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i 4 I IV fc. ALGONA. IOWA. FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28, 896. SUBSCRIPTION HATES: One copy, one year, In advance One copy, six months 75 One copy, throe months 50 J.

W. HINCHON. I. M. FINNEUL, Eo Gov.

Boies Speaks. The following letter from Governor Boles to the DCS Moines Leader should be read by every democrat in the state, and by every republican too, because it is disinterested and absolute truth. The democracy of Iowa should send Governor Boies at the head of the Iowa delegation to the Chicago convention. WATERLOO, Feb. the Editors of the Leader: The kindly men-1 tion of my name in recent issues of the Leader and other newspapers of the state as a possible candidate of my party for the office of President of the United States seems to require some statement on my part to avoid the conclusion which silence would fairly imply, that I desire it to be understood, by my friends in Iowa at least, that I am a candidate for that distinguished honor.

Permit me through the columns of your paper to say to all who entertain a desire to see me thus honored that I cannot consent to be so considered. I want the delegation from Iowa to the next national democratic convention to go there not only uninstructed but wholly uninfluenced by any consideration of a local character. I am thoroughly impressed with the belief that we have reached a crisis in the history of our party that is to determine its future for many years, if not for all time to come, and I could not possibly consent to be silent or inactive upon an issue that in my own judgment so vitally involves the welfare of this nation. I am quite willing to confess that 1 have been one of the number who read recentdecJarations of democratic platforms in my own state, and of both democratic and republican platforms by national conventions adopted by both of these parties, as solemn promises by each to restore silver to the position assigned it in the fundamental law of this government, as money of redemption, and 1 conscientiously believe that to neglect to do this, both in theory and practice alike, is an open, flagrant and continuous violation of the highest law of the land. Iknow, too, that upon this vital issue, that my own judgment, in its importance to all people, completely obscures every other; My own partv A.

OATIERM SUICIDE. He Shoots and Kills His Wife and Then Turns the Revov- ler to His Own Brain. The Terrible Deed Committed At Madison, Monday Nlght-A Full Account From the Journal. is unhappyily divided, while the overwhelming preponderance of sentiment in the national republican party is in favor of ignoring the plain mandate of the constitution, and substituting for the principle of bimetallism upon which our financial system by that instrument is based, a single standard of gold; and 1 believe that if successful in its undertaking, as it surely will be if aided even by the passive assent of the democratic party, the death knell of prosperity for the great struggling masses of manual laborers in all the fields of industry in this republic will proclaim the yictory thus achieved. It is useless for me to try to believe the adoption of England's measure of values does not necessarily imply the adoption of England's scale of wages.

I know that high priced labor and low priced products thereof are absolutely contradictory and irreconcilable conditions, both of which cannot possibly endure in the same country for any considerable length of time; and I know also that if our financial system is to be wholly based upon the intrinsic value on the world's markets of the number of grains of gold in our present gold dollar or unite of value, we are absolutely at the mercy of the money lenders of our own and other countries, for the very necessities of the governments adopting this one metal as money of redemption will constantly increase the demand for it and irresistibly continue to enhance its value, and to the same extent depress the price of everything it measures; and if this were not true the market value of no commodity on earth is so susceptible of manipulation by interested parties as that of gold, and no combination of men was ever formed or ever will be equal in power to increase at their will the value of their own property and thereby control the selling price of the great staples of industry, to that already organized in the banking systems of the principal commercial countries of the globe. we need an object lesson to convince us of the absolute truth of this statement the history of our country during its civil war furnishes that lesson, for in of supreme need the great volume of gold in the united States found a hiding place in thevuults of banks, and refused to come forth until in times of greatest peril ttoe credit of the whole nation was only sufficient to exchange three its most solemn promise to pay for a single dollar In gold. 1 cannot shut my eyes to the real issue involved in this contest, 1 know if the policy of a portion of py own party and of the great majority of the republican party prevails, we are to retire $500,000,000 of non-interest bearing national currency as sound as was ever issued by any government on earth and substitute for it $500,000,000 of interest bearing bonds, and I know that the annual interest on these bonds every of which the toilers of the nation must provide, pot be less than $15,000,000 to be paid in gold in additional to the principal sura when due. TO such a wrong, as appears tp 3 ine, I can never I want itj thorefpre, undersfcopd'-by every friend- 1 have in Iowa that tp utmost extent ahUJty.l'pos. win dp all I can to' restprqW iaj system adopted Jty our fath- and guaranteed, tp their descend- On Tuesday morning last the startling news came to Algona that A.

