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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
HEsDERsHoTT's LIGHT VERDICT
Jury Finds Man. who Killed Cell Mate
Guilty of Manelsuahter.

Burlington, Oct. 6.-The jury in the
case of John Hendersnott found the
defendant guilty of manslaughter." 1t
was believed the accused man would
get life sentence, if not one of death.
The sentence under a manslaughteI
verdict is at most eight years in the
penitenitary. The first ballot showed
but one vote for murder in the first
degree and two for manslaughter, the
rest being for murder in the second
degree. After an all-night session,
composed chiefly OF arguments, the
twelve men finally came to an agree
ment on manslaughter.
Hendershott was a prisoner in the
county Jail. The fellow prisoners, to
pass away the time, organized what
they called a kangaroo" court in
which they tried each other for petty
offenses against imaginary prison
rules, etc, Hendershott was accused
of playing cards during divine service
one Sunday and was sentenced to a
half oxen lashes.
DR." Trent, another prisoner was
appointed to execute the sentence. He
did so with harness strap which had
a buckle on it. Hendershott was sui.
len during that day and in the even
ing while Trent and several other
prisoners were playing cards he slip
ped up behind him and cut his throat
with a razor he had stolen from his
cell He was considered to be iendish
and cold-blooded, but the plea of the
defense was that Hendershott had
been driven into temporary insanity
by the abuse and threats of Trent.
The kangaroo" court has been abol-
ished from the county Jail.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
MRS. GALLAGHER is ACQUITTED
Long Trial on Charge of Numbering
Her Husband is Ended.


Iowa City, Oct. 6.-Mrs. Ella Gal
laugher, charged jointly with Charles
Holada with the murder of her hus-
band, James Gallagher, was acquit.'
ted after long trial.
Mr.. Holbert in his argument for
the defense, talked for three solid
hours. He stated that he asked no
sympathy from the jury because the
defendant was woman. He pro-
ceeded to relate in detail the efforts
Mrs. Gallagher had made to uncover
everything pertaining to the crime,
and endSayored to convince the jury
that his client was a chaste and vir!
tuous woman, who was endeavoring
to protect herself against the man
who would sacrifice her to save HIM
self. Holbert said in part:
IL have never lost my faith In the
innocence of my client. IL her story
is true, she Ia innocent. 1t is case
Of Holada VS.. Gallagher instead of
case, Iowa VS.. Gallagher Which
story will you believe. You wouldn't
hang a yellow cur on the evidence
given by Holada. Would you say it
is proven beyond a doubt the woman
is an adultress by Holadas statement?
The time and place will come when
| will answer to Holada's charge Of
damaging conversation with him, but
not in this case | now leave the fate
of Ella Gallagher in your hands, ask.
ing not for sympathy, but justice. /
see two pictures your verdict may
bring, one a broken, detected woman.
incarcerated forever in a prison; the
other a woman restored to her home.
She confidently awaits your verdict OF
the two sweetest words imaginable to
her, Not guilty."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
THREE RAILROADS INDICTED.
Charge Of Conspiracy Brought AgainsI
Lines Reaching Waterloo.

Waterloo, Oct. Indictments were
found by the grand jury yesterday
against the Chicago. Rock Island &
Pacific. the Chicago Great Western and
the Illinois Central railroads on the
charge of conspiracy.
The cases are brought to test the
new demurrage rules which the com
panies have jointly had in force in
Iowa since August l. and 1t is claimed
that under the state law which for
bids corporations to combine for the
purpose of fixing the price of COM
modities the railways can be held
liable. On August the railways put
in force in Waterloo. as elsewhere in
the state, a rule by which shippers
were to charged 81 per day for each
day in excess of forty-eight hours that
loaded car was held from the com
pany.
Much complaint has been heard from
the heaviest shippers as to the in
justice of the ruling and the mater
was brought to the attention of tie
grand jury last week on complaint of
& Merrill, lumber and coal dealers of
Cedar Falls. A charge of SIS for the
holding of car beyond the forty-eight
hours limit was made against this
firm. The system of charging for cars
detained is patterned after the Illinois
car service rules. The question is one
of wide interest ana the decision will
have effect not only in Iowa. but in
other states where the demurrage sysI
tenn is in force,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
HAPPENINGS IN
HAWKEYEDOM
What Has Been Going on
During the Past
Week.
OIPS0MANIACS ARE NUMEROUS
Department Mt Mt. Pleasant Is FILLED to
Overlooking, and It May Be Necessary
TO Provide Departments Mt Other Insti-
tutioas.

