Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-25
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Cromwell, a village about six miles
west OF Creston, was visited by bur-
glars. Three houses were entered and
s275 and gold watch was stolen No
clue
John Bently, grain merchant of
Rock Rapids, has invented smoke
consumer, and company will be or
ganized to manufacture the fuel-saving
appliance.
A wind storm destroyed several farm
buildings near Emmetsburg. Two new
barns, each 800 feet long, on Blair
Gowrie's farm, are total wrecks; in
surapce $4,000.
The town of Mitchell, four miles
from Usage, was visited by a tornado.
Two elevators belonging to ]. Bartte
were blown away. The public school
building was unroofcd, wind mills de-
stroyed, and trees uprootcd.
Two strangers had been boarding at
hotel in the outskirts of Dubuque for
week. One night one OF them chloro-
formed the other and robbed him of
S32J. He remained UNCONSCIOUS all
night and notified the police the next
day, but the robber could not be found.
The physicians of Dubuque have
been interested in q peculiar case. An
old man named Fred Schnebe was
found sleeping IN an alley. He was
taken home and every effort made to
waken him without avail. He re-
manned in this condition three days,
when he died.
The motion to hear the case of Frank
Pierce, who murdered old Wlshard at
Des Moiues, and who was later con-
victed of manslaughter in the Warren
county district court, set Tor hearing
at this term of court, was denied by
the supreme court and the case will
come up at the October term.
The attorneys of James Dooley, the
fiend who -avished and killed his aunt,
Mrs, William Coons, and little daughter
Nellie, of Prescott, March H. last year,
and was sentenced to be hanged at
Corning Juno Is, have been successful
r in getting the court to postpone the
execution until tue October term of
court. This move is met with righteous
indignation by the citizens of Adams
county. Dooley's crime was the most
horrible ever committed in that section,
and his conviction and sentence were
secured at great cost to the county.
The promise of swift justice and cx-
IRENE precaution during his trial only
prevented the exasperated citizens from
taking him from the court house and
lynchlng HIM.
Several pretty girls are on a strike
at Charles City. They were employed
as compositors on the Advocate, a local
paper. A short time ago the propric-
tor noticed that some of the girls set
very little type on several mornings OF
the week, and upon investigation dis
covered that several of the girls had
be en- entertaining masculine company
until late hour ON the previous even
irg, The result was peremptory Or
der that every girl 10 his employ should
90 to bed az $3.50 o'clock every evening
The girls refused TO obey and every
one of them walked out. The publisher
is now running on short force and is
vainly seeking to compromise with the
strikers on 1890 o'clocl; p. IN. as the
hour for retiring.
The most damaging evidence of the
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Saturday. James Russell testified that
he went home the night of the fire az
la:I5 and saw lantern out ut Noises
smoke house where they had carefully
packed a way his best goods, An hour
aiterward he heard woman scream:
i"Oh, my darling child" and saw
blaze in Neise's house. 1t was thirty
minutes after that before he saw any
one at the house. The deputy sheriff
testified that Neise volunteered the in
formation that there was one thing
that would go hard with him, and that
was that he had his wife's life insured,
and narrated the conversations which
the defense strenuously endeavored to
have suppressed
The Iowa Weather and Crop Bulletin
of the 23d says: This has been an ideal
week for corn planting and other farm
work, with seasonable temperature,
an abundance of sunshine and very lit
tie rainfall And the time has been
we'll improved ia all sections of the
state. Planting is practically COM
pleted, except in localities where plcw-
ing has been delayed by excessive mols-
ture. The reports indicate that the
year; but 1t is not likely to be greater
than the average of former seasons.
The soil is in excellent filth, and with
few exceptions the seed is sprouting
unusually well. The light showers
which came on Monday of the present
week were timely and bene fetal to all
crops. Oats and other spring grain
generally show an Improvement; but
there are numerous reports that the
oat crop has made a thin stand. Pas
turage is now abundant and meadows
are unusually promising. The season
has been quite favorable for the GER
mination of grass seed and clover. The
fruit prospect is generally good. Com.
pared with last year the season is ten
days earlier.
lion. B. L. Kaufman, prominent
lawyer of Des Moincs is dead
The Touring mills operated by the
Keokuk Milling company were wholly
destroyed by fire. The mill was full
of stock and but little was saved 1t is
supposed to have originated from spon.
taneous combustion of -four dust. The
loss will aggregate $4,000, and the in
surance is but $1,000. 1t was only
with the greatest exertion that neigh.
boring factories and stores were saved,
as the wind was blowing gale at the
time
On the evening of the Goth the Cap.