Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-26

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covered by insurance.
Grieving over the persistency with
which her relatives accused her Of be-
ing a morphine fiend, Miss Lois Pas
chal. wealthy young woman from
Melrose, took her own life. She was
in Denver for her health, having had
asthma for years, and was in the hab-
1t of taking morphine to relieve the
intense pain from which she suffered
at times. She left O note reproaching
her relatives and friends for driving
her to this step. Miss Paschal was
worth $4,000.
The legislative session of this win
ter will have to appropriate for but
one year, for the general assembly
which meets IN the winter Of 1907 will
have to make appropriations for the
newly formed biennial period. Aud
itor of State Carroll has estimated
that not to exceed $1,100,000 will be
available for appropriation during
the biennial period beginning next
July, for the first year Of which the
assembly session of the coming win.
ter will make appropriations.
A judgment for $1,145.44 in favor
of an Omaha wholesale liquor house
was returned in the district court at
Council Bluffs against Karl Karrer,
now serving twelve year sentence
in the Fort Madison penitentiary for
robbing the rreynor Savings bank
on Oct. 6, 1904. Service was obtain
ed on Karrer and the suit commenced
before he was sent to the peniten-
tiary. Although previously reputed
to be quite wealthy, the shake up at
the time Karrer was arrested on the
robbery charge developed that he
was bankrupt, and his wife and child
rem were left in destitute circum-
stances.
The residence cYned by George
Hill and occupied by Albert Gladson
and family, five miles northwest of
Newton, was totally destroyed by fire
at an early hour in tne morning with
a loss of $1,000, partly covered by in
surance. Mrs. Gladson was awaken
ed by the smoke and gas coming in
to the room. She Immediately awak-
ened her husband, and, picking up
IlASI buDys Oil thlCS AuoiS"
out of the house already enveloped
with smoke and flames. Mrs. Glad.
sons hair took fire and Mr.. Gladsons
hand was badly burned in putting
out the flames which threatened the
life Of his wife.
Andrew Carnegie has approved the
plans for the new library which he
is to build for Parsons college ana
has notified the college authorities
that the money Is at their disposal
President Parsons says that If moth
ing interferes, work will be common.
ced this fall. The Scotch steel mag
nate gives $4,000 Internationally
for the library, which is augmented
by $4,000 from Hon. II. d. Foster of
Ottumwa and by other amounts. The
college library Is the second library
building Carnegie has given to Fair
field, the city library, which was Sc
cured mainly through the efforts Of
the late United States Senator James
F. Wilson, also being unique in that
there were no strings to his dOna-
ton for it.
With it's throat slashed from ear to
ear with a dull caseknife, it's little
naked body caked with clotted blood,
the one-day old child of Miss Matte
| Teager, living at Mrs. Nellie Brewers
boarding house, 512 Seventh street,
| Des Moines, was found by the police
| officers doubled up and damned into
| the bottom of a large trunk with
| collection of blood-stained garments
and other debris, where it had been
| frantically thrust by the mother after
she realized the enormity of her Of
Tense. Shortly after the deed had
been committed Miss Teager was
| forced to summon doctor to her bed
| of confinement, and 1t was then that
the horrible details of the murder be-
| came known. The police were noti-
| fed at once and Coroner Beck was
called to the scene of the crime.
Harry McGlasson, living near the
| Frakerville mines in Jefferson town
ship, committed murder and suicide
at the home of the wife's brother,
| Neil McKim, near mine No. 13 camp
of the Consolidated Coal company.
He shot the wife and his niece, lola
McKim, aged 2, and then turned the
| gun upon himself, infiicting a wound
from which he died. What caused
the man to commit the act can never
be known. 1t is stated that the man
had been in Ill health during the
past several months, and that he was
out of work. He had been despond'
ent mich Ut the time lately, but no
one had any thought that he would
do violence. McGlasson was in Oska'
loosa the previous day and visited at
Ted Halls home, bringing along a
water spaniel dog which he had prom
ised to give them. While at the Hall
home he said he was going to kill
himself, but passed it off as joke
when Mrs. Hall threatened to have
him arrested. In conversation he
dropped a hint that his wife's child
rem by a former marriage were the
disturbing element in their domestic
life.
ed sixty-three indictments, including
ten alleged whiskey drug stores and
fifteen mulct saloons charged with
violation of the mulct law. The Ced
ar Rapids Carnival company was al
so indicted, and also the manage
ment of the German village" which
is charged with selling beer on the
carnival grounds. The carnival
company Is composed of all the lead
ing business men of the city, and the
Indictment has caused a tremendous
sensation.