Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-29
Attorneys Mullan q Pickett of

De granted.
Judge Brannan, in the district court
at Muscatine, was granted a tempo
raary injunction restraining Musca.
tine county from collecting the $500
state mulct tax from local cigarette
dealers. The American Tobacco com-
pany, ct al, have backed local deal
ers in disregarding the anti-cigarette
law, claiming that it interfered with
the interstate commerce law. A test
case is now vending.
Chester Worse, the 16-year-old son
of j. b. Worse of Des Moines, while
returning from q hunting expedition
south of Coon river, was shot and
almost instantly killed, near the
south approach to the Eighteenth
street bridge. The shooting was ac.
cidental, and was caused by the boy
wheeling suddenly about, while walk
ing ahead, and getJ---g in direct
range with the muzzle of single.
barrel shotgun in the hands of Bur.
en- Guynand, aged 16 years.
Two smooth bogus check workers,
man and a woman. have been at
work among Sioux City retail mer-
chants for several days past, fleeing
them out of several hundreds of dol.
lars. They called at long list of
stores, made small purchases, pre-
scented small checks on various banks,
received the change and then disap-
peared. ne checks were not ex-
actly forgeries, because the initial
letters were made to differ from gen.
uine names. Probably a dozen or
more merchants were victimized.
1t is auuhoritatiyely announced that
Archbishop Keane has received pa
pal encyclical ordering a division of
the Dubuque diocese, with a new see
at Sioux City. The Bishops council
and suffragin bishops will meet at
Dubuque to decide upon candidates.
1t is stated Bishop Mehan of Chey.
enne and Father IIeer of Dyersville
are the leading candidates. The APP
portionment of the new see is not
yet decided, but the present diocese
will probably be equally divided, put
ting Fort Dodge, Sioux City's rival
for the see, into the new diocese.
Lewis Westhoff suicided at Ottum-
wa by throwing Himself before a
swiftly revolving buzz saw. His body
was severed in twain and death as
instantaneous. He leaves four young
and motherless children. Westhoff
lived at Stiles, a remote point in
Davis county, and he with number
of neighbors, were engaged in saw
ing up cord wood. After due DELHI
Grafton, Westhoff coolly buttoned
his working coat. walked from the
front of the machine to n place near
the saw and before any one suspect
ed his intentions threw himself on
the toothed instrument. The by
ISLANDERS were so Mortified they could
make no movement until the halves
of the body fell from the table.
A $1,000 package of money was
boldly stolen from the American Ex-
press company while in transit from
Sheldon to the Security National
bank of Sioux City a few days ago.
How the money disappeared is still n
mystery to the special officers of the
company making an investigation.
The money was duly placed on the
train and checked out at Sioux City.
Night Agent Sawyer says he then
placed the money in the company's
safe in the depot Office and locked
the Office door before going out to
attend TO further train duties. When
he returned, the office door was I'M
locked and the safe door stood open.
A checking up later disclosed the
loss.
The board of control has received a
communication from Benton county
saying it will be Impossible for the
authorities to comply with the new
regulations of the board requiring
fire escapes on the county institutions
where insane are kept. 1t is con-
tended the building is so constructed
as to make this impossible, but the
board holds that either it win be
done or insane patients will be re-
moved from the institutions. II is
said the board found when it made
the inspection before issuing the reg
ulations that the -enton county in
stitution was more poorly provided
with means of escaping from the
building than any other in the state.
The authorities of Benton county
also protest against the rule requir-
ing a weekly visit of a physician,
There was wild excitement in Abba
rev days ago, when Sheriff Donor
arrived IRON Fort Madison in charge
of Alva Brooker, n negro who is al
legged to have committed rape on the
person of Mrs. Sarah Howell of Abba.
The sheriff was assisted in guarding
the prisoner for safety's sake by a
detail of members of Company G,
Iowa National Guard. from Ottumwa.
A large crowd of Infatuated Abba
people met the official party at the
depot on it's arrival there, and threats
of lynching by rope were openly and
vigorously made, but the appearance
of the soldiers with their bayonetted
guns and the expostulations of che
sheriff had the effect Il keeping the
crowd at bay. The prisoner was
marched to the court house in hol-
low square. The proceedings there
were frequently interrupted by yells
of fiery nature, but the absence of
a leader resulted in no rush being
made. The prisoners attorneys, Ed
ward Morrison o. Abba and
George T.. Taylor of Oskaloosa, filed
an affidavit of prejudice, upon which
a change of venue was granted to
Wapello county. Immediately the
sheriff. soldiers and prisoner re.
turned to Ottumwa on n Burlington
train, where Brooker was jailed.
In the district court at Waterloo
Judge Blair sentenced Jerome w.
Hoot, convicted of attempting to dy-
Mantle his wife, to ten years in the
penitentiary. When sentenced lioot
addressed the court as follows: u
have tried to live life which VIII
prove benefit to my fellow men. In
this case | wish to say i am inno-
cent, but a dark cloud of circum-
stances have been gathered about me.