Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-10-20

| twenty-five animals were sold, but a :
| such low figures that the sale wac
stopped before all had been offered.
The Des Moines branch of the We
mans Foreign Mission society of the
| Methodist church, in session at Du
buque, reelected Mrs Ida Pierson Of
Des Moines, presidents; Mrs. Gatchell
Of Des Mcines, recording secretary
Mrs. Houston of Burlington, cores.
ponding secretary, and the old boarC
of managers and conference officers.
Cameron, Mo-, was chosen for the quar-
terly meeting in April and Hannibal,
Mo-, for the Tenth annual meeting. A
protest against opening the worlds
fair on Sundays and selling liquor or
the grounds was ordered prepared.
The appropriation committee reported
$4,000 necessary for the coming years
work. Mrs. Bodloy and Mrs. Howe,
returned missionaries, and two Chinese
girls studying medicine in Americ;
preparatory to entering missionary
work IN India, addressed the conven.
ton.
| The destruction of the town of SalX
was almost total. The town has about
700 population and is situated abou,
twelve miles from Sioux City, Two
elevators, church and dozen resi-.
dences are about all that is left. The
fire commenced at 7 o'clock, caused by
a boy named Bidgel Jeraund dropping
a lighted match into the bung of al
empty oil barrel The flames soor
| spread TO his fathers store, and as /;
high wind was blowing, there was no
thing to do but let the flames burn out,
which they did by midnight. House
hold goods were largely saved anC
much of the contents of the stores, but
the loss is 50 heavy that the town is
practically ruined. The total loss foots
up TO 200, with insurance less than
half. The principal losses follow:
Huntley Ingerson, dry goods and post
office, $4,000; Felix Jeraund, general
merchandise, $4,000; p. w. South,
worth, hardware, So, 900; j. C. Carrier.
bank, $4,000; j. f. Taylor, drugs, 81.
900, James Medley, residence, $1,000;
Claus Erickson, blacksmith shop and
residence, S2, 100; V. d. Lapierer, three
dwellings, 81, 700; E. Harrington, board
ing house, $1,000; Methodist church,
$4,000; school house, 1000; town hall,
$1,000. In all there were about fifty
buildings burned, of course many of
them very small
Two boys, John, aged ., and Willie,
aged 3, sons of Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Nc
Namara, of 1243 West Ninth street,
Des Moines, were killed by electric ear
| No. II, going south on Ninth street.
The little boys were playing on the
street when the younger attempted to
cross the street car track ahead of a
rapidly approaching car only a few
yards away. The older boy, realizing
the fearful danger which threatened
| his little brother, rushed heroically to
the rescue. The motorneer, Mr.. Charles
Mcconnell, reversed the power, but to
no avail. The speed was too great
the distance to the children too short.
The car sped onward and passed over
the children, and the next moment
! their mangled remains were tenderly
eXtricated from under the car by Mr..
! Mcnamara and bystanders. Mrs. Nc
! Namara, who was sitting on the porch
in front of her house, had been wit
ness to the awful tragedy. Life was
extinct when Willie was taken up and
| John lived but a few minutes Mr..
! Mcconnell, who was one of the safest
most careful motormen on the road,
cried like child when he saw the
| heartrending result of the accident, and
it is believed he will never entirely re-
cover from the shock. While every
one is satisfied the accident was abso-
| lutely unavoidable, yet Mr.. Mcconnell
will always regret that he had even
an unavoidable part in the distrcssin g
affair.
A great deal of excitement prevails
at Abba over the arrest made few
days ago of a woman dressed in mans
attire on the charge of adultery and
| lewdness. A woman, whose name can
not lie ascertained, appeared in Ottum-
wa along in the spring, dressed in neat
| fitting trousers and other articles gen
| orally used by the sterner sex, and pro.
| cured employment on the Milwaukee
section south of Ottumwa. She made
her headquarters in that city for some
time, passing as man, and was seen a
great deal in the company of a man
who drives delivery wagon there by
the name of Davis. Leaving Ottumwa
she went to Burlington, then to Mt.
Pleasant, all the time doing mans
work and receiving for it mans pay.
In her wanderingS she at last struck
Abba, and procured employment on a
ballast gang, which were stripping
ballast at Maxon. She boarded at a
restaurant on the south side of the
square kept by lady named Duncan,
who says she always paid her board
regularly and seemed desira BILE
boarder but always insisted on doing
her own chamber work and would al
low no one to enter her apartme nts,
which she kept locked while absent.
About week ago millinery store
was broken into in Abba and she being
stranger and her actions peculiar
was suspected of being implicated in
the robbery, for which she and her
partner were arrested in the public
park, where they were making arrange
ments to keep batch in the ballast
works. After her arrest Mr.. Duncan
had her re-arrested charged with
adultery and lewdness. The woman
or Jim as she is known, confessed
her sex and said that as soon as her
trial was over she would go back to
her work at Maxon. She swore she
would never again don petticoats, but
all efforts to get her to disclose her
name were of no avail "Jim,' or
MRS. Jim" was born in Indiana, Sep
TENDER 20, 1868, and moved to Missouri
in 1888, where she was married. She