Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-07-13
VOL. VIII

The private bank of +. f. Hart, ia
Council Bluffs, was successfully tapped
by professional safe blowers few
nights ago. A week previous all the
funds .i:..t lay on the cashiers desk Of
the same bank were swIped during
that gentlemans bfteenminutes alb
sence getting lunch at the noon
hour. On the occasion of the last rob-
berry the steel door of the vault was
drilled Only small amount of money
was secured, rs the bank funds were
kept IN a safety deposit vault
j. l.. Lewis, IN jail at LcMars wait
ing to be sent to the penitentiary for a
year for extortion in connection with
the publication of articles in the Chi
cago Sunday Sun, has made state.
ment IN which he puts all the blame
for the matchmaking work on Alta
Hart, who is also under sentence 10 the
penitentiary for the same crime. Lewis
says his statement is in su distance the
testimony he would have given against
Hart on the stand had he not promised
not to testify against Hart, in consid-
Grafton of Hart helping him secure an
appeal bond, which Hart has not do1e.
He makes sensational charges against
Hart, evidently with the design of IN
Huencing against him in case he Is al
lowed new trial.
Warrants Of Woodbury. county,
which have been below par for some
time on account of the ina bility of the
county to raise the money to cash and
keep them at face value, will soon be
as good as ever. The county has repre-
sentatives in the east negotiating for
the sale of a large amount of the war
rants, and kilograms received from
tn em indicate that they will close the
deal IN few days at the longest.
Warrants have been II commodity of
very uncertain value since the troubles
cyan but there is good demand for
this class of securities among eastern
bankers who have excessive amounts
of money on hand and want to place it
safely. Such at least is the report Of
the county officials in the east.
At recent session OF the federal
court at Keol<ut the case against
George w. Appleton, of Salem, twice
convicted OF mailing lascivious letters
to young women, which has been IN
court for two years, was finally dis
posed of. lie was sentenced to ten
months in the penitcn,iary and fined
81 900. Although, while his case was
pending and since his conviction sew
ersl weeks ago, he has had perfect lib
erty and has pdrsucd his occupation as
house painter, he made no attempt
to escape. But when an officer accom-
panied him home to change his clothes
and say farewell to his wife and chill
dren, he made good his escape and has
not been recaptured. The officer al
lowed him TO go upstairs to change his
clothes, and when he went to look for
the prisoner he found he had fed.
The latest particulars from Pome-
roy fully demonstrate that the cyclone
of last week was the most destructive
that has ever visited Iowa. The loss
of life and property is greater than it
was at Grinnell or any other previous
cyclone. The latest reports at the sur
geons' Headquarters place the dead at
A and the seriously injured at ITO. OF
the 10 wounded under care between
twelve and twenty will die, and the
final death record will probabl reach
fifty-fiv or sixty. Along the path of
the cyclone IRON Cherokee to Pomeroy
the devastation is of wide extent and
the dead and seriously injured are nu-
merous so that the death Inst will, in
all likelihood, almost reach the one
hundred mark when completed. Con-
tributions of food, clothing and money
are pouring in from all over the state,
and every effort is being made to allay
the suffering and distress.
The second batch of five tram rob-
bers in the last two weeks was sue
cessfully Landed by the police
of Council Bluffs few nights
ago. They were caught while
making arrangements TO hold up an
electric motor train on the Union depot
line. The conductor saw at 0 o'clock
enough to convince HIM that the at
tempt was to be made on his return
trip, and notified the police. Chief
Seaman and five officers went to the
threatened locality in hacks The
point selected was lonely place on
CT N,-hn
several blocks without a house. The
officers concealed themselves in the
high weeds and awaited developments.
They get near enough to the, bandits
TO hear part of the plan discussed to
rob the motor conductor aud passengers,
and try c., B. & q. or Kansas City
train that left at 1920 a. IN. When
the motor train came up the motorman
refused to heed the bandits signal to
stop and went flying by at full speed.
The officers then charged the crowd
and got two of them. The other three
escaped in the darkness, but were
captured few hours later. They
were hard looking crowd, and since
tUtlE Two VI LuCH nave DtCu
very uneasy, They are being held on
a general charge of vagrancy, pending
further inquiry.
A small spitz dog created a panic on
Broadway at Council Bluffs, and the
proba pility is that serious results will
follow. The dog attacked man named
Hail and severely bit him on the leg.
When he succeeded in shaking HIM off,
the brute attacked and bit two small
children named Fosdick. The dog was
PROFESSIONALLY suffering from hydro
phobia, and the man and the children
were severely injured. The brute was
killed by the police officers and the
wounds of the persons bitten were
cauterized by physician.
The l0-year -old son of 4. NJ. Brown
of Britt has been in the habit of using
revolver at different times, though
his parents did not approve of IL. But