W. Patterson and wife were dying at Madison, Wisconsin, where they had moved in July last. This news came in the form of a telegram from Albert Patterson, a son of A. W. No other information was given.

Mr. S. D. Patterson and Mrs. H.

C. McCoy, brother and sister of A. W. Patterson, left at once on the morning train for Madison. In the evening of the same day a telegram came to the COURIER from the Chicago Herald, asking particulars of Mr.

and Mrs. A. W. Patterson, killed in Madison thatday. From this it was supposed by many that the unfortunate couple had been the victims of some accident.

But on Wednesday morning all doubt was removed by the papers which gave of a horrible suicide. We clip a full account FROM THE MADISON JOURNAL. Our usually quiet city was badly startled this morning when a report went the rounds that A. W.Patterson had shot his wife. Hattie, and then shot himself; that the horrid deed was performed a few minutes after J2 o'clock Tuesday morning, at 202 N.

Carrel street, the home so many years occupied by F. J. Lamb and of late occupied by E. E. Stevens and wife, and the Pattersons.

There are various roomers in the house. WHERE THE SHOOTING WAS DONE. Three or four shots startled several of the occupants, but Miss Jennie Patterson, an 18-year-old daughter, was the first to reach the chamber and view the awful scene. Horror stricken, she saw her mother lying on her back.on the floor in a pool of blood; and in a kneeling position at the bed side, near by, was her father, During the Rebellion. BY GEN.

JOHN A. KELLOGG. AND COL. 11. II.

SPENCER. Of course we chlldred didn't get along i PIDTIIDt! lUn COninr with her perhaps as well as wo would I UArlUnt AND ESCAPE, had she been our real mother. How- ever, this could not have caused theI motive for the deed. Father's mother A Narrative of Army and Prison Life is Mrs. Sarah Jackson and she is living at Monticello.

He has two brothers and one sister living at Algona, Iowa, and one brother at Central City, Nebraska." LETTER LEFT THE CHILDREN. This morning the following letter was found, written by the father to the children. It reads: "Dear children: Your mother whispered that it is better for you that we both die together and for your sake and happiness we go. Do deal honest with each other and the world. Believe in God and I shall be happy, though not in the ilesh with you.

Good bye, from Papa." Another portion of the letter, not of interest to the public, recites in detail a disposition of all property and giving advice in general. Mr. Patterson left a will giving his property principally to his three older children and Mrs. Patterson gave hers wholly to the two youngei. Mr.

Patterson expired at 4 o'clock this morning. He was unconscious from the time of his self-inflicted wound. At this writing Mrs. Patterson is lying gasping for breath and Dr. Evans says her death is but a question of time.

Mr. Patterson was 50 years of age, of medium height, rather slim. His weight was about 140 pounds. His They seemed to feel unsafe eyen with a Col. Spencer's experience: (Winter passed away and the activity of our cavalry In the early spring made our confederate friends more uneasy than ever, that they were mine all ready to explode under the federal officers confined in Libby, and on the morning of May 7th we were ordered to get ready to move out of Richmond, and in light marching order.

This was simply paralyzing, our provisions that we had been saving with jealous care had to be given away. We tied up what we could in our old shirt sleeves, stocking legs and blankets, giving the balance to our less fortunate neighbors, and were soon marched out into the street, and moved off to the Danville get home. My only difficulty was to get away. But passing down through the to Augusta, Georgia, instead of going west, we soon discovered we were headed south, and all hope of exchange again left us and after a day arid night ride we found we had arrived at Macon, Georgia. being unloaded-and roll call wo were counted while passing through a gate into a corral, very well described by my friend Kellogg.

