Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1906-05-17

revolver. His wife was getting Dreah-
| fast when she heard the shot from
| his bedroom and upon entering found
him lying dead on the bed. The ball
! entered the forehead and passed
through the head. Dependency was
probably the cause. A wife and two
sons survive him. Wilson was 40
years of age.
Earl Booton, the 16-year-old son of
S. Booton. Free Methodist Episco-
pal minister Of Newton. will lose the
sight of his right eye as a result of
| an accident. Earl was attempting to
manufacture an engine. He poured
some molten babbitt metal into
tube. The metal exploded and flew
into his face and eyes, badly burning
his face, and it now seems totally
destroying his right eye. His left
eye can be saved.
Jasper Sparks. son OF Stephen
Sparks, wealthy farmer of Lynnville
Junction, fifteen miles southeast of
Newton, shot and badly wounded Troy
Branon, who is employed on the
Sparks farm. Sparks was kicked on
the head by horse about year ago
and has since been somewhat men
tally unbalanced, but not thought 10
be dangerous. Constable James OF
Lynnville Junction obtained a war
rant for Sparks and will bring him
before the insane commission.
The will of the late S. B. Starr,
founder of the Starr Home for Ind.-
gents at Charles City, was probate1
few days ago The document repre-
sents about $4,000, all of which,
save a small amount, will go to the
grandchildren, Percy and Ruth Starr.
Five thousand dollars was given the
Starr Home, $4,000 to the Charles
City College, $500 to Andrew Sluter,
and his furniture and room fixtures
to Mrs. Sluter, and $500 each to neph-
ews in Texas. By a codicil to the
will, 1000 goes to the Methodist
Ladies Aid society. The property
left to the minors will be held in
trust by T. M. Fitzgerald.
The supreme court reversed the
judgment of the Linn district court
in the case of 7. M. Sinclair against
the National Surety company. The
company LllC pjChln5 COhSCl IL
at Cedar Rapids against loss from the
brokers employed by it in handling
meats to the Klondike during the
craze. A judgment of S6,656 in favor
of the packing company was OBJ
tanned in the lower court and on ap-
peal the supreme court reverses the
judgment The point involved is one
of proper care on the part of the
Sinclair people in auditing the ac-
counts of their representative in
Alaska.
Jack Johnson, so years old, the a.
legged kidnapper of Rose Butler of
North McGregor, was caught with the
girl at Muscatine where in a store
! they purchased a long skirt for the
girl. They were arrested on suspicion
and the man placed in a cell of the
! jail, and the girl in the matron's quar-.
| tiers. Later they were taken home in
custody of Deputy Sheriff Swienblack.
Johnson is in Jail at Waukon. The
| girl claims that she went with John
son through fear. A place was found
on the hills where the couple HAD
slept previous to their departure for
| Muscatine. Intense excitement pre-
walls, with threats of violence to the
! prisoner.
Because Ballard Carey, the 16-year.
old son of Methodist preacher at
Shenandoah, was successful IN WIN
ming the affections of a Shenandoah
girl, while their attentions were
spurned, three boys held up Ballard
and carrying him to the graveyard
bound him to tree with baling
wire. Carey was gagged so he could
not scream and for several hours he
struggled to free himself. He finally
managed to get away after terribly
mutilating his hands and face with
the wire. The next morning Hans
Nelson, Edgar Skraggs and Advert
Nelson were arrested and brought tc
trial. Hans Nelson was given thirty
days and Edgar Skraggs twenty days
in Jail for their share in the trans
action. Advert Nelson, who Ia 9
mere boy, was discharged. Carey
comes from a we'll known family ant
much indignation is expressed ovei
the affair.
After more than fifty years of alb
sence from his relatives and his ole
home in Iowa, during which he wor
success in the world and made himself
r the head of large business, Horace
Edward Ellis of Los Angeles has re
: turned in search of his friends, anC
| has been united to his family through
, his nephew, H. E. Sampson of De!
Moines, whom he had never seen be
fore. From Grinnell, where he see
cured the first trace of the family
t Ellis came directly to Des MOines, anC
made himself known to Mr.. Sampson
} displaying the papers which estab
: lished the fact of his relationship, an,
1 proved beyond any doubt that he was
: the missing uncle. He stayed in De-
: Moines but a short time, and thel
e went to Audubon, where Mr.. Samp
. sons mother and his own sister live
D and already plans are on foot for
D big family reunion at that place
a Horace Edward Ellis was fourteen
/ year old boy when he left Grinnel
:, more than half century ago, running
e away from home to see the worl'
Q and make his way in it. Since thel
J. he has never seen any of his relatives
!, He went first to Chicago, where h
: learned the trade of cabinet maker
y and finally went into business for him
y self Mr. Ellis is now wealthy cit
zen of Los Angeles.
Il John Morsman, brother-in-law I
s Hon. w. p Hepburn, was killed nea
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