Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-14


raising industry in northern Iowa
decided boom. Wolves are being
slaughtered by hundreds and in short
time will be annihilated. Farmers
whose sheep were killed by the wolves
as fast as they could raise them in the
past are buying more sheep and going
into sheep raising with increased con-
fidence. County auditors arc kept
busy paying the bounty.
At Des MONIES recently the Crocker
school building situated at the corner
of Sixth and School streets, was COM
pletely Quilted by fire. The scholars
under the complete control of the
teachers, drilled from the building and
no accidents occurred. The fire was
started by the carelessness of some
timers, who were putting on tin
roof, in upsetting gasoline lamp used
in heating their soldering irons. The
loss will amount to about Sl2 .OOo fully
insured.
George Marsh, who lives few miles
United States court at Council Bluffs
last week, and while there he drank
freely of bad liquor He started home
on top of a passenger car and while
enroute, west of Malvern, he was
thrown from the coach, He fell thirty
feet, striking on his breast, then bound
ing struck the wire fence forty feet
away, dislocating his knee. He was
picked up by the section men and sent
to Villisca.
A. +. Norton, farmer living near
Belle Plaine, committed suicide by
hanging himself. Norton was always
very jovial, and though he had been
more quiet than usual for the past few
days, little was thought of it. as it was
attributed to slight attack of the
grip. Others say he had sold and
decided away his farm and afterwards
regretted the act, which grew to des-
pondency, with suicide as the final
end. He was brother of Rev. Frank
Norton, of West Union.
Henry Ravens, an aged veteran of
the war of the rebellion, fell backward
from load of cord wood he was un
loading at the dooryard of his home, a
mile and half east of Colfax, and
alighting on his head, received injuries
to his spine which resulted fatally. The
accident was caused by Mr.. Ravens
stumbling in stepping backward, his
foot having caught under stick of
wood, and from the moment he was
carried into the house there was COM
plete paralysis of the system below the
neck.
The Fort Dodge cow must go and the
horse and the mule too. The city coun-
ell held a special meeting and decided
to reform it altogether. The old stock
ordinance giving certain liberties in
certain parts of the city to certain an
nance passed. The new ordinance pro-
hibits any kind of live stock from run
ming at large in any part of the city at
any time day or night. This is the
first time that the COW has ever been
completely bowled out by Fort
Dodge city council
Miss Anna Engvall, domestic in the
employ of II. w. Haislet of the Rock
Island, was brutally assaulted at Dav-
export in a woodshed in the rear of the
residence, whittier she had gone for
wood. She was attacked by strange
man, wko struck her several blows on
on the head with piece of iron. The
brute was frightened away by her cries
for help. The impression of the neigh
borhood is that he intended to burg lar
ize the house, as the girl is often left
alone. The perpetrator of the crime
made good his escape.
Chas. A, Croft, a prominent young
druggist of Perry, committed suicide
by taking thirty grains of morphine.
He had been in Des Mpines for two
days, probably dissipating, and on his
arrival home was severely repremand-
ed by his father. He Immediately took
the morphine and by hard and constant
attention three doctors were able to
keep him alive until noon the next day.
He was % years of age and had every
opportunity in business way to do
well. The parents are almost heart
broken and it is feared the mother
may lose her mind.
John Ewing and wife were arrested
at Fl. Madison for cruelty abusing and
starving foster child which they took
from the foundlings' home at Spring
field, Ill. She tells that, in Furnishing
her, Ewing used strap, welting her
iercely over the back, and that Mrs.
Ewing told her that in punishment for
an offense she would burn her with a
red hot iron and that she proceeded to
heat poker and fulfilled her promise,
raising fearful blisters about her left
leg and nearly killing her with the
pain; that she also told her she should
not have food for a week and was re-
fused 1T.
The licensing of saloons has been the
talk the past week in Iowa City. Sew
eral petions, signed in all by more than
100 citizens, have been presented to
the city council to license so-called
restaurants, which are in reality sa-
looms. The first petition was by the
restaurant keepers themselves, asking
that they might be permitted to pay
S16.6O per month. The council, after
postponing action two or three eve
nings, unanimously passed an ordi,
nance which virtually licenses saloons.
The best class of citizens are in
dignant over this action of the city
government.
c. A. Wallace, notorious character
is under arrest in Burlington on tele-
graphic orders from Peoria, where he
is charged with running off with a
large amount of merchandise from a
store in which he was employed as a
clerk. He packed the goods in a num-
Der of trunks and shipped them to
Burlington, where they were captured
on their arrival by the police. He
claims he intended selling the goods
and turning the money over to Mrs.