Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-09
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

The board of supervisors of Dubuque
county voted $500 for the relief of the
Sioux City sufferers by the flood.
Fred Grafton. charged with the MUIR
der of Mabel Swarts in Des Moines
house of i'll fame, was found guilty OF
murder in the second degree.
small child of John Drake Of Eldon
drank cup of concentrated I've its
mother had prepared for the washing,
installing 1t for milk, and died.
The jury in the trial Of James Dooley
for the murder of Mrs. Coons and
daughter at Prescott on May IL, re-
turned verdict and fixed the penalty
at hanging.
Charles Lee, one of the boy murder
ers of Street Car Conductor Lochner at
Dubuque, was denied new trial and
was sentenced to twenty-one years in
the penitentiary.
The overhead system Dcsplaines
storage battery car was placed in OPP
Grafton on the Rhombcrg or Main
street line at Dubuque. The equip
ment consists Of ten Detroit motor cars
and fifteen trailers.
The postoffice at New Albany was
burglarized and cleaned out of stamps.
The two burglars were arrested when
about to cross the Minnesota line and
taken to Dubuque by Deputy United
States Marshal Bean.
Margaret Ellen Clark, well known
in Dubuque for thirty years, fell down
stairs and broke her neck. Death was
almost instantaneous. She was the
daughter of Engineer John Clark OF
the Chicago, Minneapolis & ST. Paul
road.
James Mahcr, the man placed under
arrest at Council Bluffs, on suspicion
of being connected in the shooting of
Wade, tie hack driver AMI w. N
Jones, has been released, there being
nothing to hold him upon. He will
leave the city at once.
At the preliminary trial at Sioux
City, of number of farmers for larceny,
there was no prosecution and the de-
PENDANTS were discharged. They were
accused of stealing lumber and paving
blocks which had been washed down
the river in the flood.
One night recently there was vio-
lent ring at the door bell of Conductor
John German, of Dubuque. On gong
to the door a babe about five months
old was found. 1t is girl, and is
dressed in clothes of linen material.
AS the couple have no children they
may adopt it.
Frank Finnegan, 7-year-old boy,
through his attorney has brought suit
against the State Electric company of
Clinton claiming $1,000 damages for
permanent injuries received by plain
tiff while he was playing about the
tracks of the company in North Clinton
few months ago.
N. II. Ball, member of Company b,
I. N. g., was placed under arrest at
his home at Davenport by Officer
Runge, and conducted to the jail,
where he spent the night. The charge
against him is that he converted to his
own use about $40 of the company's
money and refuses to make the short
age good.
Inquiries have been sent to Sioux
City by Jno T. Leach, of Colfax, re-
garding his two daughters and their
hus bands, John Birdie and Harry
Woods all of whom, it is feared, have
been lost In the flood. They moved
into the south part of Wood bury county
about two weeks before the flood and
located right where 1t was very dan
gerous.
The Mississippi river, which has spread
over thousands of acres of bottom land
during the last three weeks, is now fully
eight miles wide at Burlington and
within two feet of the highest water
mark known. The entrance to the
steamboat office is cut off and the water
covers the machinery in saw mill OPP
posite the city and threatens to carry
out the mill
An organized gang of burglars has
evidently entered the city of Cedar
Rapids The residence of C. Voter
was entered and jewelry and clothing
to the value of $500 taken, and later
the residence of Henry Rickel was Wis
tied, where several hundred dollars
worth of clothing and silverware was
stolen. Attempts were made to enter
other residences.
Maquoketa has sensation in the
fact that Aid. w. f. Blacks stock of
harness and carriages has been seized
by creditors for debts aggregating
over So so. In the meantime, it is re-
ported, Black has gone to parts I'M
known with fashionable young dress
makcr, Miss Emma Haven. Black OBJ
tanned divorce from his wife only
few days previous.
Much to the surprise of all parties no
evidence has been offered in the de-
Tense of the Balm case at Independence,
and counsel only asked for low bail
This was granted by Justice Jennings
and the figures placed at 81, 500. Great
Indignation was expressed at the
amount of bail and should it be fur
nished, Balm will be again arrested on
charge of abduction, the present
charge being assault and rape.
The annual conference of the Ger
man Baptists or Dunkards, convened
at Cedar Rapids. The standing COM
mittee met and selected the following
officers: Moderator, ID. Van Inman, OF
Mcpherson, Kan; reading clerk, M. J.
Mcclure, of Morrisonville, ILL., writing
clerk, D. L. Mills, of Mount Morris,
ILL.,; doorkeeper, s. II. Miller, of Water
loo Iowa. The members of the COM
mittee were nearly all present
George Wells, the 16-year-old boy
who was captured with his partner in
the act of burglarizing the residence of
Postmaster Treynor at Council Bluffs,
was acquitted by jury in the district
court, the verdict being reached after
five hours deliberation. The grounds
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