The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-24

Al CEDAR RAPIDS a few days ago
Congressman Cousins was renomi-
mated for a fifth term by acclama ton
Resolutions were unanimously adopted
endorsing his work in congress, and
he made speech thanking the con-
vention, and congratulated the party
on the outlook. No conclusion has
been reached as to whom the demo
Gratis will nominate, but it will prob
ably be John Redmond, mayor of Ced-
ar Rapids.
A YOUNG Swede, 81 years of age, by
the name of Sevander johnson, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself to
the limb of a small cottonwood tree
on the farm of p. n Anderson, four
miles west of Forest City. He was
discovered four days later by some
school children. He had been in this
country but six weeks, and no reason
is known for his having taken his life.
His only relative in this country is an
aunt, Mrs. Nellie Anderson, living
near Britt.
Mrs. JOHN SELHoRN, of Boone, re-
Gently received through the mail de-
livery a small box of very tempting
chocolate creams. Surprising them to
have been sent by a friend, she ate one,
which proved excellent, but upon eat
ing the second one she noticed pc
culiar flavor and in very few NOM
ents became ILL A physician was
called and said Mrs. Selhorn must
have been poisoned The candy was
produced and proved to contain
enough deadly poison to have killed
several women. An antidote was then
administered to the sufferer and all
danger averted The wrapping of the
box was inspected and it was discovered
to have been mailed in Boone and was
directed to ''Nlrs John Selhorn, city,"
so that no attempt at battling the
authorities seems 10 have been made,
and the package was not even sealed.
UNDER the impression that he had
mortally wounded himself, A. r.
Gleudy, would-be suicide, lay down
in a patch OF woods on the prairie
near Omaha, dipped a stem of joint
grass in the blood that gushed from
his wrist and wrote .he following in u
small pocket account book: II am
sick and out of work. / was a X. of
L. man at Burlington, Ia, and q
stranger here. Notify Henry Andre
of Burlington. He is a boot and shoe
man and will have my remains shipped
there. !" Then the writer rolled over
upon his stomach, pillesved his head
upon his arms and resigned himself to
die. 1t was lying thus dazed and
weak from loss 81 blood that the police
found him a,few minutes later He
was lifted tenderly into an ambulance,
but with desperate cry he thrust his
hapa'down his throat in an attempt TIC
Shut off his breath. From this point
on until the ambulance stopped at the
Presby hospital, where a doctor
gave him sedative, three strong men
had all they could do to restrain his
mad efforts to destroy himself His
condition at present is preca1ous.
JAMES DAVIDSON, of Mystic, was
shot and fatally wounded by William
Qurnley, of Frankfort, KY, at a dance
near Twin Mines a few nights ago
The two men became engaged in
quarrel, or rather renewed an alter
cation which they had had some time
before, during which Quis,ley Gred.two
shots at Davidson, the last one result
ing fatally. The first shot passed over
his head. The gun which Quinley
used was of 3s-caliber, and the ball
passed through the left side, entering
the lower part of the lung. Death re-
suited the next morning. Quinley, in
company with a brother, went to Cen
teryille and gave himself up to the
authorities, and in default of S., 900
bonds was committed to Jail. James
Davidson, deceased, was a son of Mr..
and Mrs. John Davidson, of Mystic.
He was 90 years old and single. The
man who is held on the CHI arge of muir
der formerly resided near Frankfort,
Ky, but recently has been living with
brother at Twin Mines, and was en-
ployed on the Brazil section of the
Keokul1 & Western
SAM RITcIIIE, the saloon keeper and
leader of the gang of safe robbers who
went through Bradley's bank at Eldon
on the night of February IL, 1898, to
the tune of $1,000, has been captured
and is under arrest in Baltimore.
Sheriff Suites left for that place,
armed with requisition papers, to
bring him back. Bradley's bank, then.
situated in the first floor of the Eldon
hotel, was blown to pieces, and the
vault looted. The scheme was matched
by Charles Stevens, then city marshal
of Eldon, and through Dick Dodd, an
Ottumwa gambler, he secured the SER
vices of Richie and his men to do the
work. The men implicated, as noted
by the confessions Of both Dodd and
Stevens, have all been caught now,
with the exception of s'Indian Joen
Menard, who was in limbo once at
Chicago, but was released on $4,000
bonds and skipped. Stevens was giveh
three years and released only month
ago. Bob Dqrkln was caughtiin New
York and is now serving three years. |
Buck" Murray, the brains of the
gang. the expert safe cracker, was
caught in Vermont, and is now serving
a niEe-year sentence at Fort Madison.
Dodd was not prosecuted, as he went
on the stand and told his story. The
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