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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
WESTMYER's CRIME.
Details ola Horrible Tragedy in Della.
ware County.

The details Of terrible crime committed in
North Fork township, Delaware county, on
the night of Oct IA, come to us. They are as
follows: The house Of man named West
myer was discovered to be on fire about IL
o'clock. Westmyer was in the barn attend
ing to sick horse, so he says. He at orce
rushed to the rescue of the children, but
made no effort to save his wife, although she
was on bed only feet from window, where
she was seen by Charles Millied, Jospeh Meyers
and the latters sons, who reached the scene
shortly after the fire was discovered by West
myer. Mrs. Westmyer, who for some time had
been so badly crippled from rheumatism that
she was unable to walk, had within the past 2
or weeks recovered to such an extent that
she was able to walk about the house; and it
is the opinion Of the neighbors referred to
that If she was alive when the fire broke out
she could have saved herself. The neighbors
saw her through the window lying on the
bed perfectly motionless, which would lead
to the inference that life was extinct be-
fore the fire broke out. After rescuing his
children Westmyer began taking out his
furniture appearing to be entirely oblivious
to the fact that his wife was in the house.
exclaimed, "Oh, Lord! that's So" and in ex-
PLANTATION of his not going into her room af-
terward said the flames had possession and
that he could not get in. He gave no alarm
at any time. One Of the boys asked, "Where
Is mother" The father said she was dead.
What would serve to throw suspicion Of
foul play on Westmeyer is the allegation
that he was crlminally intimate with young
woman named Ahrnes, who was Employed in
his family as domestic, and who, two months
ago, gave birth to a child, which was baptsed
at the suggestion of Westmeyer and taken
to the gir's home, some three miles north
west OF Dyersvlle in Bremen township.
Mrs. Westmeyer was twenty-seven years of
age and the daughter of farmer named
Michael Stangle, German, to which nation
ality Westmyer also belongs 1t is said by
his neighbors that he was in the habit Of
abusing his wife, and on one occasion, when
a physician had been called to attend her,
one of the boys told him that his father had
given his mother severe beating aud that
was what made her ILL., This statement Is
corroborated by the neghbors, who say that
Westmyer often struck his INVALID wife.
Westmyer, who is abont 81 years of age, is
in good circumstances, and not long since
purchased a farm in North Fork township, for
which he paid $4,000.
DR.. Fuller, coroner, was summoned, and the
verdict Of the inques. today was wilful MUIR
der. All that remained Of the body was
few ashes. These were put In box and
taken away. Westmyer was arrested, and
is now in jail here. II is believed he VIII be
lynched,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

All interesting calculation has been
made by The Nc0 YorE Times, showing
how the steady and rapid payment of
the public debt incurred in the war for
the preservation of the union, combined
with the reduction of the interest rate
and the increase of the population of
the country, has affected the debt bur-
den borne by our people per capita.
In 1865 the debt amounted to $7S. 20
per capita. Last year it amounted to
only $24. IA. In 1865 the per capita
portion of the annual interest charge
was 1920. Last year IL was but SO
cents. The ratio of the principal Is
now but two thirds what it then was,
that of the annual interest is but . lit
us more than one-f fifth.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
Two Lucky Men.
Washington ID. c. Jtar, Oct. 7.

