Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-12-26

from The effects Of a recent stroke OF
paralysis. He was 50 years OF age.
Slater was one of the early Boone set
tiers and owned much real estate In
Boone, having lived there for over
thirty years,
Paul Hill, an old resident of West
Union, over 20 years OF age, was eait
ed to Pennsylvania by tho spiritof his
former wife through medium. TAX
ing his earthly partner with him he
went to Hop Bottom, and he was In
duccd to leave his wife and live with
his spirit affinity. The medium get
his moneys, 00o--his wife came
back aud his eyes are now opened to
the fraud.
James Toohy, who killed Elmer Err
win, OF Sioux City, at Coviugton. has
decided to stand preliminary exala.ha-
ton which will be held on the. goth
inst. 1t is claimed that insanity will
be his defense, and he has secured
good legal talent to help him out. The
report that he broke Jail with the 9TH
ers was not correct as he feared lynch
ing if he should be found by the PEG.
pie outside of Jail,
Jerome n Baker, travelling for
.Sutliff Bros, commission merchants
OF Cedar Rapids, is missing. 1t has
been his custom to write the house
daily, but for ten days no word has
been received. Last heard Of him was
at Carroll, Iowa, December 10th. His
little daughter is not expected to live,
with diphtheria. His wife's mother is
fatally ill, and the wife almost crazed
with grief. His accounts are all
straight and there is some salary due
him.. Foul play is suspected.
The annual meeting of the Iowa as
sociation of Trotting Horse Breeders
was held at Cedar Rapids on the 18th.
II. B. Allen, OF Waterloo, was elected
president, and U. G. Blake, of Cedar
Rapids, secretary and treasurer The
next annual trottlng meeting OF the
association will be held at Cedar Rap
ids the third week in September, 1890.
The executive committee for the COM
ing year is: Tho president, secretary
and treasurer, w. Beckwith, Mount
Pleasant; j. ID. Stout, Dubuque; DR.. j.
II. Smith, Cedar Rapids; B. P. Kirk,
Mason City; Nat Bruen, Burlington;
Ely f. Wear, Henry Bennett, Cedar
Rapids. .g. -.
VIM. Inslee, one of the oldest mer-
chants in Iowa, died at Clinton, aged
SO years, Mr.. Inslee came by boat iu
1888 from Cincinnati to Davenport,
where for many years he engaged in
trade. About 1857 he opened dry
goods store in Lyons which he con-
Quoted for several years. Removing
again to Davenport he again opened
store in that city and afterward re-
turned to Lyons with stock of dry
goods. Removing to Clinton he en-
gagel in the boot and shoe business,
latterly with Chas. Walls, and had for
two years past assisted his son-in-law,
j. G. Root, in the Office of the Modern
Woodmen at Lyons.
Charles Convoy, OF Rochester. MINI. :,
came to Dubuque, Dec. 18th, to see
his cousin, Miss Mollie Kelly, to whom
he was engaged to be married, and
who is very near death with con-
sumption. About 8 o'clock he went to
the back yard Of the boarding house
where he had gone to stay for the
night, aud two shots were heard. OFF,
GERS rushed TO the spot and found Con-
voy shot in the bowels and another
slight wound over the heart. He claims
that some person shot him and re-
lieved him or his pocket book and
$3.50. From the fact that officers were
standing so close and no one could
have got away and that he had a
smoking revolver in his side coat
pocket with two empty chambers, it is
believed that he attempted to take his
own life on account of the expected
death of his betrothed. He formerly
lived near Fargo, Dakota, and was
considered a good man.
The defense in the Gainor murder
case at LeMars sprung sensation in
court in the argument for a new trial.
They produced an affidavit from Juror
Nash stating that he had bottle OF
whisky with himrin the jury room
while the jury was celebrating on the
case, and that he took several drinks
during the night. None of the other
jurors. saw him take drink, but one
OF them says Nash asked him if he
wanted drink OF whisky and he re-
fused and didn't see Nash have any
whisky. This is the only man who
stood out for acquittal and these facts
did not leak out until the defendants
attorneys presented them to the court.
Argument on the motion for a new
trial has been postponed on account of
this. Unless Nash's affidavit can be
disproven a new trial will have to be
granted. Then Gainor can not be
convicted Of any higher crime than
which the last jury
found him guilty of.
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