Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-02-04


postpone the meeting, and same win be
held some time later.
The habeas corpus case of ''Stormy"
Jordan, the former proprietor of vari
Gus joints in Ottumwa, has been on
trial in the federal court at Keoluk.
Judge Woolson talSiug the matter under
advisement, and announcing that he
would render his decision during the
recess if not given at the present term
of court. The impression among law
yers is that Jordan viii have to pay the
$4,000 fines standing against him.
The existence of coal in Buchanan
county, in beds of paying quantities, is
so firmly believed that n company
known as the Taylor & Fleming Min
ng Company has been formed for the
purpose of leasing large tracts of land
and the prosecuting of coal mining.
For. several years, in the process of
sinking wells, coal has been found, and
thorough investigation will be made
to see if it is to be found in paying
quantities.
Bill Myers, the noted sneak thief and
desperate, is in Jail at Ottumwa, a
the police authorities are jubilant. lie
is the fellow who plotted with lot OF
tramp prisoners in the jail to slug the
sheriff and get their freedom, and would
have accomplished it but for the timely
interference of the deputy. The full,
ness of the plot was not revealed until
Myers Jail term expired and the matter
has since been kept quiet in order to
apprehend him.
Tree peddlers are again on the war
path and in spite of the many cautions
from the press they succeed in securing
many orders. Don't be swindled again
by these irresponsible men but order
direct of some well known reliable
firm. The Iowa Seed Co., who have
for over 20 years been located at Des
Moines, publish the only descriptive
catalogue in Iowa of fruit trees and
plants, evergreen, hardy shrubs, roses,
etc, and it will be guide to all.
Great preparations! are being made
at Ottumwa for the coming state en-
campment of the Grand army, which
meets in that city in May. The COM
mlttees were appointed, and the vol
luminous correspondence received al
ready indicates great gathering. All
the public halls are engaged for the
campfres, the programme and recep-
ton committees business. Command
er-in-Chief Palmer, General Alger and
other men of prominence will be pres
emit.
A man by the name of Frank Miller,
living near Indianola, was injured
while working about steam shovel
near Carbon Cliff, ILL., About two GU
bic yards of frozen earth caved in from
the side of the pit in which he was
working, and pinned him down against
the plank. The man was taken to
Davenport and placed in Mercy hos
pital, where his injuries were attended
to. The man was badly crushed in the
region of the stomach and internal in
juries are feared.
Casper Hart, of Marshalltown. an old
soldier, died suddenly of paralysis of
the heart. He left will, one of the
provisions of which is to the effect that
a monument shall be erected to his
memory at one of three places mem
toned in Marshalltown. The block on
which he desires to be buried is only
three blocks from the postoffice, and a
city ordinance prohibits burial inside
the city limits. 1t is likely his two
sons will contest the will, as he only
allowed 81 900 to each.
The depot at Pleasant Plain, on the
c. r. /. & P. road, small town three
miles southwest of Brighton, burned
down with contents, nothing being
saved. Two grain houses belonging to
A. l.. Crumly were also burned, with
$40 bushels of clover seed, 1000 bushels
of oats, 400 bushels of wheat, 100 bush
els of timothy seed and some doors and
sashes Loss to Mr.. Crumly over S., 600;
insurance, S1,400. 1t is not known how
the FIRE originated, but supposed from
the stove in the depot
A well dressed and gentlemanly APP
pearing man was discovered walking
about in, the corridor of the Dubuque
city hall. His excited manner attrac-
ted the attention of the officials and
they began to question him. He an
nounced that the object of his visit to
Dubuque was to destroy the city for its
SINS. as Sodom was destroyed. He was
anxious to know where he could get
enough poison and cannon to accomp-
lish the job. He was promptly arrested
and placed in the lookup. He is an en-
tire stranger
Near Oskaloosa Chas. Atkins, one of
the Sewers Manufacturing company's
men at work on the new castings now
being put in on the Des Moines river
bridge, was seriously hurt. A large
block of iron weighing forty pounds
was knocked off the top of the bri ige
by a rope, fell twenty feet and struck
Atkins glancing lick on the head.
His skull was fractured on the left
side, the cut being two inches long, and
paralysis of the side followed He was
taken to town Immediately and re-
manned unconscious for several hours.
He is still in a precarious condition.
A serious accident happened to Louis
Reidsel, living near Cherokee, while
working around a power shelter. His
coat sleeve was caught by knuckle of
the tumbling rod and his arm was
wrapped around it and broken in
number Of places. 1t was some time
before the horse power could be stop
ped, and Reidsefs body was whipped
against the ground in an unmerciful
manner The doctor who was called
to attend the injured man, says there
is not bone above the elbow, to ex-
coed two inches in length, but what is
broken; but the injured man will
probably recover.
At the recent session of the Iowa
State Medical Association at Des
MoiuaS the follnuino af3ioars xyara