washington ID. CO Jtar, Oct 7.
John Conner, Of this city, held one tenth or
ticket No. 3l,5S3, that drew the first capital
prize of $50, 900 at the drawing of The Louis
lana State Lottery Company. Sept. IA. Mr..
Conner worked in Cammack 81 Deoker's lime
iilns on 2Sth street, near X, He bought the
ticket for himself and a colored man named
Jake Simms, each contributing 80 cents. Mr..
Connor's story, as told by him to a Star re-
porter, is rather strange and interesting. He
has always been a Woodworking, industrious
man, but the demands of a growing family
have made 1t difficult for him to keep his
"head above water' in financial sense.
''This was my fifth ticket, "he said TO the Star
reporter, or rather one-ffth ticket, for have
put in only half dollar a month. Last month
had so much to pay out, DOCTORS bills and
other things, that / thought would drop the
lottery ticket. Still l kept thinking of 1t.
One night l was awakened, as l thought by
some one calling my name. | Tose went to
the window and looked around, but could see
or hear no one. All the time the lottery tick
ct was in my mind. Invent to the kiln next
day, and asked one of my fellow workmen to
go in with me, telling him the ticket would
surely win; but he declined. Then Jake
Simms gave me half dollar, and bought
ticket chalked the number on board in
the kiln, and said to my fellow workman,
CHRIS, you have missed it; that ticket will
draw $4,000 Somehow / felt perfectly sure
of 1t, and you know the rest"
Mr.. Conner obtained the $4,000 through
the Adams Express Co., aud at once deposited
it in bank, half TO his own credit, and half TO
that of Simms'. He has quitwork at the kiln,
and VIII soon move from his humble hoLle
near the kiln to a place he has bought for
himself in South Washington, where he pro-
poses to go into business for himself. By this
favor of fortune he has been raised from
Strengthened circumstances to comparative in
dependence. Mr.. Conner speaks of his good
luck in tone of devout thankfulness. Simms
too had a large family dependent upon him,
and has made prudent and thrifty use Of his
good fortune.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

Mr.. NATHAN ROBBINS, the veteran
Boston banker. who this week cele-
brated his eighty-third birthday, has
occupied an Office in Quincy market
for sixty years, and has been absent be-
cause of illness only eight days.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
A LADY had u peculiar experience

A LADY had u peculiar experience q
few days ago in Portland, Oregon,
while riding horse. The animal was
high-spirited, and, becoming unmanage-
able, threw the woman entirely out of
her riding habit, and ran of with it
hanging to the saddle. A young man
caught the horse and led it back, and
the young woman took the habit from
the saddle, put it on. mounted the
horse, and rode away.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

P. -. GIBSON. general passenger
agent Of the Guion steamship line, has
just returned to New York city from
Europe. He had been home to see his
aged mother and brothers and sisters,
after and absence Of fifteen years, and
IL was well-earned vacation.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

A PRoHIBIroRY law is tersely
characterized by Philadelphia oppo-
nent as "an attempt to protect drunk
ards against themselves at the expense
of sober people"
At Yale IS per cent of the students
came from other states than Connect
cut; at Harvard 10 per cent came from
other than Massachusetts,.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

SAN FRANCISCO papers are advertise
ing rat and squirrel poison that is
said to have the excellent qualities of
killing tho animal, drying its insides,
and tanning 'c skin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

The Baroness de Council, wife Of the
late French ambassador at Berlin, has
been presented by the empress of Ger
many with magnificent porcelain vase
from the imperial mandatory at Pots
dam. The vase is ornamented with
views of the imperial palace and the
chateau of Babelsberg.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

THREE Fall pvrr. Mass, policemen
were recently =, missed from tho force
for indulging in the childish amusement
Of blowing beans across the street into
the Salvation army barracks.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

Ex-ATTY. GEN. GEORGE II. WILLIAMS
is now practicing law in Portland, Ore
gon. Years ago Mr.. Williams bought
large tract Of real estate in what was
then the surburbs Of Portland. 1t is
now improving in value SO constantly
that its owner will soon be a very
wealthy man.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
Picking Cotton Automaticallv.

