Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-05-02
AUDUBON AUDUBON
A suit of considerable Importance

was decided in the district court at
Dubuque, April oath. TWAS an action
brought by George Burden to enjoin
the city OF Dubuque from collecting
city tax on thirty acres of ground in
side the corporation, on the ground
that it was used for agricultural pur-
poses. The decision was in favor Of
the city on all points.
Frank Miller, OF West Union, was
convicted in the United States Court
at Dubuque of using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. His method was
to write letters to parties offering
''green goods" at q discount, and after
obtaining the money giving blank pa
per in return. There were three counts
and he was convicted on all. He will
get several years in the pen.
George Burden, prominent citizen
of Dubuque, died April 9th, aged rs
years. Mr.. Burden was one of the
leading men in the Episcopal church
and was noted for his charity and his
zeal in the cause of religion. He was
born in England and came TO Dubuque
in 1855. He engaged in banking and
real estate and amassed fortune. He
was well known throughout Northern
Iowa.
Ed. Totten, for number Of years a
resident of Mason City, and young
man highly esteemed, committed sui
eide in the Mitchell Hotel at Mitchell,
Dakota. Those who were most init
mately acquainted with him state that
he had been drinking heavily of late,
and being harrassed by criminal prose-
cution for violating the law by sale of
intoxicants had driven him to commit
the deed.
Fire at $50 o'clock Sunday morning
destroyed business property in Central
City, twenty miles north of Cedar
Rapids, valued at twenty thousand
dollars. The fire was of incendiary
origin and is supposed to have been
set by bootleggers who have been
prosecuted. The insurance amounts
to ten thousand dollars. Measures
have been taken already to rebuild the
destroyed portion of the town.
Michael Casey has received a judg-
ment of 81, 500 against Iowa county in
a suit for S., 900 begun five years ago.
He was injured by the falling of u
bridge. In the first trial the county
was successful on the ground that the
bridge being less than forty feet long,
was not q county bridge. This decis-
ion was reversed by the Supreme Court
and the second trial has just closed,
the county being held responsible.
A three-year-old son of Timothy
Donovan, near Sioux City, met with a
sad death. He met his father coming
from the field and asked to ride one Of
the horses. His father lifted him on
the animal, but the horse kicked and
threw him off, his clothes catching in
the harness SO that his head hung
downward, and before his father could
reach him the other horse had kicked
him to death, the sharp calks on the
horses shoes penetrating the brain.
Attorney General Miller April 26th
gave hearing to the persons interest
ed in the ownership of the lands along
the Des Moines River John Y. Stone
Attorney General of the state of Iowa,
and ex-Representative Holmes, OF Iowa,
advocated the institution of suits by
the Government for the adjudication Of
all questions in the dispute, and De-
Witt, of New York, representing the
Litchfield estate, opposed such course
on the ground that the questions al,
ready had been settled so for as the
Government rights are concerned. The
Attorney General promised to give the
matter careful consideration.
In the United States Court at Du.
buque, April Goth, pleas on formal
| cases, in which defendants were charged
with violation of the internal revenue
law by selling whisky or tobacco with.
! out license, or selling at wholesale
with only a retailers license, the Rock
Island wholesale liquor dealers arrest
| ed some time since were convicted in
IA out of 10 cases. Those dealers were
in the habit of shipping liquors to
| parties in Iowa with directions to the
local express agents to deliver the
! goods to whoever called. They ex.
pected the business would be consider,
ed as interstate traffic and beyond the
! reach of the Iowa prohibitory law. The
courts held that the place Of payment
was the place of sale and hence q
violation of the State law. The Fed.
eral court held that the Rock Island
! dealers should have had an internal
! revenue license for every place of sale
/, instead of only a license to do whole
sale liquor business in Rock Island.
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