Des Moines, Oct. 3.-The board OF
control is seriously considering the
question Of establishing a second de-
partment for inebriates in another
one of the state hospitals. At the
present rate of increase of inebriates,
the department at the Mt. Pleasant
hospital will soon be filed. Judge
Robinson said yesterday. If the number
Of patients committed to the inebriate
department continued to grow as it
has been. that 1t would be necessary
to establish departments in all the
hospitals and that all OF them would
be filed by the time the legislature
meets a year from next winter.
The board has received the report
for Mt. Pleasant for September. Sep
TENDER 80 there were eighty-fve pa
tients being treated there under the
new dipsomaniac law. The depart
ment for inebriates was opened the
middle Of July. In July ten patients
were received, in August. thirty-siX.
and in September forty-four. a total
of ninety. Discharges, deaths and es-
capes have cut down the total to
eighty five. An examination of the re-
ports on the insane population at Mt
Pleasant shows that in the whole
month of July twenty.seven patieDts
were admitted, in August. nine. and in
September sixteen. In September ten
insane patients were admitted to Cher
okee. The reports on Independence
and Clarinda hospitals have not been
received. but the board Is convinced
the number is as large as the total
number of insane admitted to the four
state hospitals. What to do with the
inebriates become a quandary and the
board is at loss to know to what
lengths the new law is going to colu'
pei it to go in the way OF providing
room for the dipsomaniaCs.
Des Moines, Oct. 4.-The state
board of control yesterday issued an
order establishing a second hospital
for inebriates in Iowa. The new hos
pital Is to be located at Cherokee and
will receive commitments after Octo-
Der 10 from the territory embraced by
the Cherokee and independence in
sane hospital districts of the state.
These two districts comprise prac-
tically the north half of the state,
which leaves the entire southern half
to be accommodated by the ward for
inebriates at Mount Pleasant state
hospitsL
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
CONVICTED OF sRIeERY.
St. Louis Banker Sentenced to Five
Years in Penltentiary.

Years in Penitentiary.
st. Louis, Mo-. Oct. 6.-Robert Nc
CIure Synder, banker, broker and pro-
moter of financial affairs, was convict
ed of bribery in the criminal court
and was sentenced to five years i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary
after the jury had considered for fifty.
nine minutes its verdict on the case.
which has occupied an entire week In
presentation.
The verdict was rendered at 10:45.
The jurors had retired at 9:46, after
almost four hours of arguments by the
attorneys for the defense and the
state.
No bondsmen were present when
Snyder's conviction was announced.
the defense having apparently been
confident that its testimony concern
ing Snyders residence in Kansas City
would convince the jury lat he was
entitled to the benefits of the statute
of limitations as shield for his crime.
His attorneys had attempted through-
out to prove that his residence for
the greater part of the time since the
bribeSy in st. Louis had not been out
side of St Louis.
The incarceration of the convicted
man seemed to be imminent when two
of his attorneys. Judge Henry s.
Priest and Morton Jourdan, signed his
appeal bond for $4,000, securing his
release until the term of court. COM
mencing Monday. Early in this term
Snyder will be sentenced and motions
for appeal and new trial filed.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
COAL STRIKE IN SOUTH.
Strike of Miners at Birmingham
Threatens to Spread.

