Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-11-19

OF apples last year.
Among the indictments returned By
the gr,n1 jury, at Burlington, at its
present session. was hat of murder in
the first degree, in tho case of w. A.
Porltock, who shot and xii ed John
Andreas in that city u month ago.
Porlock, a. the time, attempted sui.
eide, and has sin o been under the
care OF physicians. He has been
placed in Jail to await trial.
An exciting foot race between Har-
ny Gibson, OF Mason City, and G. l..
Locke, OF Grand Junction, was won by
the former at Independence. Dis
lance, 10 yards; time, 10t seconds;
purse, t1.2 0. G. A. Dodson, then La
or Splinter, backed the winher.
c in,on parties backed Locke. just
be ore the racer. Dolson covered his
man with gun, and it Is believed the
race was then run on its own merits.
Al important decision was rendered
In the district CONT at Cedar Rapids.
it was the ease of j. G. O'Brien VS., the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
while sw hing. The railroad COM
rany settled at the time with O'Brien
for $3.50, but suit was afterwa d
brought against the company for
's4,00) The jury ignored defendants
plea of settlement and q lowed plain
if 81, 900, less The $3.50 already paid.
A case which is @, eating great in
terest will come up for trial in the SUI
pcrior cour5 at Keokuk shortly, IL
beirg suit for $1,000 'n,ti uted by
the widow O. G. w. Belts against the
St. Louis, keokuk e. Northw estern
railw Y. Belts, a Pullman car porter,
was kiIIe at Burlington in October,
1889, and the sui is to recover dam
ages for sumo. Strong legal talent
from abroad is engaged on the case,
ard it promi:e5 to be hard fought
battle.
In the United States court at Fort
Dodge, the jury rem Tered verdict of
b. Kelley, of Manson, against the
Illinois Central Railway Company.
Mrs. Kelley sued for $4,000, ella ming
damages to that amount bccau Of
the death OF her husband, who step
ped from u. trastle at Council H!ll,
Ill. The verdict was based on the
fact that the company was negligent
in not providing railing in such q
dangerous place.
The county boards of supervisors
have at last finished tho canvass of
the vote cast ut the last elel ton. The
total vote cast for governor Is 420. PA
| in Iowa. This Is the largest vote
ever cast in the state. OF this Boies
| (dem.) received 2O7.575; Wheeler
trep.) 1919, $50; Wcstfall (alliance)
1l.91S; Gibson (pro.) 962. Boies'
| plurality 1916. OF the other can
! didates on the democratic ticket, Bes-
tow, for lieutenant governor comes
nearest to Boies, his plurality being
APP.
The executive committee of the
Iowa Farmers Alliance. which was in
! session in Des Moiaes, deci led to re-
| distr.c the state, re lucing the number
of districts from eleven to nine. The
| 70 lowing dis riot organizers were
J elected: i. A. Booth of Neville; W.
| ID. orbes OF Wall Lake; w. Z. Bell
of Marion; John Howatt, of linton;
ii. b. Barues, of Fairfield; G. H..
Severence OF Dawson; j. NJ. Gala
Cher, of Nicola; w. Il. Ditler, of Lake
CITY, and j. w. Whitman, of Des
Moines.
There was new deal made in the
Dubuque Electrict Street Railway,
Light and Power Company, known as
the Allen & Sidney line. The floating
Indebtedness of the company was fund
ed and mortgage of 100000 given
to cover other los .. President Allen
will retire in day or two. new
| president and directory wi, be cleo cd
and the conGrol of tho plant will pass
into the hands of Dubuque parties
The eas 'ern bondholders are repre-
scented by Foster & Curtis, OF Boston.
I he mortgage runs to Thos Lane, OF
| Davenport, as trus &c.
Last summer Ed. COPYRIGHT. a
well known gambler died, after sew
eral years of illness, leaving property
500, 600. His wife produced a deed
to all this property, made in Is 6, and
claimed it. Suit has now been COM
| menced in the district court by Court
rights two sisters and three chi dren
OF deceased sister. to set aside the
transfer and have the estate divided,
claiming that at the time the deed
was made COPYRIGHT was insane from
long illness and his wife took advan-
tage of his enfeebled condition to get
him to make the deed.
In 1872 Treasurer Thompson of
Decatur county was found to be de-
faulter. He disappeared and the
people of Decatur county had long
supposed him to be dead. A few days
since man was found dead on the
railroad tracks at Olympia, Wash.
He was there known as DR.. S. G.
Smith, but upon investigation of his
papers he was found to be G.. S.
Thompson, the embezzler. He had
gone to Olympia from Llano couny.
Texas, where he had been since leav-
ing Iowa. He left papers stating his
ueldtcdItOn WAS uue 10 100 muCn con-
fidence in protested :riends.
There was competitive drill at
Cornell college, Mt. Vernon, and six
companies entered the contest as fol-
lows: Company a, Captain ID. A.
McBaruty; Company b, Captain Fred
kirkpatrick; Company G, Captain w.
+. Duro; Company ID, Captain w. &.
Rigby; Company L, Captain G. w.
Graham; Company + also captainized
by w. G.. Rigby. Company L took
first prize, scoring go points. The
other companies ranged from So 10
500. The feature was the ladies sur
prise drill. Gen, W. l.. Davis, of
Cedar Rapids, was in charge, assisted
by Col. +. w. Mahin, of Clinton, and
Capt. j. IL. Moffett, of Vinton.
A gang OF professional burglars and
safe blowers visited Indianola, and
three shattered sales in us many differ
ent stores, and numerous empty money
drawers are the res lit The thieves
secured $1,000 in stamps and $500 in
in cash and re gisteI ed letters and