Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-22

morning with a severe cold, caught,
he claims. through the negligence OF
the city TO furnish com Portable ac-
commodations to guests, and thinks he
has been injured TO the extent OF So
600 or Whereabouts.
Covington, the saloon town across
the river from Sioux City, about which
so much has been written, was entire
ly consumed by fire between 2 [and
o'clock on the evening Of the 10th.
Last January al the buildings on the
west side of the only street were burn
ed and this blaze took all those on the
cast side. Nine buildings were burned,
six Of which were occupied by saloons.
Very little Of the contents were saved.
The loss is about SIG 900, insured for
less than half. There Is no possibility
that the town will be rebuilt
3 In the Polk county district court in
the case of the state VS.. w. A. Haskell
indicted for larceny by ENLIGHTENMENT,
motion was TO quash the indictment
was sustained. Haskell was indicted
about five years ago for the alleged
cmbezzlement OF $4,000 and the case
was taken on change of venue to Dal-
las county, and was sent back because
Of defective indictment. A second
hill III ,h nj lan
defective, and the case dismissed UNI
der the statute of limitations.
A man giving the name Of j. B.
Battegot was found wandering around
the streets of Burlington in an insane
condition and was arrested by the
police. He insisted that his wife was
in the city and asked the police TO find
her for him. He had all the appear
ances OF man of means, and was evil
! IDENTIFY on his way to Paris, France.
Upon his person was found $l42. rs in
money, gold watch, a railway ticket
from San Francisco to New York and
passage ticket on an Inman liner
from New York to Paris. The COM
missioners of insanity decided 10 send
him to Mt. Pleasant until his relatives
could be heard from.
Little Earle, aged four years, son OF
DR.. Thomas, and Anna, aged two and
a half years, youngest daughter OF
Wallace Allen, at Rhodes, wandered
away from home and reached the rail-
road track just before the gravel train
backed in at noon. No one saw the
children until the train reached them.
The engineer did all in his power to
stop the train, but did not succeed in
doing so till Earle's right foot was
crushed, requiring amputation above
the ankle, and little Annie's just at the
heel. She would have been killed but
for the bravery of one of the train men
who swung around, caught her and
jumped. Both are doing as well as
could be expected.
| yum Dol IL living
Boda, Humboldt county, returned from
Chicago with the proceeds of the sale
| of several carloads of cattle. That
night little before midnight, he OBJ
served couple of tramps skulking
about his barn. He drove them off,
! firing several shots in the air to fright
en- them. He then went q short dis
lance and got constable to assist him
in the watch. They were followed by
the tramps, and were again confronted
at the stable door, when Mr.. Sorlien
called on them to halt, and in his ex-
element fired heavy load of goose
shot into one of the providers. He
then halted at once. The other fellow
quit the premises speedily, and no
trace Of him has been seen since. The
fellow downed was badly hurt. Both
eyes were cut out, half of the lower Jaw
was missing, the meat all gone on one
side of his face, and he was otherwise
badly mutiated. He died on the 18th
and the coroner's jury said that Sor-
lien did right.
At Waverly on the night OF May IS,
j. w. Robinson, who travels for b. f.
| Norris & Co., wholesale jewelers. of
Chicago, arrived on the Chicago, st.
Paul q Kansas City train from the
west, and in the absence of an express
wagon left his trunks in the depot with
instructions that they be sent to his
hotel in the morning During the
night burglars effected an entrance to
the depot and rifed both of the trunks,
which contained $4,000 worth of
watches, lewelry and diamonds. One
of the trunks was carried into field
adjoining the depot which is situated
on the outskirts OF the city where it was
found, together with the less valuable
portion of its contents. All OF the dia-
monds, about $50 gold and silver
watches, hundreds of chains, pins ana
charms are missing, estimated in value
at $4,000. Searching parties are
securing the country in all directions,
and though several tramps who have
lately been seen about the depot have
been arrested nothing has been found
upon their persons to indicate that
they are the robbers.
RUSSIAN OUTRAGES.