Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-04-21

man, the real lover OF the pretty Nina.
The girl was on her way to Spring
Valley, Ohio, to meet Henry Copsey,
who was awaiting her arrival, and to
whom she expected TO be married.
They were delayed by the night tele-
grapher at Elvaston who suspected
that they were runaways A pursuing
party, headed by the girls mother,
reached Elvaston and returned with
Miss Nina to her home, leaving young
Green to shift for himself. Nina de-
clares that she will run away again
and join her lover in Ohio.
The new mayor OF Sioux City went
to work with considerable execution,
and has quite ctfectually closed the
saloons and gambling dens in that
city. The proprietors of those joints
have decided to wage wicked war
upon those who had been instrumental
in closing their places, and, having
formed themselves into Sunday En-
forcement League, last Sunday they
proceeded to enforce the Sabbath laws.
After a large number of arrests were
made and the street car people, and
the keepers ofcigar stands, fruit stands,
restaurants, etc, had become convinced
that the league meant business, all
business was suspended What the
sequel will be is hard to foretell, as the
street car managers have employed
counsel and propose to contest the
! mattar II iS tbnurht tho SALOON ,,a,
have injured their cause.
Charles Wilson, of Mt Pleasant, was
swindled out of $40 at the Union depot
at st. Louis by smooth talking faker,
in Little Rock, Ark, and that he had a
trunk at the Adams express Office that
he wanted to get, but that he had
nothing but a check for 5000, and
would have to go down town and get
| the check cashed. He asked Wilson to
go with him. They started down town,
and when they arrived at Ninth street
they met another man whom the
stranger introduced to Wilson rs
Adams of the Adams Express Company.
The second man said to the first that
his trunk was ready, and that he was
very busy, and il he would pay the
charges it would be "a great accommo-
dation to him. No. 1 then asked Will
son to lend him $50, offering him the
check as security, but let the man have
the money, and has not seen him since.
The police are looking for the con.
fidence operators.
A life sized mutiny is on at the Iowa
Wesleyan university at Mount Pleasant.
Frank Burhans, sophomore, has been
appointed lieutenant IN the military
department and the juniors, who hold
the lower rank CT sergeant, are very
angry. They have all resigned and
the seniors have joined the war on the
faculty by resigning their commissions
as captains. 1t has always been the
custom to appoint the officers of the
battalion from the highest classes. A
vacancy occurred, however and Bur-
hans was given the shoulder straps over
| the juniors. The real cause of the
mutiny is that Burhans is an ''anti-
frat man and has given the fraternities
many set backs in their aspirations.
The officers have notified the faculty
that Burhans must be reduced to the
ranks or their designations must be
made permanent. That means the
| faculty must recede or the mutineers
be suspended. The latter include the
entire male membership of the senior
and junior classes.
A conference of the representatives
of eighteen Baptist churches in the
| south western Iowa district met for the
purpose of deciding whether the seced.
ers from the FIRST Baptist church of
| Council Bluffs should be recognized.
The controversy and secession arose
out of trouble between the pastor,
of his flock, about matters of church
management. There were numerous
strong meetings of the congregation
and both sides threatened to call the
and of the police to expel the other
| from the church building. Halls op-
ponents insisted on his resignation, but
the pugnacious preacher held on and
finally effected a retreat in good order,
| followed by a large minority of the
congregation. He has established IA
separate church, and the recent confer
ence was for the purpose of determin-
ing whether it should be recognized as
a duly constituted Baptist church by
that denomination at large. After a
prolonged and heated discussion, last:
| ing more than four hours, 1T was voted
by 10 to that their church should be
recognized.
Greek Grafton, uncle of +. $. Grafton,
who recently killed Mabel Swartz in a
Des Moines house of i'll fame, and who
is now in Jail IN that city awaiting
action of the grand jury, was a bright
and brilliant young man, who lived at
| Pleasant Plains, near Springfield, ILL.,,
! prior to the civil war. lie studied law
in the Office of Abraham Lincoln. lie
was shot and killed by u grandson of
the noted Methodist preacher, Peter
Cartwright, named Harrison, in 1857
The slayer was indicted at Springfield
for the murder and was defended by
Abraham Lincoln, assisted by Judge
Stephen A. Logan, one of the old time
lawyers of the state. The leading
lawyer for the prosecution was Gen.
Palmer, the present United States
senator from Illinois. 1t was a battle
of giants and will long be remembered
as one of the famous trials of central
Illinois Lincoln secured the acqulttal
of his client on the plea of self defense,
but public opinion was in favor of the
conviction of the defendant The de-
PENDANT in the case is still living and a
prominent citizen of Pleasant Plains,
the village where he was born.
Says Blaine Would Accept.
NEW YORK, April 10.-William r.
Grace, president of the Home and
Country Protective Brotherhood OF
Workingmen, sent q long communica-
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