Birmingham. Ala. Oct. 3.-Twenty-
five hundred miners in the employ of
the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
company, on orders from the executive
board of the United Mine Workers OF
America. district of Alabama. suspend
ed work yesterday. The suspension
is on account of the refusal of the
operators to collect fo' the union the
one dollar per week assessment, made
on all union miners for the benefit OF
the anthracite strikers in Pennsyl-
vania. 1t is thought probable that
the Blue Greek and Blocton mines OF
the Tennessee company also will be
involved If an adjustment is not soon
reached. About two weeks ago the
Tennessee company declined to with
hold the assessment money from GER
tain miners at West Pratt, who OBJ
jected to its payment, and 500 men at
that mine were ordered out. Yester-
days suspension makes the total mum
Der now out 5000.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
CHARLES HoLApA ON STAND.
Accuses Mrs. Gallagher Of Plotting
Murder

Iowa City, Oct. CHARLES Holada
yesterday testified that Mrs. Gallaugh.
er plotted with him to kill her hus.
band after the unlawful relations be.
tween Holada and the woman began
and had continued for several months.
They planned, Holada said, to poison
him with cyanide potassium, the wo-
man to administer the dose. Other
plans, witness testified. were to kill
him in the woods with an ak and leave
him as though a tree had fallen on
his body; to hit him in the head with
an ak in the barn or throw him under
the horses, or perhaps Holada should
shoot him while out hunting birds
as II by accident. Holada swore that
the plans were made by the woman
except the one as to the killing in the
barn. Holada testified that the wo-
man quarreled with her husband be-
cause of the latter's discovery of her
night meeting with Holada in the barn
three days before the meeting.
Iowa City. Oct. 3.-In the cross ex-'
animation Holada was forced to reluct-
antly admit that when he came to the
Gallagher home, stranger, and was
taken into the home of the benefactor
whom he SO grievousiy wronged. he
was a fugitive from justice. having.
fed from Ainsworth. Washington coun-'
ty. under an assumed name. in order
to escape prosecution on a charge Of
seduction, though he was already a
married man. But he persisted that
he was not TO blame for the relations
between himself and Mrs. gallagher,
and that she fairly forced her affec7
tons upon him. Mrs. GALLAGHER was
seen to curl her lip in scorn. at this
statement. Holada admitted he was
In Galaugher's yard the night of the
murder. but denied that he entered
the house. He claimed to have fed an
hour before the crime. One witness
testified that he saw Mrs. Gallagher
and Holada together on the farm two
days preceding the murder. Mrs. Gal
Laughter had denied before the coro-
ner's jury that she had met Holada
that day. The state has rested its
case. The general belief here is that
the woman will escape and that Hol-
ada has doomed himself by his adj
missions
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
CHILDREN ARE IGNORING LAW.
Residents Of Des Moines Business Dis
tricts Out of School.


Des Moines, Oct. 3.-0ut Of moro
than 500 children of school age In the
business districts in Des Moines, 215
are out of school and indirectly violat
ing the compulsory education law.
J. c. Byram, the newly appointed
truant officer, will make an effort to
see every one of this number within
the next thirty days and notify them
to attend school. Their parents will
also be notified and unless the provi-
sions of the new statutes are ad,
hered to proceedings will be commenc-
a suit will be brought to test the
validity of the enactment. first in the
district and finally in the supreme
court of Iowa.
Officer Byram is meeting with the
same difficulty as that which confront
ed the census enumerators though his
work is simplified by reason OF the
names and addresses the enumerators
obtained of children required to at
tend scho, /, turned over to him.
Owners of factories, while they do
not refuse the officer access to the
employees. will furnish no information
relative to the boys and girls, their
names. ages, etc.
As soon as the officer has notified
such children and their parents he
will submit his report to the secre-
tary of the school board. The names
will then be placed in the hands OF
various principals whose duties 1t will
be to report from time to time attend
ance, etc. If at the beginning of the
last twelve weeks of the term they
are not in attendance wholesale arr
rests will follow. The law provides
that children under the age OF IA and
over 5 shall attend school at least
twelve weeks in the year. For that
reason there is no way of getting at
some of the violators until the begin
ming of this term
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
EXTRA SESSION ASKED.
Six Thousand Citizens of Chicago Sign
Petition to President.

