Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-10-19
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Walter Campbell, who all but killed
Luigi Veil in razor fight, was SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the peni-
| tertiary by Judge McVey in court at
Des Moines. Veil, the man who was
| struck by the razor in the hands OF
| Campbell, was in the room. During
| the trial he exhibited the livid cash
which for time rendered him life
| less. He was restored to health
through what is known as heart mas
sage, manipulated by DR.. Conkling.
Grieving over the persistency with
| which her relatives accused her of be-
ing a morphine fiend, Miss Lois Pas
chal a 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-
it of taking morphine to relieve the
intense pain from which she suffered
at times. She left note reproaching
her relatives and friends for driving
her to this step. Miss Pascbal was
worth $4,000.
Judge e. willard of Atlantic has
he has been engaged in the defense
of his half brother, Albert Peasely,
who was on trial ON the charge of
poisoning his wife. Mrs. Peasley died
several months ago very suddenly
and it was found she had been poison
ed Her husband was arrested on the
charge of the crime and bound over
to the grand jury, an indictment be-
ing subsequently returned against
him. The evidence, however, was
purely circumstantial and after being
out ten hours the jury returned a YER
dict Of not guilty.
Creditors of E. H. Whiteside. mer-
chant who left Atlantic recently with
bankruptcy proceedings hanging over
him, have raised an unusual point in
order to get possession of $500 in per-
sonal property on which he claims ex-
emption. Whiteside was out of the
state for several weeks. but has re-
turned, and is fighting to save as much
property as he can. His creditors
maintain that when he left Atlantic
he intended to go to another state,
where the law exempts only SIS worth
of property. This, they claim, made
him virtually resident of that state,
and it is contended that he is no long
er protected by the Iowa law, which
is far more liberal to debtors.
f. r. Prang, a Fort Dodge contract
or, who has been regarded as a
straightforward business man, is in
jail charged with a long list of bur-
glaries, a quantity of stolen goods be-
ing recovered from his home. Prangs
undoing is lue to his having shipped
a stolen shotgun to Waterloo in
leather trombone case as a horn.
Not being called for it was returned
and the express agent noticing the
unusual weight became suspicious,
and called the officers, who found a
gun that had been stolen last sum-
mer Prang was arrested at his home.
Prang protested his innocence and
claimed that the goods were left by
a friend and forwarded to him. An
investigation shows that Prang and
wife have penitentiary records. He
is not thought to have accOmplices.
Natural gas was struck in paying
quantities on the farm Of d. c. Gros-
jean, ten miles west of Muscatine,
few days ago. The drillers were for
Kansas company, who thought that
gas existed in that locality. The gas
was found at depth of 100 feet. A
small well there five years ago was al
most abandoned. The gas comes
through an eight inch pipe with
strong pressure. The well was cap
ped and out of two inch pipe threw
flame forty feet high. 1t is the in
tention of the company to drill fifteen
wells and pipe the same to Muscatine
to supply the city. Manager Holt,
who is drilling the we'll, says that the
gas is in paying quantities and pre-
diets great future. The company
has a franchise to light the city at 80
cents per thousand. The company
has gas leases on $500 acres of land.
There is great excitement among the
farmers and townspeople.
Floating in the Mississippi seven
miles above Clinton, the body of
Charles Siegfred of Cassville, Wis,
was found with coil of rope which,
entangling his limbs. hindered their
use and caused his death, still encircl
ing them and a small penknife. with
which he had endeavored to free him.
self from the rope when he fell into
the stream, clasped in his hand. He
was employed on government barge
but got his feet tangled in some rope
and fell into the river. Siegfred was
strong swimmer, and his compan-
ions, who were watching him from
the bank, little thought of the danger
he was in. The swife current carried
him rapidly out into the channel,
helpless as he was with his feet en-
tangled in the rope, and then the
other employees realized his danger,
but it was too late to help him. In
his struggles to keep afloat, Siegfred
exerted almost superhuman efforts to
get his peck etknife out and cut the
heavy rope through i'll two places.
Elmer Watson, son of prominent
farmer a mile south of Lisbon, was
killed by an accidental discharge Of a