Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-05-10
ItREXITIES.


Rock Branch, were returning from
Pierson, few days ago, when
their team took fright ut corn shelter
and ran away. All were thrown out.
Mrs. Mullinix was injured internally
and is in a critical condition.
The 3-year-old daughter of Fred
Bishop, near Pocahontas, while play
ing on a straw stack, fell off and in
some manner he head was caught be-
tween the rails of worm fence, where
she hung until discovered by her
father. A doctor was SUMMONED, but
all attempts to bring her back to life
were unsuccessful.
Four boys of the Bedford schools
played truant few days ago with
disastrous results. They took gun
along and went to the woods. AS a
re suit, one of the boys, by the name Of
Perry, now lies at the point of death
with a bullet in the abdominal cavity.
Just how it happened is not clear, ex.
cept that the gun was discharged
accidentally.
Miss Lodrivia Dixon, an unfortunate
cripple of Akron, was burned to death
recently and the circumstances
point to a case of suicide in which a
most frightful manner of dying was
chosen. 1t was found that kerosene
had been emptied from bowl and it
is supposed the woman put it on her
clothes and then set them on fire. 1t
is known she has been respondent.
What is supposed to have been MUIR
| der was perpetrated few nights ago
at the home of Jonathan Carr, we'll
TODD farmer residing seven miles
noI Invest of Ottumwa. Carr's body
was found at the foot of an outside
cellar doorway with his neck and jaw
broken and deep hole in the side oil
| the head. Thus far there is no clew
| to the perpetrators of the crime. Carr
! lived alone.
Des Moines dispatch: Sixteen thous-
and dollars to local and national re-
! ligious and charitable institutions
form the requests of the will of the
late w. B. Bentley. The local y. NJ.
c. A. comes in for S., 200; Congregation,
alism in Iowa $1,000; foreign mis-,
sions are richer by 1000, and Ameri.
can missions receive $1,000 from the
/ fortune of the man who was such an
ardent worker and contributor to
them while alive.
Thieves entered Weishaar & Fasig
Co.'S dry goods store at Waterloo
and secured about $1,000 worth OF
silks. When the store was opened in
the morning for work, light was
burning in the rear, the dust curtain
was cut from the shelves of silk ant
the goods along the west side of the
store. under the counter and on the
shelves. had been thoroughly inspected
and scattered. The silk counter, how
ever, had been the center of operation
The thieves were evidently not anna
teurs either as judges or thieves o
silk. Nothing was taken but 'h'
best black and brown pure goods ii
complete bolts. 4,
James S. Law, aged 10, SON q
Thomas Law, postmaster at Lin
coin, and prominent citizen, re
Gently dubbed his mother over tn
head with a gun barrel so severel.
that she cannot live. just after sup
per the insane idea took possession o
him that he must kill his mother TO
an imaginary wrong. He went Z
where he kept his gun, separated tn
barrels from the stock and, seein
her in the yard, rushed to where sh
was, and, although she tried to fgh
him off, he struck her down. lie CAV
himself up and was landed in Jail. ii
was interviewed later and said he wa
glad he killed her. 1t is thought tina
he is insane. The doctors say there
no chance for the recovery Of the vic
tim