Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-04-07

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building was a new structure, contain
ing $4,000 worth Of farm implements
! There was $4,000 insurance. But fol
the damp weather the entire towr
would nave been wiped out.
For months three saloons have been
running openly ip Clutter, little town
ten miles from Traer few days age
four farmers near the place caused an
injunction to- be served on all three
places of business, and all have closed
| 1t is said some of the farmers are
patrons of the saloons, but their sons
were going to>ruin, and they have re.
solved to Danish the tempter from
their midst.
A New England school-teacher re-
cited to her pupils THE Landing OF
| the Pilgrims" then asked eacn OF
them to draw from their imagination
a picture of tiymouln Rock. They
all started to work except one little
fellow, who hesitated, then at length
raised his hand. We'll, Willie, what
is it?" asked the teacher. please
ma am, do you want us to draw hen
or a rooster"
A sensational divorce suit has been
filed in the district court OF Linn couu-
ty by Isaac Trimble, a free Methodist
preacher, who charges that his wife
hid and destroyed his preachers
clothes so that he could not appear
in the pulpit; also that she struck ana
beat him and assaulted him with a
butcher knife. This modern Wesley
asks for a decree of divorce and the
and npStn1u Of he niohf Nhilhrpn
Miss Jane Dixon, sister of John
Dixon, living at RUSSELL was instantly
killed by the Burlington fast mail as
it passed through that town. Miss
Dixon was woman about 65 years OF
age, and suffered with curvature OF
the spine, necessitating the use of
cane. she was on her way to church
and was approaching the crossing
from the north and being slightly
deaf, did not hear the train. James
Bigg, who saw her danger endeavor-
ed to stop her, but in vain, she step
ped in front of the engine and was
hurled seventy feet, striking against
the side of the coal house at the west
of the crossing. The woman was
dead when picked up and carried to
her home, This is the fourth acct
dent of It's character in Russell, and
the second at this crossing.
James Lobbins, alias James Smith
colored, the confessed murderer OF
William Henry White, a white man,
at Oskaloosa, last September, was
arrested at Lincoln, Neb, and brought
back to Iowa for trial An officer
from Oskaloosa was in charge OF the
prisoner. Lobbins struck White with
a heavy scantling during a quarrel
and then fed without knowing the
consequences of his act. He fed to
Des Moines, where he was appraised
by acquaintances that White had died
ten days after the assault. He went
to Lincoln shortly after and had
since been in that city. LObbins con-
fessed his crime when confronted by
the Iowa officer, and says he will
plead guilty in court. He declares
that White abused him and that he
did not premeditate murder.
A man giving his name as Pat Nc
Grath, who killed himself at Kansas
City a few days ago, left a confession
to the effect that he was guilty of the
murder of Patrolman Nibert in Mus
catine in 1896. Patrolman hilbert was
shot down on the night of June IS,
1896. His beat was in the lumber
district, and he was trying to arrest
a number of tramps in box cars when
the fatal shooting occurred. Five or
six shots were fired and when near
by residents hurried to the spot they
found hilbert lying on the ground IA
tally wounded. When asked VINO snot
him, he said that it was done by
tramps, and expired few minutes
later. Several arrests were made,
one tramp being arrested at NATION,
ILL.,, and taken back to Muscatine, but
nothing ever resulted. An effort was
made to locate the murderer by blood
hounds, but without avail. The be-
lief was generally entertained in Mus
catine that hilbert had been shot by
confidence man named Hurley. A
year previous, Nibert, in trying to ar
rest Hurley, mad shot him in the ba.t.
Hurley had sworn to get even.
Boice Hays, a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Mart Hays, of Washington, had very
narrow escape from instant death,
and may yet die from the injuries re-
ceived. The lad was at the Burling-
ton stock yards watching the loading
of car load of horses, and tried to
go between the car and the chute
through which the horses are driven
into the car, when the men in charge
started to push the car ahead little.
The recent widening Of the narrow
gauge tracks to broad gauge made the
space between the car and the chu,e
much narrower than formerly. and 1t
| is supposed the lad thought he would
! have plenty of room. He was caught,
! however, and screamed. The men
! who were pushing the car stopped it
! Immediately, but not before it lad ter
! ribly crushed. the little fellows chest
and broken his arm. The car had to
| be pushed back before he could be
removed. and when the pressure was
removed he fell as if lifeless, but later
! revived and was removed to the
house of his uncle near the yards.
Internal injuries are very much fear
| ed. but the doctors have hopes that
! they can pull him through.
G. G. Fisher, an old resident of Red
Oak who shot himself a few days ago
died the same evening. The coroner's
jury found that i'll health and depress
ed spirits caused the act. Fisher shot
himself in a room in his house. Or
hearing the reports his family rushed
TO the spot and found him lying OF
the floor with a newspaper spread un
der his head. revolver lying nearby
and a mirror placed on his breast
The bullet had entered the side of hi!
head just above the ear. Mr.. Fisher
was AZ years old. He was born in Os
kaloosa and went To Red Oak with his