Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-10-05
AROUND THE STATE.

ern railway depot at Jefferson. The
loss is about $1,000, covered by insur
ance
The lightning rod men who COM
PEELED Peter Berg to sign the notes a
few days ago for rods they put up on
his buildings near Geneva, were brought
to Hampton.
The Atlantic Business College of At
lantic Iowa, is one of the best in the
state. Catalogue and specimens of
penmanship mailed free by addressing
the proprietors, Barrett & Henning.
orders have been received at Du-
buque to restore the force in the Mil
waukee shops to the magnitude of last
spring. Superintendent Stapleton says
this means full force in both car and
machine shops
W. G. PARROT, retail dealer in hats
and mems furnishings at KeolSulS, made
an assignment for the benefit OF credit
ors, his father, Gen J. C. PARROT, be-
ing named as assignee. His liabilities
are stated to be $1,000.
The chief of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST. Paul police force with three as
sistants from Chicago, are now at work
ferreting out the murderer of Police
man O'Btien. Three important arrests
have been made at Plymouth, Plain
field and New Hampton.
The Hotel Iowa, better known as the
Wabash house, situated on middle
Broadway near the depot at Onawa,
burned at l o'clock in the morning.
The fire was under full Roadway when
discovered, and the landlord and guests
story windows in order to save them
selves. The building was owned by
DR.. James Butts. The loss is about
900.
Captain Samuel A. Russell, of Craw-
louisville, died in Nebraska at his sons
home after long Illness aged rs
years. He has been famous stump
orator for fifty years in Ohio and Iowa;
was in Edwin NJ. Stanton's law Off &C;
served in the Ohio and Iowa lcgisla-
lures; and was captain in the Tween
ty-fifth Iowa. He was an eccentric,
original, generous man, of keen wit
and great power of invectlve. He was
buried in Charlottesville on the 30th.
John Crawford of New Market left
wife and five children and eloped with
15-year-old girl Later ne was ar
rested. That night mob of coal
miners formed at New M arket and
marched to Bedford to lynch Crawford.
The sheriff was warned in time and
Governor Boies authorized him to call
out the militia. This was hastily done.
One hundred armed citizens were also
sworn in The mob learned of the
preparations on their arrival and dis
pcrsed.
W. Van Duson, A. Butler, A. L.
Campbell and Il. Taylor, Chicago light
nIng rod dispensers imprisoned at East
Dubuque recently and who refused to
come to iowa without acquisitions,
were handcuffea by the marshal of
East Dubuque, pushed into hack,
driven to Dubuque and turned over to
Sheriff Rule of Franklin county, Iowa,
who at once left for home with them.
They are accused of swindling Farmer
Berry of Franklin county out of $40
in notes.
Des Moines is getting to be great
wholesale center. This Is especially
true in groceries, and boots and shoes
nd l,nr
good many Iowa people to hear that
Des Moines house, Bentley 81 Olmsted.
last year sold more Candee rubbers
than any other house west of the Mis-
sisslppi river. When an Iowa town can
sell more in Ii staple line of goods than
the wholesale houses of st. Louis, ST.
Paul, Omaha, Kansas City or San Fran
cisco, it speaks well for the future, not
only of the house but of Des Moines.
Officers McClaln and Butln and De-
tective Balm made very neat capture
of two burglars who were breaking
into the Patrick e. Luthe Co.'S whole
sale hardware store at 200 Walnut
street. Des Moines, about 1l:3O at night.
They had piled up some boxes on the
east side and had broken into win
dow and one was on the outside keep
ing guard while the other was inside,
when the off GERS, who had been watch
ing for them, swooped down and
captured them both. The men were
lodged in Jail, giving assumed names.
lin O'Brien, night policeman of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul railroad
at Mason City, was shot down in cold
blood at o'clock in the morning by a
tramp. AS the freight pulled in from
the east, two tramps jumped out of an
empty car and OBrien attic .npted to
arrest them. He caught one and had
taken HIM into the depot and COM
menced to search him. The tramp
madea break and o. Brien followed him.
lie ran about eight rods, when the
tramp wheeled around and, grabbing
O'BrIen's revolver from his hand. shot
HIM through the breast. He lived but
twenty minutes. After searching for
some time posse of citizens captured
two tramps, one of whom answers the
description of the murderer.
Oscar Wallgren, single man, 20
years of age, was run over and in
stantly killed at Des Moines by the
second section of freight train No. "a,
going east on the East Ninth street
crossing of the Rock Island road at
1o:45 at night In company with two
friends, Herman Harris and Freddy"
Kasson, he was attempting to steal a
ride to ColfaX or Newton. Wallgren
was either pushed or fell from the
front steps of the caboose and went
under the wheels. He was ground to
pulp, his head being split open and
nearly severed from the body.
James s. Gage, the banker of Clin-
ton, Ia, who was arrested recently at
al,a Nf