Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-03-16
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Deputy United States Marshal Full
telegram stating that the postoffice
had been robbed and that the robbers
were in custody at Centcrvillc.
Atlee Hart and J. l.. Devils, defend.
ants in the famous Chicago sensational
sheet blackmail eases, at Sioux City,
We're granted change of venue to the
Plymouth county district court.
TRANSFERS of farm land were never
so brisk in Cass county as at the pres
cnt time. The abstractors and county
recorder and deputies are rushed with
work. Good land brings from $40 to
$50 an acre
Clark Wians has been tried before
the grand Jury of Crawford county, for
the murder of his brother Joe Wians,
last January. The jury indicted him
for mauslaughter or murder in the
second degree
At the school election held at Fort
Dodge Mrs. H. w. Thomas and Miss
Edith Train were elected by large
vote. This is the first time IN the
history of the city tina. ladies have
been elected TO Office.
The school election held in Keoliuk
was the hottest that mas ever been held
it southeastern Iowa. The fight was a
test of strength between l.. a. Fox,
regular nominee and member of the
American Protective association, anG
George d, Rand, nominated by the
catholics. The result of the vote
between these two is: Fox, l,Si3:
Rand, 900.
The auditor Of state issued "A ccrtif-
cate to the Hudson Savings Bank, OF
Hudson, Black Hawk county, which
will begin besiness with paid, up
capital of SIS, 200. John H. Leavitt Is
president and l.. Il. Pcitfer cashier.
Also to the Security Savings Bank, of
Boone, with paid up capital of S25,-
900. 5. l., Moore is president and c.
T. Rice, cashier
A young man named Charles Berg.
man, about Il years old, residing three
miles north of Boyden, accldently shot
himself The ball entered the right
lung about three inches below the nip
pie. Hcmorrhagc became profusc.
The doctor says he cannot recover
He was in the act of putting some ''B"
shot in the muzzle of the gun. already
loaded with ball. when it discharged
with the above result.
Auditor Mccarthy says that there
has been q misunderstanding 10 regard
to the purpose of the distinction the
assessors are required &c make between
improved and unimproved land. 1t is
not for the purposes of taxation, but
for the purpose of crop statistics. No
farmer need he afraid of having his
fenced pasture reported as improved
land, as it should be, for it has no
effect on his taxes whatever.
A terrific contest with clubs between
two Riverside youths and a big Nor.
wcgian took place near Clermont The
fight began on bridge, started by the
Riverside boys, who were intoxicated
and resulted in two of the parties be.
hhoShCu oil VI upptOdCu w ttlc
ice below, when the Norwegian
smashed one of them with Il sled stake,
fracturing the skull in a frightful man
manner. He is in a critical condition.
The Norwegian is still at liberty.
Edward Kilduff, aged %, whose
body was found in front of his home at
Clinton at 3 o'clock in the morning, Is
nov supposed to have died of heart dis
case, instead of having been murdered,
as was at first supposed. A slight
mark on his lip and nose led to the
suppositlon that he had been assaulted
and killed, but this has been proved
impro bable by the corouer's inquest.
He was out riding with n friend the
previous evening, and was last seen
alive about midnight.
The entire family of Blake Dclano
of Delaware, narrowly escaped icst til
by poisoning. All were taken violently
i'll while eating breakfast, and but for
the presence Of mind of Mrs. Delano,
all would have miseraby persisted
Although deathly sick herself, she pre-
pared and quickly adm nistered an anti
dotc, producing vomiting, and although
every member is still sick, no serious
results are feared. Investigation
showed that pancakes had been baked
on pic-tin that had been used to mix
rough on rats.
Professor W. \. Bartlett, who has
been promoted 10 the chair Of
mathematics of Tabor College, gradu.
atcd- from the Iowa State Normal
School IN 1873 and from Iowa College,
Grinnell, Iowa, IN 1887 with the degree
Of A. II. He then taught IN the public
schools of Black River Falls, Wisconsin,
from 1887 to 1899, and in Joliet, Illinois,
from 1897 to 1892. lie delivered his
masters Grafton in Iowa College. gain
ing the degree of A. VI. in 1890. lie
begins the duties of his new chair
with the fall of '93.
Articles of INCORPORATION have been
filed with the Polk county recorder by
the State Council of Iowa of the Ameri-
can Protective Association. The in
corporators and officers are Gee h.
Jackson, president; w. Z. Vcrder, vice
president; J. ). Ferguson, secretary:
l.. A. Manlove, chaplain j. II. Camp
bell, secretary; Duncan Grant treasur-
or. The principal place OF business is
TO be Dcs Moines and the life of the
corporation is to be fifty years. The
articles of incorporation do not set out
the obiect of the order.
w. w. Wallace a stranger in Sben.
andoah, shot Tom Warren, who runs Il
hard cider dive in that city, through
the wrist II appears that Wallace
had some gold watches and jewelrv
and more goll coins than strangers
usually display, all of which suddenly
disappeared, and Wallace concluded
that the quickest way toget his proper
tV back would be TO shoot the nronr,e-