My messmate, Collins, left me in charge of ourfewgo.ods and chattels while he skirmished for a spot on which to locate. He found and held down room for a bunk in a corner of a shed near- soon marched out formed into line through the city scene were John Duff, at the Illinois Central right of any kind panbe tea free people, yp, rs, his hands clasping tightly a revovler. Screaming frantically, the daughter left the room and in a moment others of the house appeared at the scene of blood. John Thompson, (Mrs. Elizabeth Brown's coachman) first arrived after Miss Pattersons had given the alarm, and took the revolver from the hands of the gasping, bleeding man.

at the ticket agent UJ Ctl depot, and Alfred Kroncke, a clerk. At once Mr. Kroncke telephoned to the police station and in a few minutes Officers Shaughnessy and Boyd appeared. No delay followed and Dr. L.

E. Head responded to a call. He found a gaping wound just over and slightly back of the left eye. Auoth- bullet had struck Patterson's right temple just back of the eye. Of course everything was done that could be done under the circumstances, but it was evident to the doctor that while both parties were breathing the wounds would prove fatal.

Later Dr. T. W. Evans was called and both he and Dr. Head probed the bleeding wounds for the bullets, but they, could not be located.

Further investigation showed a wound in the right arm of Mrs. Patterson, and it is thought she threw up her arm when her husband was about to fire at her. Mrs. Patterson was in her night robe while was in full dress, with the exception of a collar, and slippers took the place of shoes. The police officers took charge of the revolver, which is a 32-calibre, of make.

It contains four empty shells and one not fired, but the doctors could find wounds inflicted by only three bullets. HIS SON'ALBERT'S STATEMENT. Several years ago Mr. Patterson attended the Wisconsin university and came here last spring from Algona, Iowa, for the purpose of giving his children the benefit of an education. There are five in 22 years old, a merchant of Blairsburg Iowa; George, aged 20, attending the university; Jennie attending the high school, and Alie and Hattie, the latter 11 apd 13 years old, are in the ward school.

Albert came on a visit about a week ago and intended to return home last evening, but his father pur- suaded him to remain another day or two. After the commitment of the terrible deed by his father, the son talked quite freely. He said; "I have not the remotest idea why my father did this awful act." and added: "He and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Stevens, George and myself attended the Congregational church in the evening and heard Rev.

B. Pay Mills. We all came home in the best of spirits. After getting home we chatted for a time and George and myself retired to our room. Father came up to our room about 11 o'clock, perhaps, and got the Madison evening paper which he took to his apartments to read.

He could not have perused it long before he committed his terrible act. He neither uses tobacco in any form nor intoxicating liquors. He has always been of a quiet, peaceable disposition and appeared to think very much of his children, He Is a man of considerable wealth. He is about 50 years of age and was born in Ireland and brought Exeter, Green county. The pres- Mrs, Patterson is step-mother.

beard was tinged with gray. He was not very generally known in the city. In an interview, Dr. C. H.

Hall said he had treated Mr. Patterson of late and is of the belief that he suffered temporary Insanity, and is of the opinion that he was insane when he committed the rash act. Deceased was a thirty-second degree Mason and an Odd Fellow. A few days ago Mrs. Patterson applied for membership in the order of the Eastern Star in this city.

FRIENDS CAN ASSIGN NO REASON. At a late hour Tuesday afternoon a reporter of The State Journal had a brief interview with a lady friend of Mr. and Mrs. Patterson. She said: dear, the idea that Mrs.

Patterson was a party to the shooting. It is the sheerest nonsense. No, indeed, the poor lady was too fond of her friends and life to ever entertain such a thought." The lady added: "I have known Mr. and Mrs. Patterson a long time, and I know they have lived very happily together.

At times Mr. Patterson complained that his head troubled him. He did not seem to be able to control his thoughts. He would press his head and say he did not know what could be the trouble." The lady with deep feeling concluded by saying: "Mr. Patterson was surely laboring under a fit of insanity when he did the shooting.

His poor wife bad no suspicion of what was to be her terrible fate." This afternoon Mr. J. B. Smith, of the law firm of Richmond Smith, told a reporter for the Journal that about two months ago Mr. Patterson was in their office seeking advice as to the making of a will and the proper disposal of his property, of which he seemed to have considerable.

At that time, in Mr. Smith's Mr. Patterson was perfectly sane, and it seemed that his domestic relations were harmonious. A coroner's jury drawn this afternoon visited the house and viewed the remains of Mr. Patterson, after which adjournment was taken till 12 o'clock Wednesnay afternoon, when the inquest will be held.

