Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-05-30
IOWA
NEWS
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


tive. The saloon keepers are obey
ing the law generally.
The second federal jury at Des
Moines which heard the case Of Rev.
John H. Swift of Winterset required
only about fifteen minutes to find
him guilty of using the United States
mails to extort money. The first
| jury remained out thirty hours, and
was then discharged without reaching
verdict.
Little Anna Gilbride, the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
| Gilbride, CT Des MONIES, succumbed
to the severe burns sustained while
playing about ,nfire. The little
ones hands and face were burned to
I very nearly crisp and the child was
unconscious from the time of the ac-
cident until a few moments before
death came, when she awoke from
the stupor and passed away In agony.
Mrs. May Hayes, of Ottumwa,
charged by her husband as being
bigamist, was given preliminary
hearing before Justice G. B. Melick.
After Hayes had introduced his evil
dence against his wife Mrs. Hayes,
through her attorneys, waived ex-
animation and was bound over to the
grand jury. Her bond was fixed at
$500, and she was placed in jail. Mrs.
Hayes says she will have new
bondsman in Des Moines in a few
| days.
The 5-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs.
| August Alborn set the house on tire
while her parents were out in the
yard. The Alborn home stood in the
center of their farm, six miles south
west of Perry, The parents were
startled by the crying child, who came
running out, saying, Mamma, the
house is on fire" The people ran in,
| but the blaze spread too fast for them,
| and save for few pieces of furniture,
all was destroyed. Investigation gave
| forth the fact that the child had been
| playing with matches.
The question of the constitutional
| ity of the mulct law is to be decided
by the supreme court. 1t has been
raised. directly, in a case at Water
loo. Dunshee &, Dorm of Des MONIES
have charge of the case for the tenn
! perance forces. J. H. Campbell,
| member of the prohibition party
state central committee will repre-
sent the Temperatures forces, and the
Commonwealth, the temperance news
paper at Waterloo, has guaranteed
financial backing to complete the
| test of the law.
After lodging police authorities
for over four months. Marion Thomp-
son. colored. who shot and killed
James Burgess at Buxton, Jan. II, is
at last in the clutches of the law,
and will before many days pay the
| price for his crime. He was caught
by Officers Ira Miller and Eckles
while trying to hire horse and
buggy at the Hawkeye livery in Des
Moines. in order to leave the city.
another colored man by the name
of Dave Young was with Thompson
and was also placed behind the bars,
he being present at the shooting.
I'm sorry | shot him. gasped A.
J. Barker, and in another instant the
would-be murderer of Detective Ed
Johnston at Des Moines was dead.
The final summons came at the end
of nine days OF indescribable suffer
ing and was relief to the sufferer.
The case of Barker is one of the
most remarkable in history in connec-
ton with the Mercy hospital and was
a puzzle for surgeons from the first
how a man could live so crippled in
the intestines. 1t was on the 14th
that Barker in trying to escape ar
rest by Detective Johnston fired a re-
volver over his shoulder at the Off.
Ger and in return received a load of
shot in his back.
You can put me down as Bert
| Wilson, but t-at's not my right
name" said Frank Rockwell. eX-con-
Wet and an inmate of Hope hall, who
| had just been captured by Sheriff
Olson and Chief of Police Nichols of
Fort Dodge, after a lively chase.
| While Father" Coffin, his benefac-
tor has been doing missionary work
| for Des Moines at the national meet
! ing of the Brotherhood of Railway
! Trainmen, Rockwell took advantage
! of the occasion to steal a valuable
horse from the Coffin farm. He dis
! posed of it for $25 and soon landed
! in police court quite drunk. Upon
being released he started for Vincent
! and was overhauled after a lively
chase by officers no;iied of the theft.
Fearing that he was about to be-
come insane and worrying over finan-
cial troubles, Herb Sanders,
wealthy retired farmer, took his own
! life. He took both carbolic acid and
! Paris green. Sanders left home
aboUt O'Clock A. NJ. and was found
by a neighbor lying in the road at
near the fair grounds. He died IF
! teen minutes later. Coroner Dennis
was called, but JeGdei an inquest to
be unnecessary. Sanders was
wealthy retired ,armer, owning
large farm near Rudd, from which
place he came ITO years ago, be-
sides property in t9wp AMI forty acres
adjoining the tcryn. He was 55
years of age AMI leaves a wife and
three children.
When the saloon cases at Dubuque
were called for hearing on the de-
murrer to the petition of the plaintiff
asking temporary iniunctions, the
defendants exploded bomb by fl
ing an amendment to the demurrer
attacking the mulct law, holding the
prohibitory amendment to the con-
stitution of Iowa was never regular
ly adopted and attacking the entire
liquor legislation John Chalmers,
former coach of Iowa university, en-.
tered his appearance with Attorney
Thorne as plaintiff in the cases. He
Il Il.
regular and protested against fur.
Their delay.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the death of l.. w. White of
Frank Pierce, who died from erysi-
pelas, brought on, it was alleged by
n hlnrr from the hillv of Ohinnr Gilnin