Chicago, Oct. Six thousand I'LL
lois citizens during tho last twenty
four hours have signed petition ask
ing President Roosevelt to call an
extra session of congress to enact
some measure for the prevention of a
coal famine. One method suggested
in the petition is provision for the
appointment of temporary receiver
to operate the Pennsylvania mines
which are closed on account of the
strike. The petition is being circulat-
ed all over the city OF Chicago and
throughout the state of Illinois under
the direction OF United States Senator
William z. Mason.
There are numerous instances
where temporary receivers have been
appointed for the management of pub
lie utilities" said Senator Mason. "and
which afford ample precedent for such
an action in the present emergency.
Railroads have been thus treated by
the courts upon the petition of the
people, as can be shown by the
records. | have in mind. too, a case
where a dispute between muni-
cipality and a waterworks company.
which threatened to deprive the people
of water supply, resulted in the APP
pointment of receiver until the
trouble was settled"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
TO FIGHT PACKING MERGER.
Company to be Organized In Kansas
Citv

Kansas City. Oct. &C. F. Morse.
president of the Kansas City and
Denver Stock Yards association, west
ern railways and Individual stock men
who fight the proposed stock yards
merger, said:
Il have recently been called on by
representatives of some of the prin.
cipal live stock associations Of the
southwest as to the attitude which the
Kansas City Stock Yards company
would take toward the establishment
of large packing plant at this place
to be owned by cattle men. j. w.
Springer, the president of the National
Live Stock association. said there
would be no difficulty in raising a
capital of $l5,000,000 or S615,000,000
for this purpose. While | am not au-
thorized to speak for the company at
this time. it is my judgment If such
company should be organized the
stock yards would be glad to meet Il
with the same liberality that it has
shown to other companies in the past"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
LEAVES ALL TO HIS WIDOW.
Will of M. lola Found--Mme. zola's
Grief

Paris. Oct. 3.-The will of Emile
lola was found. as indica,ed by Nine.
lola. in his bedroom, the seals OF
which were broken In order to obtain
the document. The room was imme-
diately sealed up again. The will
was not opened until a late hour last
evening and its contents have not heen
made public. II is understood, how
ever, that lola left everything to his
widow. He left no literary testament
and the will contains no directions as
to the funeral.
Madame lola was allowed to see the
body of her husband yesterday. A
large crowd assembled in front of the
house. saluted her respectfully as the
widow alighted from q carriage. as
sisted by two doctors. She was at
tired in deep mourning and was evi-
IDENTIFY very weak. Zola's publishers
and his intimate friends, CharpentieF,
Fasquelle and NJ. Des Moulins. tho
writer, accompanied her to the NOR
tuary chamber. When her husbands
features were uncovered Nine. Zola's
anguish was heart rending. She final.
ly swooned.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
CRISIS NEAR IN VENEZUELA.
castro's Wife Deposits Jewels With
Spanish Legation.

Willemstad, Island of Curacao, Oct
Gas proof that President Castro is
in a critical situation in Venezuela a
high official of the government who
has just landed here reports that
President Castro's wife has deposited
her jewelry at the Spanish legation in
Caracas.
A part of the revolutionary army &C.
cupied villa de Cura Friday and is
now marching on Valencia. President
Castro is still at Los Teques.
1t is known on official authority that
the revolutionary leader, Matos, has
sent letter to President Castro in
which he suggests that the president
make an inspection of the revolution
airy forces in order to convince him.
self that it is material impossibility
for him to resist them successfully.
What answer President Castro made
to this letter has not been divulged.
Caracas. Oct. 6.-The Official Ca
zette published a protest against the
occupancy by Great Britain of the
island of Patos. The local press,
which only today learned of the Incl
dent, published vehement articles
protesting against the attempt upon
Venezuelan national sovereignty.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
PATENTS ARE MISSING.
Dubuque Property Holders Have No
Titles to Their Real Estate.

Dubuque, Oct. 4.-There are num-
Der of property owners in Dubuque
who have no patents for their land.
They are, therefore, without a clear
title and unless they write to the
government land office at Des Moines
trouble may be experienced in the
future. Notice was received few days
ago from Washington to the effect that
there were no original patents for
Dubuque town lots. County Recorder
McGovern entered INTO correspond
ence with the United States land Of
fee in Des Moines and letter was
received stating that the patents were
on file there and that they would be
delivered to the present owners on
surrender of the receivers duplicate
receipt. In case the latter was lost
a separate affidavit must be made for
the tract embraced in each entry by
the present owner, stating that he is
the present owner. that the receipt has
been lost and that the affidavit is
made for the purpose OF receiving the
patent.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Sioux City Saloon in Stock Yards Dis
trict Touched for $1,000.