Columbia Is. CO. special: The first prac-
teal trial OF the Mason cotton harvester
took place to-day at Sumpters, in the
presence OF COMMITTEES OF the New York and
Charleston cotton exchanges, representa-
tives OF the department OF agriculture, and
other persons Interested in cotton culture
and manufacture. The machine picked
cotton from the field at. the rate OF $50
pounds per hour without injury to bolls
or plant. The test proved satisfactory in
every respect,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

MRs. JAMES T. FIELDS Is still ut Rich
field Springs, N. Y. devoting as mach
attention to rest and recuperation as
when ut home in Boston she does to
.ood work, which is saying n good deal.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

GEN. DEvENs' dress sword Is being
handed down as m heirloom, It APP
pears, in the families of officers of the
North Carolina brigade which surprised
the judges headquarters at Chan
cellorsyille
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

HIGH tides arc making serious in
roads upon tho beach at Galveston.
Tex. Considerable fear Is expressed
that the usual fall gales will do great
damage in the city.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

OCEAN waves caused by earthquakes
are Geographic. Those started in Jap
anese waters on Aug, q, 1883, were
registered by the tide guages on the
California coast the same day.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

SOME western papers look with hor-
ror on the use Of the word "woman"
in respectable society, Ono of them
recently chronicled the finding Of a
Gladys skeleton"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

Boston has 1863 school houses oc
cupying 1928. 922 square feet of land,
and the assessed value Of building
and land is S7,800.000.
Private postofices for penny mash.
es'' are becoming popular In New
York.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

For twenty-one days during August
tho Thermometer reached over 100 de-
gross Mt Calico, San Bernardo county,
Cal, tho highest point reached being
ia
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

AN interesting competition Is In pro-
gross between the two stage lines that
run between Chico and Cherokee, Cal,
and they are now carrying passengers
free of charge.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

AT Amityvile, l.. l., on Sunday. .
horse belonging to farmer named
Hubbard sieaod his l6-year-old daugh-
ter by tho throat and held her until
lifo was extinct.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

The largest fleet of merchantmen
ever seen in the straits is now lying
along the wharves at Port Costa Cal,
waiting for oargoes of wheat
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

NETrIE MELINs, IA years old, died at
Now Haven, Conn, from blood poison
ing. tho result of severe burns which
she received by lightning stroke.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

Miss NELLIE WEIGH, aged II years.
has charge of the telegraph Office at
Point Arena, Cal.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

OVER 1900 liquor licenses haue been
issued so far this year by tho Boston
police board.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

The marble capitol of Connecticut,
at Hartford, three hundred feet long, is
said by engineers to DO three inches
longer in summer than in winter.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
PERSONS AND EVENTS.

ATLANTA, GA, citizeus consume If
teen hundred quarts of wine every day.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21
Mrs. Parsons, the Anarchist.

Cincinnati special Lucy Q. Parsons,
wife OF the condemned anarchist, made
her appearance in public before q Gin
cinnad crowd at Druid's hall tonight. 1t
was advertised that the meeting was given
under the auspices OF an indefinite organ
ization known as Ladies OF the Golden
Rule, which proved to be nothing moro
than female anarchists, principally for
eigners.
Mrs. Parsons boosted that she was an
anarchist and expressed the belief that her
opinions would some day bring her to the
gallows. She characterized the verdict OF
the jury in the case OF tho eight anarchists
in Chicago as damnable, and in her har-
angue, which lasted two hours, abused
every one concerned in their prosecution.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

RICHMOND, va, has over q dozen
citizens between 80 and 90 years Of age.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-10-21

A school in Smiths Valley, Hunt
ington county, Pa, contains thirty
pupils named Smith.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
French Scheme of Taxation.

The French taxation scheme is a curl
Gus thing to an American. Everything
Is taxed, and the taxation is both direct
and indirect. There is a house tax paid
in proportion to the rental. The privilege
OF working at a trade or profession is
taxed. There is land tax, and there is
tariff on articles imported from abroad
There is also the Octroi tax, which makes
every article brought into O city pay q
duty, and there are revenue stamps for
bills, checks and receipts. II French
farmer brings dozen eggs into Paris he
must pay tax upon them at the entrance
to the city, and II his wife carries In q
pound of butter she pays percentage
upon it before it can be sold. Funeral
matters are taxed, and the government
makes all of the tobacco made in the
country.
1t is very poor tobacco, too, and the
prices show that its revenue from this
source must be very large. The govern
ment of Paris also does the pawnbroking
of the city. The interest charged is
from 81 to IL per cent, and the pledges
can not be redeemed until one day after
the money Ia paid back. With such
taxation it is no wonder that France has
an immense revenue, and that its expen-
d1tures are extravaganza. Last year It is
estimated more than $500, 0O0, 900 were
collected and spent, and I don't believe
there is much lying awake among French
politicians in thinking what shall be
done with the surplus.-Frank G.. Car
penter in Cleveland Leader.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Mrs. Cleveland at Saranac,

