Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-01-23


county, will not appoint deputy for
the south part of that county. A num-
Der of applicants, all having lengthy
petitions, makes 1t impossible for him
% appoint deputy for those parts
satisfactory to the people.
II. G. Hanson, of Estherville. was
;andbagged and robbed at Goldfield,
Wright county, few nights ago by
Two men who met him on the sidewalk
south of the Burlington. Cedar Rapids
s. Northern depot, the thieves securing
s315 in cash and u gold watch.
| Near Morse, johnson county, a few
mornings ago when Miss Slater, teach
or of the DeCamp school, went to open
Swantha hanging there. He was a
Bohemian. No reason was given, but
it is generally supposed poverty caused
the rash deed.
The fourth attempt to sell the Fort
Madison & Northwestern narrow. gauge
road proved to be success. The for
tunate bidder was General Charles A.
Gilchrist, the present receiver of that
road, and his bid was $27 he also
assuming the unadiusted claims,
amounting to $4,000.
The coroner's jury in the inquest
into the death of Patrick Cook, who
was injured in a fight at Bellevue on
the 1st of January and died on the 9Th,
found that he came to his death by
blows ioflicted by Herman Ellinghouse.
Ellinghouse is held in $4,000 bail to
appear before the grand jury.
A local physician reports case in
which Mrs. VIM. Miller, living three
miles west of Hamburg, gave birth TO
triplets, two girls and one boy, the
combined weight of which was twenty
one pounds, all living and doing well.
Twenty-one months before the same
woman gave birth to twins, making
five children in less than two years.
A disease resembling influenza has
attacked the horses in the neighbor-
hood of Fort Dodge, farmer named
Mcneil having lost three valuable
animals in the last few days. The
symptoms are very bad cold attend
ed by an unusual amount OF sneezing.
which then becomes more severe, re-
suits in losing of flesh and finally a
lung trouble.
| A peculiar legal suit has just been
settled at Vlnton. In 1887 Cicero
Tanner of Benton county killed a man
named Mcconnell and was acquitted
by the jury on the plea of self-defense.
McConnell's estate brought suit for
81, 900 damages on the ground that the
killing was uniusti6able, and the suit
was settled by the defendant paying
nominal sum after the plaintiffs testi-
mouy was nearly all in.
A band of young heroes (?) of the
| yellow-back book sort has been I'M
earthed in Leon. These young boys.
ranging in ages from II to IA years,
had formed an oath bound society, and
burglarized in systematic manner
| the business houses in Leon. We are
informed that the grand jury will be
called upon to investigate the matter.
All of those boys are of respectable
parents.
A fire broke out in Eagle Grove,
Jan. 10th. in the Conway block. The
fire department, by efficient and Wig
orous effort, confined it to the one
| building. A large number of mer-
chants moved their goods, and consid-
cradle loss will result from the damage
in moving. The losses were as follows:
Ben Cowan, building and meat mar
| ket; William Cowan, building; S. p
Barr; stock of groceries, partly saved,
and Mr.. Carter lost his household
goods. All the parties except Carter
were insured.
John Webb, who made a murderous
assault on Thomas w. McCauslaud,
one of the best known men in Scott
county, the night of October 2Sth, was
Jan. 18th sentenced to thirty-five years
in the penitentiary. The time for the
prisoners sentence was fixed for next
| day. but fearing that a mob would
him violence, Webb notified Judge
Waterman that he wanted to waive
time and be sentenced at once. The
sheriff hurried his man out OF town.
Fort Dodge must have nice police
force. The other day Swede was ar
rested for intoxication and locked up
in the city Jail in company with sew
eral crooks, being allowed the privi-
lege of the corridor, however. In the
evening stranger called to see
friend, and the Swede being the only
one not locked up in cell, went to
the wicket to talk to him. Alter talk
ing about a minute the stranger reach
ed through the lattice-work. grabbed
the Swede's watch and chain and
waltzed off with them before the
astonished Scandinavian had time to
open his mouth.
Two boys at Burlington, about IL
years of age were skating with young
er companion. They had pint bottle
OF whisky and alcohol and insisted on
the young boy drinking from it. On
his refusal they threw him down on
the ice and poured the liquid down his
throat until he was choked into I'M
consciousness. They then put him in
barrel and poured water upon him
presumably as restorative. Other
parties soon arrived to intercede in
babalf of tho littla fa1lo,y ord ,,bo,