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

Frank Pierce, of Dies Moines, who
murdered old man Wishart, police
man, in that city last summer, is
on trial at Indianola.
Judge Conrad, of Res Moines, has
decided that Parsons, Secretary of the
state senate, was legally elected and
that Cliff was legally ousted
The fight on the saloon syndicate at
Ottumwa has been resumed and the
court fined Mike Common and Pete Ma
loney $500 each for violating injunc-
tions n
G. w. Williams sold to the Cloverdale
stock farm, Philadelphia, Can't Tell
full sister to AxtelD and five head of
highly bred trotters. The prices are
private.
Mrs. Nancy Shay, aged SO years, an
early settler of Keokuk, was found
dead in bed She had suffered from
lagrippe, but was not considered dan
gerously ill.
A Council Bluffs item says the Chau-
tauqua managers are endeavoring to
secure date with Grover Cleveland
and Major Mckinley, to discuss the
tariff question
The Iowa Sheep Breeders and Wool
Growers association has decided to
hold summer meeting and exhibition
ct Ames on the college grounds about
the LIST of May.
There is talk of the FIVE towns of
Dennison, Charter Oak, Dow City, Ma
nilla and Vail forming a base ball
league for the summer. Only home
players will be allowed.
At Burlington, Sam KNAPP bride
groom of six months, shot his young
wife. He then tried to kill his mother
in-law, Mrs. johnson, who interfered
to save her daughters life.
The libel case against the New
Sharon Star has been dismissed by
order of J. $. Sears, who claimed that
his character has been injured by that
paper for the sum of $4,000,
John Ewing and wife were arrested
at Fort Madison for beating, burning
and starving a foster child which they
took from the foundlings' home at
Springfield, Ill. The couple came to
Fort Madison from Pontoosue. Ill.
B. f. Tillinghast, editor of The In
dependent Democrat, and secretary of
the Iowa Russian Famine Relief asso-
ciatlon, is in New York City, where he
went to make arrangements for the
shipment of stores contributed by
A meeting of the principal butter
and egg shippers of the Mississippi val
ley was held at Ottumwa and an asso-
citation formed. One of the objects is
TO establish produce refrigerator line,
and steps were taken toward perfect
ing the project.
Governor Boyd of Nebraska has
offered reward of $500 for the arrest
and conviction of the murderer or
murderers of Amer Gafford and Mabel
Mooney, who were killed In an Omaha
house of i'll fame recently. Gafford
was resident ii Des Moines.
DIR. S. d. COX, for many years a
prominent pl;.; ician in that part of the
state and who was also member of
the board OF health examiners, also in
sane commissioners, died at Sigourney
after lingering illness of la grippe.
The immediate cause was heart failure.
Fort Dodge has finally decided to ac-
cept the proposition of Prof. Tobin, of
Iowa Falls, to erect commercial col
lege. A bonus of 1900 is given.
The building will be three story one
costing $4,000 and will accommodate
three hundred students. 1t will be
completed early in the fall
A young man twenty eight years old,
nalnsd Warner living at Mt Auburn,
committed suicide. Warner, but re-
GENTLY came from illinois and started
lin husines~ buying the business of w.
,lsstlv.s Nor wood: 1t lis supposed that he
ssWas dissap peinted in the business, and
t.heeoming. despQndent committed the
~ puijng the corn palace festival of
j last yeas Young man named Charles
F'NyhaieR worked in the dining room of
{ the Booge hotel. After the corn palace
i, closed ,Whalen left the city, Last
week ne killed friend named Gerald
Spaulding, at Portage, Wis. After
ward he was captured in st. Paul In
attempting to escape from Captain
gOGonnor he was shot and seriously If
'not1fatafly injured. i
~ The. bonds have. been approved and
scor,t,o ~ owl, ,.1 od for a. la,cra ~, cl,,rr
! house plant to be built in Clinton this
year by a company capitalized for
$4,000 There will be $50, 900 spent
10 all on the buildings. The company
will pack pork and slaughter beef for
;. the retail trade of this section 1t sue
-ceeds TO the plantand business of the
Iowa Packing company, which has
been located at Sabula.
IN the federal court at Council Bluffs
Judge ..Woolson sentenced Isaac p.
Fisher, a counterfeiter from Harrison
. countys. to four years in the peniten-
/. tiary and fine of $4,000 on charge of
passing counterfeit money and to one
year, in the penitentIary and fine OF
$1,000 for making spurious coin. VIM.
j. Atkinson, an accomplice of Fishers,
was sentenced to one year in the pen
itentIary and fine of So, 200.
The thirtieth anniversary of Shiloh
was celebrated at Dubuque by Hyde
Clark post, many members of which
were in the fight. The exercises took
took place in the opera house and con-
sisted of speeches by Col. VIM t. Shaw
of Anamosa, Ex-Governor Sherman,
y Col. Scott of the thirty-seventh Iowa
aud Others, followed by drill exercises,
etc. Comrade Mogle read an original
poem written for the occasion.
: Small fruit growers IN the vicinity OF
= Montrose have determined to no longer
pay tribute to the middle man and
have organized a mutual company to
market their own products. 1t is in
cOiI)ora ted rs the MontrOse Fruit COM