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

while Shelling corn. His coat caught
In the tumbling rod and he would prob
ably have been killed outright had not
his wife heard his screams and come
to the rescue.
Mrs. Seymour Miller, of Ottumwa,
has been arrested by Chief of Police
Gray on the charge Of obtaining
money under false pretenses. Mrs.
Miller is alleged to have passed $40
Confederate bill on local furniture
store, paying g. bill of Sill and receiy-
ing SO in change.
James Parr, an Ottumwa paper gath
erer, found half decompcsed wo-
mans arm in a vacant lot at the cor
ner of Second and Green streets. Parr
took his gruesome find to the police
station. The police are investigating
the matter, but so far are unable to
discover anything further.
The Modern Woodmen of America
have filed a suit in the United States
court at Sioux City to recover judg-
ment for 100000 against the estate OF
the late f. II. McCutchen, the former
Holstein banker, and twenty-one sure
ties upon an indemnity bond for $780,.
000 The judgment is demanued an
moneys which were on deposit in the
private bank Of f. H. McCutchen &
Co, at Holstein. At the time Of the
death of E. Fl. McCutchen. president
of the banking company, in January,
1904. the discovery was made that the
estate was insolvent and unable to
meet it's obligations. The Modern
Woodmen claim to have been unable
to secure the return of their 100000
which was on deposit, and the bonds
men are asked to stand good for the
alleged loss.
A Los Angeles, Cal. dispatch says:
Make it life Imprisonment" cried
Jake Overholtzer here, when the
court sentenced him to two years in
prison for forgery The man was over
come. He had maintained stolid de-
meanor up to the time the prison bars
faced him-then he broke down. He
was formerly a member of the Iowa
legislature. He was convicted of par
ticipation in extensive land frauds.
The company with which he operated
is believed TO have branches ali over
the country. 1t q possible that a
branch Of it furnished the characters
who bilked Senator Titus Of Muscatine'
out of sc, 900 and other Iowa men out
Of thousands. Overholtzer's home in
Iowa was in Audubon county. wh,.h
he represented in the legislature. He
made himself conspicuous by the in
30 70 OF OLE
burrS.
Green Mountain has partly redeem
ed itself for being robbed sometime
ago, by catching and holding a real
i've horse thief. A few days ago a
farmer living south of Green Noun
tain telephoned to the sheriff's office
at Marshalltown that a team answer
ing the description OF the one stolen
from G.. Cullard living near Mingo,
was seen passing the place headed for
Green Mountain. Instructions were
phoned to hold him if he came to the
town. and in a short time word was
received that the man was surrounded
in the town and Sheriff Hudson and
Deputy Nicholson lodged him in jail.
The man that had the team gave his
name as Herlerick Parraut, and his
home as St Paul, Mimi, and is a
Young fellow about % years OF age. A
man from Mingo identified the team
as the one stolen from Cullard.
The appearance of w. Z. Brown
with his brother-in-law, F. Z. Watkins
Of Hawarden, Iowa, as surely, mas
been filed with the clerk of the court
1t Storm Lake. The amount OF the
pond is $4,000 based on two indict-
nents returned by the grand jury, the
specific accusations not yet made pub
ic, though known TO be founded on
MS conduct of the Linn Grove and
Sioux Rapids institutions. Brown
eft Storm Lake on the 18th inst. and
las not returned. 1t is given out that
le is looking for a new location to
,gain embark in business. His horses
md equipages were sold on the street
1 short time ago, and some OF his nne
furniture turned over to local bust
less houses in settlement OF accounts,
put the family is still in Storm Lake.
t has been ascertained. that the First
National bank of Storm Lake holds
| ,bout $40 900 of Mr.. Browns personal
,otes, from which will be realized
| practically nothing. In the name OF
| lis bank at Sioux Rapids he had also
| ,verdrawn the Linn Grove DanK 10 the
AMOUNT of $31 900. Nearly all of this
money went into northern land spec
| llation, which resulted disastrously.
| lie purchased about 5000 acres of
and near CrookstOn, Mimi, at an
,verage price of SIS per acre. which
Experts say is worth less than half
he amount paid. the present value of
| he land not exceeding the incum-
9rance against it. He also had 5000
tcres near Aberdeen. S. d. This was
| Ill unloaded upon the bank. There is
little doubt but that the federal grand
! Jury will be asked to investigate GER
Iain matters in connection with the
rational bank at Storm Lake when
hey convene in May. The directors
signed a letter to the comptroller of
currency, dated December 20. 1903.
,sking the appointment of a receiver.
and the banks doors were not closed
ill January 2 1904.
Martin Wescott, accused of murder
ng George Lought, was arraigned be-
fore Judge Smith at Mason City a
lew days ago. The case will occupy
TWO weeks in hearing About fifty
witnesses will testify.
The bank of o. e. Miller & Son, a
private institution at New Providence
in Hardin county, has failed. The
amount of the assets or liabilities il
not made public. The firm operated Z
hardware and implement store ant
have filed a petition in bankruptcy
The failure came as a great surprise tt
all depositors, who supposed the firm
strong 1t is said that the bank wal