| Show au lova jowa tragedy Buri lugton iowa feb 18 16 A horrible tragedy occurred yesterday in jackson township twelve miles north ot of this city an old man named adam living with his son attacked his bis daughter in in law with a corn knife inflicting probably pra bably fatal wounds two of the children fled from the house and hid behind a straw stack wins then set fire to the house which burned down and contained two little children one an infant only two months old he then shot the best horse in the stable broke the gun in pieces and hanged banged himself in the b hay ay mow the daughter in law escaping from the burning house drag dragged e d herself to a neighbors half a eife mue distant where her husband was at work she fainted from exhaustion and loss of blood being terribly cut and bruised was wap about 70 years old of a bad d disposition a naturally and inclined to make trouble it is Sell believed eved that be committed the crime from pure deviltry |
