Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-22
CONDENSED STATE NEWS

Eugdr MOultOI, assistant 10 Superln-
tendent Riser of the Chicago and North.
western at Clinton, committed suicide
by shooting himself in the neck. Nc
cause IS assigned for the deed.
Attorneys for Thomas Gaffey, found
guilty of the murder of Ed. Buggy at
Fort Dodge, made motion for new
trial. Judge Stevens overruled the
motion. The defense will appeal
Allen Barnhill died at his residence
in osceola, aged So years Mr.. Barn.
hill had lived in Clarke county since
child, and served in the late war in
Company d, Thirty-ninth Iowa In.
fantry.
Rev. Aaron Thompson, retired
Presby minister, died at his
home in keokuk. He was 81 years old
and a native of Ohio and in his prime
was leader in the free Presbyterian
movement
The jury in the Graves trial at Du-
buque, in which the defendant was
charged with falsifying his accounts as
president of the defunct Commercial
bank Of that city, returned verdict of
guilty on every count
Elmer Sawyer, well-to-do farmer
living to miles south of Fairfax icid-
ed by hanging during tho abb of
mis- family. lie climbed up ladder in
the barn, tied halter around his neck
and beam overhead and jumped off,
breaking his neck. He was found by
his wife on her return from town No
cause could be assigned but insanity.
In the Webster district court Robt.
Miller and James Moran were SEN
fenced to fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary for attempting highway robbery.
Six saloofkeepers were fined $500 for
violating the prohibitory law. Swan.
son, the Dayton burglar, was sent up
for seven months A motion for a new
trial in the Gaffy case will pc argued
DIR. H. Ristine, one of the oldest and
best known physicians in eastern Iowa,
and for years chef surgeon for the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Norshern,
was stricken with paralysis. At first
grave doubts were entertained of his
recovery, but at present the symptoms
are regarded as some better. The fact
of his being "a years of age is greatly
against his recovery.
The six safe blowers arrested at
Burlington a few days ago, Supposed
to be implicated in the attempted bank
robbery, were taken to Martins
burg for the preliminary examination
and are desperate set of criminals.
One of the worst escaped at Hendrick
by Jumping from the train through the
car window while being escorted to the
county Jail at Sigourncy by the con.
stable.
The guests assembled, the ministe,
arrived and'thc bride was waiting ac-
cording to contract and invitation ut a
HillsborO, Iowa, home, but the groom
came not His name Is Montgomery,
and he lives in FIT, Madison, aud he
made 4 business trip TO Chicago and
was delayed. The wedding was conse-
quently not go. The groom returned
from Chicago the next morning and
will make a new try for it later
For the fifth time within distance
of thirty miles, a freight train was
wrecked at Waucoma. Six coal cars
were totally destroyed and the entire
train off the tracks with the trucks
smashed. A broken rail was the ca use.
The track was torn up and the ties cut
off for three hundred feet, and but for
the guard rail the entire train would
have gone off bridge thirty feet high,
and the entire crew probably been
killed.
Church people in Fort Dodge are in.
dignant over the malicious or insane
smashing of church windows that has
been going on lately. Within four
days the costly stained glass windows
of the Catholic, Presbyterian, Congre,
gational and Lutheran churches, the
four handsomest cdifices in the city,
have been shattered by stones thrown
from the outside. There is not the
slightest clue to the criminal, who is
PrODdOIy insane.
Matt OHallaran, boiler maker.
was shot by John Norman in Reeds
saloon at Dubuque. The two mer
had quarrcled a year ago, and at the
meeting the other evening the quar-.
rrl was renewed. O'Hallaran knocked
Norman down, and the latter left the
saloon with threats of vengeance. A
few moments later he returned with a
shotgun and poured ITS contents into
the shoulder and neck of OHallaran.
The wounded man is IN a precarioua
condition. Korman fed and has not
yet been arrested.
Rosa Brock, colorcd woman, was
sentenced by Judge Van Wageucn, al
Sioux City, to two years in the peni
Tertiary for highway robbery. Ono
night last August Rosa stopped Gar
rett ID. d. Young on Third street as hs
was going home and invited HIM to ac-
company her to questionable resort.
lie refused, and as he walked on home
She accompanied him. When they
reached dark alley Rosa pushed her
companion up against the side OF a
building ana held him fast while she
rifled his pockets of S35
Bloomfield coal mine at Dcs Moines
was the scene of n painful and serious
accident Monday noon. Duncan Elder
has charge of the cars running through
the galleries to the elevator. AS nc
stood beside the track, car derailed
and knocked out a prop supporting the
slate roof of the mine. A large body
of slate fell, fracturing his skull slightly
and crushing his leg so badly tina.
amputation will probably be necessary
HIS son, who was with him, was con.
siderably bruised but his injuries are
not considered dangerous.
John Fairbanks, Cana alan, who
came TO Geneva about year ago, was
robbed OF Slsi In Chicago, at a hotel in