Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-08
AROUND THE STATE.

but failed in each.
Trainmen on the Rock Island rail-
way say that bridge over the North
Lizard, near Fort Dodge, is haunted
and that the ghosts hold carnivals
nightly.
Frank Schulz and Frank Nessier were
arrested a few days ago at Cedar
Rapids for stealing hogs of Mason &
Cronin, proprietors of rival meat
market. At the preliminary hearing
Schulz and Nessler were put under
$500 bonds. to await the action OF the
grand jury.
The auditor of state recently issued
certificate authorizing the Peoples
Trust and Savings Bank of Clinton to
commence business. 1t has paid up
capital of $500, 900. The president is
Artemus Lamb, vice president, Charles
L, Alden. and the assistant cashier J.
! II, Lugwerson.
Burlington police are mystifed by
the strange case of Miss Lulu Newton,
Des Moines girl, who disappeared
from home some time ago and was not
heard from till her sisters, Miss Jennie
Ross and Mrs. Nettie Kennedy of Burl-
ington received a soiled bit of paper
by mail from her, dated Burlington,
and imploring them to come to her res
cue before it was too late. The sisters
are in burlington, but can find no
trace of the girl.
novel scheme is on foot among forty
OF the boys of Penn college, of Oska-
loosa They expect to leave immedi-
ately after commencement in special
ear for Chicago. After spending two
weeks there. visiting the Worlds Fair,
they will go on to Montreal, Canada,
and put in the summer canvassing.
They have been advised that this terri
tory has never been invaded by can
vassers and book agents, and they con-
template rich harvest
jose phi Mathew, young man in
factory at Clinton, has been arrested
for the murder of babe born to b. lie
Markley, single woman, few days
ago. The body of the child was found
in box in the river. The mother of
the girl, on the examination OF Mahcw,
said she dressed the child and gave it
to Mahew when he left her home, since
when she had not seen the child. The
mother of the child and sister are
missing.
A. Boone, under indictment for cut
ting the wires of the Rock Island rail
road during the recent strike, appeared
in the district court at Iowa City and
pleaded guilty. BY consent the time
fixed for sentence was continued until
next term. In his confession he de-
clares he was one of three men who did
so at the instigation of certain o. r. Il.
men, some of W ON are under indlct-
ment for the offense. Swords, arrested
with Boone for the same offense, it is
understood, will stand trial
The retreuchment order emanating
from the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway, will not result in the dis
charge of the multitude of men origi-
nally expected. Superintendent Good,
now of the Iowa division, including six
hundred miles of track, says the order
win not be SO sweeping in it's execution
as its wording indicated. The gravel
pit men were released and the track
force was reduced, but already many
of the discharged men have been put to
work again.
A terrible accident occurred at Coun-
ell Bluffs, by which one man lost his
life and number were seriously in
jured. A motor car on the street rail
way became unmanageable and ran
onto the railroad track before freight
train. The car was crushed to splinters
and E. f. Holmes was instantly killed,
his head being crushed and his body
irightfully injured. The others injured
were Miss Maud Bryant, limbs crushed
and internally injured; c. +. Bixby,
cut and bruised and limbs injured; j.
w. Hoy man, bruised and cut and hurt
internally; Geo Burke, bruised and
cut about the head; Herman Karr, hurt
about head and chest.
An attempt was made at Mason City
on the life of II. w. White. Early In
the evening as White was seated ia the
ties as Harry Wheelocl and Emil He'll
man, local toughs, approached him and
induced him to go with them to the
east part of the city where they stated
they had key of beer which they
wanted him to helpdriuk. When there
they pounced upon him and beat him
into insensibiity and were about to
end his life by cutting his throat when
they were frightened away White
was robbed of what money he had.
After while he came to and the
authorities were notified Heilman
was at once found and placed under
arrest and Wheelocl1 was taken in by
Sheriff Clark early the next morning as
he was going into his house. White
was taken TO the Jail and identified
Wheelock and Heilnap as his assail-
ants. For this offense the law provides
u punishment in the state pententiary
for from ten to twenty years.
Frank Peacock, aged 10 years, of
Norway, who was run over by North.
western freight train near that place
recently, and had his right leg fear
fully mangled, died in the hospital at
Cedar Rapids from the effect of the
shock.
Reverend Cannaran, of Keokuk,
while in Colchester, Ill, was requested
10 unite in marriage Thos Ripple to
Miss Belle Morrison. Instead of mar
riage, the minister preached Rippile's
funeral sermon few days later, the
young man having shot himself through
the head while temporarily insane.
An order has gone forth from the
police department at Cedar Rapids or
dering all the gambling houses closed
ard announcing that they will be kept
permanently closed A number of
gamblers captured in recent police