Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-01-12
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

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Matthias Morgaa, a con,ractoa, re
siding at Dubuque for forty wears, died
aged 20 years.
W. {. Dorsey, one of tac oldest ana
largest dry goods merchants in Sioux
City, failed. Assets and liabilities are
about SIS, 900 each.
The residence OF ". J. Condition, an
attorney of Dubuque, was entered ty
burglars recently, and many valuable
articles taken They also secured S65
cash. They attempted TO enter other
residences but were unsuccessful,
JOAN Quinn, a descrter from Com.
pany L, Second infantry, United states
Of America, stationed at Fort Smelling,
was captured at Fort Dodge by Sheriff
Adams, Quinn deserted last May aud
sixty dollars reward for his capture
has been hanging oyer his head ever
since He will be turned over to Cap.
tain Cook at Sioux City.
John Jones, saloon keeper o. Cedar
Rapids, fell down fight of stairs back
of his place of business ana sustained
injuries from which he died few hours
later. lie lay for several hours uncon-
scious and frozen fast in his blood be.
fore ne was found. While hc was dy-
ing his wife was in Marion securing
divorce, not knowing his condition.
; According TO the finding OF the coro-
ner's jury, another murder has been
committed in Burlington Evidence in
the investigation Of the death of W.
Unangast, who fell down stairs and
broke his neck few nights ago, shows
that he was hit in the head and
knocked down by some unknown per.
son. Unangast was at Que time worth
$4,000.
The disordcrly house ordinance,
looked upon as license measure, re-
Gently passed by the Dea Moincs city
council, was vetoed by Mayor Lauc on
the general ground that it was not to
the best interests Of the city. The
matter was laid on the table 10y two
thirds vote, but leading alderman
says there will hardly be an attempt to
pass the ordinance over the vote.
The operators who went out on the
Rock Island four weeks ago in re sponse
to the command of Grand Chief Ram
sey of the Order of Railway Telcgra-
pliers, have been officially notified that
the strike has baen called of. As the
vacancies caused by operators leaving
the service Of the company have all
been filed, those who stayed out wait.
ing for the strike to be called off will
be compelled to seek employment else.
where.
Judge Cole arrived at Dubuque from
Des Moines for the purpose of OF fixing
up bill OF exception before Judge
Woolson of the United States court in
the case OF the United States versus r.
E. Graves, the former president OF the
defuuct Commercial National bank.
The latter was recently convicted of
the charge of making false reports OF
the condition of the bank to the comp
troller of the currency in 1886 by repre-,
senting ovcrdrafts as loans and dis.
counts.
The Leeds Land & improvement com.
paDy, of Sioux City, has failed, with
liabilities Of $500, 900, and assets of less
than Sl,0Oo,OO0, mostly in real estate,
on which scarcely the amount of liza,
bilities can be realized at this time,
The company was organized to build
the manufacturing suburb of Leeds fol
speculative purposes. In doing SO IT
incurred large indebtedness over and
above its income from the sale of prop,
erty. The failure carried down with il
the American Security company, Leeds
Annex company and the Sioux City
Land company. The total capitaliZa
ton of the four companies is 50, 900, 600
A sensation cropped out in Judge
Traycrse's court at Ottumwa, an ole
man named Jonathan Carbon appear
ind voluntarily before the city attor'
ncy and confessing to perjury in hi!
testimony which secured for him from
the city judgement of 500 for dam
ages sustained by falling ont of build
lug. On trial he swore that he hat
been permanently injured, but he sale
that he had been instructed TO do 81
by his attorneys and attendant physi
elan, who had ipduccd him to sign {
contract TO give each a third of tht
damages received. The old man sale
his conscience troubled him so that III
could not live the lie any longer, al
though he should be tried for perjury
If his story can be substantiated 1t vii
put his attorneys in very critical con
dition.
James SamuCls, of Dubuque, n ser
gcaut in the First Iowa, was one o
the seventy.fve American filibustcr
who went to Cuba twenty years az,
on the steamer NirgInius and wcr
shot by the Spaniards at Santiago. Hi
name appeared In the list of the dcat
and his folks mourned him as such
They have just received a letter from
hm written at the Soldiers Home
Coyington, Ind. lie states that h
was shot through the mead and left 70
dead. Chance friends nurScd him bacl
to health, but the shot destroyed hi
memory ana The past was blank
BY some means unknown to him h
recently reached Chicago, where h
was recognized by an army comradc
who brought him to Covington, wher
his memory was restored.
llirsch Bros, who for the pas
twenty years have managed the Giob,
clothing house at Des Moines. hav,
failed. Liabilities about SIS, 600 As
sets S45, 900. One Of the brothers die,
about week ago.
A row occurred in Frank Moore
room in Knoxville in which j. c. VII
liams shot and killed John Wren an
seriously wounded Edward Wren, a
brother of the dead man. The me
had been playing poker, and ROY
started over the game. Williams is /
jail and Moore refuses to talk abou
the affair.
Burlington trains were delayed by
bad freight wreck near Alton. A do7