Sioux City, Oct. 3.-The saloon
of Andy Looney in the stock Yards
district was daringly robbed in broad
daylight about noon yesterday and
$1,000 was taken from the till. The
money had been placed in the drawer
to cash checks for the employees of the
Armour Packing company. The rob
Ders during the preceding night had
sawed a hole through the side OF the
building leading directly 20 lie money
drawer. They had covered it with an
Elk's fair banner and had piled beer
kegs in such way as to obstruct the
view from the street, not twenty feet
away. Shortly before noon somebody
reached a hand through the opening,
cut out the bottom of the drawer.
took the money and made a success
full getaway. Philip Zitek, a porter
who sleeps in the place at night. is be-
ing lid for investigation. No Other
arrests have been made.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
elRpsALL,s ACCEPTANCE.
Republican Policy Defined by Judge
Birdsall.

Clarion, Oct. Judge B. P.sBird.
sail, republican nominee for congress,
today sent to the chairman of the
committee Of acceptance, his letter of
acceptance of the nomination. In this
he Celebrates somewhat on the plat
form. He declares that the republi-
can party of Iowa is now on trial be-
fore the nation sitting as an impartial
jury and the battle is to be waged
chiefly in the Third district. He says
1t Is useless to imagine, futile to hope,
that any one man can be greater than
his party and accomplish great results
in opposition to its principles and
policies. After declaring that the re-
publican party is firmly committed
to the principles of protection to
American labor and throughout its
history has been friend and champ
ion, he adds:
The republican party of Iowa does
not propose to abate one jot or little
of its faith in the essential principles
or politics of protection. II does be-
lieve that the question of rates is a
practical one to be governed by the
conditions of time and production and
that nothing sacred attaches to mere
table or rates, which should be re-
adjusted to meet the change in condi-
tlons as they arise.
'Monopolies are born, not of the
protective policy of the republican
party. but of the greed and selfshness
of men.
Trusts exist in countries where
trade is absolutely free, as we'll as in
this country, where the policy of pros
lection prevails, as witness In Britain,
where hundreds of combinations with
millions of capital are In existence.
But monopolies, wherever found, are
a common enemy OF all. The republi-
can party believes in the greatest good
TO the greatest number, and will not
permit the policy of protection to be-
come shield for the greed and avarice
of man, whether in the form of trusts.
individuals. joint stock or corporate
existence, nor shelter beneath which
designing corporations shall be able
to Cypress the people Of this country.
Iowa republicanism Is born OF our
young and energetic civilization that
brooks not self-pollution, that finds its
prototype in our illustrious president
and in our distinguished governor.
Honestly interpreted there is no
heresy in the Iowa idea. but, on the
contrary. it is the assertion of con-
scious manhood. of the determination
that the republican party shall be
maintained and continued as 1t has
been heretofore, the champion Of all
the people in every avenue Of life.
With every line of the platform of the
republican party of Iowa, in this re-
spect, as in all others. am in full and
happy accord.
81 accept the nomination you have
rendered me with the firm confidence
that the republicans of this district
will maintain these principles as es-
sential not only to our preservation as
party, but to that young and ener-
getic civilization of which we are an
integral part"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1902-10-09
MITCHELL MAKES CHARGES.
Proof That Operators Arc Trying to
Foment Disorder.

Des Moines. Oct. 3.-The following
telegram was sent by President Mitch
ell to the three anthracite districts:
There has been paced in my hands
indisputable evidence of an attempt
on ne part of operators to create dis
cord among our non-English speaking
memcers through the circulation of
pamphlets containing malicious and
dastardly attacks upon the officers of
the organization. and by an effort to
arouse race prejudices. These cir
culars will be printed In all the for
eign languages and will be signed by
person designating himself "A
Friend Immediately notify all dis.
trict and local officers to be on their
guard. II is especially important that
our non English speaking brothers be-
informed of this conspiracy