Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-06-03
IOWA

IOWA CONDENSED.
The national or gold democrats had
a conference at Des Moines recently
and decided to hold a state convention
IN that city on July :.
A Sibley justice court jury decided
that a man engaged in watching his
garden, who shoots his neighbors'
trespassing chickens, shall pay for
them.
Cedar Rapids dispatch: Eugene
Russ, an employee of the Cereal Milling
| Company, fell from the top floor of the
elevator to the bottom, a distance of
20 feet, a trap door giving way and al
lowing him to go down. Not a bone
was broken, but he was SO badly in
jured internally that he died the next
day.
While a train crew was doing the
switching in the yards at Quimby, a
few nights since, the cast-bound way
freight on the Onasva branch ditched
two cars, smashing them badly. Two
tramps who were stealing a ride on
the trucks were probably fatally in
jured.
The Hambleton Milling Company,
of Keokuk, has made an assign
ment. The assets are $40, 900 and the
liabilities $4,000. The company lost
heavily by the recent floods, several
large cribs of corn at Gregory. Mo-,
being swept away. The business
depression of the past three years also
had tbs. effect of causing the company
fgreat loss.
AT Corydon recently, about 3 o'clock
a. M, fire w~hs,discovered in the build
ing occupied by the Citizens State
Bank. It was quickly communicated
to the adjoining building on the south,
occupied by Hayen's meat market,
and thence to the Farmers and
Traders Bank building. All three
were totally consumed, together with
their contents. w. S. Sproatt's brick
drug store on the north was badly
damaged.
While Mrs. R. E. Lee. of Clinton,
was attempting to light a fire with a
lamp, a few days ago, her clothes
ignited. She was severely burned.
Mrs. Smith is partially p%aralyzed, and
has not been about much for a year.
and becoming helpless, fell to the
floor, where her daughter found her,
having been awakened by her mothers
cries. Aid vas summoned and the
wounds dressed, but owing to their
nature and the condition of her gen
eral health, it is thought that recov-
cry is impossible.
The people of Mingo were star
tied a few nights since by the finding
the finding of Perry Neil, a boy about
~ years of age, by his father lying
! dead at their home with a gunshot
wound in his left side just below the
+ ribs. When found, he was lying or
his back, with his entrails protruding,
Subsequently his younger brother, Ell
mer, confessed that they had hat
:, some difficulty which ended by hi:
shooting with the above results. The
coroner's jury decided that the shoot
; ing was accidental.
Atlantic dispatch: Frank Sh ermar
u AIlUd, lldS oSSh pSlNSu W. -
+ years imprisonment by Judge Mac.
n for criminal assault on a. l3-year-ol'
q girl, although with her consent
Judge Macy gave Sherman q scathin'
lecture when delivering sentence, AM
criticized the action of the jury TO
Il sending in a petition asking for elem
Y ency for Sherman. Judge Macy sal
u the jury was to determine the guilt o
= innocence of the accused and that h
e was the sole judge and wholly respon
= sible as to the time the prisoner shoul
be sentenced, and that the jury wa
entirely out of its province in petition
ing for clemency after finding a ma
a guilty.
Andrew Sphinx, of Bellevue, a fe'
days ago, blew the top of his hea
off with a shot gun, He was 2s.yeal
of age, single, and had no bad habitl
Of He lived with his parents and ha
lie worked for several years in the lun
~ Der mill there. After supper he r.
S tired to his room. A few minutes late
his family were startled by the repoi
of a shot run. On going into the roo
k he was dead, with the whole top {
his head scattered over the walls. ]
r. was evident from his position an
lg where the shotgun was found that /
had put the muzzle of the weapon int
his mouth and then discharged bot
barrels by pulling the triggers wit
lie his toes. His parents are nearly pro
er trated over his death. and can assig
a no reason for it Except that for SON
reason unknown to them m4aT bee
lie melancholy for several days.