Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-10

and she was riding the leading horse,
which became frightened and threw
her off. The large wheel of the reaper
struck the girl, iniuring her seriously
and perhaps fatally.
Woods Carpenter, of Moingona, has
mysteriously disappeared, and much
anxiety if felt concerning his welfare.
He was engaged in the manufacture of
brick and on Friday, July 2s, received
drafts amounting to about $500 in pay
ment of brick shipped to builders at
| different parts of the state. He vent
to Boone and got the drafts cashed.
In the evening he was at the residence
of some of his friends and left about
10 o'clock at night, saying he was go
ing to walk home. Since that time
nothing has been seen or heard of him.
Directed by nauseating stencil the
residents in the vicinity tore up the
floor in the back kitchen OF tenement
row occupied by colored people, at
Keokuk, and found the almost decom-
posed remains of an infant. The skele-
ton was boxed up and buried in the
cemetery. The facts were not reported
to the police, but the coroner exhu med
the remains and made an examination
The house was occupied by disreput-
able colored woman named Martha
Outright, who has left the city, and a
young colored girl from Kahoka, Mo.
The police d iscovered in a vacant
house at Ames the dead body of Con
Leonard and insensible Charles Hall
and Charles Simons, who had evident
ly ,been drugged. The latter were
brought to by the aid Of stomach
pumps. It has been learned that the
men obtained only an hour before what
they supposed to be whisky. A flask
containing the deadly fluid was found
and has been sent to the college to be
aualyZei. 1t is known who sold the
drug and trouble will undoubtedly fol-
low. The men are residents of New
ada, the county seat, eight miles east
of Ames.
Just before the Sells Bros show
packed up their goods at Mt Pleasant
writ of replevin was issued to obtain
possession of one of their trained dogs
by Gid Juno, who claimed the dog to
be one stolen from him some time ago.
The trouble was to iad the owner of
the dog and by that time 1t was loaded
and IN charge of the railroad com
pany, and as it was too late to get an
attachment, the dog was allowed to
remain with the show. but steps may
be taken to recover it. The rese M
blance of the lost deg is indeed strik-
and the dog is said to have some scars
identical with Mr.. Juno's dog. The
show people claim the dog was Obtain.
cd by them when it was pup.
George Leltmere and Charles Tape,
two cIgar-makers hailing from Musca-
tine, passed down the Mississippi river
in a row boat and said they were en-
route to the Worlds Fair via the Mis-.
sissippi and Illinois rivers and the Hi
nois canal. They will strike the lii
nois river at Grafton and will take the
canal at La Sale, hoping to reach Chi
cago by the 14th instant. The men
have offered a prize of $3.50 to the
parties first reaching Chicago via the
Mississippi aud Illinois rivers and the
canal, coming in the oldest row boat
on record. The men claim that their
row boat, which is twenty two feet
long and four feet wide, is forty.four
years old.
General Manager Mcneil. OF the
Iowa Central, has just returned to
Mason City from business trip to New
York. In speaking of the financial
situation he says: "Here, where one
sees on every side the evidence OF
prosperity in magnificent and abund-
ant crops, it is very hard to realize the
serious and critical condition of the
business interests of the country.
Unless something is done to restore
confidence very quickly the business
generally will come to practical
standstill in very short time. Thus
far the burden has fallen on the rich
and we'll TODD through the enormous
shrinkage of values. From this time
forward on account of the shutting
down of all kinds of Industries, the
poorer classes will be the great suffer
ers"
w. J. Callander, ex.postmaster al
Woodbine, has pretty young wife,
and one of his clerks, Dick WEIGH,
seems to have fully appreciated the
lady's charms. Callander's ire was
aroused at Welch's demonstration OF
affection, and while reaching for his
gun with the evident intention of deal.
ing out summary vengeance, WEIGH
forestalled his employers movements
by getting the drop on him, thus Sc
curing an opportunity to escape with
out bloodshed. Mr.. Callander is one
of the most enterprising, reliable and
successful business men of the town,
highly respected by every body, and
was passionately attached to his wife
and child, but affair has broken
up the family, a rparat'on having TAX
en- place Immediately. After hasty dis
posal of business matters, Mr.. Callan-
der started for California, leaving his
wife behind.
The Farmers National bank of Usage
has opened for business
The insurance agents at Sioux City
received notice recently of an advance
in all insurance rates except on dwell
lings, amounting to 20 per cent. The
rates apply from Aug. l, on all new
business, not affecting policies already
written. The agents are dissatisfied
with the order and will hold a meeting
with the design of starting a movement
to protest against the advance, which
is ordered for the entire state. They
hope to interest the agents through
out the state in the movement.
DIR. Lyman A. Ellis, Jr., of Clinton,
has been appointed to the position of