Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-25
IOWA CONDENSED.

Lewis Kellehan, the Sherburpe,
Mimi. murderer and robber, whose
home is in Rock Rapids. is now on
trial at Paramount.
Three far sers residing near Fair.
banks w~er.ASnrown from a bobsled
in a runaway ut Oelwein a few days
ago. Ferdinand Frinlk was thrown
against a culvert and instantly killed.
The men We're drunk.
AT Shenandoah recently Will Foun-
tain, Arthur Magee and Ed Brown,
three young men living .near the Wa
bash depot, got on a drunken spree
and proceeded to make things lively.
They are in jail for cutting and severe
ly injuring A. B. Stoddard, a barber.
Stoddard was slashed back of tine ear
with a knife, the wound extending
down and across the neck.
In the district court at Cedar Rapids
recently Henry Schultz. the young
highwayman who attempted to hold
mp the agent of the Milwaukee road
at Fairfax, last December, together
with Frank Wolf, who wa killed by
the agent, was sentenced to ten years
in the Anamosa penitentiary. Frank
Waterbury, for grand larceny, was
given two years in the ~penitentiary.
Des Moines dispatch: Two assign
ments to r. I. Wellslager for the ben
eft OF creditors have beer made. The
II YSf wac nv Amos PaIIapl ,slDr,
of the late Wesley Redhea1. who died
six years ago, and the second by her
son, George S. Redhead. it is esti-
mated that the assets, consisting of
land and stocks, are about 5000. 600,
and the liabilities SIS, 900. The cause
of the assignment is slow collections.
Webster City dispatch: Talk of a
Chicago Great Western branch, with
Hampton at one end of the line and
Sioux City at the other, with Webster
City as a division station, is the all.
absorbing topic. B. d. Honrd and V.
o. Ford Of the Des Moines and North
western Land Company have plats.
surveys, etc, showing the proposed
route. They claim the Chicago Great
Western railway has promised to build
the road if a righto of way can be Sc.
cured, and they are contracting with
farmers for land.
j. w. S. Lindley. late treasurer
of Humboldt county, recently pleaded
guilty to enlightenment of $40, 9O4 and
was sentenced to pay a fine of tina,
amount and to imprisonment in tho
penitentiary for a term Of four years
the maximum punishment being five
years. His time will expire under the
good behavior rules in three years anC
two months. AT the same time Ton
Fanta was sentenced to three month.
for forging an order for a $l5 over
coat and John Fox got six months fol-
obtaining $50 on false pretenses.
Mary Griswell, a domestic in tho
family of A. NJ. Lafferty, of Eddyville
while building a fire, poured {;
glass full of gasoline on it, when i'm
mediately there was a violent explo
! sion and her clothes were set on fire
She ran out into the yard and Il son o
Mr.. Lafferty caught her and rolled
her in a pond Of mud and water ant
threw mud on her face and body. HI
was frightfully burned about tn,
hands and arms in so doing, but thi
probably saved her life. She was bad
ly burned about the breast. and body
but may recover
A peculiar instance of the s~everit,
of federal law came up at Ottumw;
recently. Thos. j. Stafford, :
farmer, and W. II. Morrison, an attor
ney, of Leando, were bound over tt
the federal grand jury by the United
States commissioner formaking illega
returns On a pension voucher. TIL,
law specifies that vouchers shall b,
sent in quarterly and no east signed
up before the fifth day of the month
Stafford went before Attorney Nor
rison. who is notary public, ant
signed the voucher on the first of the
month. There seems to have been nj
criminal intent, merely an ignoranc,
of the law, but both parties wer,
arreSted by a deputy United State!
maj hal on orders direct from Wash
in 4. The punishment is severe, thu
m lum being $500 fine and three
VI in prison. Both men are prom