Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1886-03-04
IOWA CONDENSED.

Three young men named Boyd, Harrington
and Williamson were canght in the act Of rob-
bling the safe Of the depot at Milton, and are
in fair road to the peultentary.
A warrant was issued at Fonda, for the ar
rest of ]. P. Carton, he having been charged
with shooting Floyd Moulton, about four
miles northwest on the night of Feb 81.
Rev. Ste hen Williams, of Vinton, died sud-
denly while seated at the supper table, from
heart disease. Mr.. Williams was go years of
age and had been resident of Benton county
for thirty-three years.
Thieves and burglars are on the war path
| ell over the state. Our exchanges are filed
with reports of farm houses being burglarized
| and other depredations committed. People in
In the rural districts should adopt the shotgun
policy.
A three-year old child Of Fred Schmit, of
Burlington was killed by falling on a butcher
knife. The blade had been driven backward
into the mouth, almost severing the tongue,
and completely cutting off the jugular vein.
%, c. Bates, who stole a team and sleigh re-
Gently at 81 ,omfeld, was con ict,d and SEN
fenced to four years in the state prison. The
prisoner had been released from the prison on
January 80, upon serving four years.
'"rwo Years In Jungle" the new and In
| teresting book on science and adventure, which
has attracted considerable attention In the
east and Europe, was written by w. T. Horn
ady an Iowa boy, who twelve years ago was a
school boy at Oskaloosa.
Clarence Winner, and Geo. A Burns, aged
about 20 years each, disappeared from near
GAINESVILLE one night last December, and with
them pair of mares belonging to Joe Scott.
Last week they were captured at Princeton,
Mo-, where they were under arrest for other
| crimes.
Joseph Pleamer residing at Dutch Hollow,
| Wisconsin, left the brewery at Potosl, Dubuque
county with a load of lumber. The next morn
| ing his dead body was found a mile distant
lying under the wagon and the team at the
| foot of high embankment over which he had
| probably driven.
A freight train on the Central Of Iowa, struck
broken rail on bridge six miles southeast
OF Marshalltown, and four cars went through
into Timber creek. No one injured.
new postoflice has been established in
Black Hawk county with the name of Cream
| City.
Jefferson citizens are very actively engaged
| trying to get the new soldiers home If one is
| authorized, and also the Des Moines and
Sioux City railway.
On the night Of Feb Is, Mrs. Pat Smith,
living at Stone City, four miles west of Ana
mosa, was found dead in her bed. The Coro-
ner was summoned, who impaneled a jury, and
and held an inquest returning the verdict that
| uha IN har tha hon IF
person. Her husband was arrested, and Is
now in Jail. The body was lying on the bed,
apparently in the same condition that it was
at death. 1t presented a sad sight. The cloth
ing was dirty, and plainly revealed the fact
that she had been in mud and water. Her
limbs, breast, face and head were consider
ably bruised. A post mortem had found the
heart somewhat affected. From evidence the
| jury could get it was thaught that Mr. and
Mrs. Smith were both drunk in the evening,
and that she came to her death drunk, on ac-
count of having been engaged in trouble with
some party unknown to the jury.
Polk Johnston, now serving life sentence
in the Iowa penitentiary, for killing a man
named Mcbride, at Swan, will contest judg-
ment for s5,375 damages obtained recently by
A lady named Reese near Cedar Rapids, has
Just been relieved Of an enormous lizard which
she has carried in her stomach for twenty
| years. She swallowed 1t while drinking in the
| dark.
Mrs. Marie Coulter, widow, of Montrose,
is believed TO be heiress to fortune In Eng
land valued at about million dollars.
A citizen Of Dubuque suggests that what
the people of that city need is tunnel under
the river instead Of a pontoon bridge.
Michael Kiley of Dubuque stole a horse from
the stable of James Burke, and pawned the
animal for 50. Kiley has been arrested.
Muscatine has entered suit against the Chi
cago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad for over
$4,000 damages for failure to grade street
and establish machine shops.
B. E. Bailey, druggist of Lehigh, at the
recent term Of district court at Fort Dodge,
was find 500 and costs for selling intoxicating
liquors. Being unable to pay the fine he was
sent to jail.
A l4-year old child Of Charles Walton, at
Patton, attempted to swallow a portion Of a
peanut she'll 1t became lodged in the wind
pipe and all attempts to extricate were futile
and the child died.
A man going by the name Of James NAL
lard was arrested at Cedar Rapids on sus-
picion of being a confidence sharp. He had
on his person q government gold bond Of ST.
900, not yet signed.
Not less than 500 persons will leave Clay
county In the spring to work upon railroads.
Aaron French, a Clay county farmer, has
lost $500 worth Of hogs from cholera this
winter.
1t is said that Iowa has A, 900 tenant farm
ers, an average Of 40 to each county.
Cherokee county has at present s65,0oo Of
school money loaned to farmers in the county.
Henry Rink has been arrested at Tama City
for selling liquor without agovernment license
An Ackley man has just shipped 1000 musk
rat skins to Europe, to be used in making kid
gloves.
The Touring mill at Missouri Valley last year
consumed 1900 bushels Of wheat and sold
SIS, 600 worth of flour.
The ugrain men Of Sutherland In the six
months following August Is, 1885, shipped
457 cars Of stock and grain.
Henry Tinkein and John j. Bell were in
dicted at Council Bluffs for importing fever IN
fected cattle into Iowa during months prohib-
tied by law, thereby causing heavy losses from
Texas fever in Pottawattamie herds. The de-
PENDANTS filed bonds in the sum of $500 each
for their appearance at the May term Of the
| district court.
Mrs. Nettie Mower, living on North Seventh
street, La Fayette, Indiana, is endeavoring to
secure widows pension. Her husband,
James E. Mower, was an honored member OF
Company /, of the Ninth Iowa infantry and
she Is anxious to obtain the addresses of all
surviving members of the company, and indeed
of any of the members OF this regiment in order
to gain from them the necessary evidence to
establish her claim.
Crossed the RiyeB,
| Weibcrn Wartena was hanged at Rensselaer,,