Have you received from the presidents
bride cardboard with a leaf, cut neatly
out of birch bark, pasted in the center,
and under that the autographs of herself
and husband? You might have got one
if you had asked at the right time and
place-that is to say, while she was in
the Adirondacks. An artist named Leutz
from Albany was in the hotel, and one
day he fashioned a bit of bark into leaf,
penciling it a little to perfect the sem
blance. Mrs. Cleveland CHANGED to see
it and her admiration was girlishly emo
tional. She declared that it was just too
lovely for anything at all-except to
adorn the page of an autograph album,
and to that use she put it.
Somebody had mailed an album to her,
begging that she would return it with
the presidents and her own signatures.
She embellished leaf of the book with
the birch leaf, got Mr.. Cleveland to write
his name and then signed her own. The
result pleased her, and she responded to
every call with a similar souvenir. l
have one before ME as write 1t belongs
to friend who was ut Saranac week
during the stay of the presidential party.
She says that Mrs. Cleveland made not
less than a hundred, and that every ap-
plicant for an autograph got an example.
Leutze did the cutting and tracing, but
Mrs. Frankie's own hands completed the
jobs, except that the president, being in
terrupted in chat or awakened from a
doZe, wrote his name in nonchalant ODE
dience to her request.-Albany Journal.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
The Porter,s Wages.

The company that I work for would
make itself popular by paying its porters
good wages instead of requiring the trav.
cling public to pay us. There is sliding
scale of wages paid to porters. It all de-
ponds upon the run" A man running
between st. Louis and Chicago, for in
stance, is given, say, $15 month. He
is sure of full car, and each passenger
means to him twenty-five cents. Take a
car on the Southern line, where the pal
ace coaches are not patronized much, and
you will find the porter getting from $40
to $50 a month, because that is all they
have to depend upon. The company does
not say that the price Of a berth is %. %
a night, but it is an awful small man that
would fail to give the porter his quarter.
1 am sorry for the conductors. They can
do great deal for a passenger, but they
are not allowed to accept gratuities, and
their pay is never over SIS month. /
would rather be a porter any day than q
conduetor.-Pullman Porter in Globe
Democrat.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Needed Advice for Some Librarians.

N'SSuSu <AusACO Aor sumo L1Drar1anBs
Let the public library be considered by
its Librarians as a hospital for crippled
minds, quite as much as an aid to those
persons who already understand and ap.
preciate It, There need not be fewer
catalogue cards with their sparse and
grudging notes; but near the catalogues,
and among the readers, there ought to
be active and helpful Librarians whose
sole duty should be to furnish oral notes
and ad nee in extenso.
Two of the main uses of the policeman
are to direct the stranger and help the
feeble. The great retail stores have their
floor walkers, who point you to the ele-
vator or lace counter with insistent unc-
ton. Railroad corporations have dis
covered that index signboards land intri-
cate time tables are riddles to many
persons OF more than ordinary intelli-
gence, and have therefore supplemented
these devices in large depots with an
oral Information man who succeeds In
adjusting the passenger service of the
road to the particular wants of individ-
uals, and not merely to the presumptive
wants OF that abstraction, "the patron. A"
But where, in our American public libra.
ries, is there like officer, whose chief du-
ties are to set right a perverted reader;
to direct a lost reader through a crowd of
loo, 600 books to the friend he Is seeking;
to tell all the connections to be made,
and all the delays to be endured on he
Royal Road to Learning?"-E. n.
woodruff in Boston Traveller.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Illegal and Unsportsmanlike.

