Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-01
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

record, to Budd Doble She paced an
eighth to road cart last month in fif-
teen seconds, and Matt MaloneY, her
trainer, says she will be the sensa-
tional performer Of the year.
A number of cases of hydrophobia
have developed at Clear Lake. A dog
belonging to t. Ii. Hines, three weeks
ago, went mad and bit several other
dogs and a calf belonging to d. futile
and they have gone mad, and unmuzzled
dogs are being rapidly dispatched.
The Creston Gas and Electric COM
Il pany commenced suit against the city
of Creston for the.recovery of Sssl.4o
= for four months lighting. 1t is
thought this suit has been instigated
owing to the fact that the council has
given the lighting to another company.
A. NJ. Ross and Mrs. Mary Briggs
wero recently married at Creston.
The bridegroom is eighty and the bride
seyenty-six. They were lovers in their
youngerdays, bat the course of true
: love did not run smoothly and they
were married to others. Some time
love~-ras renewed, resulting in their
marriage.
Not glass of beer was sold in sa.
loon at Fort Dodge last Sunday. This
was the result of an cdict by Mayor
Granger that all saloons should keep
their windows free from curtains and
screens on Sunday. There has been a
Sunday closing regulation in that city
5for years, but it was not strictly en-
forced. The mayor has announced
that any place that fails to comply
with his order or sells on Sunday will
be promptly closed.
A man giving his name as Robert
Sherman, claiming to be a nephew of
Gen w. T. and Senator John sherman,
was arrested at Webster City on
charge of stealing watch from sleep
ing room in the Wilson hotel. The
watch was found in his possession He
was fined 500 and costs by Judge
$S Marsh. Sherman appealed to the local
% GA. Il. post and convinced its mem
bers Of his relationship to the dlstlng-
uished general. The members of the
post paid his fue.
Three men who were out in a sailboat
fishing late at night at Lake View with
a seine were drowned. Their boat was
found the next morning bottom side up
anchored IN the deepest part of the
8 lake There was high wind during
-azthe night and their boat had no keel
and was easily capsized. large num-
Der of men were dragging the lake
nearly all day The bodies of X. Cory
OF Lake View and Bert Cory of Odebolt
were recoverei. The missing body is
that of George Burgess OF Odebolt.
NeIse, on trial at Ottum wa for he
murder of his wife and child, when put
on The witness stand, tailed to explain
why he did not attempt to call his
wife when he discovered the fire nor
to epdeavor to rescue her from the
window six inches from her bed. HIS
/. only reason was that he thought she
n: was out of the house, although there
III has been abundance of testimony to
~ show that he knew differently. He
denied all his former testimony to the
corcner's jury, ard it is conceded dam
aged hiscase very materially.
Sixty workmen engaged in finishing
the Sioux City union depot, quit work
to compel the terminal company to pay
them about So, 600 of back pay due
from the contractor, T. G. Wakefield.
The contractor recently became en-
rbarrassed ana the company took the
I contract off his hands and has been
paying the wages since, but did not
assume the wages due before that
- tame. A compromise was effected by
's:whlch the men assigned all their claims
-E$ to one of their number, who took
mechanics lien TO secure them. The
men then returned to work.
Attorney L. L. Smalley discovered
about a year ago flaw in the title of
80 acres of land embracing some valu-
able property in the heart of the city
Il of Wavcrly, but has kept it secret I'M
& ttl.now. lie found that the govern
4 inent deed of patent had not been re-
/ corded. He secured deed from Spen-
s.,cer Acuff, who bought the tract from
the government in 1852, and has placed
i. Il on file in the recorders office. The
ownership of the land is divided among
/ at least $50 persons, who are getting
Ealarmed. Mr.. Smalley is furnishing
them "a clear title for s25 500 apiece.
y large sized sensation developed in
,.,the Neise trial at Ottumwa few days
ago While the physicians who made
the second post norton examination
were on the stand, they were shown
the pieces of the skull brought into
..--eorrt as the detached pieces of the
,adeak woman's skull. They declared
that on5y one piece of her skull was
taken out OF the coffin, and that the
,spieces exhibited belonged to two differ
.-cnt skalls. Neither the state nor the
defense charged the other with tam
epering with the skull, but it is evident
..one side or the. other proposes to make
tho accusation, and when they do it
will go good way in solving the prob
lem of NeIses guilt for the jury.
The empoyes of the Paulus R. R.
Drill company at Villisca were given
halliday on full pay by the manager,
IA r. Paulus, in remembrance of the
accident by which he lost his leg by
being run over by train twenty-five
years ago. He is the inventor of drill
Tor boring holes in steal rails, which is
vast Improvement over the old rat
chet and is being adopted by the lead
ing railroads all over the country
The company has a large and growing
factory at ViIlisca.
bernard, is dead
Word from Northwood says that
the story that the villain who
ekot Mr.. and Mrs. Towne, near
I1v,,nuib had hann eaptrrnd and