Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-05-18
CONDENSED STATE NEWS.

Oskaloosa.
Cardinal Gibbons has received cable
from Rome announcing the election of
Dubuque to the archepiscopal see, with
Archbishop Hennessey, the present
bishop, as the first archbishop.
A dispatch from Baltimore says
Cardinal Gibbons has received dis
patch from Rome announcing the cleo.
ton of Dubuque to the archepiscopal
see, with Bishop Hennessey as the first
archbishop.
Detectives passed through the
Illinois Central yards one night recent
ly and found nearly the entire force,
including watchmen and telegraph
operators, all fast asleep. Their names
were secured and CONSERVATION reigns.
Thomas O'Gorman, a 7l-year-old
farmer who had just disposed of his
interests at Butte, Neb., and was en-
route to live with his son, was held up
in saloon at Sioux City and robbed of
$1,000 in notes and $3.50 in cash. No
clue to the robbers.
Upon hearing of the outrages at
MuscatiDe Gov. Boies at once returned
from his trip in the west and, going to
Muscatine, spent an entire day in In
vestigating the matter He says that
under the law he cannot offer a reward
for the punishment of the criminals,
bus in any other way he will lend his
assistance to bring the guilty parties
to justice.
Excitement is running high at Rome,
small place west of Mt. Pleasant,
over the disappearance of John Elliott
young business man of that place.
No reason can be assigned for his ab.
sence, as he was prosperous in business
and was married tC an es;imable young
lady last October 1t is known that
he had a large sum of money on his
person, and fears are entertained that
he has been foully dealt with. Efforts
are being made to locate him.
:. H. ii. Wilson, convicted of bootleg
ging, at Wlnterset, is free again. He
was allowed to go out with his attorney,
G. w. Sewers, to hunt bail. He found
it but it was of the 'leg' variety, and
he has not been seen since. The
deputy sheriff understood that Mr..
Sewers agreed to deliver Wilson back
into his custody Mr.. Sewers says that
he only agreed to bring him back to
the sherltf's Office and that he did so
but found no one in charge. However.
there are those who criticise Sewers
severely.
A serious shooting scrapc occurred
at Lewis recently. joe Shearer.
farmer living near Lewis, was driving
into town and met '.Windy" Jones, an
other farmer, who would not turn out
and give Shearer half the road.
Shearer got out of his wagon and at
tempted to pull Jones out of his buggy,
when Jones shot HIM with revolver,
mortally wounding him. 1t is said
there was some enmity betw cen them;
in fact between Jones and all his
neighbors, as Jones was rather quarrel.
some and was always making threats
against some mans life.
AHStS ~ u GOONt SASStA wal WI a.
Sumner the bone OF contention being
he hiring of principal of the public
schools for next year. The present en-
,umbent put in a bid OF sss per mouth.
and among the other applicants was a
Pennsylvania man, who enclosed his
photograph and u Ind of SOS. The
board met but was unable to decide
the matter, and to settle the question
posted the photographs of both men in
he postofflce and asked the people to
vote for their preference. There is
considerable excitement over the at
fair and much bad blood is being en-
gcndered.
April the county treasurer's Office
at Fort Madison was robbed of over
$4,000. The board of supervisors cx-
honerated Treasurer Montandon.
There is much dissatisfaction through
the county at the boards action, many
believing the treasurer forgot to lock
the safe, as 1t was open and there was
no evidence OF violence. Yet it was
provided with the most improved CON-
iONh} NbllC GNO Ndulb uOOTS
with ordinary locks were drilled into
There is strong sentiment there should
be thorough examination in the
courts. No one charges Montandon
with dishonesty, but think it queer
that he first gave out the loss as be.
tween $1,000 and 81, 800, and the cor
rect amount was not made public till
the supervisors examined ana reported.
Evan Jones, an employee in the White
breast mine, at Keb, met with fatal
accident. While ascending in the cage
from the pit below he was caught be.
tween the cage and the shaft and suf-
fered horrible catastrophe. The
blow gouged out the right eye and the
right cheek bone, tearing great hole
ir the right side Of his face Jones
was bachelor 81 years of age. His
father is u retired merchant at Sevan.
sea, Wales, worth 100000 A strange
coincident was the fact that his cousin,
also named Jones, before Evan went
into the mines, begged OF him not to
go down. and never tc go into n mine
again. He accompanied his request
with tears, and told the injured man
that he knew he would be hurt, and
literally got down on his knees, sup
plicating him not to go into the mine
A few hours later he was corpse.
A very peculiar case is on trial in
Plymouth county court, ut LeMars.
Under the provisions of chapter So,
laws of the tweniy-second general as
sembly, an alien cannot inherit prop
erty from citizen of the United States.
In 1880 Charles Watmesly came to
Iowa from England and commenced
breeding fine stock near Akron. In
1856 he took out his final citizenship
papers In 1892 he died after willing
his property to his father, Richard JOS
eph Watmesly, of brentwood, Essex
county, England Pitt Seaman was