Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-02-27

Two Diagonal and Central Iowa
freight trains collided at the MARSHALL
town crossing. No one was injured,
but the damage will mount into the
hundreds Of dollars.
b. X. Berry, Fl. S. Storrs and s. N.
Wilkins have purchased the south side
park at Creston, and will divide 1t into
residence lots, which will soon be
placed on the market.
David Davis has been arrested at
Centerville on suspicion of being the
man who shot Dick Hendron at Moul-
ton few nights since while the latter
was watering his horses.
A new hand FIRE engine and hose
cart have been purchased by the coun-
Gil OF Cedar Point. A system OF fire
cisterns will be put in and the town
will then be protected against fire.
A New York glass company is con.
templating putting in a glass factory
at Iowa City. Town meetings are
being held to discuss the question of
offering inducements to the company.
James Knox at Flagler, has been
chosen by the miners to represent them
before the general assembly, to secure,
II possible, the passage OF such laws as
may protect the interests OF the min
ers.
Senator Harlan has contributed an
interesting and historic document to
the Aldrich autograph collection at
the state capitol. 1t is letter writ
ten by Abraham Lincoln to Horace
Greeley, of the date of July Is, 1864.
Wolf hunting is the rage in Henry
county. At recent hunt most OF the
men loaded with small shot, and the
wolves broke through the lines. Wolves
are numerous In that region, and the
farmers are determined to exterminate
them.
The Ida County Watch claims that
the jack rabbit of northwestern Iowa
is nothing but the common English
hare, several hundred Of which were
imported by LeMars Englishmen few
years ago and turned loose upon the
prairies.
A teacher in Muscatine school has
adopted novel and interesting plan
in the study OF the civil war. When a
battle is the study she invites some
soldier who participated in the battle
to come before t,e class and give his
experience.
A iscamp named Sund recently de.
serted his sick wife and five children
in Davenport, leaving them in desti-
tute circumstances. The woman died
in the hospital the other day, and the
children, the olde st 0 and the youngest
3 years, are left to the care OF strangers.
George Bermer, aged 55, was killed
by north-bound express on the Kan
sas City road at New Hampton. He
was walking on bridge and was run
down and killed instantly. Mr.. Ber-
mer was badly mutilated, being thrown
forty feet from the track. A jump OF
ten feet from the track would have
saved his life.
A Hartley couple applied for a mar
riage license at the county clerks office
In Spencer. They were refused because
the prospective bride was not of legal
age. The would he bridegroom was
also the legal guardian of his intended
and he staggered the clerk by writing
out and placing on file his free consent
to the ceremony.
DR.. W. F. S. Murdy, of Moulton,
who shot and killed Silas Upton in
October, 1889, has been taken to the
at Fort Madison. The
trouble arose over meat bill charged
to Murdy by Upton and denied by
Murdy. The district court found
Murdy guilty of murder in the second
degree and fixed the penalty at ten
years. confinement. .
In the district court at Winterset S
I. Higgins, the defaulting United
States express agent at Beyington,
who had been found guilty of the crime
Of forgery and of uttering a forged
order, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for three years on one charge
and two years on the other. At II
previous term of court he was found
guilty and given sentence of eighteen
months on charge of embezzlement.
At Logan, Phineas Caldwell was
to thirty days Imprisonment
ana to pay fine of $500, and his son,
W. c. Caldwell, was sentenced to the
for eighteen months.
They were engaged in the banking
business at Logan for many years and
about year ago were tried and con-
victed of fraudulent banking. They
appealed to the supreme court, but the
decision was against them. Much
interest was taken in the case on ac-
count OF it being the first case tried
under the new law. which makes
banking felony.
An interesting question has arisen
under the Iowa railway law at Rock
Rapids. The Illinois Central railway
charged on a shipment OF farm imple-
nents from Sioux City to the Penman
Implement company at Rock Rapids AZ
cents u hundred. The rate acco ding
10 the commissioners schedule would
De % cents, but 80 per cent was added
because the goods were billed "at car
.ier's risk" The question will now be
.ested in the courts whether railroad
already liable as carrier, can extort a
10 per cent greater than the legal rate
or insuring the goods they are already