Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-02-02

the best known educators in the west,
is dead.
Burglars entered the house of A. c.
Billion, ut Davenport, and stole two fine
watches, other jcwelry and cash,
amounting to nearly $3.50. They raw
aged the entire interior, the family be-
ing gone, strewed the house with goods
and dcmoralized the furniture and
other articles. At Mrs Rebecca
Blocks house they stole u watch and
money to the amount of 500. At q.
W. Ryan's poultry packing house they
stole 200 pounds of dressed poultry.
the same night JOHN LANCE was caught
red-handed after looting several rooms
IN hotel. Next day, Bert Emerson
pleaded guilty in the district court to
the burglary of the Milwaukee depot
ticket office and will go to the peniten-
t;ary.
Simpson College has received new
life. Thirty thousand dollars has been
added to the endowment fund, $1l, 755
of which amount was raised at meet
ing for that purpose at the NJ. E.
church. Some time ago VIM. Buxton,
ESQ.,, one of Indianola's wcalthiest citi-
zens, proposed to give the college $lo,-
600, provided the friends of the school
would give $50, 900 additional as an en-
dowment fund Fletcher Brown, the
ever-active president, has not rested
Gin bat yx,c ~, 4 a mail |,
hopes and those of Indianola and Des
Moines conference were realized. The
friends of the college, made up of peo-
pie of all denominations, met at the NJ.
E. church and stayed until the amount
was raised, and they are rejoicing over
the assured prosperity of the school.
In an opinion rendered by Justice
Granger the supreme court has reversed
the decision in the case OF Ira r. Ship
ley VS.. w. l.. Edwards, which was APP
pealed by Shipley from the Guthrie
district court, o. b. Ayres judge.
This is the old case in which Shipley
and Edwards had q fight on November
81, 1889, over some statements alleged
to have been made by Edwards about
Shipley during the campaign.
Shipley applied number of foul
eplthets to Edwards, and in the
fight and seattle that followed the at
tempt of Edwards to punish Shiplev,
the latter fell on top. 1t was in this
position that Edwards bit off part of
Shipley's ear, also bit his check and
thumb in order to prevent Shlpley from
gouging his eyes out, Shipley sued to
recover damages, but the Guthrie
county jury found against him. The
supreme court holds that as Edwards
was the aggressor his plea of self
defense is not good, and so reverses the
judgment in favor of Edwards. There
will be q new trial.
Charles +. Brown, for the past year
or two an employee of the Iowa Central,
was quite recently made q freight con-
ductor. A few evenings since he was
to go out from MarChalltown on No. Of;
started back to the Office in a north
easterly direction, and switch engine
was at work on one of the numerous
sidetracks, backing up in an easterly
direction. One of the men on the en-
CINE saw Brown walking along with
his head down apparently in deep
thought. But he passed across the
track, 1T was thought. In a moment,
however, the engineer noticed that
there was something beneath his en-
CINE. Stopping immediately, Browns
body, terribly mangled, was discovered
under the tender. The engine was not
going faster than four or five miles an
hour and the bell was ringing. but it
is supposed Brown did not notice the
noise and the steam concealed the APP
preaching destroyer till it was close
upon HIM. The deceased was young
man of excellent habits, 20 years of
age, and left a young wife and a child
about five months old. Intermcnt took
place at Flanagan, H., the homo of
the dead mans parents.
There are eighty acres, more or less,
of land, a bit wet, In Johnson county,
to which no one has title. The tract is
known as Swan lake and is situated in
Madison township, IN part adjoining
the farm of A. j. Roup. Fifty years
ago, perhaps, when that part of the
county was Surveyed, Swan lake looked
like permanent sheet of water, and
as such was %'meandered," and the sur
vey approved, and all who pre-emptcd
the ,djoinirg lands received patents
for fractional parts OF sections. Lo-
Gated on high ground, with an outlet
brook, the lake was easily drained, but
in that carly day water was supposed
to be worth more than land. 1t was
probably about eight feet deep in the
deepest part. Cultivation has decreas-
ed the supply of water, and may have
lowered the outlet, while Il growth of
swamp weeds and grass has gradually
flied it up, until for some years past
the lake has been quite dry. Once the
stopping place OF 1ocks of wild fowl
and filled with fish, its basin is now the
summer browsing place of calves and
colts. Some years ago, when the lake
first went dry" it contained great
quantity of fish, mainly buffalo and
mud cats" and nuisance caused by
the dccaying carcasses became so I'M
learablc that the neighborhool turned
out en- massc and buried the dead fish
From the first drying up number of
the property owners whose lands Dor.
der on the lake have sought to buy it,
but without success the uniform an
swer being that an act of congress will
be required to open 1t for settlement.
This year, by reason of the heavy
SHOWS, the lake site may contain water
until fall, but pasturago and the de-
post of dead vegetation is gradually
filling IT up. AMI it will not he long I'M
till Swan lake becomes recollection
and place famous for big crops of
corn
A Baldwin livery team was left stand
ing near the Chicago, Milwaukee, & st.