Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-19
VOL.

'uJureu lew Gays ago. WINE FiuinB
a bicycle he Slipped in;such way that
he was thrown under an electric car
and the wheels crushed his life out.
U. S Fogg was shot twice and fatally
wounded at Des Moines by Edward
Epperly at the formers house, whittier
Epperly had gone to make arrange
men.s with Mrs. Fogg. for tn cir mar
riage, after she had secured divorce
from her husband. Fogg had conceal
ed himself in the house unknown to
his wife, and just as Epperly and she
Were about to leave, attacked his rival,
who returned with twp shots, one of
which lodgedin Eogg's stomach. Ep-
perly has beenarrestett.
The number of students now enrolled
. in the collegiate department of the
State University is 357, ten more than
at the corresponding time last year.
The law department has an enrolment
of 100 students, three over the CORE
spending time last year. The medical
department has an enrolment of l64,
last years enrolment, and two more
than In any year of its history The
homeopathic department has now sixty
students against sixty-four at the cor
RESPONDING time last year. The dental
department has an enrolment OF 140,
TWENTY-FIVE students more than regis
tered throughout the entire year of
1929. The pharmacy department
stands the same as last year, fifty
seven. The total enrolment to date is
93s, total gain over last years at
tendance at the corresponding time of
forty students.
A fire swept over about ten acres in
the central part of the city of Sioux
City devastating the district bounded
by West Third, Kansas, West Fifth and
Water streets About seventy five
buildings, nearly all frame, were de-
stroyed. The fire was famed by a
fierce wind and the entire fire depart
ment fought desperately to save the
ad joining residence sections. The
su bsidence of the wind at the critical
moment prevented the flames from
sweeping farther and causing immense
ly greater loss. The Andrews Manu-
featuring company, in whose plant the
fire started, was total loss, $4,000,
with no insurance. The other losses
were, comparat lively small, but there
was little insurance. The total loss is
about 500, 900, with $23, 500 insurance.
The Insurance is divided among about
thirty companies, few carrying above
$500, the highest amount in one COM
pany being So, 500.
The Des Moines city clerk has COM
pleted his report of the mortality OF
Des Moines for the past year and has
submitted 1t to the State Board of
Health. The year ended the first of
October. The statistics included IN it
are as follows, giving the number of
deaths from various causes: Consump-
ton, So, decrease for year, 90; tuber-
culoses, IL; pneumonia, IS, increase for
year, 10; diphtheria, &c, decrease for
year, 6; scarlet fever, 4, decrease for
year, 4; measles, IA; typhoid fever, 10,
decrease for year, 2; malarlal fever, s;
whooplng cough, 2; Ia grippe, 3, de-
crease for year, ~; cholera infantum,
81, increase for year, Is; cancer, "a, in
crease for year, a. paralysis, s; suicide,
5; homicide, 2; drowned, 4; heart fail
ure, IL; accidents, 20; railroad cars, s;
swallowing false teeth, 1; total deaths
from all causes, s3l; population, rs, S46;
death rate per 1000 of population, 10.
Total deaths for 1892, TAO; death rate,
1917.
A BIG sensation was created at Coun-
cll Bluffs by the arrest of Ben Weuber,
mem Der of the fire department, charg-
ed with incendlarism, and the arrest
later of Chief of the Fire Department
Chas. Nicholson, James UBrien, Peter
Kuykendall and Miles Schofield, all
members of the department, on the
same charge. Weber was caught in
the act of setting FIRE to an empty
building on Broadway at an early hour
in the morning. He was given
thorough sweating in the private Of
fee of the chief of police and before
the mayor and fire commissioners in
the council. AS result of the ques-
tions and the pressure brought upon
him, he made full confession, impli-
eating Chief Nicholson and the other
members arrested. The police officers
who caught Weber saw two other
men run from the building, one of
whom they thought they recognized as
Nicholson, and Webber's confession
was only corroboratory Information.
All the men. arrested have heretofore
borne good regulations and were ex-
cellent fremen. Webber IN his confess
sion says the fires were set to force the
council to increase the fire department,
which was reduced by. the republican
city administration ayear ago. Web
Der has been employed as special
man for several months, and in his con-
fession he says the chief told him he
would appoint him on the regular force
as soon as the council ordered the in
crease that would follow large in
crease in the number of fires. All the
men arrested were locked up and the
bonds fixed by the police judge at from
$500 to $1,000. A few of them have
succeeded in getting bonds, but most
Of them will remain IN Jail.
Numerous attempts have been re-
Gently made to burn the house of Rev.
Gruenstein, pastor of the German Re-
formed church at Mon ticlllo. These
attempts have been characterized by
fienoishness which has aroused the in
dignation of every citizen. Finally 1t
was suggested that something might
lie wrong in the minister's family.
After repeatedly denying the charge,
at last his son Paul, bright lad of
twelve summers, confessed that he had
committed all Of the cri mes, saying he
was impelled by some hidden force.
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