aged lady,
Familiarity known as Grandma
Brown, who lived alone near La Porte
City, was fatally burned. She was
very religious, and before retiring for
the night she knelt down by the stove
to pray. AS she did so the flames
puffed out from the stove and set her
clothing on fire. She rushed out
doors, screaming at the top of her
voice, and ran into barb wire fence.
She was una BILE to get loose from the
barbs, which tore her flesh severely,
and could not do anything towards
extinguishing the flames. Her screams
finally brought help, but the man who
came TO her assistance was seriously
burned before he could tear her burn
ing clothing off. Her burns were so
severe that she died before morning in