Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-08-11

county III search OF Il g nod farm. |
suitable farm was fou nd and Mr.. |
Smith loaned the ras Gals $4,000 to |
,clnch tie bargain. hey left for
itown to make out the p apers and draw
itheir money and have not since been
iseen. A strange thing about the whole !
matter is that Mr.. Smi IN saws he is a
for all the county papers
and daily or two
rather singular q accident occurred
along the St. Louis, keollulx & North
western railway trac ( in the southern
part of Keokuk. just .as a south bound
passenger train went by, blast in the
rocky bluff exploded aud great stones
were hurled again st the smoking car
(, and crashed throu gh it. William Burt,
an elderly gentlem an residing ut SO Wa
bash avenue, Chi cago, I'D who travels
for the Norwich. Lock Manufacturing
company Roanoke, Va. was struck in
sthe head by a stone. Both upper and
Flower jaws We're broken In several
I places and a great hole crushed in his
! face. w. B. Gaines, of Essex, Iowa,
I travelling man, was, also injured about
J, the head Burt WIS taken to Keol<uk
and taken to st. J oscph's Hospital He
will probably de. Carnes continued
his journey sout a.
William Eler y, an employee of the
Edison Electr C Light company, was
fatally injure 4 by falling from a pole
at the corne of East Thirteenth and
Walnut, DE Moines, while at work
Elery was It once taken to his residence
At 539 We it Sixth street, where he died
in lev minutes. He had been at work
at the top of the pole and had descended
about ten feet. when he fell twenty
five feet to the ground. In falling he
strrIclx wire and turned, striking the
+ sr ound on his head and sustaining in.
yuries from which he died Elery was
about "A years old and unmarried. He
had been in the city four years. lie
was the sole support of his parents,
There was only one witness to the
tragedy, his fellow workman, c. c.
Ames Elery either slipped and fell or
was overcome by the heat.
An explosion of kerosene oil at Cres-
ton caused the death of Mrs Charles
Holft and seven-year- daughter,
while Mr. Holft is now lying in very
critical condition, badly burned about
the face and hands and suffering ter
ribly internally. Mrs. Holft hau start
ed the fire to prepare the morning
meal and as it was slow heating the
A cooking utensils on the stove lid was
y | Ill al,
While standing thus with the can in
her hand the explosion occurred and
Mrs. Holft was burned beyond recog-
milton. The burning oil was thrown
to all parts of the house, covering the
daughter and husband. The explosion
startled the neighbors, who turnedrln a
fire alarm and rescued the inmates of
the house. At few minutes past nine
Mrs. lIolft and the little daughter
breathed their last.
During the year 1850 Brevet Major
Woods, with Company Il, Sixth United
States Regulars, proceeded to construct
and garrison a military post at Fort
Dodge, by order of the secretary of
war, May 81 of that year. Barracks
officers quarters and various other
buildings We're constructed, among
which was p gnard house constructed
of hewed logs Upon the outside of
the guard house, across one side and
one end, hooks were driven into the
logs at the proper height for the semi
suspension of soldiers by the thumbs
as punishment for misdemeanors.
There were seven pairs of hooks, +
the suspension of seven soldiers at
once, in "a command consisting of one
company. Since the soldiers left in
lS53, the guard house was used as a
stable antil three years ago, when it
was torn away to prepare the grounds
for a $4,000 school house, These facts
4 are of interest now in view of the dis
:, cussion occasioned by the punishment
of Private Iams az Homestead.
The mystery Surrounding the disap-
pearance of Judge GARRISON has not yet
been cleared, though hundreds of his
friends from Omaha have joined in the
search for his body which is supposed
to lie at the bottom of Honey Creek
e lake, near Council Bluffs. The mystery
has been deepencd by the discovery of
footprints in the mud leading from the
: place where the boat containing the
! Judges clothes was found, toward a
clump of bushes on the bank of the
, lake, and also the discovery of cloth
ing tag there marked Size 3s, price
So" Several pieces of Irvine and some
, ! al
has given ground for the theory that
the Judge was not drowned, but that
ne left his clothes in the boat, put on a
new suit on the bank and disappeared.
The judges friends Indignantly scout
the idea, but the discoveries are caus-
) ing a good deal of talk which, added to
tb e fact that the body has not been
ound in the shallow lake, makes a
strong case against the drowning the
I ory. His life was insured for $50, 600.
The Creston city council met to inves'
+. tigate the charges against City Mar
Z, shall w. L. Maxwell of seduction,
: bribery, extortion of money fiom gam
y blers and other minor things. The
I council chamber contained over SOC
e Taxpayers and business men, who had
IS come at the request of the mayor tc
e witness the action of the council. AT
i terra preliminary war of words, affidavits
containing charges of the most
II abominable character were read and
= statements made. Alderman Wilkins
t then stated that witnesses were pres
n en-. to prove these charges and others
n Alderman Pontow said that he had
If professional evidence of the guilt o.
= the accused. Alderman More ther
If introduced resolution to treinstat'
e the marshal and instruct the clerk tc
n draw warrant for back pay The
% resolution also says that 1--WE do mo-
y desire to investigate the charges made
N against the private character o