Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-11-03

furnishing of cold storage. Capital,
SlOO,01o.
The Iowa weather and crop beurau
recently issued n circula" to crop cor
respondents asking estimates of per-
eentage on last years crops OF corn
and oats rem aiming in the hands of
producers up to October IS. The re-
ports received from elghty-four coun-
ties show an average of So per cent of |
corn and per cent of oats in farmers
hands. Some localities report to the |
effect that as much of the new crop |
has been consumed by feeders as there |
is remaining of the old crop.
Edward Fuller, who SAID he was a
.arlner from Cherokee, Iowa, appeared
ut police headquarters in Plttsburg,
md asked to be provided with means
20 reach his home He said he had just
come from New York, where he had
been a victim of the green goods swim
Hers" He gave the swindlers 81, 900
for satchel which he soon found was
| filed with nothing but bricks. He
only had funds enough left to carry
him as far as Pittsburg, and he wanted
to get home. The police notified his
sister of his predicament.
William II. Cransdale was sent to the
! Anamosa pemUentiary from Davenport,
sentenced to three years, for seducing
Mary Strattou by means of false mar
riage. He forged the marriage certth-
cate and the names of the witnesses,
and had an unknown accomplish act as
clergyman under the name of Rev. Nj.
E. Stone 1t now transpires that he
has wife in Vancouver, Washington,
married in the same way July 1, 1892
Her marriage certificate is like that of
Miss Strattol, and made out in the
same hand, the clergyman there being
Rev. L. S. Stone. This woman states
that Cansdale has another wife at Car
dova, ILL.,, and fourth one at Column
bus, Ohio.
The residents of Taylor station, Pot
tawattamie county, and vicinity have
been troubled great deal of late by
chicken thieves. The hen coops have
been devastated in all directions, and
the trusting fowls have been wooed out
OF their nests in the trees by an appli-
cation of fire and sulphur, until the
chances for pot.pie in that vicinity are
becoming somewhat slim. man
named Hamilton is the latest victim.
He and his family were at supper one
evening recently when the thief came
along and robbed his hen rOost of
nearly 100 inmates, from under his very
nose. To add to Mr.. HamiltOn's exas-
peration, the visitor traded broken
wagon tongue for a good one that was
on wagon in Hamilton's barn.
, The Iowa Baptist Association closed
, a six days session at Mason City. Many
| of the leading lights of the donomina-
1 ton were present and took active part
in deliberation. The convention proper
also closed. The convention was en-
, tertained by addresses from Rev. II.
. Williams, Rev. j. d. Burr, j. J. Powell,
! Rev. T. X. S. Bovee, Rev. J. S. Tester
son and others. The national presi-
dent of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union, John II. Chapman, OF Chicago,
4 was present, and impressed the con-
ventlon-with his spiritual powers. He
, was chosen to the position from the
ranks of travelling man, and is filling
the position with marked ability and
success State President L. II. Fo>
was one of the prominent figures pres
u ent. The attendance was about 300
. The next convention will be held a
Davenport.
A An attempt at kidnapping took place
!. near Pleasantvillc, at the home of thu
q father of the woman IN the case, Mr.
Jacob Grant, whose daughter was mar
ried and afterwards left her HUSBAND
on account of his cruelty and bruta
treatment, and has since made he
: home, together with her LITTLE
y boy, with him. AS the two wer'
o walking in the garden at dusk on
night of last week, they were APP
i preached by man with SLOUGH ha
u over his eyes, who attempted to snatcl
> the boy from his mothers arms. Sh
Ii resisted, and her father attempted t.
20 release her from the grasp of tn
u villain, who was choking her. when tn
is man struck him a vicious blow with
D. revolver, lnhicting dangerous woun'
E upon his head. He then ran to tn
r buggy in which he had driven to tn
ID place with a companion and made hi
'o escape.
- The ultra fashionable society Q
Davenport is all agog over the elope
i" ment of Miss Minnie Duden wit
Charles Mapes, who is supposed to b
" already married and is known to hav
a. been married twice during his thirt
H. wears of existence. Those who ar
d supposed to know say that he has neve
Oh been divorced from the second wife
It. The match between Minnie and hiI
nt was opposed strenuously by the mothe
nj Of the girl, who is an accomplishe
'n musician, and is very popular favorit
re in social circles. The mother objecte
to her daughter keeping compan
at with the young man at all, and the n
es suit of her interference was the elop,
IL ment The couple are supposed
ly have gone from Moline TO Port Byro
"a and to have been married there despit
H. the girls assurance in farewell lettt
'st to her mother y It they would be ma
n ried at the residNRce of the groom
ny parents in Davenpo>
ny A human skull anN other huma
~ bones, presumably of one individual
were found south of Algona, but thei
ne is no theory of how they came Their
to 1t seems that Mr.. Tom Bennett was Of
we south of his slaughter yard communiT
at with nature and incidentally picking
IRE few hickory nuts when he ran onto tn
Vi human skull. The place is alone
10 and heavily wooded -rayir5, and Il
y" find made Tom think, no doubt,
zen murders and robberies and such thing
ieu He reported his find, and DIR. Carrie
nat and Mr.. Warren, of the U. d. NJ,
duced him to go with them and she