Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-06-27

Lake Michigan TWO men were Killed
and thirteen dangerously or fatally in
jured Saturday night.
Workmen were tearing down the old
city hall at San Francisco Friday morn
ing when the roof suddenly collapsed,
with four men inside the building,
James Wilkinson was killed and the
other three men injured
Hon. Jonathan Greed prominent
attorney, wes shot Friday by Daniel
l. Mease, proprietor of the cider mills,
at South Bend, Ind. The shooting
grew out of quarrel over business
matters. The wounds are not believed
to be serious.
Bruce Flanagan went the residence
of Mrs. Dean at Greenwood Springs,
Ca, Friday while her husband was ab.
sent and made improper proposals.
She snatched pistol from him and
shot him III the head, killing him in
stantly. She then got her husbands
shot gun and emptied both barrels in
to his body.
Divide Lorrain, boy sixteen, was
stabbed to death during the progress
of IL dramatic entertainment at Cham
plain school Montreal, Canada, Friday.
He took the part of Sterno, the brigand,
and III play entitled, "The Young
Captives, NJ. Desjardins, about the
same age, accidentally stuck dagger
into Lorrain's neck, while taking part
in fight with brigands. The jugular
vein was severed and the victim only
lived long enough to receive the last
rites of the church.
Alonzo Whitman, the young man
who spent 100000 in five years, has
been convicted of forgery at San
Francisco. Whitman went there last
year and spent several bills about town,
spending $1,000 in forged checks.
Whitman, in his own defense, admitted
he had written some of the checks he
had circulated, but it was with the
consent of the persons whose names
he signed. Whitman is graduate of
Yale university. He was at one time
mayor of Duluth, Mimi.
A report is being circulated at Milan
Missouri, that Fennell Hurdles. who
was suspected at the time Of the Meeks'
massacre at Browning by the Taylor
brathers, Las written letter to some
parties in Browning who are engaged
in the prosecution, stating that if they
will not prosecute him he will come
back and turn states evidence and re.
veal who all the parties were connected
with the crime. The report is given
credence and Hurdhs' propositions
will doubtless be accepted.
For time Thursday night it looked
as though lynching would be had in
st. Louis. Lynch him." "Brain the
william" Stirring him up to a lamp
post" and other threatening exclama-
tions arose from all sides of crowd
gathered around Salvation Army de-
tatchment. An iceman by the name
of Kerns, attempted to drive his
wagon over the Salvationists while
they were Oh their knees in prayer and
his conduct was resented by the
crowd. Kerns was arrested. Just be-
fore the iceman hove in sight, the
steward of the Nicholson house had
ordered the porter to turn the hose on
the men and women and drive them
away.
The report comes from Sonora, Mex
leo, that eight Americans engaged in
placer gold mining ON Yaki river were
attacked and killed by Indians about
two weeks ago. Their names are not
definitely known, but Joseph Beck and
John Weems, former residents of
Deming, N. NJ, are thought to have
been in the vicinity. No details are
obtainable. The men have been sue
cessful in obtaining gold, having just
put in machinery and sluices, and the
murders were probably committed for
the purpose for robbery. The miners
had evidently made a brave resistance
as empty shells of winchester rifles
were found all about the scene. The
place where the killing occurred is
several hundred miles in the interior,
and is cut off from all communication.
1t is not often that government red
tape is beneficial to the parties con-
cerned, but striking exception is il
Illustrated in North Dakota. More than
a year ago the department at Washing
ton advertised for bids for 2SO brood
mares for the three Indian agencies in
this state. A number Of bids were re-
ceived, and that of Maj. j. S. Murphy,
now representative from the Twenty.
ninth legislative district, was accepted
The mares were to have been delivered
in June, but another bidder. filed a
protest and charged collision and fraud
with the army officers having charge of
the contract. He wrote to Senator