Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-02-22
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movement Is said to be on foot TO
secure pardon for Delilah Fails, an
inmate of the penitentiary at Anamosa,
serving twenty-year sentence for the
murder of Jacob Kern in 1897 Kern,
it Is claimed, was a villain of the deep
est dye and had succeeded in gaining
an intimacy with Miss Fails Even
the mans own son, young man Of II
years at that time, out of sympathy
for the unfortunate girl, entered into
q conspiracy with her to put his father
out OF the way, and on Augu %, 1897,
they wavlaid him in what is known as
the big Woods" southeast of Waverly,
Bremen county, and shot him. At the
time of the murder the son was II and
the girl 81 years old. The trial was
held in Waverly and Defenders, 1897.
Miss Falls pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree and was sentenced
to twenty years in the penitentiary,
and young Kern for twelve years.
Col. w. Fl. Mcclure is conducting the
movement for the release Of Miss Fails,
and 1T is said petition for her pardon
has been literally signed by prominens
people, both in Black Hawk and
Bremen counties.
An effort will be made soon, it Is
said, to secure pardon for the man
named Woods. who WAS convicted Of
completely in the dynamite outrage at
Muscatine few years ago, In which
an effort was made to wreck the homes
of John Mahin and K. NJ. Messenger.
The State Agricultural Societyis In
receipt of two or three proposals to put
on Mexican bull fight during the
state fair.
On the morning Of the 14th both
houses of the Legislature adjourned
and repaired in body to the board OF
control rooms in the basement of the
capitol building, where they waited
upon Ex-Governor Larrabee and told
him good bye before he retired from
public life in Iowa and started on his
trip to Europe. The visit Of the legis.
lators was brief. Observation-Disclosures
Milliman on their behalf babe Governor
Larrabee God-speed as he retired from
twenty-five years of active service in
public life in Iowa." and to this Gov
ernor Larrabee responded briefly. He
was so overcome by the demonstration
on the part of the general assembly
that he could scarcely speak. He
thanked them for the evidences of their
good will and friendship, saying thai
as a public servant he had tried to do
| his duty, with little regard for his own
comfort and convenience. He spoke
particularly of the manner in which
his labors on the board of control had
been lightened by the willing cooper
alton Of his colleagues. After tho
experimenting the visit terminated in
| formally by general handshaking
with the governor, who left the city
that evening and sails for Europe in Q
short time with family party.
| The house committee on printing
recommended for passage the bill by
Clarke. of Dallas, to abolish the Office
of state printer and binder. Not long
! ago the committee determined to PUB
the bill over for two weeks, but this
delay was not liked by its friends.
The author of the measure appeared
before the committee and urged final
action upon it, inasmuch as he de-
sired to Introduce another If this was
not acted upon. Some of the friends
of the present system objected to re-
porting the bill before the investiga-
ton as to the current rates of printing
and binding; but this objection did
not appeal to the majority OF the COM
mittee.
President Beardshear and the trus-
tees OF the Iowa College of Agriculture
are encouraged over their efforts to
loan the endowment fund of the col.
lege, since the bill has passed allowing
the loaning thereof at a discretionary
rate, instead of six per cent. There 10
over $500, 900 to be loaned and applica-
tions for $50, 900 have already come in.
! 1t is expected the entire fund can be
loaned soon. The rates vary from 5
to 5 n per cent. The total endowment
fund is about $780, 900.
Thomas Kelly, life convict in the
penitentiary at Anamosa, and who
was to have been pardoned within
day or two by the legislature, died in
his cell a day or two ago. Kelly was
convicted of killing Charles Archibald,
an old hermit and miser, in 1883, In
Charlton. Kelly's wife was supposed
to have been implicated. The murder
was committed for the purpose of rob-
berry. The murdered man and the
Kellys lived in houses located in the
same yard and the murderer was
tracked and convicted on the evidence
of trail of blood leading from the
house Of the murdered man to his res
idence.