Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1889-10-10

The last heard from Carl no was about
nine miles north OF there and still get
ting farther away.
John Connors, q young man living
few miles east OF Lawler, left that
town late at night for home, in an In
toxicated condition. Only short dis
lance from Lawler he was run over by
the west-bound express and so cut up
and mangled that his intimate friends
could not recognize him, except by
papers in his pocket. This makes the
fifth person who has met a sudden and
unexpected death from the effects OF
whisky in that county during the past
two years.
A young man OF about 20 years Of
age, named q. w. Hamilton, shot
himself ut Council Bluffs on the night
of the LIST, at the Revere house, and
died about IL o'clock. His parents
reside at Wilson, Missouri. On the
person OF deceased were several letters
from a lady at Kansas City, and later
from Omaha, in which some trouble
is mentioned, and to Chief of Police
Lucas deceased stated he had lost
about $3.50, These two facts appear
to be the only cause for the deed.
Clarinda is infested with lire~bugs.
Fire was discovered between two frame
buildings on the south side of the
square, Oct. A., but owing to the
promptness of the fire laddies, was
soon under control. There is some
mystery connected with this, as this is
the third fire that has occurred in the
same building within the last three
weeks, the firsttwo occurring one week
apart and the last two weeks later. II
is certainly Of an incendary nature, us
no fires have been on, the premises.
John Rosencrance, OF Anamosa, sui
cided by shooting. Mr.. Rosencrance
and family took dinner at neighbours
and soon after dinner he shook hani
with his friends aud family and babe
them all goodbye ana Immediately
started for home. His daughter think
ing something was wrong followed him
home and reaching the house they
went in together and he went into
room by himself, and IN less than
minute he had committed the deed.
He was "a years old and leaves large
family. No cause is known.
The report of Superintendent Lew
ellen of the Iowa Hospital for the In
sane, ut Clarinda, shows that since
December Is, 1883. there have been
confined in that institution 274 patients
twenty, of whom have been discharged.
This officer calls attention to the need
of better barns and sheds for the stock
and storage room for vegetables, grain
and hay. An appropriation for an ice
house is asked for, also a green house,
and ST., 900 year is asked for to ex-
pend on the grounds. Extensions Of
the main building are also asked for,
the number of inmates making such
work necessary.
The artesian well in Cordele, Iowa,
is a wonder. After going down into
the earth for about $50 feet. the con-
tractors struck what was seemingly
stratum rock OF quicksand. Leaving
the pipes all in the well over night,
they found the next morning that all
the piping was heavily charged with
magnetism. A small nail laid on the
side of the pipe will not fall off. The
needle on u surveyors compass is at
tracted by the current at least ten feet
from the mouth o. the well. The
magnetic current is so strong that the
power OF the engine, together with all
the prizes they have been able to put
on the piping, will not draw it from
| the well. ..m...
When George Monroe was brought
up for sentence in the District Court
at Des Moines, and was asked IL he
had anything to say, he launched into
profane dcnunciation of the methods
OF the court, cursed the Judge and
jury, saying that he had not been given
u fair trial. Judge Conrad fixed his
| sentence at four years in the peniten-
tiary. When Bailiff Morgan started
| to take Monroe out of the court room
he sprang toward District Attorney
Macomber who was sitting on the
platform and struck him sharp blow
with his fist on the left side OF the at
torney's head. Morgan grappled aud
| threw Monroe down and assisted by
Bailiff Robinson rushed him into the
Sheriff's office, where the young des-
perado bit Morgan on tho thumb ana
kicked and fought fiercely. He was
overpowered and taken down to the
Jail, where he said he would get even
with the Judge and the two attorneys
when he got out, and that II he had
had a revolver he would have shot
| them.
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