Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-04-20
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THE NEWS IN IOWA

"A SIlSul 6dTlHqudhe BLOCK WAS lett
in and near Keoxuk on the 18th.
Buildings were shaken, but no serious
damage was done.
The barn of Harvey Wise on his
tenant farm northeast of Patton, was
entirely destroyed by fire, including
of cattle, seven head of good horses,
buggy and farming tools belonging to
his tenant, Peter Merkel Insurance
on stock and machinery was about
$500. Mr.. Merkel has no idea how
the fire started.
DR.. Koto made his report to the
state board of health a few days ago
concerning the prevalence Of tuber-
culosis in Iowa swine, and 1t was de-
cided to ask the governor to take up
the matter In his biennial message,
to recommend laws in restraint of the
disease, which DR.. Koto and his as.
sistants will frame up before the
next meeting of the legislature.
Two youthful highwaymen, neither
one more than IL years of age, per-
formed a daring holdup at Seventh
and Chestnut streets in Des Moines,
in which they relieved Mrs. Evans
of pocketbook containing $12 in
money and a lot OF valuable trinkets.
The lads after procuring the pocket
book ran south and Mrs. Evans re-
ported the matter at once to the 20
lice.
Efforts are being made to secure
for the University Of Iowa a valuable
collection of butterfly specimens be-
longing to DR.. G.. Stempel of Mace
donia. There are several thousands
OF insects, all nicely mounted ana
classified, which the owner has gath.
cred up from all parts of the United
States and Mexico, some coming from
the mountains and some from the sea-
shore. DR.. Stempel has made it his
life work to build up his butterfly
museum, and as result has bigger
collection than may be found in many
scientific laboratories. He has been
asked to donate them to the state uni
versity, but has not yet decided to
do so.
Judge A. r. Dewey, one of the best
known and ablest jurists in Iowa, died
at his home at Washington on the
18th, of cancer of the throat. He was
sixty years of age, and for years was
one of the most active and prominent
members Of the Masonic fraternity in
Iowa. He was past grand master,
and at the time of his death was a
nf hn ~ nf
the grand lodge Of Iowa, also of the
board Of trustees of the grand chap
ter charity fund. He was past grand
high priest of the grand chapter Iowa
Royal Arch Masons; past grand mas
ter grand coUhcil r. & S. NJ; past
grand commander grand commandery
Knights Templars.
Shooting twice at his wife, attempt
ing to shoot the town marshal, hang
ing himself and being cut down before
dead is the record of one day for Rich
ard Fisher of Carroll. Fisher went
from 'Ames to Eagle Grove, where his
wife, who had left him, was residing
with her parents. Going by their
home he fired two shots at his wife
in the yard. Arrested after a long
chase, Fisher attempted to murder the
town p2e-sldl who overpowered and
disarmed him In the afternoon he
attempted death by hanging, making
a rope Of strips torn from his coat.
The jailer happened in shortly after
and cut him down. Life was not ex-
tinct and physicians announce that he
has slight chance to live.
Despondent because his fiancee
Tilted him on account of the part he
took in vivisecting a cat, George F.
Brown, an Omaha medical student
from Crawford, telephoned to central
that he was intending to leap from
the street car bridge into the Miss
ouri river, and then went to his room
at the Midland hotel, determined to
end his life by taking cocaine. While
in a delirious condition, Brown talked
of letter from girl in Craig, Mo-,
and argued inces sanity that to kill
living animal was necessary to
complete his surgical education, 60
ing into minute details Of the opera
ton. 1t seems that the young
woman had written that she could
never consent to be the wife of a
man who could cut up an animal
while II was yet alive.
Fred Hubbell, aged II years, &C
cidentally shot himself in the abdo-
men while out duck-hunting with his
younger brother, Willcott, and Fred
Olbrich, a companion, near Cedar
Falls. Realizing the seriousness Of
the situation, Fred Olbrich ran to two
farm houses, one mile distant, and at
tempted to prevail upon the farmers
to come to their aid, but the farmers
replied that they were too busy in
the field to render assistance. Failing
to prevail on them to assist, young
Olbrich ran two miles to Cedar Falls
for help. Surgeons were quickly dis
patched to the scene, where they found
the younger brother keeping The blood
from issuing from the wound by means
Of wet handerchiefs. HubbelPs suffer
ings were so severe that he attempted
to end them by siezing two guns
and shooting himself. but the
younger brother prevented him. His
condition Is serious.
Refusing to bulge from his seat
on the planking of the Northwestern
railroad crossing at Council Bluffs
Thomas Parsons, an intoxicated man
was struck by the footboard Of a 10
connective and knocked head over
heels, but escaped serious injury
When a passenger train backed to
ward him he looked disdainfully al
1t and merely bent forward so the
car sters barely grazed his coat
VIZ -. xha locomotive roo ehad him A