A letter from Madison to Dr. McCoy Thursday morning stated that Mrs. -Patterson passed away at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning. Jas. Patterson left Wednesday evening for Madison.

Dr. McCoy went yesterday evening. funeral of both took place Thursday, the remains being taken to Evansville for burial. Making a Bad Reputation. It is strange that a young man of ordinary intelligence and good health cannot do better than go about as a dead beat, but still there are such, and prominent among them in this locality is the young man mentioned in the following dispatch to the Des Moines Leader: Iowa Falls, Feb.

McCormlck was arrested in this city and taken to Webster City Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Cavana of Hamilton county. McCormiok is a young man and a printer by trade. Ho has been working this section with an advertising scheme, and was wanted at Webster City on two charges, that of obtaining money under false pretenses and umplng a board bill. This is not the only case of dead- beating 1 that McCormick. might be told of Geo.

Dexter Turner and others might give little scraps of experience they have had with him. She is iabout 40 years ojd and has been married to father for the past two She was a Mrs, Rattle 8 wager and lived fprnaerjy at Evansville, this state, was a sister pf m'y own rapther whpse maiden name was JuJJa She, died March 15, 1893, and one year later father married my Aunt HaWie, raptor's sister, They Jlyed very we as ftr a k'npw, A Voice From Jail. The young man, Will H. Johnson, confined in the county jail awaiting the meeting of the grand jury, charged with one of the worst crimes on the calendar and no doubt as to his guilt, takes exception to the COURIER'S mention of him, which was made last week. He writes us the following letter which we received from the bands of the sheriff; Algona Feb 22 1896 Editor COURIER you may talk of tough caracters one which may be.

your own son may some day be just as bad if parents would keep thjer boys and girls 10 years old off from the street at night if you dont like the way I talk all rjght respectfully, JOHNSTON depot, and instead of marching south we were loaded into freight cars and started south on Wheels. Our friends had given us another entirely uncalled for exhibition of their contemptible meanness, as we might just as well have carried most of our provisions that short distance to the train as to have left them behind. And I have always felt we were fully justified in making the comments heard on all sides toward the officers who had us in charge and who had lied to us so shamefully, and the confederate authorities in general. But the day was a beautiful one and it was of course a great pleasure to breathe the fresh air again after being inside prison walls for eight months, and the idea never occured to us that we could by any possibility into worse hands than the Turners at Libby, or any worse quarters. The following morning after a miserable night on those box cars we pulled into Danville, Georgia, and were unloaded and marched up into the city and into a building so small we could scarcely get standing room, with a filthy yard in the rear of the building about sixteen by one hundred feet.

This was decidedly worse than anything we had experienced yet and every one seemed to have a feeling of real desperation come over them. The place was simply a death trap, and every one felt, it be so, and couldn't shake off the feeling that the authorities were preparing to kill us Our condition was thoroughly canvassed during the day and it looked as est the board fence on the east and found enough staves to fix us a bed off the ground. The officers in charge of us were no improvement on others who had been in com'mand of us, and it diiln't take us long to plan an escape by the underground route. The miserable rations received and insolence of officers we had to bear, weighed too heavily. We took two men into our scheme and decided to drift from under our bunk to the fence and come up under the walk on which the guards were stationed.

We immediately went to work, Collins and myself doing the digging and our friends hid the dirt. Our bunk was in plain sight of the guard and we.were near enough to the surface of the ground to have been easily killed at any time a guard had shot down after us, but we burrowed away night after night, digging with an old knife and filling a little sack we kept in front of us, jerking a cord when sack was filled and raising our body so the sack could be pulled along under us, sack would be emptied and we had hold of a string on the opposite side and pulled it back, refilled and' repeated. We ed very hard the work- night, A Compliment For Haryey. Webster Qlty Journal; We were glad to bear that editor Harvey Ingbam of AJgona, bad been selected as one of the Regents of "Pnjyersfty, The mantle gracefully upon able shpulders, by one of brajnjest beads the has State fallen though we would reach the point when a general outbreak would be decided upon and possibly a wholesale butchery, but the day wore away, better counsel prevailed, and the night passed without particular incident. The next morning we ascertained through the darkies that our men, who had been confined on Belle Isle and not heard from since our separation the fall were now confined in a building only a block away.

