Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-06-02
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

issued a proclamation calling q public
meeting to raise funds for the Sioux
City flood sufferers.
The secretary of state is preparing a
pamphlet containing the game laws of
the state. Copies of it will be distrib.
uted throughout the state.
At Dubuque the Adm iron foundry,
situated on lower Main street, was de-
stroyed by fire. The loss SO far as can
be ascertainedis about $40, 700 ON build
ing and contents, insurance 400.
Word was received at'Atlantic of the
fatal wounding of Isaac Hopper, a for
mer prominent attorney of that city,
at Wichita, by Judge Reed during a
street fight about Reeds attentions to
Hopper's wife. 80
Bohumil Laschman, fve-year-old
Bohemian, fell off the bridge on Wash
ington street, Iowa City, into the Rail
ston creek and was drowned The
creek is high and it was more than an
hour before the body was found
A serious accident is reported from
Postvllle. The ll-ycar-old son of, VIM
Schoulte was playing with dog in the
yard. The dog became Irritated and
pounced upon the boy and bit and
frightfully crushed his arm SO that am
putation was necessary.
The body of Fred Wentworth, who
was drowned in the Little Sioux River,
May 10, was found near Sutherland.
1t had drifted down stream about forty
rods and was nearly covered with mud
when found. Wentworth had no rela-
tives in that locality.
The Dubuque city council appropri-
ated $500 Tor the relief of Sioux City
suffers at the request of the board of
trade, and more will follow. The
county supervisors will be asked to APP
propriate like amount. Private sub
scriptions are also being taken up.
The boly of young Henry Rulong, of
Monmouth, who disappeared while
crossing the bridge at Burlington on a
train was found in the river about 25
feet from the west double abutment of
the bridge. The body was in good
state of preservation. Young Rulong
was medical student at Keolxuk.
S. l.. Davis, of Cedar Rapids, one of
the B., G. Il. &5 N. railway directors; J.
and j. T. Thompson and G. II. Kelley,
of Forest City, have bought half sec
tion of land in the west part of Winnie
bago county on the line of a new rail
road and will plat town in a few days
and it will probably be named Kelly.
The jury in the case of Charles Lee,
at Dubuque, charged with particl-
patton in the murder of n street car
driver last November, returned YER
dict of murder IN the second degree.
Lee is only lG or II years old, and his
friends are terribly broken down over
his conviction. A motion was made
for new trial
Colonel McManus has divided dhe
Second regiment into three battalions
of four companies each as provided by
law, and ''has -notifel Maj d. v.
Jackson of Muscatine that his battal-
ion Wilt consist of thcsfollowing com
panies: Company Il, Davenport; Com
pany C, Muscatine; Company d, Wash
ington Company NJ, Upton.
The tenth body of those drowned in
the Sioux City food was taken from the
debris-that of Mrs. Rasmussen, who,
with her two children, were among the
first of those reported drowned. The
body was lying in the old channel of the
Floyd, not far from where it was seen
to go down and a short distance from
the bodies of the horses she was driving
at the time ~ +
Ex-senator John X. Deal, formerly
of Carroll County, recently a resident
of Des MONIES, fell dead from heart
disease whiis; working in his garden,
having previously been in. his usual
health. -Deceased was. born in Living
ston county, Kew York, in 1912, repre-
sented the Carroll district in the Senate
in 1ss6,and 1888, and was member of
the G. A. r.
At Creston, after three months of
closed DOORS seven saloon men march
ed up to- the mayors office and paid
seventy'tiye dollars each, thereupon
threw open-their doors. The prohibit
tionists threaten to prosecute, but the
states attorney refuses to commence a
case unless the druggists who are sell
ing liquor contrary to law are included
in the information. -:
At Keokuk in the Federal court Mrs.
Mary Brady, Of darlington, began suit
against the Union Pacific railway COM
pany for $4,000 damages. She charges
that her husband was engaged as To-
comotiye fireman at the mines in Como,
Colorado, and was killed by the engine
parting from the tender March, 1891.
The engine; she asserts, was an old,
worn ont one, and not fit for, duty.
AT recent me citing of the Republi-
can state central committee in Des
Moines it was decided to hold the next
state convention IN that city on the
10Th of June. r. b. Huff of Muscatine
county was chosen as temporary chair
man and Senator Hager was recon-
mended as permanent chairman. IL.
A. Jehu, of-Emmett, was chosen SER
geant-at-aUns and J. NJ. Fox assistant.
The Federal Court at Des Moines
heard appeals for clemency in behalf
of Charles Brookmiller, the 16.year-old
son of Rev. BYookmiller, who pleaded
guilty to the charge of robbing one of
the postoffice boxes. of Des Moines
Testimony was adduced TO show the
boys previous good character, among
them being Nv. C. It. u. ladies and
several rlergymen Judge Woolson
withheld sentence.
Six or seven weeks ago a prisoner
named Ashley, confined in the Polk
county Jail serving out a sentence OF
sixty days, succeeded in deceiving the
jailor and by representing himself to
be another man, was permitted to leave
the Jail, When the deception became