Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-21
NEWS FROM over iowa

robber is in the tolls.
The governor appointed A. j. Nc
Creary, of Keokuk, judge of the First
judicial district, to succeed the late j.
M. Casey.
Louis Westbrook, aged 16, only son
of ex-Mayor Westbrook, of Lyons, was
instantly killed in attempting to board
moving train.
Pat Granny, for forty years resi-
dent of Clinton county, died, aged so.
he was for several years an associate
of Henry Clay at Ashland, KY.
Rufus Johnson, aged so, a well-to-do
citizen of Clinton, was found in his
room with his brains blown out. He
still held the weapon in his hand. Ill
health was the cause.
Charles Campbell, a Northwestern
fireman, slipped and fell from his en-
CINE near Bertram while it was run
ming sixty miles an hour He was in
stantly killed.
The residence of Prof E. T. Fitch,
superintendent of the public schools at
Clinton, was Quilted by fire. Loss,
$2,50O, which includes a thousand
dollar library belonging to Fitch.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. X. Harris, of Du
buque, lost 1O-year-old daughter by
diphtheria a few days ago. Later
another child died. Their remaining
child, girl, is not expected to recover.
Ben Barton, of Burnside, now under
indictment at Fort Dodge for burglary,
attempted to carve August Seashore
for testifying against him at the trial.
He was stopped before harm had been
A few days ago John Trueg, a farm
er living near Graft Station, Dubuque
county, was run down by Chicago,
Great Western passenger train and in
stantly killed. He on his way to Du-
buque with load of wood and attempt
ed to cross the track ahead of the ira n.
A farmer named S. D. Reins, living
one and half miles from Botna, met
death under peculiarly sad circum-
stances. He had been bed-ridden for
some time and of late required an
attendant. A few nights ago, while
the nurse was doing, the patient
became delirious and wandered from
the house in the intense cold. A
searching party did not find him until
S a. m, two miles from the house. His
body was badly and his limbs solidly
frozen. Death has now ended his
sufferings.
John Kelley was arrested at CreSton
for selling Intoxicating liquors with
out license and was taken to Des
Moines for trial Mr.. Kelley's arrest
occurred under peculiar circumstances.
Some time ago he gave dance at his
home and had couple of kegs of beer.
Tickets were sold to the dance for IS
cents each, and after each set those
holding numbers were entitled to the
beer. A detective got word of the
affair, and claimed that he was selling
hence his arrest.
They are telling pretty good story
on young man over at Waterville.
He went to see his girl the other night
and while getting out of the sleigh
both suspender buttons on the rear of
his pants gave way. Having nothing
better at hand and to prevent embar-
rassment later on, couple of lucifer
matches were substituted for the
treacherous buttons. All went well
until by friction against the back of
the chair the matches ignited. A con-
fiagration was narrowly averted, and
the young man is not over his fright
yet.
Henry Smith, of Williamsburg, was
arrested for incest on his 12-year-old
daughter He had $500 in cash and
two gold watches on his person when
arrested. These were stolen goods,
and the fact that he had had this money
while his wife and children were being
supported by charity, and that his wife
had just been returned from the insane
asylum, where she had been sent as a
result of his beatings, enraged the
populace of the little city and the
sheriff was compelled to spirit him
away to Marengo to avoid his being
lynched. His wife has again gone
insane.
Mrs. Lucy B. Decker, as the lawful
wife of w. w. Decker, filed a petition
in the county clerks office at Des
Moines, in which she sues Begun &,
Son, druggists, for $4,000 damages.
She alleges that defendants sold her
husband Intoxicating liquor; that he
became intoxicated and squandered his
money; that he was earning 500 a
month, and that on account of said
Intoxicating liquors he lost his position
and became an ha bitual drunkard. She
further alleges that he has run through
with all their savings and property as
result of the drug store whisky, and
asks the court for damages in the sum
named above.
An Infatuated bull attacked Frank
Collins, a young farmer living near
Geneva, and he would have been killed
but for the timely assistance of another
young man named Watson.
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