We managed to get in communication with them and divided whit little provisions we had left with them. The poor fellows explained after getti ng out that nothi ng ever tasted so good or did so much to cheer them after their terrible experience on Belle Isle as being able to hear from us in this way. The second day if anything the feeling for a general break was stronger than the day before. The fact that a large number of our men were then near us and could all possibly be armed, made us feel quite confident that we could make a success of disarming our guards quietly and getting possession of all the arms in the city. On the other hand our men were in bad condition for a long march, and a feeling prevailed that even if we succeeded in getting a start the great distance to be travelled before reaching our lines at any point would make it impossible for any great number to escape recapture, with confederate cavalary probably within a few hours march of us, My judgment has always been that we hud a traitor among us and the confederate authorities were' advised of the feeling of the prisoners for we were again loaded upon the cars and started south after only two days in Danville.

We were all glad for any kind of change and more fully determined than ever to get away if possible. When we left Danville we were sured it was simply going west for the same old story we had sung in our ears going to Bicbmond ejght months before, but I assure you a gpod many of us kept a sharp ovitforan opportunity to got away. One night I renumber particularly we were unloaded and corralled in a field and Capt, Perry of our regiment and myself hunted along the guard line fpr bPurs trying tp find a weak point, but we bad tP give it up, they kept tpp clobe a watch, taking turns, and in the morning while we were congratulating ourselves and verifying measurements, a heavy guard was marched into the stockade, formed a line across and drove us all to the west side, and then went deliberately to our tunnels and caved them in. It was always something of a mystery that nothing was discovered until we were ready to break through, but it is a fact that our little tunnel was ready for use, when the whole plan seems to have been given away. This tunnel was a different one from that described by Gen.

Kellogg. If anybody is possessed of the impression they wouldn't have a tired feeling come over them to see a. piece of artistic work of that I can safely say to them they do could once get out pf sight cpuld not appreciate the risk and effort it requires to lay under ground night after night completing it. We expected punishment of some kind, and all sorts of rumors were afloat, but the guards were'marched out after a little and we heard nothi ag more of the matter. This ended all hope of getting away by the underground route, and we at once went to work devising some other method of escape; some of us devoting every moment of time to the matter, except that required for picking the skippers out of our little bacon issued us and stirring up our corn meal and water.

We didn't waste time waiting to bake, we dug aholein the ground built a fire in it, and when burned down in the evening put our corn-bread in and covered it up with stone, brick and earth, and when morning came we had a good warm loaf of corn-bread for breakfast. I had carried a box of sardines and a few crackers all the way from Libby Prison always hoping they might be the means of saving us from capture on account of hunger, should we ever be so fortunate as to make our escape. The crackers had been full of worms but we spread them out in-the sun and let the bugs crawl out, then warmed them over and held onto them as so much gold. Going ahead organizing for the purpose of capturing a train or in some way to make our escape the first opportunity after getting out of this stockade. The shooting of an unoffending officer spoken of elsewhere by Gen, Kellogg, by a guard for pure cussedness, had the effect to make a good many feel more desperate than ever, if this were possible, and our minds were fully made up to get away on some plan.

The opportunity we were hoping for came on the 27th of July, when an order came for five or six hundred officers to get ready to move at once, and we were given to understand our destination was Charleston, South Carolina, and we were to be placed under fire of our gun boats to stop the yankees from shelling the city. We managed to get out all right with the first flve hundred and took better care of our crackers and sardines than ever, But we were loaded into box cars again and pur car happened to be sp well guarded that no opportunity presented itself for any one tp" get away, they watched us top closely. Apd while there were a few fortunate, enough; 'j Of the officers escaping from the train during the night, I think all were recaptured and brought in during the next day. My messmate and myself were confined for a time in the jail yard and work house of which a good description has been given by Gen. Kellogg, and we concluded with all the balance of the officers who had an opportunity to accept quarters in Eoper Hospital, where we remained until the 8th day of October under fire of our own guns, and we could sit on the porches fronting the bay every night and see the flash of our guns and watch a shell till it came down exploding on the ground or in a house perhaps in our immediate vicinity, only fragments of shells ever happened to fall in our building or yard.

