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

yellow species, all the way from two to
five feet in length, some of them carry
ing ten rattles. They were in a semi
dormant condition, not having fully
recovered from their winter nap.
Sig. Declair, the street fakir who alb
Quoted Miss Lillian Fielding from her
home in Ashland, Wis, two weeks ago,
arrived in Marshalltown with the girl.
The police had been warned to look
out for the couple and spotted them
soon after they arrived. Learning that
he was being Swallowed, Declair eluded
the officers and fled, leaving the girl
behind. She is in charge of the author
tiles awaiting the coming of relatives.
She says Declair has treated her with
savage brutality, beating her repeat
eddy.
As the German Methodist church
founded in Dubuque thirty-four years
ago, prohibits drinking, cards and dane
ing, the leading members seeded rec
emily and gave the pastor, Rev. Pfeif-
fer, a call to an independent church
which he accepted A council of nine
ministers, before whom he was defended
by Rev. Kraus, of Freeport, has now
suspended him. The report acquits
him of publicly favoring the drinking
of intoxicants, but pronounces his ut
terances on the temperance question
unwise.
Late at night Mrs. John Dryer, of
Marshalltown, wife of a travelling man,
was aroused by an intruder in her
room who had placed his hand on her
person. She screamed loudly and
frightened HIM away. Next day
negro named George Harrison, living
across the street, was arrested for the
offense.t His shoes tit the tracks made
about the house and Mrs. Dryer thinks
he is the guilty man. Harrison was
held for trial on 81, 500 bonds and jailed.
There is considerable excitement over
the attempted outrage.
The hired girl of DR.. Huston of FL
don went to the cellar and drew a
quart of gasoline in an old coffee pot
to replenish the reservoir of the gaso-
line stove, and in passing through the
kitchen, where the hot cook stove
stood, the gasoline exploded. Mrs.
Huston was sitting by the cook stove
combing her little daughters hair and
small son was also in the room. Mrs.
Huston was burned to a crisp all over
and died at 3p. m. The girls arms
and limbs are horribly burned and she
may die. The two children are also
badly burned but not seriously.
Prof. j. c. Arthur has been appointed
chairman of the committee having in
charge the arrangements for worlds
congress of botanists to be held in con-
nection with the worlds fair. Profess
sor Arthur is an Iowa man and his Sc
lection for this responsible position
should be a matter of state pride. He
graduated from the Agricultural col
lege at Ames in 1872, having taken a
special course in botany under that
well known biologist, DIR. c. E. Bessey,
now OF the Nebraska State University.
Prof. Arthur took post graduate
course at Ames and afterward went
east to study He afterwards held the
fellowship in the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, earning there the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy. During recent
years he has been botanist to the New
York Experimental station at Ithaca.
He has done large amount of original
II. A..:l> 4 a.
have been of much Importance. In
1876 he published the first check list of
Iowa Phanaenogams ever issued and
has supplemented it from time to time.
history of the 90 occurred in the scene
of the washout near Dudley, and cost
the lite OF one of the most valued Of
ficials of that road, that of Supt. G. g.
Wilson, of the Iowa lines. 1t was about
0 o'clock in the evening that Superin-
tendent Wilson, General Freight and
Passenger Agent j. M. Bechtel and Su-
perintendent o. E. Stewart arrived at
the scene of the washout east of Dud-
ley on the Avery creek. The creek was
SWOllCu Will tuC ICCChb Edluo anu was
eight feet deep, running like mill
race. 1t was not over the tracks, but
was cutting through under at q rapid
rate. On arrival at the scene Superin-
tendents Wilson and Stewart set out to
locate the break, and as they walked
along the track superintendent Wilson
stepped upon a loose tie which tipped
him into the stream. He wore heavy
boots and big overcoat, and was pow
erless to contend with the terrible cur
rent. In a few seconds he was caught
by Superintendent Stewart and Mr.
Stevens, farmer, and soon removed
with difficulty and taken to his private
car, which was at once run into Abba,
where physicians were called and they
thought that the superintendent life
could be saved, but he lived only an
hour after reaching Alba, dying at
1850 p. m.