Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1898-04-14
miscellaneous News.

adopted son, about 80 years of age,
have been found dead in their dilapid-
ated home near Sellersville, Pa.
Q. H. Raymond was hanged at Fol-
som, Cal, Friday for the murder CT
Fred Andrews at Baden, San Mateo
county, Nov. II last. He died bravely.
Henry Stafford Little, formerly clerk
in chancery in New Jersey, has given
100000 to Princeton university This
gift will complete the quadrangle upon
the campus.
The Rev. Wesley A. Hunsberger, Nil
yankees marrying parson," has with
drawn his acceptance of call to As
bury Park. He will 20 to the First Meth
odist Episcopal church of Trenton, N. j.
In refusing to grant writ of manda-
mus to prohibit the reading of the Pro-
testant bible in the public schools of the
state, the West Virginia supreme court
decided that there was no law to pro-
hibit it.
Thursday four prisoners confined i'll
the Jail at Marysville, Kan, murdered
the jailer, B. G. PATTERSON and made
their escape. A posse has been formed
and it is pursuing the Jail breakers, who
escaped from town on horseback.
Threw his money away on .Wednes-
day; blew out the gas on Thursday !;
jumped in the lake on Friday land land
ed in the detention hospital on Satur-
day. These are the experiences of
Adolph Nicholson, demented sailor
from Seattle, at Chicago, last week.
The story told by Carr, the Alaskan
mail carrier, that he had news from An
dree, proves to be a fake pure and simple
Carr got the idea from little paper
published in St. Michaels which re-
Gently published highly improbable
story regarding the missing aeronaut.
Near McGhee station, Tenn, Satur-
day, John McGhee and his son, Joe,
shot and killed Henry and Ernest
Howard and James Murrand, and NOR
tally wounded Tom Howard The kill
ing was the result of family feud.
The McGhees are prominent people and
highly connected.
Destructive prairie fires swept over
the southwestern portion of Beadle and
the eastern part of Hand county, S. D.,
Friday. Losses will aggregate ST. 900
Some farmers lost their homes, buildings,
machinery and stock. The town Of
Washington, 80 miles west of Huron,
had close call.
The 16-year.old daughter of William
Hofmaster, farmer living at Great
Bend, Kan, was shot to death Friday
night by young man named Baker, who
worked for her father. The murderer
then set fire to the farmers barn and is
supposed to have persisted in the flames
No cause for the tragedy is known.
According to the report of State Ac-
cOuntant Riggs, State Superintendent
of Insurance Webb McNall turned into
the Kansas state treasury from Feb. 1,
1897 to Jan. 1, 1898 the sum of 1913, $50.
OF this sum $]9,00S was collected for
the Firemen's fund. The rest repre-
sented fees from companies doing bust
ness in Kansas.
C.Howbaker jumped under the wheels
of a train as it was leaving Fountain,
Colo. He was ground to pieces. A
note was found in his grip on the train
saying he was from Emporia, Kan,
and was going to Portland, Or He
had written that he was losing his
mind and would take his life at the
first opportunity.
The remains of Miss Frances E. Will
lard were cremated Saturday at Grace
land cemetery, Chicago. Although lit
tie if anything had been said in ad-
vance as to cremation Of the remains of
the celebrated president of the w. @.
I. u, it is stated that such proceed
ure was in accordance with her re-
peated expressed wishes.
Dick West, notorious outlaw, for
whose capture, dead or alive, there
were outstanding rewards aggregating
$1,000, was killed just south of Guth-
RE, Okla, April 9, by officers who
surprised him in camp. West first be.
came conspicuous as q member of the
Bill Doolln band, later as a member of
Dick Wyatt's gang, and still later as a
member of the Jennings band
Judges Brentano, Hancy and Chetlain
of Chicago last Saturday handed down
decision which, in effect, knocks out
the butterine law passed by the last
legislature. The judges, sitting en-
banc, decided that manufacturers have
constitutional right to color butterine
or oleomargarine yellow or imitation.
Under the terms of the law this was
prohibited. The law was enacted
through the influence of the country
members.
DIR. y. II. Blemer, an inspector of the
bureau of animal industry, who has
been stationed at Ell Paso for several
months past making careful study of
the conditions of the cattle imported
into the United States from Mexico,
is in Kansas City. The doctor saws
large importations of these cattle may
be looked for within the next two
months. He confidently expects that
not less than $4,000 head will find
their way into this country.
The Chicago and Alton railway
has given notice that in order to pro-
tect its business through the Kansas
City gateway, it will as an offset to the
special arrangements made for the
Omaha exposition, grant five days
stop.over on all tourist tickets through
Kansas City, and that, during the six
months of the exposition, it will apply
to Kansas City the $40 rate for the
round trip made by the western lines
from Chicago to Omaha Other lines
will grant the five days stop.over in
line ashes OF the Long Island Coun
try Club house, which burned on Sun.
day, are being sifted by experts in the
hope of recovering at least a small part
of $40, 900 worth of diamonds that were
in the house when the fire started. The
men are working with the utmost
scrutiny, under instructions from Mrs.
Robert Roosevelt, whose husband is a
wealthy member of the club. While