After getting located in Eaper Hospital, we celebrated the event by inviting several of our friends to eat with us, and we broke the sardine box and spread out our crackers and having a regular banquet, washing the good things down with filtered rain water. We came to the conclusion the possibilities of escaping were too remote to justify us in torturing ourselves further by holding on to these eatables and decided upon a banquet as the proper means of disposing of them. If we had only known what was so soon to follow, mo inducements could have been offered us strong enough to have caused us to have organized that banquet. After a few weeks an agent of the Confederacy appeared among us and paid us an installment of Confederate money in exchange for the greenbacks they had stolen from us when we entered Libby, and Lieut. McKimpson of my company only a few clays before had managed (while the guard was not looking) to pass me a little package of money over the stone wall that divided our prison, so we were able to buy something to eat and we indulged in sweet potatoes, and a mess of shrimps once in a while; really getting more decent treatment than at any time since our capture.

I had a friend, a brother of Gen. Fairchiled of Wisconsin, who was a purser in the the navy, on duty in the harbor, who sent me a suit of clothing under flag of truce, so I was really comfortable. The yellow fever broke out among us however, and several of our number had been taken away from us within a few day. On the 8th of October the authorities were so badly scared they ordered us to get ready for another move, and we at once filled our old camp kettle with sweet potatoes put it on bur little fire in the yard and while we were getting ready we had a nice lot of sweet potatoes boiled to help us on our trip. This with a stockingleg with about a quart of flour in it, constituted our eatables; and we were soon moving off through Charleston, and again loaded in cars and on our way to Columbia.

South Carolina. Watching, all day long, just after dark, I saw what 1 considered a fair.opportunity forshak- ing the Southern Confederacy. I bade good bye to my messmate and others, who had been helping eat sweet potatoes during the day, changed my position from right to left side of car, slipped down into the. doorway, and shortly after dark with my little sack of flour made a jump for liberty. I struck the ground on my hands and knees and 1 thought I would never stop sliding till my was scraped off from me.

I saw four others jump and was badly frightened until I had followed up the track and found them safe. I was not certain who they were till I met them. We stayed in the vicinity long enough to be reasonably sure no others jumped at the time, and then struck out the west having nearly the whole of the states of South Carolina and Georgia between us and the territory in possession of our army. this polnttho story will be told by Gou. next REAL ESTA1TEJTRANSFERS.

Furnished THE OOUBIEU by Hay Rico Abstractors, Algona, Iowa. Daniel H. Adams' and wife to Fred Hansworth, ne $500000 Heirs of Henry Pl'eilTer to A. F. Cur- rim, wK 1000 00 Heirs of E.

G. Morgan to Martin A. and Albert Olson, swM 13-04-80 2560 00 Martin A. and Albert Olson and wives to H. H.

Dennis, swM 33 and soJ4 1494-30 89oo 00 Rodney Hill and wife to Monroe Anthony, mvJS and 3300 00 Cvt John C. Hanson and se54 wife to Venzel Zenlsek. uoM, 3800 00 Adolph Olosz and wife to Henry Ford, noli 580000 State Bank Lodyard to W. J. Fletcher, seii 6-09-37 3400 00 State Bank Lcdyard to Otto Granzow, and nwM 13-00-87 2150 00 E.

A. and D. F.Morse and husbands to JVFItzmaurloo. swJi 10-09-28 410000 Wesley W. Pitcher and to Itudolph Helneke, nwM seH 81-100-87 95000 Mary A.

Pitcher and husband to Eudolph Ilelnko, swJi 81-100-37 050 00 Wra. Pitcher single to Rudolph Belnke.e^ se'4 31-100-27 100000 S. Stebbins and wife to Caroline 0. Salisbury Walter B. Jot 5 blk 17, Algoua 1 00 AxelSundstom and wife to Caroline Anderson, lots 1,3 and 14 in out lot 8, M's8nd Ad.

Bancroft 180000 Joseph Notestjno and wife to Byron Henry, lot 11 blk LuVorne 865 27 0. Jones and wife to F. Corey, lota 11 and 18, blk 2, College Ad. 600 CO MONEY TO LOAN ON IOWA FARMS, Bought and.