According to Vanity Fair, the Duke of
Sutherland, who visited New York a
few months ago, appears to have been the
innocent victim of an unfortunate occur
renee in Norway, while yachting there
recently. 1t appears that during the
stay of his yacht Katharine in the port
of Molde, and while he himself was away
inland, some of his friends on board
ignorant no doubt that they were acting
both illegally and, what is worse, in an
unsportsmanlike manner-landed ON
some islands, shot a tame reindeer brows-
ing quietly, and q dozen or so of elder
fowl almost sacred for their down, and
quite tame), and INDUCED in salmon net
ting. The party were very well pleased
with their days sport, and the tame rein
deer was hoisted on board with hurrahs
and rejoicing. But the next day the
sheriff paid visit to the yacht and in
vited the whole party to appear before
the Norwegian magistrate, who, after
due cautioning, mulcted the duke in q
fine of e100 for trespassing and illegal
shooting and fishing, which fine was
paid. The Norwegian press acquits the
duke of all personal responsibility, throw
ing the whole blame on his sporting COM
panions-BostOn Transcript.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10

ARLETTE.


The day Is spent, and fields, new shorn,
Are bright with fading sheen;
Like blossoms left behind the corn,
The maidens come and CLEAN;
Blue eyes and floating locks of gold
Have caught you in their net;
You smile, and call me strange and cold
You never knew Arlette.
Imct her when this life Of mine
Had turned from sweet to sour;
There was no sparkle to the wine,
No bloom upon the flower.
Iroamed away to bear alone
The stings Of vain regret;
The grain was gone, the reapers flown,
When first found Arlette.
With half her charms some girls might win
A fashionable fame;
How came she with that southern skin,
And soft old Norman manner
We talked, questioned, she replied,
Till forgot my fret;
For bitter thoughts and angry pride
AL fled before Arlette.
How ends the taller To your surprise
There is no end to tell
i left no tears in those dark eyes,
Although loved them well;
Her picture hangs within my brain
Fresh and unsulled yet;
No empty VOWS of mine shall pain
The heart of true Arlette.
Sarah Doudney In Good Words.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Faults OF Our Coinage.

Ours is but u small and stupid imita.
ton of monarchical coinage, without the
interest of protraiture. And it is not only
ludicrous, but it is unbecoming the i'm
perial republic The coinage of republi-
can Greece or Rome is 100, per-
haps 1000, per cent. more interest
ing, inventive, artistic and instructive
than ours, as can readily be shown by
the copies in dozens of shop windows,
though perhaps, there are none in our
mints. Were the ancient republics in
any way our superiors, that we continue
the accommodating proofs of our inelegant
faculties?
If our artistic and aesthetic citizens and
societies have any weight in such affairs,
we appeal to them to raise clamor and
agitate the land for the production OF
something worthier of us than the monot.
onous mediocrity of our meaningless
coinage. Do not permit posterity to be-
lieve us the billiards these die cutters
suggest Cor. Courier. Journal.
Baby carriages are being exported to
Europe b large numbers
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1886-12-10
Chief Drummond of the Treasury.

Chief Drummond, of the United States
treasury department, stationed in New
York, is broad shouldered, heavy set
man, and wears heavy trimmed spectacles.
He has wonderful jaw and can bite a
counterfeit coin in two, from a dollar to
a five cent piece. No matter when or
where he is, he Invariably bites spu-
rious coin in two when he sees it. He bit
q dime for street car conductor not long
ago, and the latter wanted to jump on
him. The plucky chief made the conduc-
tor show every coin he had. A passenger
declared it was an outrage and told the
chief that he frequently passed counter
felt money. When the detective calmly
opened his coat and showed his badge,
the self confessd shower of the queer i'm
mediately left the car.-New York Mail
and Express