Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1904-04-14
THE NEWS IN IOWA

issued and the authorities are puzzled
An investigation will be started.
I Miss Lucinda Greek, who created q
sensation at Onawa some time ago by
serving notice of a suit tor $4,000
against Joe Moore, a well-known nay
merchant of Onawa, for breach OF
promise, has, through petition just
filed, entered claim for $4,000 addi
tional damages for SANDER, it being
claimed that the defendant had made
| allegations against her character by
which her good name has been great.
ly injured. The petitions In 10th &C.
tons are now on file and the case is
expected to come up at the April term
OF the Monona county district court,
which convenes on April 10. Owing
to the sensational charges made in
the petitions on file, much interest is
taken in the final outcome of the suit.
A Fort Dodge dispatch says the first
clash between striking mill workers
and the non-union men who took
their places at the Cardiff gypsum
mill took place at Carbon station the
junction Of two railroads, where the
non-union men went after the close of
! the days work to get train into the
| city. A. crowd of strikers on the pat
! form started cries of "scab. their de-
! nunciatons causing a general free for
/ all fight. Several SHOTS were fred
during the fight, one striking Fred
Sommerland in the face, the ball COM
ing out at the roof of the mouth,
| knocking out tooth. The non-un1on
men scattered, reaching the city over
land. Warrants We're sworn out for
twenty strikers on a charge of assault
and eight deputies were sent out. Four
teen men were arrested and brought
to the city. A force of deputies was
left to guard the mill and prevent
trouble.
Bearded, gray haired and all but
weeping, Charles Cackley a lew days
ago walked into the district court at
keosauqua, and changed his plea OF
not guilty to guilty of the murder OF
Reuben Fenstemaker in Pennington
thirty-siX years ago He pleaded not
guilty of murder in the seconu degree
and Judge Eichelberger sentenced him
to ten years in the penitentiary at
Fort Madison. The same evening he
was taken back to the pententiary
from where he had been brought to at
tend his trial, having been held there
pending the trial. Cackley shot and
killed Constable Reuben Fenstemaker,
July 5, 1868, escaped from Jail and I'M
til a week ago has been at liberty.
During the interval he married and
raised a large family to WnUm MS
crime was not known. Having served
in the civil war, he applied for pen
sion and his name attracted notice on
the pension list. An officer ives sent
to Cackleys home in southern Mis-
souri,. The fugitive was arrested and
brought back for trial.
The most sensational suit ever
brought in Washington county was put
on record a few days ago wnen Attor
neys Bailey and Morrison filed a peti
ton on behalf of Gertie Trusty, IL
years old, asking for the annulnent
of her marriage to John A. Leeper of
Brighton. The petition alleges that
the child was forced into a marriage
with the defendant in October 1902,
when emily years old. she left him
March 1 last and has since been liv.
ing with Anna Crandall, near Brlsh-
tGn. It is alleged in the petition that
Leeper has been annoying his child
wife with threats that he would send
her to the reform school If she did not
return and live with him. On the
showing made in the petjCn Judge
Scott granted an injunction restrain.
ing Leeuer from interfering with the
child in any way. 1t is Claimed that
the marriage was performed In Leban.
on, Mo-, and that the 8 year Cid girl
was forced into it by her mother.
Leeper is over 60 years old and mas
been married five times; he has mar
ried children living in Washington
county. The child wife is quite bright
considering that she mas been tI
school but three days in her life.
In pursuance Of the bill recently
passed by the legislature, appropi idu
ing a sum for the erection of new
hall of horticulture at the state fan
grounds, the members Of the Iowa
State Agricultural society held a
meeting and decided to place the new
horticultural building in place not
far distant from the present BUILDING
On rise of ground which for long
time has been regarded as a favorable
location for a new exhibition building
as soon as the appropriation could be
secured. That the new structure will
surpass the old building In every way
is promised by the members of the
society, who state that the architects
plans exceed even their own concep
ton of what the horticultural hall
should be. The plans have been com.
pleted and the erection of the hall
will be flushed in plenty Of time for
It's use for the coming state fair. An.
other of the important decisions Of
the society was to remodel the pres
ent horticultural hall as a woman's
building. 1t is the intention to ar.
range it with all the conveniences nee
essary for the reception Of women and
children, as the fair grounds have
in past years been sadly in need of
such an innovation. 1t is probable
that charge Of the woman's building
will be vested in a ladies' board.
Thomas Norton, a horseman of Col
umbus Junction, was found dead be-
side the railroad track near that city.
1t is supposed that he fell from the
cars.
A Brooklyn bride fondly believed
that her husband had only two or
three relatives, and that they would
seldom visit her. as they lived in Vir-
ginia. Just after they went to house
keeping hardly week has elapsed
without bringing five or more visiting
relatives, and the bride has to wait
| upon and entertain them. Her brother
asserts that there must be at least
fifty-seven Of them, and he calls them
the Heintzes."
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