Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-04-06
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Henry Wilnand of Sioux City, who
shot his wife in Denver on January
n last, was found guilty of murder in
the second degree. His defense was
temporary insanity.
Major Charles B. Hinton, u. S. A.,
was found dead in bed at the ST.
James hotel at Davenport. The coro-
uer decided that death was due to
paralysis of the heart. Deceased came
to Davenport three weeks ago to take
charge of recruiting station.
Through a daughter In Carroll
word has been received from r. l..
Hulett, who at the time of writing
was in Chicago Hulett, who still re-
tains a half interest in a restaurant
at Carroll, mysteriously disappeared
from Carroll several months ago, and
although every effort was made to
locate him the attempts proved fruit
less. He claimed to be well and en-
joying prosperity and that he would
soon start for New Mexico. About
two years ago Hulett married
widow of Hamburg, and she was
said to be in good financial circum-
stances. Afteg about year OF mar
cied life Hulett disappeared.
In the new litigation filed for the
April term of Judge Towner's court
the chief interest attaches to the suit
brought by William Reeves of Tay-
LOT county against John Woodside,
wealthy farmer and stockman of Ma
Reeves claims that Woodside said: II
found Reeves day book in my meat
house and two hams Of meat were
stolen and he got them" Woodside
was defendant in a $4,000 SANDER suit
in the Ringgold county court about
six years ago, the plaintiff in that
suit, |. w. Gard of this county, having
claimed that Woodside accused him
of dishonesty In the former suit the
jury returned a verdict for Woodside.
Using the seat of an old chair, from
which he had wrenched the legs, as a
hammer and broom stick as a lever,
Bob Welch, under indictment for keep
ing a nuisance at Casey, and held in
the county Jail in Guthrie Center
awaiting his trial, hammered his way
through brick wall a foot thick and
made his escape. The only clue to
his whereabouts which the officers
have received thus far is from Sam
Delahoyt, the night Waterman at
Stuart, twenty-one miles away who
nrtC hot hn of nf
ing to steal a ride on the Rock Island
flyer. He pulled him off the train,
but the fellow wrenched away from
him, and made his escape in the dark
ness.
The officers of the Ringgold County
Farmers institute will go before the
board of supervisors and ask that
county experiment station, under the
supervision of the state experiment
station at Ames, be established on the
county poo~ farm. The institute at it's
recent session at Ellston passed a
resolution asking that the station be
established. 1t is the idea of the in
stitute people that $500 or about that
sum will pay the salary of one man
and other expenses during the chop
season, and that local experiments
under the identical weather and soil
conditions that prevail for Ringgold
county farmers will be of more value
than those made at distance Of 100
miles, besides affording means of
prompter communication with the
constituency.
An attorney at Los Angeles, Cal,
has written to w. ]. Macdonald, city
attorney of Iowa City, telling him that
either he or one of his predecessors
married the widow of a DR.. Williams,
who had two daughters, Misses Ev.
brother of the doctor is now dying in
Los Angeles and he wants to know
the whereabouts Of his nieces or sis.
ter-in-law AID it is limited that there
is an estate waiting for them. Mr..
Macdonald has scarcely finished his
honeymoon and he did not marry a
widow, so that lets him out. The rec
ords at the court house do not show
any such marriage, but it might have
county. The matter is being investi-
gated. John Williams is the name of
the man in Los Angeles.
The Crawford county poor farm
building, about seven miles southwest
of DenisoE, burned to the ground
few days ago. The fire started in a
wood house Immediately east of the
main building and soon spread to the
main building. There being no fire
protection the building was in no
time in one mass of flames. The ORR
gin of the fire is unknown, but to all
appearances was incendiary. After
the alarm was given everybody in the
building got out and considerable OF
the furniture was saved, but during
the process of taking out the furni-
ture one of the inmates, Perry VIII
son, 60 years of age, who had quite a
few trinkets in his room, went back
to save them and was suffocated by
the heat and smoke and his body was
burned to crisp. This was the only
accident during the fire.
Angered at M. McNeeley, his father
in-law, because he had opposed his
marriage with his daughter, ]. w.
Carter went to the McNeeley home
at Des Moines, and engaging in a
quarrel, beat McNeeley over the head
with a glass pitcher, almost killing
him. The act was in sight of Carter's
young wife, who seeing her father fall,
covered with blood, jumped upon her
husband like tigress and aided in
holding him until the police arrived.
McNeeley was found badly cut about
the head and owing to his advanced
age and feeble condition, his wound