Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-05-09


| federal court at Council Bluffs
AT the next term of the district court
in Franklin county will come up a
| $1,000 damage suit, in which Hazel
Boldly, prominent stock raiser and
farmer of that section, is made de-
PENDANT The suit is brought by
Hiram and Sarah Briggs of that county,
who claim that Boyd took and sold
fraudulently personal property be-
longing to plaintiffs, and who pray for
damages to the amount above stated.
Miscreants placed tie on the track
of the Chicago Great Western railroad
near Gladbrook and a south bound
passenger train was thrown from the
track. The engine and baggage car
went down the embankment, but the
coaches remained upright and none of
the occupants were injured The
engineer and fireman mraculously
escaped injury, but tramp who was
stealing ride on the front end of the
baggage car was killed.
Conrad Frye, a wealthy retired
farmer, of Webster, committed suicide
by shooting. Some three months ago
he appeared before the board of health
at his own recognizance and stated
that he at times felt an almost ir-
restible impulse to take his life and
asked to be sent to the asylum. This
was done, and he remained until about
two weeks ago when his friends took
him home. They watched him carful-
~, but in an unprotected time he did
that which in his sane moments he
most feared.
Judge House, of the Clinton county
district court, has rendered a decision
on the mulct law which will attract
widespread interest because attacking
the validity of the law. The cases
were those of the National Building
Association VS.. Clinton county, and
George c. Smith VS.. Clinton city, in
which the plaintiffs sued to forclose
mortgages on the property occupied as
saloons. on which the board of
supervisors of Clinton county had
levied the mulct tax. Judge House
decided that the mortgage takes
priority over the mulct. This will
make it comparatively easy to evade
the tax by slapping on a mortgage.
The case will be carried up.
A big law suit, which involved thou
sands of acres of land in northwestern
Iowa and many more thousands of dol
lars, has just been compromised, ac-
cording to an Iowa Falls dispatch
The suit was brought by the firm OF
Chase, Bowdle e Newcomer against
the George H. Wisner estate, of Hardin
county, the resort to the courts being
to divide the land involved in an agree.
ment by which Wisner was to furnish
the money in the transaction and the
other parties to the agreement the
work. The deal was made at the time
when land in that part of the state was
of nominal value, and the rise in re-
cent years has made the land worth a
fine fortune.
cyclone struck northwestern Iowa
on the afternoon of the 4th, striking
first some three miles northeast of
1reton, Sioux county, passing in a
northeastern direction, passing Sioux
Center about a mile west, rising, as
near as learned, near Perkins. 1t
struck the ground some miles south
west of Sioux Center in the
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to Perkins a distance of twelve
to fifteen miles, not building was left
standing. Four school houses where
school was in session were completely
wiped out. At one, where Miss Annie
Marsden was teaching, Miss Marsden
was killed. and several children were
killed and injured. At the Haggie
school house, where George Marsden
was teaching, Mr.. Marsden was killed
and two children were so seriously
injured that they will probably
die. A daughter of c. II. Hag-
gle was probably fatally injured,
while four brothers were seriously
hurt. Mrs John Roster and two
children and Mrs Post were killed.
j. Jansen was also a victim of the
storm. In Osceola county Herman
Bellkamp's mother and Mrs. John
Waterman were killed, Will Waiter
man had his shoulder broken and John
Waterman was badly bruised A lady
is reported killed near Ashton. Great
damage was done to houses and out
buildings in this county, and it is
feared the loss of life will be heavy.
According to the most accurate
reports obtainable from the cyclone
swept district, it is now believed that
the list of dead and fatally injured
will reach at least thirty-fve. In the
vicinity of Sioux Center twenty-six
persons were either killed outright or
fatally injured. Five were killed at
Sibley, one at Laurens, one at Suther-
land, and one at Creston. In Sioux
county dozen or more persons are
seriously, though not dangerously
injured. The towns at which more or
less damage were done are Hull, Sioux
Center, Maurice, Doom, Perkins, Sibley,
Ireton, Sutherland, and Creston. Fully