Audubon Republican., 1904-10-27

in the Illinois Central yards by a
freight train, cutting both legs off be
low the knees. He was Immediately
taken to Mercy hospital, where he
lies in a critical condition.
Ernest Woosly, the nine year old
son of Geo. Woosly. a farmer residing
eight miles south of Creston, was shot
in the groin with a 22-calibre bullet,
narrowly escaping an injury which
would have proved fatal. A number
of boys were playing with the revolver,
and when young Woosly was STOPPING
over they shot, the bullet entering the
left groin and making a wound se7
eral inches long and about an inch and
half deep. The boy will be laid up
for some time with the injury but II
will not prove fatal.
Immediately on her return from
Chicago Mrs. Effie Hartman Curtiss
of Waterloo was served with an orig
inal notice Of a suit for $18,500 dam
ages for breach of promise. The
plaintiff is George w. Bowder, a prom
inent real estate man of Waterloo
Mrs. Curtiss was welded in Chicago
to E. K. Curtiss, a prominent business
man of Waverly. The match was sal!
to be rather sudden. Mr.. Bowder
claims $4,000 of the amount to have
been expended on Mrs. Hartman
while he was sutor for her hand.
The body Of Miss Mary Malony, OF
Ottumwa, for whom hundreds of peo
pie have been searching for the past
four days, was recovered in the r1ce
in the east locks, fully three-quarters
of a mile below the point where the
girl is supposed to have jumped in.
believing that his daughter had car.
ried out her threat to commit suicide,
made in her note to Fred Crosby, her
lover, with whom she had Quarreled,
Peter MalOny, the girls father, kept
up a constant search for his daughter
in TIE race, and. aided by the police
and friends, kept on dragging the race.
After working down the stream the
east locks were reached. Mr.. Ma.
lony and Asa and Mart Albertson
caught the body with hook and
brought it to the surface.
Miss Carrie Wolford. the 25-year-old
daughter of Emanuel Wolford, of
Hampton, committed suicide at the
farm home of her two brothers, about
twenty miles southwest of Hampton.
Miss Wolford was first discovered to
be missing when her brother went to
call her in the morning. Later in the
day, her charred remains were found
in the ruins Of a burned straw stack
a mile and half from the house. A
large hill between the house and the
straw stack prevented the brothers
from seeing the fire when it was
burning the night before, but the
neighbOrs near there saw the stack
burning. A 22-calbre rifle, which
Miss Wolford had purchased at Dows
the day previous, was also discovered
in the ruins, leaving no doubt to the
theory that she had committed sui
eide. There was but little of the
body left, the flames having destroyed
all but the head and trunk.
The people of the vicinity of Alton
are incensed at the diabolic action OF
tr2mp, and if he is captured by the
hot headed men who are hard on his
trall it will go hard with him. II
seems that little Bernice Marsh. the
ten year old child of Joe Marsh, had
occasion to go to the home of a Mr.
Smith, living about half mile east OF
Af on. Arriving at the Smith home
she found no one there and started
back to town, when she was accOsted
by a tramp whom she describes as
being slightly humpbacked and under
dr. gged her into the nearby bushes
where he stripped the little one OF
her clothes, but apparently offered hel
no further indignities. About this
time some people drove by the road
in a carriage and the man became
frightened and made off through the
corn field. The little one was dis
covered and taken back to Alton, ap.
parently uninjured by the treatment
to which she had been subjected.
The Worth county grand jury has
returned an Indictment against Hugh
Wheeler and Jerome Brown, charg.
ing the former with having thrown
acid into the face of Mrs. Parnie
Ramsay on the night of July 81, and
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The two have been lodged in Jail ever
since their arrest in early August.
having been unable to procure bail
The case is very sensational one.
Wheeler tried to hang himself in Jail
last summer with insulated wire, but
was cut down before he had fatally
injured himself Mrs. Ramsay has
never recovered fully from the severe
burns which she received; her face
and forehead still bear terrible scars,
which she will probably carry all her
life. Wheeler, it Is charged, enticed
his victim to the front door late one
Saturday night by making her be.
lieve that he had a telegram for her
and when she opened the door he
threw the contents of a bottle of acid
full in her face and forehead. She
screamed and tainted, and the mis-
creant took to his heels. Mrs. Ramsay
is widow with three children, and
her screams aroused them and they
! summoned help. The evidence is con
sidered very strong against the mer
| charged Wheeler and his wife were
divorced last spring. Mrs. Ramsay i!
a school teacher near Clarksville.
William Schwarting, one of tn
/ prominent grain buyers Of Scott coun
ty, suiciied by hanging at his hom'
in Walcott. No cause is known.
The body of an unknown youn!
man was found floating in the Ceda
river eight miles from Muscat'~e Tn
body is badly decomposed and will b.
difficult to identify. The pockets O
the clothes were filled with stones
| Whether he was murdered or CON
mitted suicide is a matter of conjec
ture. The officers will make an al
tempt to identify the remains an