Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-06-08
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! THE NEWS IN IOWA.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

John Brown took French leave
of the Jasper county Jail few. days
ago and no trace of him has been
found since. He was in Jail pending
the action of the grand jury, a charge
of larceny from building having
been made against him.
A change of venue has been granted
to Burlington, Des Moines county, in
the case or the state VS., Judge Ed
mund Jaeger, indicted recently by the
grand jury of Lee county, charged
with receiving deposits in his defunct
Commercial bank Of Keokuk knowing
the same to be insolvent.
Heavy rains did much damage in
Sioux City suburbs and vicinity. A
cloudburst on the divide north of the
city filled Perry creek and the Floyd
river TO their banks. All of the coun-
try was deluged, a large amount Of
grain and some stock being lost
Bridges were swept away, street car
tracks torn ur, and small and Insub-
stantial buildings destroyed by the
storm.
The Louisa County Sugar company
of Columbus Junction has filed arti-
cles Of incorporation with the secre-
tary Of state with a capital stock OF
100000. 1t did not have to pay
filing fee coming under the exemption
in the law which provides that man
ufacturing institutions do not have to
pay filing fees. NJ r. EdmondSon, J.
E. Biebinger, c. . Mcdaniel, y. II.
Barnes, e. r. Lacey, L. F. Brockway
and F. NJ. Molsberry are the directors
Of the company.
Harry l.. Fearing a Chicago attor-
ney, is on trial in Magistrate Fin
gers court at Davenport, for assault
and battery, growing out of an al
! legged attempt of Fearing to kidnap his
own 4-year-old son from the home OF
;tS grandparents in Davenport. 1t
seems that Fearing is separated from
his wife. and that she placed the
! child with her parents. Mr.. Fearing
called and attempted to take the child
away. It's grandmother, Mrs. Leopold
FleXner, resisted, and Fearing was ar
rested for assault and battery.
The breaking of a journal on the
|
! bound passenger engine near Fort
! Dodge, tore the ties into splinters and
! the sudden application of the emeT-
! genCy brakes alone saved the train
! from going into the ditch. The en-
! CINE was running forty miles an hour
! at the time and a wheel of the brOk-
en- truck was thrown out into the
| right of way. No one was injured
| but the escape is regarded as miracu-
! lOus. Two weeks ago the same thing
! happened on the same division at an
other point along the line of the road.
The Los Angeles Times says: The
| intention of the Rock Island t.. Sc
cure a through line to the coast AMI
| a terminal at Los Angeles is believed
! by local railway strategists to be at
! the bottom of the recent mysterious
| acquisition of the Ell Paso & North
| eastern and it's consolidation with
| their property, the Ell Paso & South
western, by the Phelps Dodge inter
! ests who are believed simply to be
! the agents and representatives of the
Rock Island in the initiative move on
the part Of that system to push its
way into San Diego, and thence to
| Los Angeles.
]. c. Ullman of Waterloo committed
! suicide at Davenport, gashing his
| throat with a Zen knife in his room
and then stropping razor, with
which he finished the work His
room was covered with blood when
| he was found. The day before he
| no hn
| game, several Davenport FOUNDERS
selling him a saloon, which proved
to contain nothing but empty beer
| kegs and empty bottles. after he had
| paid for a big stock. He is a stone
! cutter by trade Papers in his peck
| cts showed that he had $500 on de-
| post in a Waterloo bank and owned
some real estate there.
A genuine sensation developed at
| Brooklyn, caused by the arrest of Phil
Martin and another man named Fin
ley, charged with the murder Of
Thomas Reed of Brooklyn last win
ter. The details of the cold blooded
crime were peculiarly revolving.
Reed was an aged veteran of the
Mexican war who lived the life of a
| recluse on the edge of town near his
sons. He was rumored TO have some
wealth concealed about his premises
| One night last winter robbers broke
| into the old house where he lived
and the next morning he was found
| lying where he had been shot and
killed. Blood hounds were secured
| from Lynnville, but could not follow
| the trail and the search was given up
| by all save Poweshiek county's vet
eran sheriff, George Binegar, and his
deputy, his son, Edward Binegar. 1t
now develops that they had their sus-
| picions aroused from the first toward
two men named Phil Martin and Fin
| ley, both local characters about
| town. For months the officers have
worked on the case, even following
Martin to Seattle at one time for evil
dence. At last they decided that they
had enough to justify arrest and a
few nights ego Martin was quietly ar
rested at Brooklyn and Finley was
also arrested at Williamsburg as an
accomplice of Martins in the bloody
| deed.
Will Potter, son of the late T. j.
Potter, general manager of the Bur-
lington railway system, was thrown
from his buggy to the pavement in a
runaway at Burlington, and at last
accounts was lying unconscious at the
hospital with his skull fractured and
a number of bones broken. His re-
covery is hardly hoped for.