The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-12
TRAGIC SEQUEL
TO AN ELOPEMEN1
EDMUNsON DYING OF WOUND AT
ST. JOSEPH.
Grote Pursued and Shot Him When
He Found He Had Eloped with Mrs.
Grote, Beautiful Woman of South
ern IOWa-TwO Prominent and
Wealthy Families of Bedford In
VOlVed.

Special to The Journal.
Des Moines, Iowa. Feb. 1.-THE tragic
sequel tohe elopement of Mrs. George
GrOte and Howe Edmunson, representing
two of the wealthiest families Of Bedford,
is being enacted, according to a dispatch
from Bedford which says Edmunson will
expire in hospital at st. Joseph soon as
the result of the bullet wound inflicted by
the husband of Mrs. .Grote. Grote, broken
hearted, furnished testimony this after
noon upon which the district judge grant
ed him divorce.
Mrs. Edmunson took the first train for
st. Joseph this morning upon learning that
her husband had experienced a change for
the worse and would die. Edmunson's dy-
ing statement is an exoneration OF Grote,
who, he says fired the ia tai shot accident
ally in a friendly scuffle over a revolver.
Edmunson and Mrs. Grote eloped three
weeks ago. Grote pursued and located
them in a room sat St. Joseph hotel and
the shooting ensued. Mrs. Grote is one
Of the most beautiful women in southern
Iowa. She is now at her mothers home in
Missouri
So Ready for Trial of Burr.
After having been fugitive for centu-
ry, Aaron Burr was arrested here this af-
ternoon on a warrant charging him with
the murder of Alexander Hamilton. The
information was filed in the Iowa College
Of Law. The judge, sheriff and defendant
were impersonated by students. The ar
rest was effected with considerable diff
Guilty. ~
Burr asked to be released on bail and of
fered as bondsmen Congressman Hull anC
Governor Cummins. The court refused
to admit the defendant to bail and ordered
him committed to Jail. The trial was SCI
F; for hearing Monday morning.
| Burr has engaged the most eminen
counsel in the college to defend him ant
the states attorney and his two assistant!
are no less prominent members of the col
lege bar. The trial is expected to take
week.
Stole a Ham-Ten Years.
For stealing a ham, for which he entered
a plea Of guilty, Dick Palmer was sen
| fenced to ten years in prison a hard labo
this afternoon. Palmer has consumption
and the sentence is conceded by tn
county physician to be in effect a life sen
tence, as he does not think Palmer ca
survive imprisonment more than f1v
years. '...,..
The heavy penalty was inflicted be
cause Palmer had previously served fiv
terms for larceny The judge declared h
gave Palmer the maximum penalty be
cause it was plain he was a confirme
criminal and that society could be pre-
tected from him only by locking him u
as reformation was no longer a possibilit.
Curtis Faction Wins One.
Ellison Orr of Allamakee county hs
been selected by fourth district reput
licans for membership on the board
trustees Of the Iowa state college
Ames. Gabrielson, the present incun
bent, went down to defeat when Senate
Gale and Representative Stanberry
, Cerro Gordo county threw their streng
to Orr The new man had the backir
J of the politicians identified with the Gu
It's agricultural or anti-Stanton tactic
Of Ames.
Another BiH at the Roads.
The railroads have been hit again
5 Senator Garst of Carroll county, who h
, a bill which puts all railway Telegram
+ operators who dispatch train orders
who are in any way liable for the NOV
ment Of trains under state examinatio
1t also prohibits the employment in til
! capacity Of any person under 18. T.
' governor is to appoint a commission
state examiners. The bill does not affe
operators engaged in commercial work.